https://github.com/danseethaler/dayone-companion

Expanding on the functionality of the DayOne journal app
https://github.com/danseethaler/dayone-companion

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Expanding on the functionality of the DayOne journal app

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danseethaler/dayone-companion
• Owner: danseethaler
• Created: 2016-09-24T23:08:42.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-11-26T16:00:47.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T13:38:24.339Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: dayone, electron-app
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.54 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# dayone-companion

Expanding on the functionality of the DayOne Journal App

## Overview

This app is designed to import various document formats into DayOne journal entries while preserving as much metadata as possible.

Currently Supported File Types

- pdf

- rtf

- txt

- doc

- pages

- htm

- html

- docx

- png

- jpg

- jpeg

### Build Instructions

To build the project download the repo and run `npm install`. You will need pandoc installed to support Word Documents. You can install the Pandoc CLI with `brew install pandoc` or at this url https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/1.17.2/pandoc-1.17.2-osx.pkg.

Reading the instructions will prove most helpful. The command line interface (CLI) that DayOne has put out is very limited and it's important to follow a process to get your entries in correctly.

This tool is designed to help you import files in various formats into DayOne while preserving as much meta-data as possible including dates, titles, and tags.

I highly recommend using DayOne 2 for importing these entries.

**Follow these steps:**

- Before importing entries it's helpful to

- If you're using DayOne 2 start by creating a new journal called "Import" and move this journal to the top of your journals list.

	- Entries imported via the CLI will by default be added to the top journal in your list. By adding your entries in bathes to a staging journal you can add tags to all the entries and review dates and other information for accuracy before dragging them into the journal they belong in.

- It's helpful to work on a specific group of entries at a time. Pick a group of fi