I’d love for this to happen!

At certain points I have tried copy’n’pasting all my entries on a goal into notepad, but it’s not neat, and I tend to forget. But I’d love to ensure my thoughts from the past 2+ years aren’t lost if something happens to the site, the old entries are purged, or – horror of horrors – something makes me ‘have’ to delete my account and start over.

Respond | Cheer this | 2 months ago (May 31, 04:31AM)

I would really love to get the following downloads:

• an Excel or XML spreadsheet or text file of the complete list of Active goals, Removed goals, Completed goals, and Failed goals.

I would like to have a simple options of Goal, Date started, Date completed/removed/failed, Date restarted, etc. I can then use this in my Omni, as I already do cut and past from the website.

Then I would like to have the following download in Excel, XML, or delimited text:

• Individual Goals, complete or by tick-box. Tick box should be available for those who want to target special goals, but it is tedious for those of us who have 100+ goals; I would rather filter out many from a Complete download.

column 1: goal name (Add date, if you have the above list, is irrelevant, esp. as the entries themselves are dated)
column 2: entry date and time (probably n/a for the Removed goals)
column 3: entry name (ditto)
column 4: entry body (ditto)
column 5: goal success/fail/remove and date e.g. “succeeded on Jan. 31, 2008”
column 6 (optional tick box): keywords
column 7: goal URL or entry URL (then if I see something I might want to edit/remove on my public profile, I can do so more easily…)
column 8: anything powerful that the developers might know about that I don’t
column 9 (optional tick box): Number of Comments (Knowing that nesting of comments would make this a nasty download, I think the user should simply go to the entry URL so they can get what they look for.
the reason why is so that in the big files I generate I can sort according to what and when I worked on or succeeded on something.

Essentially, I want a power diary on my own computer from what work I have done on 43Things. Then not only do I have it fully available, I can see where I did well and repeat it. Also, a “someday/maybe” list for those I started and didn’t finish.

Respond | Cheer this | 6 months ago (Feb 17, 08:21AM)

...and also so we can print them out!

Respond | 1 cheer | Cheer this | 7 months ago (Jan 15, 12:33PM)

Definately should do this… I spent ages copying & pasting my entries into Word because I want to keep them….

Respond | Cheer this | 8 months ago (Dec 13, 04:07AM)

Not only would it help if something ever happens to 43 Things, but it would help at those times I do something stupid and lose lots of entries. Like that time I lost all my “Reflect on 5 things I’m grateful for” entries because I wanted to leave a team. Or when I lost all my 43People entries because I opted out temporarily. I think all that stuff is still there, but I can’t get to it anymore, so it would be nice if I had backups of the information at least.

Respond | 2 cheers | Cheer this | 9 months ago (Nov 01, 05:07PM)