Converting TaskPaper docs

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My process for converting a TaskPaper doc to Bike is simply:

  • Open the TaskPaper file in a text editor.
  • Convert all instances of "<tab> -" to just “<tab>”
  • Open in Bike!

Seems to work for my docs so far. Any suggestions/tips?

Thanks.

2

Yes, I think that makes sense to me.

3

Actually even easier might be:

  1. Copy text in TaskPaper
  2. Paste text into Bike
  3. Find and Replace in Bike to remove leading "- "
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4

And I guess you could even script the search and replace, if there were any number of files to bring over.

For example, with the language drop-down at top left in Script Editor set to JavaScript, you could experiment, having pasted a sample TaskPaper file into Bike, with something like:

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(() => {
    "use strict";

   // Ver 0.2

    // --------------------- OPTIONS ---------------------
    const pruneBullets = true;
    const pruneColons = false;

    // - DELETE TRAILLING COLONS AND OR LEADING BULLETS --
    const
        bike = Application("Bike"),
        frontDoc = bike.documents.at(0);

    return frontDoc.exists(0) ? (() => {
        const
            colon = /:$/gu,
            bullet = /^- /gu,
            rows = frontDoc.rows,
            bulleted = pruneBullets ? rows.where({
                name: {
                    _beginsWith: "- "
                }
            })() : [],
            projects = pruneColons ? rows.where({
                name: {
                    _endsWith: ":"
                }
            })() : [],
            nBullets = bulleted.length,
            nProjects = projects.length;



        return (
            projects.forEach(
                x => x.name = x.name()
                .replace(colon, "")
            ),
            bulleted.forEach(
                x => x.name = x.name()
                .replace(bullet, "")
            ),
            [
                `Pruned ${nProjects} trailling colons`,
                `${nBullets} leading bullets.`
            ].join(",\n")
        );

    })() : "No documents open in Bike.";
})();

Updated to version 0.2 above