Xmind Mindmaps konvertieren
Monday, April 9. 2012
There is prior post regarding conversion of .xmind documents to other mind mapping formats and also re: import of text to Freemind, but now there is a new angle to those topics after I discovered a python modul which comes quite handy if you want to parse or create .xmind mindmaps.
It goes by the name of mekk.xmind, authered by Marcin Kasperski.
Download it with mercurial, (if you don't have this installed, you can get it on debian by apt-get install mercurial)
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/Mekk/mekk.xmind
cd mekk.xmind
python setup.py install
You will find some example scripts next to he sources and it worked fine here immediately..
Frustrated over Kontact I still search for a suitable way to handle task lists so that task administration integrates with my desktop thunderbird/lightning, google calendars and my androisd smartphone which nicely interfaces to google tasks. And as I like to structure my ideas with mindmaps and quite like XMind I tried to use XMind as a means to write structured task lists. Unfortunately lightning doesn't do subtasks. It has been asked for for years but not implemented.
Among the alternatives for task managment on linux there is Task Coach (pro: open source, does sub tasks SyncML, file format XML, some export options, con: usage could need enhancement, export formats uncomplete, so after reimporting an exported task list it doesn't necessarily rebuild the same thing, supports iOS but no direct support for android). For android they recommend Todo.txt and task coach exports and imports task lists in todo.tx - Format.
Can't say I'm content with all this, it's more like a waypoint on my search. Below is a little python script that lets you excerpt a todo.txt task list from an xMind mindmap.
#!/usr/bin/python# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# (c) 2012, Daniel Plaenitz## depends on mekk.xmind by Marcin Kasperski# hg clone https://bitbucket.org/Mekk/mekk.xmind#
# python xmind2todo.py inputFile [outputFile]
from mekk.xmind import XMindDocument
from datetime import dateimport sysimport codecs
output = u""
def parse_sheet(file_name): xmind = XMindDocument.open(file_name) sheet = xmind.get_first_sheet() root = sheet.get_root_topic() for topic in root.get_subtopics(): parse_level(topic,[],root.get_title())
def parse_level(topic,names,rootTitle): global output _names = names[:] _names.append(topic.get_title()) _line = u"" for name in _names: _line += u" -> "+name _line = _line[4:] _line = " ".join(_line.split('\n')) _prio = u"" if 'priority-1' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = "(A) " elif 'priority-2' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = "(B) " elif 'priority-3' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = "(C) " elif 'priority-4' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = "(D) " elif 'priority-5' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = "(E) " elif 'priority-6' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = "(F) " if 'task-done' in list(topic.get_markers()): _prio = u"x " + _prio _line = _prio + date.today().isoformat() + " " + _line _line += " +"+rootTitle output += _line + "\n" for stopic in topic.get_subtopics(): parse_level(stopic,_names,rootTitle) def main(argv): global output
if len(argv) < 1 : print "xmind2todo.py inputFile [outputFile]" sys.exit(2) infilePath = argv[0] outfilePath = infilePath+".txt" if (len(argv) > 1): outfilePath = argv[1]
parse_sheet(infilePath) print "writing to "+outfilePath f = codecs.open(outfilePath, encoding='utf-8', mode='w') f.write( output ) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])
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