Peek into a backup file: JSON to markdown

[dtomvan]

While I've been busy trying to back up my Planify tasks, it also occured to me I needed a way to look into the contents of a backup. To humans, JSON files aren't the easiest to read through, no matter if it was formatted or not.

So I came up with a solution: a small JQ script that extracts the most important task data and groups it by project and section. You can then:

• look through your open tasks
• copy them
• search through them
• paste them into a markdown note-taking app like Obsidian
• easily find out what tasks will be imported when you restore the backup

Dependencies: jq, nvim (to look through the markdown)

Link: https://gist.github.com/dtomvan/3d1844d0e008828285181e6e76141b91

Usage: chmod +x planify-json-export.sh && ./planify-json-export.sh path/to/backup.json

Enjoy!