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Created May 18, 2011 00:27
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Import to Day One Journal app from MacJournal Export
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])
@kmlawson
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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.

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adib commented Aug 21, 2019

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

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