Better Living through Software

If you have OneNote 1.1 preview installed, you can now import OPML outlines. I use an outliner all the time, and although I am not switching to OneNote as my outliner, it is nice to be able to copy my OPML outlines into OneNote. I used Andrew May’s directions (with Donovan’s help) to write a simple importer.

The source and executable are located here. Just unzip it, and double-click on OneNoteOPML.exe (in the Debug directory). It’s provided ?as is?. You can modify however you like. It’s not necessarily production code, but it works well for me.

It always creates a new page, and imports the outline to the new page. You can copy and paste from there. It handles comments and hyperlinks. I still haven’t found how to import with certain nodes collapsed, so the whole outline is expanded when you import.

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