内容来源：https://www.wired.com/story/ai-features-in-omnifocus/

内容总结：

【科技观察】当主流应用争相弹窗强推AI功能时，这款小众效率工具选择了截然不同的路径。近期谷歌、微软、Meta等科技巨头纷纷以醒目按钮和营销邮件密集推广AI功能，而知名任务管理软件OmniFocus的开发商Omni Group却采取了更克制的策略。

这家西雅图公司开发的OmniFocus以其高度灵活性著称，其AI集成方案延续了这一理念：坚持本地化、保护隐私，将AI作为自动化工具包中的可选组件。用户既不会收到弹窗推送，也无需被动接受预设功能，而是可以通过安装插件自主调用AI能力。

目前该功能需升级至苹果最新操作系统，并安装最新版OmniFocus。用户访问Omni自动化目录即可获取两类典型插件：其一是“协助规划”工具，能将收件箱任务自动拆解为子任务；其二是“剪贴板事件”，可自动将复制的文本转化为带描述和截止日期的待办事项。

值得注意的是，所有自动化脚本均开源可见，并配有详细技术文档。这种设计显然面向深度用户——正如Omni公关负责人娜奥米·皮尔斯所言：“这仅是点火阶段，尚未升空”。当行业沉迷于 chatbots 的喧嚣时，OmniFocus 与 Substage 等应用正探索着另一种可能：让AI成为无声的工作伙伴，而非喧宾夺主的功能累赘。

中文翻译：

当前众多应用软件正以最直白的方式将人工智能植入产品。无论是谷歌、微软还是Meta，都在用户界面添加了五颜六色的按钮和弹窗，配合铺天盖地的营销邮件，声嘶力竭地恳求用户尝试其最新AI功能。

在此背景下，与独立应用开发商Omni Group探讨其AI实施方案令人耳目一新。这家西雅图公司开发的OmniFocus任务管理应用素以极致灵活性备受评测者与爱好者推崇——只要你能设想出任务管理方案，它总能不着痕迹地实现。其AI发展路径也延续了这一理念：开发团队坚持让AI在离线环境下保持隐私性，并赋予用户随心定制的自由。

这意味着普通OmniFocus用户不会在应用内看到任何乞求使用AI的弹窗。AI仅作为潜在工具，供自动化流程构建者或第三方自动化组件安装者选用。目前已有用户创建了若干自动化方案，您可在此探索这些案例。以下是具体操作方法。

在OmniFocus中配置AI功能
首先需确保设备运行苹果新一代“26”系列操作系统（支持macOS/iOS/iPadOS）。这些系统均支持macOS 26中最受忽视的新特性——第三方应用如今可调用驱动Apple Intelligence的核心大语言模型Foundation。

同时需要安装最新版OmniFocus（目前集团内唯一支持AI功能的应用，据公司代表称后续将逐步扩展至OmniPlanner/OmniGraffle等产品）。

接着访问Omni自动化资源库，任选感兴趣的生产力工具。虽然界面会显示自动化源代码，但您始终可点击代码上方的“安装插件”按钮（首次安装需授权外部应用脚本运行权限）。

以“助我规划”插件为例，它能将收件箱任务分解为子任务。笔者测试时将“撰写OmniFocus自动化功能报道”分解出从资料收集、草稿撰写到最终定稿的多个步骤。虽然这些步骤与个人写作习惯不尽相同，但在思路阻滞时能有效破冰。

最得我心的“剪贴板事件”插件可将剪贴板内容转化为带准确描述与截止日期的单/多任务，堪称将冗长文本转化为精炼待办清单的神器。

即便完全不理解技术原理也能使用这些功能，但令人称道的是Omni提供了详尽说明文档与视频教程，阐释自动化功能如何对接苹果智能API及Omni自有API的衔接机制。每个自动化组件的源代码（通常篇幅不长）在安装前皆可查阅。

这套为资深用户打造的自动化平台鼓励爱好者基于AI构建个性化工作流。“这仅是点火阶段，尚未升空。”Omni公关总监娜奥米·皮尔斯比喻道，“一切才刚刚起步。”

我曾撰文指出聊天机器人并非AI应用的未来，并以独立应用Substage为例展示机器学习功能的另类应用——该程序驻留在Finder底层，通过纯文本指令操控文件。这种让人无需刻意感知语言模型存在的设计理念，与Omni基于自动化的AI应用思路异曲同工：插件配置完成后，轻击即可调用，无需纠结技术细节。期待所有AI技术终能如此润物无声。

英文来源：

A lot of apps are adding artificial intelligence to their products in the most in-your-face manner possible. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are all adding colorful buttons and pop-ups to their user interface, and barraging their customers with marketing emails, all of which are loudly begging users to try out the new AI features.
It was refreshing, in that context, to talk to indie app makers Omni Group about their approach to AI. The Seattle-based company makes OmniFocus, a powerful task management application long loved by reviewers and enthusiasts for its extreme flexibility. If you can imagine a way you’d like to manage your tasks, OmniFocus is flexible enough to enable it without ever feeling overly cluttered. And the plan for AI is in line with that: The development team wants to keep AI offline and private, and empower users to set it up however they like.
This means the average OmniFocus user won't see any pop-ups imploring them to use AI in the application itself. AI is instead added as a potential tool for anyone who wants to build automations, or anyone who installs one of the automations built by someone else. A few people have already done exactly that; you can find a handful of such automations here. Here's how to give them a spin.
Setting Up AI in OmniFocus
To get started you'll need to be running one of Apple's new “26” operating systems—macOS, iOS, and iPadOS are all supported. These operating systems all support one of the least-discussed new features in macOS 26—third-party applications can now utilize Foundation, the large language model that powers Apple Intelligence.
To use these new features you'll also need an up-to-date version of OmniFocus, which is currently the only Omni application that supports AI. (These features are coming to other Omni applications like OmniPlanner and OmniGraffle eventually, according to company representatives.)
Next, head to the Omni-Automations directory and click one of the productivity tools that looks interesting. You'll see the source code for the automation, but you can always click the Install Plugin-In button above the code for the plug-in itself. (You may have to enable scripts from external applications before you can install anything.)
One, called Help Me Plan, can break any task in your inbox into subtasks. I tried this out on a task titled “Write about OmniFocus Automation features” and several subtasks were quickly added below, from research to drafting to finalizing. Now, these steps aren't exactly how I'd proceed in writing an article, but the idea is more to get yourself started when you feel stuck.
My favorite automation, Clipboard Events, turns whatever's on your clipboard into a task, or multiple tasks, complete with an accurate description and due dates. It's a great way to turn an overwhelming block of text into a concise reminder of what you need to do next.
You can use these features without any understanding about how they work, but what I find interesting is how far Omni goes to explain how it works. There's extensive documentation, including a video, explaining how the automation features can connect to Apple's new Intelligence APIs, as well as how Omni's new APIs connect to it. And you can read the source code for every automation before installing it—they're generally not very long.
In other words this is an automation platform built with power users in mind. The idea is for enthusiasts to build on top of the AI in ways that fits into their workflow. “This is ignition, not even liftoff,” said Naomi Pearce, who does public relations for Omni. “It's very early days.”
I've written before about how I don't think chatbots are the future of how we'll use AI, pointing to the indie app Substage as an example of how machine intelligence features might be used instead. That application lives under the Finder and lets you manipulate files by typing plain text commands. I like how that puts the language model to work in a way that doesn't make you think about it. Omni's automation-based use of AI is similar. Once a plug-in is set up, you can use it with just a click, without having to think much about the technology. I hope all AI becomes similarly invisible in time.