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Script to import from Things 3 into Omnifocus 3
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| -- Import tasks from Things to OmniFocus | |
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| -- | |
| -- Script taken from: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=14846&page=2 | |
| -- Added: creation date, due date, start date functionality | |
| -- Empty your Things Trash first. | |
| -- Note that this won't move over scheduled recurring tasks. | |
| tell application "Things3" | |
| -- Loop through ToDos in Things. Do Next, Scheduled, Someday, Inbox. | |
| -- Note that Someday'd Projects don't get included. | |
| -- After doing the above lists, move Someday projects to Next and change this to "of project "project name"". | |
| repeat with aToDo in to dos of list "Upcoming" | |
| -- Get title and notes of Things task | |
| set theTitle to name of aToDo | |
| set theNote to notes of aToDo | |
| set theCreationDate to creation date of aToDo | |
| set theDueDate to due date of aToDo | |
| set theStartDate to activation date of aToDo | |
| -- get dates | |
| if (creation date of aToDo) is not missing value then | |
| set theCreationDate to creation date of aToDo | |
| else | |
| set theCreationDate to today | |
| end if | |
| if (due date of aToDo) is not missing value then | |
| set theDueDate to due date of aToDo | |
| end if | |
| if (activation date of aToDo) is not missing value then | |
| set theStartDate to activation date of aToDo | |
| end if | |
| -- Get project name | |
| if (project of aToDo) is not missing value then | |
| set theProjectName to (name of project of aToDo) | |
| else | |
| set theProjectName to "No Project In Things" | |
| 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 | |
| -- Create a new task in OmniFocus | |
| tell application "OmniFocus" | |
| tell default document | |
| repeat with theTag in allTagNames | |
| set theTag to theTag as string | |
| if not (theTag = "") then | |
| if not (tag theTag exists) then | |
| log "Created new tag '" & theTag & "'" | |
| make new tag with properties {name:theTag} | |
| end if | |
| end if | |
| end repeat | |
| -- 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 | |
| set testTag to tag "schedule" | |
| -- Create new task | |
| tell theProject | |
| set newTask to make new task with properties {name:theTitle, note:theNote, creation date:theCreationDate} | |
| if (theStartDate is not missing value) then set the defer date of newTask to theStartDate | |
| if (theDueDate is not missing value) then set the due date of newTask to theDueDate | |
| repeat with theTag in allTagNames | |
| -- set theRealTag to tag theTag | |
| -- log "theRealTag:" & (theRealTag as string) | |
| -- set the tag of newTask to tag theTag | |
| end repeat | |
| end tell | |
| end tell -- document | |
| end tell -- OF application | |
| end repeat -- Main loop | |
| end tell -- Things application |
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