Import from OmniFocus

Export OmniFocus to a CSV file and import it: each project becomes a list. To keep repeats, copy the projects as TaskPaper on a Mac instead.

OmniFocus can save everything as one CSV file, on a phone, an iPad or a Mac. That brings every open project, but not repeats. If many of your actions repeat, use the TaskPaper way for those projects.

In OmniFocus

In Ring List

1. On Ring Lists, tap or click the dashed + circle, then import.
2. Set From to OmniFocus.
3. Tap or click Choose the .csv file and pick the file.

What comes over

• Each open project becomes a list, and the inbox a list called Inbox, all in a group called OmniFocus. Folders don’t come over.
• Action groups’ actions become subtasks, however deep.
• Tags become labels, a flag becomes important (!), and due dates keep their time.
• A defer date still to come snoozes the task until then.
• Finished actions come in finished, and dropped ones as Won’t do. Finished and dropped projects are left out.
• Notes come over. An estimated time, and whether a project was on hold, are kept in a note line starting “From OmniFocus:”.

Not in OmniFocus’s file at all: repeats, review dates, and attachments.

Keep your repeats

This way needs a Mac, and brings the projects you select as one list, with each project a section.

1. In OmniFocus on a Mac, select the projects.
2. Choose Edit, then Copy as TaskPaper.
3. Paste into a new TextEdit document. Choose Format, then Make Plain Text.
4. Save it with a name ending in .taskpaper.
5. In Ring List, import it with From set to TaskPaper, not OmniFocus.

Repeats and planned days come over this way. See Import from TaskPaper for the rest.