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Workflowy now supports exporting to OPML
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Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 1, 2013 at 03:26 PM
See http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/june/workflowySupportsOpml
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 1, 2013 at 04:57 PM
Chris Murtland wrote:
See http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/june/workflowySupportsOpml
Thanks for the heads-up. This is exciting news, but unfortunately I couldn’t get it work properly.
Firs Bonsai gave me the following error, when I tried to import the OPML file:
“The XML parser detected an error. An invalid character was found in text content.”
I had to manually remove all accented characters, such as á or é, before I could import it.
Then I discovered that the inline notes were not imported. I’m not sure if the problem is with the export or my Bonsai OPML filter.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 1, 2013 at 05:20 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Then I discovered that the inline notes were not imported. I’m not sure
>if the problem is with the export or my Bonsai OPML filter.
It looks like the problem may lie with my Bonsai OPML filter (which I downloaded from CarbonFin). When I imported the same OPML file into the CarbonFin web app, saved it, exported it, and re-imported it into Bonsai (using the same filter), the inline notes showed up fine.
I had a similar problem when trying to import .mm files into Bonsai that were originally created in Freeplane. For some reason the inline notes would only show if I first imported Freeplane’s .mm file to IThoughtsHD (on my iPad) and then exported into Bonsai as .opml:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4844
Well, at least there is a way to fix this problem, though I’m still not entirely sure what is going wrong and what it is that fixes it.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 1, 2013 at 05:40 PM
Just to add to the OPML mystery, when I imported the original Workflowy OPML file into WhizFolder using its latest “importutil” app (http://whizfolders.com/blog/index.php/import-utility-updated-3-2), it made a complete mess of it, jumbling up the hierarchy.
When I imported the second OPML version that was round-tripped through the CarbonFin web app, WhizFolders imported the hierarchy fine, but still without the inline notes.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 2, 2013 at 06:03 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I had to manually remove all accented characters, such as á or
>é, before I could import it.
>
>Then I discovered that the inline notes were not imported. I’m not sure
>if the problem is with the export or my Bonsai OPML filter.
I suspect that the issue is rather fundamental and relates to the codepage used for the files. You can open the OPML files in a text editor and see at the top of the XML description what encoding they use. I suspect that Bonsai can only recognise the simple latin character set, while Carbonfin recognises others, but encodes everything into this.