Import foreign (at the moment, Nozbe) data to RememberTheMilk
Project description
mekk.rtmimport handles importing data to RememberTheMilk. At the moment it handles importing data exported from Nozbe, I keep more generic name in case I write other importers in the future.
From Nozbe to RememberTheMilk
Exporting the data from Nozbe
Prepare .json export of Nozbe data. For details see mekk.nozbe but usually you just want to:
nozbetool export --json=mynozbedata.json
Importing data to RememberTheMilk
First make a test run:
rtmimport --nozbe-json=mynozbedata.json --verbose --dry-run
(it does not store anything, just prints what it is to do) and verify whether everything seems correct.
Then make actual import:
rtmimport --nozbe-json=mynozbedata.json --verbose
(or omit –verbose if you don’t want to track progress, but I recommend you keep it)
Note: import can take some time. In case of my big list over not-so-good network it has been running for almost an hour.
How the data is converted
Nozbe projects are saved as RememberTheMilk lists.
Nozbe contexts are converted to RememberTheMilk tags. @ is prepended to their names and non-alphanumeric characters are replaced with dashes (so for example My home/kitchen becomes @My-home-kitchen).
Next actions are tagged as Next.
Actions are saved as tasks. Name, due date, recurrence, estimated cost and completion status are all saved.
In case of recurrence, RTM every mode is used (so the task marked on Nozbe as recurring every week will be spawned 52 times a year by RTM, whether user completes it, or not). If you prefer alternative way (spawning new incarnation whenever previous is completed), edit tasks after import, patch the code (and replace every with after), or ask me for a commandline flag).
As notes are bound to projects on Nozbe, and to tasks on RememberTheMilk, I save notes by creating artificial tasks named “Save this note” (one per every list for which appropriate project had notes) and binding notes to those tasks. This must be handled afterwards using RTM interface, to make sure it happens I mark those tasks as due immediately. Those task are also tagged as Note.
Limitations
Only main context is copied, additional contexts are lost. I don’t know how to grab them from Nozbe (in case somebody knows how to patch mekk.nozbe to grab all contexts, I can extend this importer easily to handle them all).
Uploads are not copied (= lost). I neither now how to export them from Nozbe, nor RTM is able to handle them.
Action name formatting is not available on RememberTheMilk, so if you used constructs like Visit “the website”:http://google.com, they will show up as is.
Sharing information (= delegation to other users) is lost. I haven’t used this feature so I don’t know how do underlying data look like.
Source, bugs, patches
Development is tracked on BitBucket.
