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.

Added features of this repo

Check the --help option to get a description of the new features. In summary:

• Process audio attachments as well
• Toggle on/off YAML frontmatter (if you don't want it or use it)
• Add option to replace internal DayOne links (e.g., dayone://view?entryId=<UUID>) with Obsidian links
• Add option to convert #tags to [[links]]
  • There's also the option to keep certain tags as is, adding them to the Status field in the metadata section
• Add the option to merge entries (with a custom separator) with the same date instead of creating multiple files

Installation

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

Without Poetry, you can simply create a virtual environment and run pip install -r requirements.txt since the script requires only a couple of packages not in Python standard library.

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 the latest version available of DayOne, 7.3 (build 1380) as of March, 27th 2022.

Setup

This script deletes folders if run a second time You are responsible for ensuring against data loss This script renames files (namely, media 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 is journal/) to show as subtags in Obsidian separate from other note tags. Use --tags-prefix option to customize the prefix
• Run with --help for options