OmniFocus tasks to Pomodoro iPad.scpt

-- OmniFocus (or many other apps) to Pomodoro App for iPad
-- This script practically takes text that's on your clipboard 
-- and generates a Pomodoro App for iPad compatible JSON file
-- to import into the app. (using Dropbox)
--
-- I'm using it with OmniFocus, where copied tasks remain
-- on the clipboard as lines of text, basically. 
--
-- Created by Andreas on 2011-02-17
-- http://www.macosxscreencasts.com
-- 
-- A couple gotcha's: 
-- * This script assumes your Dropbox folder is ~/Dropbox 
--    if you're using anything else, modify the script
-- * This script also assumes there is already a Pomodoro
--    in your Dropbox, if there is none, go ahead and create one

set clipboardContent to the clipboard as text -- this is what we're working with
set clipboardContentLines to (count paragraphs of clipboardContent) - 1 -- get count of lines on clipboard
set estimateItems to {}

set JSONresult to ""
set JSONresults to {}
set JSONBeginning to "[\n"
set JSONEnd to "]"
set JSONTaskBegin to "\t{\n"
set JSONTaskEstimate to "\t\t\"estimate\":"
set JSONTaskEnd to "\t}\n"
set JSONTaskListEnd to "\t},\n"
set JSONTaskList to "\t\t\"list\":0,\n"
set JSONTaskTitle to "\t\t\"title\":\""

set UserHome to (POSIX path of (path to home folder)) as string
set JSONfilename to UserHome & "Dropbox/Pomodoro/tasks.json" as string
set JSONpattern to UserHome & "Dropbox/Pomodoro/*.json" as string

set cmd to ""
set fileCheck to ""

-- this routine displays a dialog where the user can set an estimate amount of pomodoros for each task on the clipboard
repeat with i from 1 to clipboardContentLines
	set estimateDialog to display dialog "Estimate: " & (paragraph i of clipboardContent) default answer ¬
		"2" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button {"OK"}
	
	if (button returned of estimateDialog is "OK") and (text returned of estimateDialog is not "") then
		copy text returned of estimateDialog to the end of estimateItems
	else if (button returned of estimateDialog is "OK") and (text returned of estimateDialog is "") then
		set amount to "2" -- default estimate is 2
	else if (button returned of estimateDialog is "Cancel") then
		return
	end if
	
end repeat

-- now we're stitching everything together
repeat with i from 1 to clipboardContentLines
	if i is not equal to clipboardContentLines then -- last item needs to be handled differently. FU JSON!
		set end of JSONresults to JSONTaskBegin & ¬
			JSONTaskEstimate & (item i of estimateItems) & ",\n" & ¬
			JSONTaskList & ¬
			JSONTaskTitle & (paragraph i of clipboardContent) & "\"\n" & ¬
			JSONTaskListEnd
		
	else
		set end of JSONresults to JSONTaskBegin & ¬
			JSONTaskEstimate & (item i of estimateItems) & ",\n" & ¬
			JSONTaskList & ¬
			JSONTaskTitle & (paragraph i of clipboardContent) & "\"\n" & ¬
			JSONTaskEnd
		
	end if
end repeat

repeat with i from 1 to clipboardContentLines
	set JSONresult to JSONresult & (item i of JSONresults)
end repeat

set JSONresult to JSONBeginning & JSONresult & JSONEnd

-- check whether file exists
try
	-- the file exists already. Let's delete it.
	set fileCheck to do shell script "/bin/ls " & JSONfilename
	if fileCheck is equal to JSONfilename then
		set fileMove to "rm " & (quoted form of JSONpattern)
		do shell script fileMove
	end if
on error
	-- apparently there's no tasks.json file yet, so let's create it
	do shell script "touch " & (quoted form of JSONfilename)
end try

--return cmd
set cmd to "echo " & (quoted form of JSONresult) & " > " & (quoted form of JSONfilename) -- yeah, i know i suck for not using applescript here.
-- display dialog cmd
do shell script cmd