Data Import

Tasks can be imported from files with this command:

% task import file

A variety of different file types are recognized by task, namely:

Tasks exported from task prior to version 1.5.0.
Tasks exported from task version 1.5.0 and later. The file format changed with 1.5.0.
todo.sh files.
CSV files with a variety of recognized column names.
Plain text files, with one task listed per line.
Task command line format.

Task makes a good effort to determine which of these formats a file is, and then imports accordingly.

It would be wise to backup your task data files before an import.