#x-callback-url

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[brandybradham]

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[fabiantheblind]

1.0 DRAFT Spec | x-callback-url

February 23, 2015 at 04:21PM 1.0 DRAFT Spec x-callback-url 1.0 DRAFT, R3 Abstract The x-callback-url specification is intended to standardize the use of URLs and registered URL schemes for inter-app communication and messaging on Apple’s iOS platforms. http://ift.tt/1igEj7d

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Tumblr for iOS now exposes URL schemes that can be invoked in order to create text, quote, link, and chat posts.

[pronetobits]

Rapid Reminder Creation from Mobile Safari Using Drafts App and x-callback-url

Below is a javascript bookmarklet than you can save in Safari. The bookmarklet will automatically open the [Drafts](http://agiletortoise.com/drafts) app and create a new Apple Reminder that contains the name and url of the originating page in Safari. This bookmarklet uses [x-callback-url](http://x-callback-url.com) (supported by Drafts) to then automatically return you to Safari after the Reminder is created. This can be useful to users of [Things](https://culturedcode.com) (or [OmniFocus](http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus-iphone/)) because it is a very quick and seamless way to create a new task in Things from a web page on iOS. It is actually creating an Apple Reminder that can be imported into the Things inbox the next time you launch Things. For example, say you were at the google home page in mobile Safari. Tapping on the bookmarklet would automatically take you to Drafts where a Reminder would be automatically created called "Google www.google.com." You would then automatically be returned to the google home page in Safari. There are a few prerequisites for this to work for creating a new reminder in Things (my preferred GTD application suite): 1. You need to have Reminders integration enabled in Things. 2. In the Things settings, you need to make sure that the Reminders list to import is the same list that is specified as the default list in the Reminders section of the iOS Settings app. 3. You need to have the Drafts app installed on your device. 4. You need to have the "Reminder" action enabled in Drafts (which will save the reminder to the default list specified in the iOS Settings app). 5. You need to have the "Allow URLs to trigger actions?" option in Drafts' settings set to On.

   So here is the bookmarklet: Javascript:window.location='drafts://x-callback-url/create?text='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'%20'+escape(document.URL)+'&action=Reminder'+'&x-source=Safari&x-success='+escape(document.URL) To install, just bookmark any page in Safari. Save it. Then edit that bookmark to replace its address with the bookmarlet address above. As cool as this is, there is one drawback. This bookmarklet creates a task whose title contains both the name and url of the web page in the task title, and the url is not clickable because Things does not allow hyperlinks in task names. It would be great if there was a way to put the address in the task notes where it would be clickable, but this is not possible because Drafts does not have a way to write to the Reminder's notes section. This could alternatively be solved if the Things app supported x-callback-url, but at the timing of this writing, it does not. If you would like to create a task from a web page that has the web page title as the task name and the address in the notes, then you can used the following bookmarklet which I found on the Things forums a while back. Javascript:window.location='things:add?title='+escape(document.title)+'&notes=Visited%20on%20'+new%20Date().toDateString()+':%20'+escape(document.URL) The limitation of this bookmarklet is that it does not automatically return you to Safari. All in all, I'm not sure how useful the above callback bookmarklet is because the url in the task name is not clickable. But it is a fast way to create a task from mobile Safari, and it was personally kind of fun to play around with the x-callback-url specification. Ideally, Cultured Code will one day officially support x-callback-url in their iOS apps. **Update**: Of course, you don't have to use this with Things. It can be used just to create iOS Reminders. Alternatively, this can be used with Omnifocus, which also supports Reminders integration for task creation.