open app with search results via tasker plugin or intent

[thephatmaster]

• I have searched for existing issues that may be the same as or related to mine. There was some mention in #373 but that didn't seem to generate any new feature requests.

The one thing Orgzly can't do, which my current system can (Tasker + Tasks.org - formerly Astrid) is context (in GTD speak, tag/category/property in Org-speak) specific reminders.

I can create a tasker task that (via a plugin) can open Astrid/Tasks.org displaying all items related to a context. I imagine this is via a search.

I love being able to have my home tasks pop up when I get near my home cell tower, shopping lists appearing automatically at the shop, and my work tasks pop up when my laptop's Bluetooth comes on etc.

I (naïvely) assume staring a search via an intent, or a tasker plugin is trivial?

[lytex]

I just get this working using ActivityManager (actually I'm using a termux emulation, but it shouldn't matter)

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.orgzly/com.orgzly.android.ui.main.MainActivity --es "com.orgzly.intent.extra.QUERY_STRING" "search term" --activity-clear-task

The only downside is that orgzly is closed when you run this so you will lose all the history

This should be pretty straightforward to apply to Tasker

[thephatmaster]

This works fantastically well via termux, thank you.

My sub-optimal solution so far was to use touchtask to simulate taps on the search button and enter text

I want "search term" to be dynamic, and don't want to buy another plugin, so I'll do a bit of digging / asking to see how I can implement this natively with tasker's send intent action.

Thanks again,

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 00:53 lytex, notifications@github.com wrote:

I just get this working using ActivityManager https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb#am (actually I'm using a termux emulation https://github.com/termux/TermuxAm, but it shouldn't matter)

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.orgzly/com.orgzly.android.ui.main.MainActivity --es "com.orgzly.intent.extra.QUERY_STRING" "search term" --activity-clear-task

The only downside is that orgzly is closed when you run this so you will lose all the history

This should be pretty straightforward to apply to Tasker

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[lytex]

You're welcome!

Very interesting idea. Termux is wonderful and pretty powerful, and I'm currently exploring it.

You can create a dialog box using termux-dialog and create a bash script, and then you can either launch it using termux-widget or termux-tasker.

You may encounter something useful in my orgzly-integrations repo, I'm hacking together a bunch of solutions with termux and python, such as git synchronization before it was implemented!

[thephatmaster]

I'm having some difficulty with running this this shell command in tasker. Perhaps the --activity-clear-task is causing issues?

It only works as expected if tasker is open. If tasker is not it seems Orgzly times out immediately.

If I set the task to (1) open Orgzly; (2) wait 4s (3) run shell command, Orgzly opens for 4s, then immediately closes.

I'm finding this hard to debug, can you offer any suggestions?

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You're welcome!

Very interesting idea. Termux is wonderful and pretty powerful, and I'm currently exploring it.

You can create a dialog box using termux-dialog https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-dialog and create a bash script, and then you can either launch it using termux-widget https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux:Widget or termux-tasker https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux:Tasker.

You may encounter something useful in my orgzly-integrations https://github.com/lytex/orgzly-integrations repo, I'm hacking together a bunch of solutions with termux and python, such as git synchronization before it was implemented!

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[lytex]

See https://github.com/termux/TermuxAm/issues/4, I'm having kind of this problem in termux also. It seems since Android 10, apps aren't allowed by default to launch intents from the background, but there are workarounds.

I think the Activity Manager is different in Tasker and termux, so maybe this option --activity-clear-task behaves differently.

[thephatmaster]

Thanks, I haven't tried it in termux in the background (don't know how maybe via cron?), but in tasker it certainly can't, even though tasker has the draw over permission. If only there was a way to get tasker to open itself!

On Sun, 3 Jan 2021, 17:57 lytex, notifications@github.com wrote:

See termux/TermuxAm#4 https://github.com/termux/TermuxAm/issues/4, I'm having kind of this problem in termux also. It seems since Android 10, apps aren't allowed by default to launch intents from the background, but there are workarounds.

I think the Activity Manager is different in Tasker and termux, so maybe this option --activity-clear-task behaves differently.

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[lytex]

Sure! am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN net.dinglisch.android.taskerm should do it (works from termux)

However you may encounter better information at r/tasker and/or tasker forum.

[thephatmaster]

Awesome, thanks!

On Sun, 3 Jan 2021, 23:11 lytex, notifications@github.com wrote:

Sure! am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN net.dinglisch.android.taskerm should do it (works from termux)

However you may encounter better information at r/tasker https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/ and/or tasker forum https://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?forums/tasker/.

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[ronnac]

Not directly related, but orgzly searches can also be opened from a chrome based Android browser using chrome intents, e.g. intent://#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;package=com.orgzly;component=com.orgzly/com.orgzly.android.ui.main.MainActivity;S.com.orgzly.intent.extra.QUERY_STRING=t.phone;end Hence, you can create a shortcut on your home screen for the context 'phone'.

Another way to create such search shortcuts is via 'Sesame search & shortcuts'.