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# Importing from Todoist
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## Getting the file out of Todoist
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For one project: open it, **⋯ → Export as template → Export as CSV**.
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For everything: **Settings → Backups**, then take the most recent one. That gives
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you one CSV per project.
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## Bringing it in
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**Settings → Import → From Todoist**, then pick the file. One project comes in per
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file.
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## What comes across
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| Todoist | verdande |
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| Tasks, in their tree | Tasks, with sub-tasks nested the same way |
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| Sections | Sections |
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| Notes | Comments |
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| Priority | Priority — see below |
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| Due dates | Due dates, and recurrence where it can be read |
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| Descriptions | Descriptions |
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!!! info "Priorities are renumbered on purpose"
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Todoist's CSV numbers priorities the opposite way to how its interface shows
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them: what you see as P1 is written as `4`. verdande stores what the interface
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means, so the two are converted. A P1 in Todoist is a P1 here.
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## Dates
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Todoist stores what you typed rather than a date — `every Monday`, `tomorrow`,
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`15 Mar`. Machine-readable dates come across exactly. Anything else goes through
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the same [quick-add parser](quick-add.md) the app uses, which understands a great
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deal of it in both languages — including recurrence, so `every Monday` arrives as a
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real repeating task.
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Anything it genuinely cannot read is listed in the import result rather than
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dropped silently.
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## What does not come across
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**Assignees.** A person in your Todoist workspace is not a person here. The import
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lists them so you can reassign.
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**Attachments.** Todoist's CSV does not include them; they are links into Todoist's
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own storage.
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**Reminders and filters.** Not in the export format.
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## Any other CSV
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**Settings → Import → From a CSV file** takes anything with a header row, and asks
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you which column means what. The only one it needs is the task text.
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## Getting back out
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Nothing here is a one-way door.
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- **A project as Todoist CSV** — the same format, so it opens in Todoist.
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- **A project as ICS** — a calendar file.
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- **Your whole account as JSON** — every project, task, comment, label and filter.
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A CSV that goes in and comes back out again is the same project: the round trip is
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tested, and two exports of an unchanged project are byte-identical.
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