Export and import

Exporting your data

The EXPORT command will open a dialog allowing you to save your tasks and abbreviations to a local file. You can use this if you want to move data using local storage to Dropbox. You can also import the file, using the IMPORT command.

Note that export doesn't currently work with IE; sorry. Also, Firefox seems to get upset if you remove the file extension when selecting the filename to store the file as; who knows why?

To move local data to Dropbox, use the following steps:

1. Enter EXPORT
2. When the dialog opens, select Save to save the contents to your Dropbox folder; in this example we will assume you saved it to MyData.txt.
3. Enter the USE DROPBOX command. This will switch you from local storage to Dropbox.
4. Enter the OPEN MyData.txt command.
5. You now have your local tasks running using Dropbox.

To move local storage from one browser to another, use the following steps:

1. From the first browser, enter EXPORT
2. When the dialog opens, select Save to save the contents to your Dropbox folder; in this example we will assume you saved it to MyData.part.
3. From the other browser enter the IMPORT command.
4. When the open file dialog appears, select your MyData.part file
5. The tasks and abbreviations will now be available in your other browser.

Importing data

The IMPORT command can be used to import a file that you previously created using the EXPORT command. This might be useful if you use local storage and decide to change browsers. Note that the tasks and abbreviations are merged with your current list. They are not automatically saved after an import.

Viewing the tasks as a JSON object

This is for debugging only. If you run the DUMP command, you will get a listing in JSON format. If you don't know what JSON is, don't worry; you probably don't want to know and certainly won't need to use the command :)