I was contacted recently about a way to directly import text files into Athena. While I didn’t want to write this directly into Athena (or at least yet), I wrote a small C# application that will do this. Basically, you can use this utility without using Firefox at all. Assuming that you’ve used Athena before and have the athena.sqlite database in your Firefox profile, you can have this utility scan a directory of txt files and enter those text files directly into Athena’s database. The format of the text file would need to be as such:

Athena_Name:Test
Athena_Category:TestCategory
Rest of Speech goes here.

To use the utility, you run it from the command line as such: athena_direct_importer.exe /s c:\path\to\speeches That’s it. This utility requires the sqlite.dll to be in the same directory as the exe and it also requires the .Net Framework 2.0 or higher.

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