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A more featureful version written by Edoardo can be found at https://github.com/edoardob90/dayone-to-obsidian

dayone-to-obsidian

Convert a Day One JSON export into individual entries for Obsidian. Each entry is created as a separate page.

Heavily based off the work from QuantumGardener with a few improvements.

Installation

• Clone the repository
• Run poetry install
• Run poetry run python import.py path/to/folder

Optional requirements

• Obsidian Icons Plugin to display calendar marker at start of page heading. Enable by passing:
• If you use the Icons Plugin to display calendar marker at start of page heading pass --icons
  • poetry run python import.py --icons true path/to/folder

Day One version

This script works with version 7.1 of Day One. It has not been tested with any other versions.

Setup

This script deletes folders if run a second time You are responsible for ensuring against data loss This script renames files

1. Export your journal from Day One in JSON format
2. Expand that zip file
3. Run the script as shown above
4. Check results in Obsidian by opening the folder as a vault
5. If happy, move each journal name, photos, and pdfs folders to another vault.

Features

• Processes all entries, including any blank ones you may have.
• Entries are organised by year/month/day.
• If multiple entries on a day, each additional entry is treated seperately
• Adds metadata for whatever exists at bottom of file
  • minimum date and timezone
  • Location as text, linked to a page
  • Tags and starred flag as tag
  • Weather and user activity
• Every entry has the date inserted in the text for easier reading (with a calendar icon to help you quickly distinguish from other entries in your vault)
• If location is specified, it is given under the date, linked to Google Search
• Tags can be prefixed (default = journal/) to show as subtags in Obsidian separate from other note tags. User --tags-prefix option
• Run with --help for options