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2010-02-26, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by smcho
And the file format of OmniOutliner looks like binary one. Where can I get the doc/info about this?
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From the OmniOutliner Help:
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A plain OmniOutliner 3 file is a simple XML-based text file. If you are so inclined, you can open it up in a text editor or manipulate it with text-processing scripts and the like.
Be aware that if you have selected the Compress on Disk checkbox in the Document inspector, the file will be saved in a binary format (using the gzip compression method) and will not be readable as a plain text file.
Also remember that if an OmniOutliner 3 file has ever had a file attached to it, it will have become a Mac OS X package containing the XML contents and the attached files. In that case you'll need to go inside the package to find the XML text file.
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But if you're going to go to all the trouble to auto-generate an OmniOutliner XML file, why not just use plain text, one action per line? Then just copy and paste into OmniFocus.
The best way to do this is:
- Select an existing action in your OmniFocus main outline where you'd like to insert your list of new actions. The inbox might be a good place to use as a beachhead.
- Make sure you're not in edit mode on that action, otherwise a paste operation will paste the entire clipboard contents into a single action's title, which is probably not what you want.
- With the existing action selected, copy and paste your plain text actions. OmniFocus will create a new action for each line of text pasted.
- Organize new actions as desired.
-Dennis
Last edited by Toadling; 2010-02-26 at 03:08 PM..