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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 "Things"
-- 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 "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
set theProjectName to (name of project 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, context:theContext, 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
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
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