A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I wrote a script to import Asana tasks into Omnifocus. If you ran it again, it would update the tasks in OmniFocus. See Merge Asana Projects Into OmniFocus.

I recently updated the script to work a smidge better with Asana and Omnifocus 2. The main changes are:

• Date formats can be changed (for those of us not in the USA)
• The Non-Project tasks now load

Setup

First, follow the instructions from the original post to set up Omnifocus and get your API keys.

Download the updated script from https://gist.github.com/hiltmon/d1f79e95dd11252ce6ca.

Open it in a text editor and insert Your API Key and Profile Name in the slots provided. You can also change the date format to suit.

class MergeAsanaIntoOmnifocus
  
  API_KEY = '<YOUR KEY HERE>'
  ASIGNEE_NAME = '<YOUR PROFILE NAME HERE>'
  SUBTASKS = true
  DATE_FORMAT = '%A %B %d, %Y at %H:%M:%S' # (Try http://strftimer.com to build your own)

Make sure the prerequisites are in-place from the old post and then run it

$ ruby merge_asana_into_omnifocus.rb

Warning: This is just my script, it may or may not work for you. Backup your OmniFocus before running it the first time. And use at your own peril. Inelegant, alpha-level, probably quite buggy, my first AppleScripts, you get the drift.

But if you do use it, let me know in the comments or via Twitter. And if you have any ideas for changes or enhancements, let me know.

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