Hi, Andreas. I am not much of an expert on import and export but I know a little about RTE and parsing and I can see that some of your trouble comes from limitations of the RTE/Parsing facilty. For that reason I do not think that RTE/Parsing should be the means by which your tasks enter MLO. I would suggest using one of the XML or Tab imports. I notice that MLO can import MLO-XML, Mindmanager-XML and TabDelimited; I also notice that MLO can export all of those formats. So if I were trying to solve this problem I would start by setting up an MLO profile with lots of sample tasks that showed all of the variety and complexity of my live tasks. I would export the tasks in all three formats (tab, MLOxml, and MindManagerXml), figure out the one that seemed to contain all of the desired complexity while remaining easiest to understand, then reformat my exported CSV-formatted tasks to follow the chosen format, then import them and review them carefully to repair whatever imported incorrectly.
FYI (and you can skip this if you are not that interested) the parsing limitation that I see you hitting involves multiple dates in a single task. If you want a task to have a start date and a different due date, you cannot just specify a line with both dates. Only one date will be parsed and it will be assigned to both start and due. Instead you have to specify one of the dates and then specify Lead Time equal to the interval between the two dates. For example, parsing "starting today due tomorrow" will yield a task with start and due date on the same day, I think today. But parsing "starting today with lead time one day" or "due tomorrow with lead time one day" will give the desired results. According to some discussion in this forum about 5 years ago, this is not a bug, it was built that way for some very specific reason which I did not actually understand. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/c316f9d8-6463-434c-ae72-4d45d07f0aef%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
