In this case, for moving tasks to random dates in the future, I use вЊѓ+вЊҐ+вЊ+F, where F stands for future. I use the combination вЊѓ+вЊҐ+вЊ as a prefix for all of my Omnifocus scripts to avoid a conflict with existing shortcuts in Omnifocus. I usually call my scripts with shortcuts defined in an Alfred workflow, which allows you to define a key combination that only works for a specific application вЂ“ in our case вЂ“ only when Omnifocus is the current active application (i.e., the Omnifocus window is on top of all other open applications). However, you will have to convert it into seconds (an AppleScript quirk) by multiplying the hours by 3600, (1 hour = 3600 seconds) вЂ“ for example, 2 PM would be 14*3600 seconds.

Again you can easily change it to any other time. For the starting time I use 5:00 AM, since this is my default time. In any case, based on these values the script randomly chooses a number of days that are added to the current date. You can have even various scripts defining different lower and upper limits, for example, to defer certain tasks further into the future, while others only a couple of days. However, you can easily change them to fit your needs. They defer tasks randomly between 14 and 90 days, which I also used for my script. To mimick the feature from the iOS version I asked the Omnifocus support team about the limits they are using for their iOS version. It defines a lower and an upper limit for the random date. You only have to know the magic happens at the end in the function myDeferDate(). The whole script might look a little bit complex, but you can easily adapt it for your needs. At the end, the scripts cleans everything up (i.e., it calls ' Clean up' from the ' Organize' menu or when you call вЊ+K in Omnifocus). Each task will then be moved to a different random date. You simply have to highlight them and start the script.

It is also robust enough to work with multiple tasks. It uses the same basic structure as my other scripts for Omnifocus. So, I implemented it with AppleScript and an Alfred workflow to call it with a keyboard shortcut. Interestingly, the MacOS version of Omnifocus does not have this feature. This comes in very handy when you have tasks that you want to get out of your way and you don't have any specific deadlines for them. The iOS version of Omnifocus has a nice little feature that moves tasks to a random date in the future (depicted by dice вЂ“ see screenshot).