Hi — thanks to "A to the B" for his Things —> Omnifocus script.
I tweaked it a little bit to preserve creation date, start date, and due date.
Hope this is helpful!
This is the second migration for my 200+ item todo list in the past month!
I finally gave up on The Hit List due to lack of responsiveness from the developer + major duplication bugs syncing with iCal.
I tweaked someone else's script to move everything into Things, which I had bought around version 1.0 but found inflexible and easy to lose things in. My old impression was confirmed once again (though I liked the iPhone app), so I decided to try OmniFocus. We'll see (9 days left on trial) but looking good so far.
Anyhow, here are the script additions. Perhaps someone else can do whatever tag support is needed? I didn't really use them for the short time I was using Things.
Good luck!
Code:
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-- Import tasks from Things to OmniFocus
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-- Added: creation date, due date, start date functionality
tell application "Things"
-- Loop through ToDos in Things
repeat with aToDo in to dos of list "Next"
-- 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
if (area of aToDo) is not missing value then
set theProjectName to (name of project of aToDo)
end if
else if (area of aToDo) is not missing value then
set theProjectName to (name of area of aToDo)
else
set theProjectName to "NoProjInThings"
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
-- ...now extract contexts from tags
copy my FindContextName(allTagNames) to theContextName
-- Create a new task in OmniFocus
tell application "OmniFocus"
tell default document
-- Set (or create new) task context
if context theContextName exists then
set theContext to context theContextName
else
set theContext to make new context with properties {name:theContextName}
end if
-- 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
-- Create new task
tell theProject
set newTask to make new task with properties {name:theTitle, note:theNote, containing project:theProject, context:theContext, creation date:theCreationDate}
if (theStartDate is not missing value) then set the start date of newTask to theStartDate
if (theDueDate is not missing value) then set the due date of newTask to theDueDate
end tell
end tell -- document
end tell -- OF application
end repeat -- Main loop
end tell -- Things application
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-- Get context from array of Things tags
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on FindContextName(tagNames)
-- Example usage
--FindContextName("@Mac", "1/2hr", "High") -- FYI, my tags are context, duration and priority
repeat with aTagName in tagNames
if aTagName starts with "@" then
return aTagName
end if
end repeat
return ""
end FindContextName -- End FindContextName
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-- Remove the CRs from a string,
-- not used in this script,
-- carry over from prior implementation
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on ReplaceText(find, replace, subject)
-- Example usage
-- ReplaceText("Windows", "the Mac OS", "I love Windows and I will always love Windows and I have always loved Windows.")
set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to find
set subject to text items of subject
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to replace
set subject to "" & subject
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to prevTIDs
return subject
end ReplaceText -- End replaceText()
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