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zorn is offline zorn
2010-08-04 , 20:15
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#33
Originally Posted by epage View Post
Currently the data is stored in a database. I'm not a fan of databases so that might eventually change but it does limit doing a hack.

Could you provide me examples of what you want to be able to import and I'll look at an option? it may be a few days as right now I am on vacation till the end of the week with little time to recover before more vacation end of next week.
Wow, that was a quick response! :-)

I can munge the data as required if it makes things easier, but for what it's worth the raw data is what comes out of jpilot (a Linux program which syncs with the Palm OS builtin apps). The text export from that generates a text file like this:

Memos exported from J-Pilot 1.6.2.9 on 08/04/10 21:01

Memo: 1
Category: Unfiled
Private: No
----- Start of Memo -----
This is the text of memo 1
----- End of Memo -----

Memo: 2
Category: Unfiled
Private: No
----- Start of Memo -----
This is the text of memo 2.

Of course, it can have multiple lines.
----- End of Memo -----

In an ideal world I would be able to import such a text file. I don't really care about importing the category (jpilot seemed to lose it occasionally, so I stopped really using it) but obviously it would be nice. And I guess the private/not-private distinction doesn't exist in Quicknote, so that's irrelevant (though on a different note, it might be a nice extra feature).

Anyway, if you can help that would obviously be great, but please don't go out of your way. I should probably download the source and see if I can hack something in myself. (I just wanted to do that kind of thing *after* I got the basic functionality all working, so I didn't feel any self-imposed pressure.)

Cheers, and I hope you're enjoying your vacation. :-)