This set of Applescripts lets you use OmniOutliner Pro to keep a variety of lists on your computer and easily add items to them from the script running application of your choice. (Including LaunchBar or Quicksilver!) These lists can also be set up to automatically sync to your iPod as iPod notes in order to take ‘em with you on the road.

What kind of lists? Well, anything! A list of presents to buy, movies to rent, books to read, things to do before you die, groceries to pick up, names for your unborn child… The mind boggles!

A lot of people use text files for these kinds of lists. Call me an interface nerd, but I prefer something a little more… robust to maintain my lists. Specifically, I like OmniOutliner. So, I made this little program to give me the ease of use and flexibility of a text file within the wonderful interface of OOP.

A number of people on the Kinkless GTD forums have asked about running KGTD’s synchronization script from within other scripts.

Due to the design of the script, if you run it from another application, various terrible things will happen. Even if you get it to run, it will start the slowest, most painful sync imaginable.

This script avoids that by simply using Apple’s UI scripting to click the Sync toolbar button. It requires that you have previous sync’d your Kinkless GTD file and also that you have the Sync script as a toolbar button in that file and that it not be renamed (it has to be called “Sync”).