Importing from CSV

If your agenda already lives in a spreadsheet, don’t retype it. Agendas → Import CSV creates a whole agenda — items, times, sub-item loops, and participants — from one paste.

The short version

1. Make sure your sheet has a header row with at least title and expected columns.
2. Copy the cells and paste them into the Agenda CSV box (a paste from Excel or Google Sheets is tab-separated — that’s fine).
3. Give the agenda a title and click import. Fix any per-line errors it points out, and paste again.

Optionally pick a template from the Start from a template dropdown first — it fills the box with the template’s CSV, which you can still edit before importing.

Format rules

• The first row is a header. Column names are matched ignoring case, spaces, underscores, and dashes, in any order: title, min, expected, max, person, sub label, sub min, sub expected, sub max. Unknown columns are ignored (so extra spreadsheet columns don’t hurt).
• title and expected are required — as columns, and on every row.
• The delimiter is auto-detected per paste: tab, semicolon, or comma all work.
• Quoted fields work as usual ("a, b" keeps its comma; "" inside quotes is a literal quote). Blank lines are skipped.
• Times are minutes from 0.5 to 600 in half-minute steps — 10 or 10.5, not 10.25.
• A name in person creates that participant on the new agenda and assigns the row’s item to them. The same name on several rows becomes one person.
• Filling sub expected (optionally with sub label, sub min, sub max) gives the item a sub-item loop.

All-or-nothing

Nothing is imported unless every row is valid. Errors are reported per line and field — e.g. Line 4: sub expected — Set an expected time for the sub-item — so you can fix the sheet and paste again without ending up with half an agenda.

Caution

Import covers items and people only. The agenda description, scheduled start, timezone, and item URLs are not part of the CSV format — set those after importing.

Worked example

The first rows of the built-in Toastmasters template:

title,min,expected,max,person,sub label,sub min,sub expected,sub max
Opening and welcoming guests,2,3,5,President,,,,
Introduction by the Toastmaster of the Evening,2,3,4,Toastmaster,,,,
Helpers introductions: timer / grammarian / ah-counter,3,4,5,,Helper,1,1.5,2
Word of the day,1,2,3,Grammarian,,,,
Prepared speeches,2,3,4,Toastmaster,Speaker,5,6,7

Importing this creates five items; “President”, “Toastmaster”, and “Grammarian” appear on the participant roster and are assigned to their items; “Helpers introductions” and “Prepared speeches” get sub-item loops (Helpers at 1/1.5/2 minutes each, Speakers at 5/6/7).

The full 12-item version is in the CSV reference — and ships as a ready-made template when the sample data is seeded.

Round-tripping

Export CSV on any agenda produces exactly this format, so export → edit in a spreadsheet → import is a natural workflow for recurring meetings.