dayone2md

This is a simple exporter script for DayOne.app (Version 2).

Each entry in journal_name.json will be exported as Pandoc Markdown with DayOne's metadata.
The script also copies attached photos in photos directory to the output directory.

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or higher.
  • You may need Homebrew, Anaconda, or pyenv to use the latest version of python.
• Python packages
  • poetry for managing dependencies.
  • See pyproject.toml for other dependencies.

I tested this script with Python 3.9, and is tested on WSL2 env.

Install

If you don't have poetry and Python 3.x, setup them using homebrew by brew install python3 poetry or by other tools.

Just copy dayone2md.py to somewhere, or clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/tuxedocat/dayone2md.git
$ cd dayone2md
$ poetry install

Usage

Your journal file should be exported by DayOne.app as 'JSON in Zip' and extracted into certain directory, for example:

<some_dir>
    -- journal_name.json        JSON file exported from DayOne.app
    -- photos/                  Directory containing photos 

Then run this script from your terminal.

# You may need run this script as
# poetry run python dayone2md.py 

# Show help (long-form only)
$ python dayone2md.py --help
    Usage: dayone2md.py [OPTIONS] JSONPATH DESTINATION

    Convert *.json exported by DayOne2.app to Pandoc Markdown

    Options:
    --overwrite  Force overwrite when exporting entries
    --help       Show this message and exit.

# Like this. output_dir will be created automatically.
$ python dayone2md.py export_dir/Journal.json output_dir

# Note that entries already existing in the destination directory will not be overwritten.
$ ls output_dir
    2017-07-15T153143Z.md  2017-07-31T150815Z.md  2018-02-16T143957Z.md  2018-02-19T110856Z.md  photos/

# In such case, use --overwrite option.
$ python dayone2md.py --overwrite export_dir/Journal.json output_dir