OmniFocus Review Perspective action using Launch Center Pro

At every night I have a time to review OmniFocus’s perspectives. But, it has been painful to tap another view back and forth in OmniFocus.

So I thoguht how I can make a flow of it. And which one would be the best tool to implement this?

My requirements are below,

1. The user interface shows a perspective list that I can easily tap.
2. After tapping I should be able to have a time to review on the perspective in OmniFocus.
3. Without scrolling I should be able to choose another perspective.

To achieve the second one, I picked up Launch Center Pro as a right choice. Because the callback function calling lc-callback can give me a time to review a perspective in OmniFocus.

If you use x-callback-url, it automatically goes back to the origin app. So I wouldn’t have a time for reviewing a perspective.

So here is my lcp action.

[list:Daily Check|Daily Check=[action:131]|Deferred=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Deferred}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Delegated=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Delegated}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Next=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Next Actions}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Dayone=dayone://?lc-callback=[action:129]]

[action: 131] : It shows the daily check routine perspective that I made in OmniFocus. [action: 129] : It should be the action itself.

I considered using Workflow which is one of my favorite apps in iOS. But, in this case Launch Center Pro did a great job.

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Launch Center Pro , Custom URL action to open and search multiple apps at once

Recently I tried to write a custom URL action on Launch Center Pro. The goal of this action is opening and searching a keyword into multiple map apps. The first app is Google Maps and second one is Daum Maps which is popular in Korea.

So my action sequence is below,

1. Get a search keyword from user input on Launch Center Pro.
2. Copy the keyword to iOS clipboard.
3. Open and search on Google Maps app with the clipboard text.
4. Open and search on Daum Maps app with the clipboard text.

To achieve these actions above, I wrote a custom URL like below.

launch://x-callback-url/clipboard?text=[prompt: Type a keyword]&x-success={{comgooglemaps-x-callback://x-callback-url?q=[clipboard]&x-success={{daummaps://search?q=[clipboard]}}}}

The actions are fine until 3rd steps above. But, the url action following after second x-success which tries to open and search on Daum Maps app doesn’t work.

I think that the code looks fine to work. But, I don’t know why it doesn’t automatically switch to Daum Maps and search the keyword on the app.

If you know a solution on it, please let me know.

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