dayone-to-markdown

The Problem

You love using the DayOne journaling app to record all your amazing thoughts! But you want to get those entries into a markdown format so you can publish them to your own blog or website.

The Solution

The DayOne app currently allows an export of entries to a JSON format. This package will unzip the DayOne output and convert all the entries in Journal.json into individual markdown files. By default some metadata from the entry is added as frontmatter to the top of each .md file. The photos and links to other entries are also converted into a relative markdown link.

Usage

First make sure you have NPM installed, create a folder for this project, open command line interface there, install dayone-to-md with npm install dayone-to-md and initialize with npm init. Add the output zip file from DayOne->Export to JSON into a folder titled dayone at the root of the project. Then add an npm script with the dayone-to-md bin i.e. "scripts": {"convert": "dayone-to-md"} to package.json. Now you can run npm run convert! The markdown files get output to src/entries and the photos are put in the public/static directory by default.