Email journaling formatting
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Whenever I send an email to my journal line breaks are inserted in odd places to where I have to go back into my journal and fix them manually. Is this a known issue? Also, is there any possibility of getting attached photos into my journal?
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I was unable to replicate this issue on my end.
Does this happen every single time with any text? Could this be an issue with the email client? Which email client or app did you use? Could you try emailing from a different email client or web to see if it’s caused by the email client?
As for images, at the moment any form of attachment is not yet supported with Email to Journal. We have an open request for this feature. However, we have no ETA on when this feature will be available.
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I’m also running into a formatting issue with Email to Journal where Day One inserts unwanted line breaks throughout the entry body, even when the email source itself is clean. The problem: when I email a longer journal entry into Day One, the resulting entry has hard line breaks inserted in the middle of sentences/paragraphs. This makes the entry look fragmented and requires manual cleanup afterward. I’ve tested a few variants to isolate the cause:
- Sent clean plaintext email content
- Sent base64-encoded MIME content
- Sent HTML email with paragraph tags
- Verified the raw Gmail message source after sending — the decoded body does not contain the unwanted line breaks
- The line breaks appear only after Day One ingests/renders the emailed entry
In my case, it does not appear to be caused by the sending email client or the raw email content, since the Gmail source is formatted correctly before Day One processes it. Could you confirm whether Email to Journal performs any line wrapping or text normalization during ingestion? And is there a recommended MIME format or workaround for preserving paragraph formatting in longer entries? Happy to provide raw email headers/body examples if useful.
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