Migrate Omnifocus to Things Applescript
| 15/1/2009 | Posted by Pete under Software |
I found a cool site with some code to convert Omnifocus tasks into Things.
This is the original page here.
My version of the script can be found below. I have added due date conversion to the script, and cleaned it up a bit but most of the credit should go to the original author(s).
Omnifocus To Things Conversion Script
Edit: I have corrected the script problems below, so the script should be compilable now.
Edit: Git repository can be found at http://github.com/glennr/omnifocus_to_things
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I tried to compile this today. I keep getting this weird error. I’m not an Applescript guru, so I don’t really know what it means.
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Syntax Error
Expected “thenâ€, etc. but found unknown token.
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It seems to happen in the “ExportTrees” section.
Hi, If you’re following this page in some way I updated the script so it should be compilable now.
I had some issues with due dates not working out:
* If there was no due date, it would set it to today by default. Likely an issue from tabbing in to the field.
* Also, when I had a due date, the dd-mm-yyyy format ending up not getting parsed right in the date widget. I had to change DateStringThings(dte) around to be mm-dd-yyyy for it to work for me. Not sure if this is a Locale issue or a change in Things.
Let me know if you want the code changes and how best to get them to you.
I fixed the “defaulting to today’s date” problem and posted the files to github
http://github.com/glennr/omnifocus_to_things/tree/master
@Mike – feel free to add your date formatting fix there.
Hi,
I’d love to use Pete’s script but I can’t seem to find the updated version. Where is it??
Thanks for offering to use it, in any case…
M
Hi,
I know this a very old post but I haven’t found anything else to replace it.
Anyway, I get the same mistake as Bo mentions. It seems to be this token � that script editor doesn’t know. Any way to fix that?
If you copy and paste the AppleScript code into Script Editor, you’ll get that weird character that it doesn’t like.
If you download it from github, and then unzip it and open the applescript file, you don’t get that weird character.
excuse my idiocy, but how do you “mark the tasks in Omni Focus you want to import into Thing” ?
do you select them in OmniFocus, create an export file (and if so, in what format), etc. ?
thank you.
Hi Andrew,
you just need to select the tasks you want to export, so they are highlighted (like you’re going to drag and drop them).
Hope that helps.
Pete