Org-mode Import/Export Tools

… by Marco Vezzoli, this is available in the contrib directory of the distribution.

• there are an export tool already implemented in org mode, is explained at the org manual.
• For Google users, read this tutorial.

This Translator was written by Olaf Dietsche.

A quite complete translation can be achieved by a compact Perl program:

#!/usr/bin/perl
/^(\t*)-(.*?)((@\w+ *)*)$/;
@u=grep{$_ ne'@done'}(@t=split/ +/,$3);
@v=@u?('',@u,''):();
$t{$_}++for@u;
$_="*"x(2+length$1).(@t==@u?" TODO":" DONE").$2.join(":",@v)."\n"if$&;
s/^\w.*:\s*$/* $&/;
END{printf "* Setup\n#+TAGS: %s\n",join' ',keys%t}

This program is quite unreadable because it resulted from a contest for the most compact translator - but it works very well anyway.

There are some tools and documentation related:

• There is a mention of some tools at the org-tools section, here.
• For Google users, see this.
• For a command line tool that converts files, URLs (e.g., Google Calendar), email attachments, and other sources into org-mode events, see this. It can integrate with crontab, systemd, etc. for automatic updating. An example of mu4e integration for processing email attachments with ics content is shown.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/Memacs
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/Memacs/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 some modules were written and used by the author. Most modules are contributions from other users of Memacs.

If you want to (re-)collect your own data from various sources such as text messages, visited web pages, photographs, emails, git commits and so forth, this framework allows for using or writing modules that convert non-Orgdown formats to Orgdown. This way, you get a really detailed agenda with all of your activities.

• Author: Karl Voit (publicvoit)
• Website: https://github.com/novoid/orgdepend_to_orgedna
• License: GPL 3.0
• Technology: Python 3
• Bugs and feature requests: https://github.com/novoid/orgdepend_to_orgedna/issues
• State of development: 2023-04-09 used by the author to convert his setup once. Might need maintenance with newer versions.

Most use-cases for org-depend can be migrated to org-edna using that tool. Please refer to the documentation to learn what can be converted and what not.