By now, my Stikkit fanboy status is hardly a secret. And while there have been a couple of other posts around here dealing with some theoretical Stikkit coolness, I figured it was time to give something a little more concrete to my Stikkit-loving brethren. Oh, and I also thought it a good opportunity to put my money where my mouth was as far as all this programming/programmer advice.

So, with all that in mind, I have something for you all. It should make transitioning to Stikkit a bit easier for the Gmail users out there (at least, so you can start out with a full stock of ‘Peeps’ when you switch to Stikkit for your GTD purposes – Please be warned, this is a command line application and will require you to get your hands dirty a bit – but I think you’ll be pleased with the results.

This little ditty takes an Outlook-compatible CSV file (which Gmail is capable of exporting your contacts into) and your handy, dandy Stikkit API key and creates a Peep stikkit for each of your contacts by sending the data to Stikkit via their lovely API (hence, the need for the API key). Here’s how to use it:

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