Import to Day One Journal app from MacJournal Export

macjournal_import.rb

require "open3"

def readfile(file)

	f = File.open(file)
	lines = f.readlines("\n\n\n\n")
	lines.each do |line|
		fields = line.scan(/\s+Date:\s([^\n]+)$\s+Topic:\s([^\n]+)\n(.*)/m)

		date = fields[0][0].strip
		topic = fields[0][1].strip
		text = topic + "\n" + fields[0][2].strip

		puts date
		puts text
		puts "-------------------------------------------------------------"

		Open3.popen3("/Applications/Day One.app/Contents/MacOS/dayone", "-d=\"#{date}\"", "new") do |stdin, stdout, stderr|
			stdin.write(text)
			stdin.close_write
			puts stdout.read
		end

		puts "-------------------------------------------------------------"
	end
end

readfile(ARGV[0])

Heres a sample text file from a MacJournal export:

Date:   March 14, 2009 3:00 PM
Topic:  Rexburg Idaho

Last night we did

Date:   March 15, 2009 3:00 PM
Topic:  Lazy Sunday

Jana woke up

Can you give us an example of how to run this? Also, what format should I export my macjournal in?

We're working on a fully supported Import function. Sorry I'm not able to assist on this one right now.

any chance there could be a way to import MacJournal (or other) CSV? Not so good at ruby and it seems like it wouldn't be that much work but it could take a while to figure out. :)

We are adding built in Import functions to the next update of Day One Mac.

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On Friday, January 6, 2012 at 1:41 AM, gyuen wrote: any chance there could be a way to import MacJournal (or other) CSV? Not so good at ruby and it seems like it wouldn't be that much work but it could take a while to figure out. :) --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/977766

Perfect, thank you!

cool. I was able to do it with Excel and Applescript. worked great.

See these post by Brett Terpstra on additional scripts:

• http://brettterpstra.com/logging-with-day-one-geek-style/
• http://brettterpstra.com/system-service-clip-to-day-one/

I had some serious issues getting this to work, so I wrote my own in python. See https://github.com/Tam-Lin/MacJournaltoDayOne---Python.

Fantastic, thank you. I'm actually testing our built-in importer for MacJournal right now.

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On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Kevin McKenzie wrote: I had some serious issues getting this to work, so I wrote my own in python. See https://github.com/Tam-Lin/MacJournaltoDayOne---Python. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/977766

The built in importer does not work. It returns: The operation could not be completed. No other information is available about the problem. Can anyone help?

What is the latest on the MacJournal importer? Will it import the tags and photos used in MacJournal entries?

Thanks!

Thanks for putting this up. The built-in import of MacJournal files dates the entries by creation date, rather than the MacJournal internal date. This gist addresses this, which is nice. However, with the newest version of Day One (1.10.2) the executable you refer to in line 18 does not work. I changed this line to:

Open3.popen3("/usr/local/bin/dayone", "-d=\"#{date}\"", "new") do |stdin, stdout, stderr|

And this appears to solve it.

I've updated @Tam-Lin's script for Day One 2.x. Instructions here.