If you have Growl installed, a Growl alert will come up when you start the script and when you finish it. If there are any variables or 'ask' statements (discussed later) the script will prompt you to provide any additional input required. It will first ask you which project inside the template folder you would like to create a new instance of, then ask in which folder you would like to put the new project instance. When the script runs, it does a number of things. If it doesn't find an obvious template folder, it will ask you which folder to use. This folder can be Dropped, and the actual template projects can be On Hold (the script will automatically switch the new template instances to Active). The script looks for a folder that contains the word 'Template' in the name, and assumes that this is the folder from which you want to select template projects. You need a few things before the script will work as intended. The script allows you to create templates as simple or complex as you need them to be, and to quickly create instances of those templates so you can get back to what's important. This script is an effort to reduce one of the largest sources of friction remaining in my OmniFocus setup: maintaining and creating projects that don't recur on even intervals, but occur frequently enough that their planning and capture becomes a time sink. A central tenet of 'good' productivity tools (as opposed to those we simply indulge in for their own sake, the 'productivity porn') is that they reduce friction. I and countless others rely on it every day to manage increasingly hectic lives and complex, multi-facetted projects. OmniFocus is an incredible piece of software. Most of the rest of this README is from the original maintainer, Chris SauvГ©, to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude.

Pull requests are welcome as is general contact requests via GitHub or email. I, SkydiveMike do actively use this script and will maintain it as best as possible.

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