move_entries.py

# move_entries.py
# Aleksandr Pasechnik
#
# Goes through the Day One journal and moves entries that start with text which
# matches the regular expresion search string to a new journal location. It
# also moves any associated photos. Day One doesn't currently support multiple
# journals, so this is currently only useful for archiving a specific subset of
# entries.
# 
# NOTE: base_dir may need to be adjusted to the correct Journal_dayone location
# NOTE: It is probably a good idea to have a full journal backup just in case
# something goes wrong

import os
import plistlib
import shutil
import re

dry_run = True

base_dir = '~/Library/Mobile Documents/5U8NS4GX82~com~dayoneapp~dayone/Documents/Journal_dayone/'
new_base_dir = '~/Desktop/newjournal/'

entry_title_re = re.compile(r"^FIRST LINE SEARCH$")

base_dir = os.path.expanduser(base_dir)
entries_dir = os.path.join(base_dir,'entries')
photos_dir = os.path.join(base_dir,'photos')

new_base_dir = os.path.expanduser(new_base_dir)
new_entries_dir = os.path.join(new_base_dir,'entries')
new_photos_dir = os.path.join(new_base_dir,'photos')
if not dry_run:
	try:
		os.mkdir(new_base_dir)
	except OSError:
		pass
	try:
		os.mkdir(new_entries_dir)
	except OSError:
		pass
	try:
		os.mkdir(new_photos_dir)
	except OSError:
		pass

files = os.listdir(entries_dir)
files[:] = [file for file in files if file.endswith('.doentry')]

for file in files:
	filename = os.path.join(entries_dir,file)
	entry = plistlib.readPlist(filename)
	text = entry['Entry Text']
	firstline = text.splitlines()[0]
	if entry_title_re.match(firstline) is not None:
		new_filename = os.path.join(new_entries_dir,file)
		print 'moving "%s" to "%s"'%(filename,new_filename)
		if not dry_run:
			shutil.move(filename, new_filename)
		photofilename = filename.replace('entries','photos').replace('.doentry','.jpg')
		if os.path.isfile(photofilename):
			new_photofilename = os.path.join(new_photos_dir,'%s.jpg'%(entry['UUID'],))
			print 'moving "%s" to %s"'%(photofilename,new_photofilename)
			if not dry_run:
				shutil.move(photofilename, new_photofilename)

print 'Done.'