Send Markdown Tasks to Things

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Posted by SimonB, Last update about 5 hours ago

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about 5 hours ago

I use this to extract tasks from the AI revised transcript from my notes app

Script that looks for unchecked task items ( - [ ] ) removes the checkbox and transfers to Things using the note’s title as the name of the Things task and the tasks as subtasks.

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Steps

script

// Get draft title and content
let title = draft.title.trim();
let text = draft.content;

// Split content into lines
let lines = text.split("\n");

let checklist = [];

// Extract ONLY unchecked markdown tasks
for (let line of lines) {
    if (line.startsWith("- [ ] ")) {
        let item = line.replace("- [ ] ", "").trim();
        if (item.length > 0) {
            checklist.push(item);
        }
    }
}

// Only proceed IF tasks exist
if (checklist.length > 0) {

    let checklistText = checklist.join("\n");

    let encodedTitle = encodeURIComponent(title);
    let encodedChecklist = encodeURIComponent(checklistText);
    let encodedTag = encodeURIComponent("Cleft");

    let url = `things:///add?title=${encodedTitle}&checklist-items=${encodedChecklist}&tags=${encodedTag}`;

    app.openURL(url);

    // Archive draft after sending
    draft.isArchived = true;
    draft.update();

} else {

    app.displayInfoMessage("No unchecked tasks found.");
}

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