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Export to csv

Open Nesaijn opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Exporting and maybe importing the entries in csv or txt files would be a nice to have.

Nesaijn avatar Oct 31 '20 11:10 Nesaijn

Yep, i agree. I'll see what I can do!

m-i-n-a-r avatar Oct 31 '20 12:10 m-i-n-a-r

This is a bit specific to my workflow, but it would be excellent to be able to read from and export to an Org-mode file format as well! I'd be happy to work on this if there would be interest in adding such a feature.

jakeisnt avatar Nov 14 '20 11:11 jakeisnt

I appreciate every help! Regarding this function, you already have a csv technically, since the exported file (I mean, the "Birday backup") can be opened using an SQLite browser and exported as csv. But I agree, a direct export excluding the useless columns would be great, but it's a bit hard.

Regarding the import, i could only import a specific format of csv, i don't think I could automatically detect the right columns from any csv. But again, I appreciate any help and suggestion 😉

m-i-n-a-r avatar Nov 14 '20 20:11 m-i-n-a-r

So, i tried to write a csv importer and exporter in f6115b8620d0b9d2bc21ee052efefd4071c6b837 and previous commits. It will be available in the next update under the "experimental settings". I made it in the smartest way possible, and it can recognize the fields automatically in certain cases, but it's away from perfect

m-i-n-a-r avatar Sep 02 '22 12:09 m-i-n-a-r