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Importing plain text files for notes
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rantipole |
Hi,
I have hundreds of notes as plain text files I would like to import into toodledo notebook. The file names are the notes' titles. How can I do that without importing them separately by hand? Cheers! This message was edited Apr 15, 2012. |
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PeterW |
Toodledo has an import feature for notebooks. I am not sure what the filespec is but the page is located here: http://www.toodledo.com/tools/connect_csv.php
I brought a bunch of notes in via Dropbox and Appigo Notebook which can also sync with Toodledo. |
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rantipole |
Thank you PeterW,
but this is CSV import and my notes are plain text (multiple lines of text). I have no idea how to convert them to CSV. |
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PeterW |
@rantipole,
One way of achieving this would be to cut & past them into Excel using the appropriate filespec and then save as CSV. I just took a look at the filespec. This is it: "TITLE","FOLDER","ADDED","MODIFIED","NOTE" So a typical note would look like this in a text reader: "Home Checklist",Home,"2011-02-11","2011-08-21","Home checklist Wash car Wash dog Wash cat" In Excel, each field would be in its own cell across one row with the notes themselves all in one cell. In the example above the note is just: Home checklist Wash car Wash dog Wash cat ...where the first line is the title of the note. If you're not comfortable doing this or the job is too big given that you have hundreds of notes, my other suggestion would be a viable alternative, e.g: 1. Purchase Appigo Notebook for your iPhone ($4.99) 2. Install Dropbox on your iPhone (free) 3. Install Dropbox on your PC/Mac (free) 4. Configure Appigo Notebook to sync via your Dropbox account. 5. Copy all of your text note files into the Dropbox folder. This will auto-initiate a sync. 6. Initiate a sync in Appigo Notebook. All of your Notes will now sync into Appigo Notebook. 7. Use the Migrate Notebook Data option in Appigo Notebook to copy all notes from Dropbox to Toodledo. 8. Sync to Toodledo. I realise that this looks like a lot of work but it's not too difficult and once set up, it will bring over everything in one go without losing anything. Once you've installed the apps and got yourself familiar with them it's pretty straightforward. This message was edited Apr 16, 2012. |
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rantipole |
Thank you again, PeterW!
I understand the manual way of doing the conversion, which looks not too complicated. The automagical way would be much more comfortable, however I do not own any iOS devices. Is there an alternative to Appigo? |
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
I am sorry, but there is not a way to directly import a series of individual files into the notebook section.
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PeterW |
Posted by rantipole:
I understand the manual way of doing the conversion, which looks not too complicated. The automagical way would be much more comfortable, however I do not own any iOS devices. Is there an alternative to Appigo? Sorry, not that I am aware of. |
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