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[Marcio Tibirica <mtibbi.cps@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steffen.
Welcome to Zim mailing list.

Although I can not help with your questions, I would like to speak a 
word or two about the subject.

I'm not familiar with Todoist or Evernote but, taking my personal case 
as a reference, I think many Zim users would be interested in a tool to 
import data from these two applications.
I use Zim to take personal notes, research notes, organize information 
and export the results in HTML. But, when I'm away from my notebook, I 
use OneNote to take notes or gather data. I do not have a preference for 
OneNote over other applications, but it is just a tool that came 
installed with my notebook and my smartphone, and it allows to sync data 
between them. It is enough for my humble needs.
Not all information I gather with OneNote I need to have in Zim. But 
when I want to import some data from OneNote, I do it manually using 
CTRL+C CTRL+V in my notebook. Of course a tool to automate this data 
import to Zim would help. On the other hand, I never had the need to 
export data from Zim to OneNote. So, in my case, I do not miss a 
bidirectional sync feature in Zim. But maybe someone else would die for 
this feature.

Regards,

Marcio


Em 20/09/2016 15:55, Steffen Schuldenzucker escreveu:
> Hi guys, I'm re-sending this email because it didn't get through the 
> first time. If this is not true, sorry for double posting.
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> since this is my first post, please let me briefly introduce myself:
> I'm Steffen, I'm a PhD student from Zurich and I've been using ZIM since
> May for almost all of my work-related and private notes.
> I think ZIM is an amazing piece of software; there are some rough edges
> and features I would like and which I'm eager to do some hacking on.
>
> I'm interested in interfacing ZIM with web applications.
> Most urgent for me, and what I'm planning to do soon, is an importer
> from Todoist[1], because that's my primary way of capturing notes on the
> go. I might also write an importer from Evernote later. These should
> both be easy tasks because both apps have an API and ZIM's wiki syntax
> is easy to generate.
> Two-way syncing is more delicate, but it would also open up a whole
> array of new use cases, and could help bring ZIM to mobile until there
> is a proper ZIM app.
>
> My question is if there has already been a discussion on import or sync
> that I could use as a starting point.
> Is there already a piece of infrastructure that could support one of the
> two operations?
> Do you think two-way sync is achievable and/or useful?
> All thoughts are welcome!
>
> Best,
> Steffen
>
> [1] http://todoist.com -- A to-do list manager.
>
>
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