Import journals from other apps ✍️#13
Please enable a way to import my old entries in some generic way to capture the subject, body, and any attachments. I would hope it preserves a time stamp for the entry so items are sequenced right in stoic. You would make stoic experimenters very happy and quicker to adopt your platform.
– suggested by Ashim via email
I have over ten years of daily journaling from the DayOne Classic Application, which I still run in My M1 MBP under Rosetta! If I want to use any other journalising app, it is critical for me to be able to import this massive collection of daily journaling into the new app. As a software engineer, I was planning to create my journaling app to do so, but if you guys can do it, I can finally make this switch. I am also aware that this is a problem for many other people as DayOne was one of the first journaling app back in the day, which got the job done right, but the classic was discontinued, and then the company behind the app changed its business model to a subscription service and left behind its first users.
@Payam49er Thanks for sharing! We are definitely introducting DayOne import and to achieve that we have a few blockers that we need to address first. We want to make sure that the import will not compromise on anything and we don’t skip a single datapoint of your DayOne data. This is super important for us.
Stay tuned for this feature as it will be definitely be announced :)
Any news on the topic? i would move my previous data from DayOne but so far isn’t possibile.
Also looking forward to this feature. I almost tried to do this manually. Looking forward to getting that data over and deleting dayone. Stoic is just… everything.
What about Evernote? I’d like to migrate from Evernote if possible.
Hello everyone, thanks for commenting on this post and being so patient!
I am happy to announce that Day One import is live for everyone for a few weeks now. Go ahead and test it, and let us know if you had any issues while doing so.
Open this link on your phone to import your data from Day One to stoic:
Happy journaling!
I have just tested the migration, and it seems that some data, such as tags or, less importantly, weather data, are not being imported…
Importing tags will be supported soon. We’ve just introduced them to Stoic and haven’t yet updated the day one import to include them.
Regarding weather data, we don’t currently plan to support it in the app. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Thank you very much for your feedback! I rolled back to my initial data while waiting for tags to be supported during migration. Is it possible to be notified when this happens?
Similarly, would it be possible to link all entries related to migration to the same notebook, so that migrated entries can be separated from the rest of the data?
@Pierre marot I will be updating everyone here and on our Discord server once the tags will be importable :)
In stoic there is no such think as notebooks like in DayOne and we keep a simple timeline of all of your entries in the History tab where you can filter them by tags.
Optinally we could provide an option to create a tag for each journal/notebook that is in the day one archive, so in stoic you would have a clear separation of what was there before the import, and what was just added and its source journal.
I would need to think about it more but let me know what you think, I would love to provide a robust and reliable importing flow for users who wish to bring their data over to stoic :)
Hello, I am experiencing difficulties following the migration. Is there a private channel where we could discuss this?
My difficulties originate from MacOS, but with iCloud synchronisation… 😇
@Pierre marot you can file the bug report directly from the app on macOS. make sure to send the report directly to my email address w@getstoic.com
https://help.getstoic.com/faq/3sfUSwpkyPFw22e8F1CRHk/more-help-and-support/6f9eBdDY7khEWWcRLZF83L