Backup to OPML

Follow

MICHAEL D DURLAND

• September 08, 2019 22:17

Workflowy already creates daily backups to Dropbox, which is great. This is in text format.

Workflowy also already knows how to export to OPML.

It would be nice if these two could be combined to create daily backups to OPML, since OPML is a standardized format that can be easily fed back into Workflowy, or into other parsers. This could help, for example, make it possible to code selective data extraction with XML tools for generating reports.

I'm starting to organize a lot more in Workflowy these days, and then sometimes I have to go and manually pull out data into other formats. I'd like to try to code this up with some scripts to parse the XML and send it over. Automated daily backups to OPML would make this easier.

Thanks!

1

• 

  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • September 09, 2019 00:57

  Hi Michael,

  Thanks for the input. Of course, you now that a backup of one's entire account it done daily. There is no distinction between global vs. recent updates. In that sense, exporting to OPML manually (which you know about) would allow to break down exports via project... So I guess the question here is that beyond being able to import .backup files, what would be your primary use case for an OPML backup of your entire account? Would this be for generating reports (with global data) or would you do that with projects?

  You mentioned that OPML can easily be fed back into WorkFlowy. True... even via copy paste. But would this be useful to have a single OPML file of your entire account? One is able to restore one's account from a backup, which I guess is not your focus here. Just wondering if you have an easy method to glean the data you want (in any format) from a global backup of your entire WorkFlowy document.

  0

  Comment actions Permalink
• 

  Eduard

  • September 01, 2020 17:11

  Hi,
  
  I am a novice Workflowy user. Among the applications that I use, Workflowy is the best for crowdsourcing, when it is not clear who exactly can contribute.

  For my scenario, the best option is to work with OPML locally, synchronize OPML to the branch in Workflowy, and open public access to this branch. It is more convenient for me to work with OPML locally since I work with projects in different applications. And in fact, only the current copy of my data is in the OPML.
  
  If synchronization is not possible, then the option is slightly worse. Local work with the project in OPML, update Workflowy manually, Workflowy makes a local backup in OPML. Before updating the Workflowy, I check the project in OPML against the OPML-backup from the Workflowy using a text comparison program.
  
  Thanks.

  0

  Comment actions Permalink

Please sign in to leave a comment.