CSV export
One button writes a spreadsheet of your reminders. It is for sorting, filtering and looking at your own habits — not for putting anything back, which is what the JSON backup is for.
Exporting
Settings → Your Data → export CSV. A .csv file downloads, one row per
reminder.
The column headers are in your own language, not English, because a German user opening a spreadsheet of English headers has been handed somebody else's file.
The columns
| Column | Holds |
|---|---|
| Title | The reminder's title |
| Note | Your own note, if you wrote one |
| Due | When it is due — the deferred time if it has been snoozed or held |
| Created | When you saved it |
| Priority | low, normal, high or critical |
| Status | Pending, fired, missed, done — in your language |
| Tag | The tag's name, not its internal id |
| Folder | The folder's name |
| Repeat | The repeat rule, or empty |
| Site | The domain |
| URL | The full page address |
Tag and folder are written as names rather than ids, because a spreadsheet of
tag_8f3a91c2 is not a spreadsheet anybody can use.
The history column
Optionally, one more column summarising what happened at each delivery — whether the notification was clicked, dismissed, or never seen. It is last, and optional, because it is empty for most rows and a mostly-empty column in the middle of the ones you sort by is in the way.
See what a notification shows for what those outcomes mean and why dismissed and timed-out are recorded separately.
Opening it
Double-click it. Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers and LibreOffice all handle it, and the file carries the marker that tells Excel it is UTF-8 — without it, accented characters and every non-Latin script arrive as mojibake.
What it is actually good for
Looking at your own patterns, mostly — the sort of question the popup cannot answer because it is a 384px column:
- Which sites do I keep deferring things from?
- How many of last month's reminders did I actually act on?
- What is sitting in that folder I have not opened since March?
It also makes a fine flat archive: a CSV opens in twenty years and needs no software of ours to read.
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