New user. Setup & Install OF2

[earussell]

Downloaded & unzipped.

Ran install & followed to best of my ability. (placed in my username dir. Initially there were errors but I seem to have resolved them. Now a terminal command completes w/o error but I can find any output.

Here's the command from "examples" on your site. (I want only to output flagged items and then I'm going to use GeekTool to get them to the Desktop):

ofexport -E -a done=any -I -t "flagged or (due='to tomorrow')" -o /tmp/ex8-due-or-flagged.taskpaper

I've run it with .taskpaper and then .txt as the last part of the command and then searched for anything created with those extensions and found nothing. Please let me know if there's more I should be looking for or anything I could do. As a note, I haven't set up the Hazel Rule since I think it needs the output to act on and it doesn't exist yet, but perhaps that's wrong.

Thanks

[earussell]

As an update from my side I reset the HOME by creating the .bashrc file in username directory & then ran ofexport -? and it did print its help....so that seemed to work. But again when I ran

ofexport -E -a done=any -I -t "flagged or (due='to tomorrow')" -o /tmp/ex8-due-or-flagged.taskpaper

I was unable to find any output searching on .taskpaper extension or files that begin with "ex8-due"

[earussell]

OK this works. "ofexport -o report.txt" So I guess it's in the flags. Still if anyone knows offhand the command line just to get flagged items (all I want) pls let me know.

[earussell]

Keep answering my own issues but report here so anyone that knows what they're doing might help. Attached a screen shot. I am using Geek Tool to output Flagged items. On the left is the current taskpaper output. It needs formatting. And I guess the next step is templates. All I want is just the task, none of the other @ info. To the right is a hack. I screengrab OF Flagged perspective then save it to a jpg that updates. Looks better but not "live" which the other would be with the Hazel rule...

[psidnell]

I think your first issue was simply the "-o /tmp/ex8-due-or-flagged.taskpaper" option, this puts the output file in your "/tmp" directory.

if you run:

ofexport -E -a done=any -I -t "flagged or (due='to tomorrow')" -o ~/Desktop/ex8-due-or-flagged.taskpaper

It should leave the output file on your desktop.

[psidnell]

If you "just" want to specifically see flagged tasks then the following ought to do:

ofexport -E -a done=any -I -t "flagged" -o ~/Desktop/ex8-flagged.taskpaper

[earussell]

Paul thanks. I had managed to sort that out and have been running ofexport successfully for a few days but all that time I have been trying to get the Hazel rule and embedded script to work with NO luck. I posted about this but haven’t received any responses that have been successful. Here is latest (I enclose a jpg of Hazel rule based on your suggestion).

Please be clear i am almost entirely unclear about what I’m doing!

Based upon a post on a Noodlesoft/Hazel forum I am trying a shell script that runs an Applescript since that was the only “solution” that anybody got to work.

Truly if you have something direct and simpler please let me know.

So the Hazel rules are set to run “geektool.sh” which is this:

tell application "Terminal"
do script “cd /users/ethanrussell/ofexport -E --tasks -a flatten -a done=any -I -t "flagged or (due='to tomorrow')" -T flat -o erflagged68.taskpaper"
close front window
delay 30
quit
end tell

The Hazel log reports that is processing the rule…. w/o error messages but nothing is happening with my output….

On Jul 8, 2014, at 3:28 AM, Paul Sidnell notifications@github.com wrote:

If you "just" want to specifically see flagged tasks then the following ought to do:

ofexport -E -a done=any -I -t "flagged" -o ~/Desktop/ex8-flagged.taskpaper
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