[yuji]

OK cool, it totally works. Thanks for the pointer! The one thing I don't understand is how to know which task id to use as the "old" task. In reading Ken's description of the naming convention, you follow the date stamp with old_id+new_id. But if I'm just adding a brand new item (not modifying an old transaction), how do I know what ID to use for the old_id?

Again, my use case here is that I plan to write a dead simple Android app that will allow me to quickly add a task directly to my webdav server, so my OmniFocus app will pick it up on the next sync.

If it all possible, I'd like to avoid having to read and parse the existing database.