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AppleScript to migrate from Things to Omnifocus
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-- Import tasks from Things to OmniFocus | |
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tell application "Things" | |
-- Loop through ToDos in Things | |
repeat with aToDo in to dos of list "Next" | |
-- Get title and notes of Things task | |
set theTitle to name of aToDo | |
set theNote to notes of aToDo | |
-- Get project name | |
if (project of aToDo) is not missing value then | |
set theProjectName to (name of project of aToDo) | |
else | |
set theProjectName to "NoProjInThings" | |
end if | |
-- Get Contexts from tags | |
-- get all tags from one ToDo item... | |
set allTagNames to {} | |
copy (name of tags of aToDo) to allTagNames | |
-- ...and from the project... | |
if (project of aToDo) is not missing value then | |
copy (name of tags of project of aToDo) to the end of allTagNames | |
end if | |
-- ...now extract contexts from tags | |
copy my FindContextName(allTagNames) to theContextName | |
-- Create a new task in OmniFocus | |
tell application "OmniFocus" | |
tell default document | |
-- Set (or create new) task context | |
if context theContextName exists then | |
set theContext to context theContextName | |
else | |
set theContext to make new context with properties {name:theContextName} | |
end if | |
-- Set (or create new) project | |
if project theProjectName exists then | |
set theProject to project theProjectName | |
else | |
set theProject to make new project with properties {name:theProjectName} | |
end if | |
-- Create new task | |
tell theProject | |
set newTask to make new task with properties {name:theTitle, note:theNote, containing project:theProject, context:theContext} | |
end tell | |
end tell -- document | |
end tell -- OF application | |
end repeat -- Main loop | |
end tell -- Things application | |
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-- Get context from array of Things tags | |
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on FindContextName(tagNames) | |
-- Example usage | |
--FindContextName("@Mac", "1/2hr", "High") -- FYI, my tags are context, duration and priority | |
repeat with aTagName in tagNames | |
if aTagName starts with "@" then | |
return aTagName | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
return "" | |
end FindContextName -- End FindContextName | |
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-- Remove the CRs from a string, | |
-- not used in this script, | |
-- carry over from prior implementation | |
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on ReplaceText(find, replace, subject) | |
-- Example usage | |
-- ReplaceText("Windows", "the Mac OS", "I love Windows and I will always love Windows and I have always loved Windows.") | |
set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript | |
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to find | |
set subject to text items of subject | |
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to replace | |
set subject to "" & subject | |
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs | |
return subject | |
end ReplaceText -- End replaceText() |
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Hi Dan,
check out my fork. Works for me :)
Cheers,
Hendrik