pkamppur / dayone2-textbundle

DayOne2 TextBundle Conversion Utilities

DayOne2 TextBundle Conversion Utilities

This project was created to export and import multiple DayOne2 journals to other note-taking applications that support the TextBundle format such as Ulysses and Bear.

As of 2019 a lot of note-taking applications support the TextBundle format for data exchange. TextBundle is just a thin wrapper around Markdown with support for attachments (e.g. embedded images).

Sadly DayOne2 does not support TextBundle out of the box, this project solves this.

Features

• Reads DayOne2 journal in JSON format
• Converts into TextBundle .textbundle files (.textpack ZIP files also supported, but needs changing parameters in code)
• Supports photo and PDF attachments

How To

1. Export JSON zip from Day One: See here

2. Extract zip contents

3. Create output directory

4. Run CLI tool dayone2-textbundle conversion for each Journal.json

      dayone2-textbundle <dayone2-export-json-file> <target-dir>
   

5. Import .textbundle files to your favorite app

6. Profit!

Supported Environments

Node.js 20+ and macOS (ok, because DayOne2 is macOS only ;-)).

Note: Linux or Windows might work, but things like creation dates might be broken.

Installation

This project uses and was tested with Node.js v20.

npm install dayone2-textbundle

Running locally without installing

If you've cloned repo locally, you can run converter using

npm i
npx dayone2-textbundle <dayone2-export-json-file> <target-dir>

Contribute

Make it pass npm test and npm lint, then send your pull-request ;-)

LICENSE

See LICENSE.