Comments on: Voice to OmniFocus, revisited

By: Jenny736Smith

Jenny736Smith — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:31:39 +0000

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By: LessieMcfarland31

LessieMcfarland31 — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:40:42 +0000

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By: Casper TFG

Casper TFG — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:53:49 +0000

I had screen share with a freelance "tech ninja" employee of mine to get this going. Lingon seems to have been updated so the screen shots here are a tad out of date. I also needed to download a Mac developer kit to get some missing file I needed. (that was a BIG download!) Took us half an hour of tweaking to get rolling. Seems to be working fine now! I am thrilled! Thanks very much.

P.S. (I hope its not difficult to get rolling on Snow Leopard as I am due a laptop upgrade in a few months..)

P.P.S I would say this tweak is a job for a "computer ninja" and perhaps a tad too difficult for the 'average person' to install.

By: will

will — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:58:45 +0000

I'd really love to try this out but like warwick I don't seem to have appscript installs. When I run...

sudo easy_install appscript

...appscript 0.2.0 is downloaded but it stops the install process when it can't find/execute gcc-4.2...

unable to execute gcc-4.2: No such file or directory

..I know you said that we don't need to worry about not having c-extensions but not having gcc-4.2 appears to be a problem. Am I missing something?

Again, thanks for sharing this. I look forward to trying it out!

By: warwick

warwick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:31:29 +0000

I seem to have an issue with applescript not being installed. When I run the final command in terminal i get ImportError: No module named appscript

By: robert

robert — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:16:45 +0000

Got it working up to here: ~/Desktop/oftwitter.py. But Lingon doesn't seem to be working to update every 3 minutes. I notice that this file doesn't exist: ~/Library/Preferences/com.ptone.oftwitter.plist

By: robert

robert — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:58:51 +0000

does Lingon have to be always running for this to work?

By: robert

robert — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:14:49 +0000

got it now. didn't realize these had to be done separately:

sudo easyinstall appscript sudo easyinstall twitter

By: ptone

ptone — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:54:04 +0000

@robert did you have any issue installing the twitter module? Do you have a folder named twitter inside: /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages?

By: robert

robert — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:48:20 +0000

how do I solve this error msg. from terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/randy/Desktop/oftwitter.py", line 51, in from twitter.api import Twitter, TwitterError ImportError: No module named twitter.api

By: Dr. Drang

Dr. Drang — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:07:04 +0000

You could also use Dial2Do (http://www.dial2do.com) to send tasks to your private Twitter account. I’m pretty sure that it, like Jott, uses human transcription. When Jott-to-email stopped being free, I switched to Dial2Do and have been dictating tasks to it ever since. My system relies on a modified version of the Mail filter that comes with OF, which is described here http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/08/dial2do-and-omnifocus/ and little setup in the Dial2Do account, described here: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/10/omnifocus-command-for-dial2do/ I’ve found Dial2Do’s transcriptions to be plenty accurate for my purposes. I keep expecting it to go the way of Jott, but it hasn’t yet. The disadvantage of a Mail-based system is that my main computer has to be running Mail all the time. Switching to your Twitter-based system would eliminate that requirement.

By: Rob Rainthorpe

Rob Rainthorpe — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Cool hack. Installs okay (although I needed to setup setuptools using a specific version : sudo easyinstall http://www.jaraco.com/ASP/eggs/setuptools-0.6c8svn15fix.egg to avoid a missing egg problem). However, vlingo isn’t really up to the job with my voice. Probably quicker to use Tweetie directly. Talk slowly, talk quickly, with a gap between words, without a gap between words, end result is appalling accuracy.

By: Lon Seidman

Lon Seidman — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:57:57 +0000

Very cool concept, eager to give this a shot. Can you walk us through configuration? I was able to install the modules but still getting an error when executing the script.

By: Toby Jones

Toby Jones — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:44:25 +0000

OK the first two steps were easy - can we get a breakdown for us chumps on the third part? Foxed me I'm afraid.

By: OmniSupportGuy

OmniSupportGuy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:01:45 +0000

Wow. Very cool, and I think this is going to be pretty popular.