Drafts Directory: Move Tasks to Things

Action

Posted by agiletortoise, Last update 20 days ago

Send text on selected lines to Things as new tasks in the Inbox, removing the lines from draft. I use to this migrate tasks I created in Drafts to Things for further processing.

If there is no text selection, the current line is moved to Things. If multiple lines are selected, they are all moved as individual tasks.

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Steps

script

// CONFIGURE
const list = "Inbox"

// get information
const [st,len] = editor.getSelectedLineRange()
let selectedText = editor.getTextInRange(st, len)
let lines = selectedText.split("\n")
let todos = []

// loop over lines, adding non-blank lines as todos
// also clean up line, removing any list/task prefix
for (line of lines) {
	let trimmedLine = line.trim() // remove whitespace
	trimmedLine = trimmedLine.replace(/^[-\* \[\]x]+/, "")
	if (trimmedLine.length == 0) { // skip blank lines
		continue
	}
	let todo = TJSTodo.create()
	todo.title = trimmedLine
	todo.list = list
	todos.push(todo)
}

if (todos.length > 0) {
	// create Things object to create URL
	const container = TJSContainer.create(todos)
	var cb = CallbackURL.create()
	cb.baseURL = container.url

	if (cb.open()) {
		console.log("Todos created in Things")
		editor.setTextInRange(st, len, "")
		editor.setSelectedRange(st, 0)
	}
	else {
		console.fail()
	}
}
else { // no todos to create
	alert("No todos found")
	context.fail()
}

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