slack2roam
- as of June 12th, 2020
- v0.1 is released!
- check it out on github
- talk about it here:
- Thinking out loud May 19th, 2020 as I work on this.
- First step: explore slack export data and see what it looks like.
- With wf2roam I was so familiar with the workflowy format I could create it from scratch. Not so, here!
- Okay, basic format of the export script I'm using is that you get
- channel1
- 2020-03-11.json
- 2020-03-12.json
- channel2
- ..etc
- And each JSON file is just an array...
- oh hang on, this will be easier if I look at messages I still have access to, haha.
- oh dope. 2020-05-09 has threads, and uploaded files.
- ok, first thing that's obvious is that the JSON files of messages are sorted in reverse order—newest at the top. that helps for reading
- the rich text formatting is... complex! it's basically super awkward html-but-in-json.
- #todo check if someone's written something to turn that into HTML?
- although I guess what's needed is not actually html but roam formatting... so it would probably be easier to just start with the raw
- huh, the link format in the raw text is weird
- yeah, lots of little fiddlybits to this
- but whatever, some sort of conversion function from slack to roam, that can be iterated on
- whoaaaaaaa weird. a new message in an old thread ofc doesn't show up in the old thread's JSON. obvs in retrospect
- that'll be one of the main challenges here, actually. but probably something clever possible with block refs
- oh, could actually do all thread replies (even same day) using block refs?
- looks like the ID for threads is actually a microsecond timestamp (well, seconds but with 6 decimal places)
- ahh and the original thread has that
- other notes
- timestamps are UTC
- and so are "what day's JSON file does this belong to"?
- soooooo prolly that basically needs to get ignored, actually, and they just all need to be pulled int
- tweet about it
- I have worked on this but it's not done yet and I have a lot on the go.
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Design Docs
- though in the short term a decent solution might be using slack2roam