Importing from RedNoteBook
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Hi, I would like to become a premium member but for that I would need to Import 10 years of RedNoteBook Data.
Rednotebook makes a .txt file (2025-02.txt) for each month.
In this file you have the days with your text input. For example:
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text: Today it’s the first day of the month n
2:
text: Today it’s the second day nIs there a way to import these files? If not. How can I go fast to a date in the past to copy paste my content? It seems I only can go 2 month per click to the past?
Thank you in advance.
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Are you using the MacOS version of Day One or other. Here’s the macOS story for creating a journal entry for any date of your choice (I only use the macOS version, so that’s the only story I’ll tell).
First, you view entries using the calendar view. Then create a journal entry for any date (like the current date). Click the date above the journal pane and choose your target date (for example: 6 June, 1967). This target date is now an entry into which you’ll paste one of your text-based entries from RedNoteBook.
After you have changed the entries date to your target date, Day One shows the month for that date and year in the calendar view. The date with your entry is colored according to your chosen theme. Continue that process for each date to be “imported” by copy and paste.
This sounds tedious and labor intensive. It is. I went through this recently myself when I needed to “import” old journal entries (2009-2011) from MacJournal. All I had were the back-ups I made at the time to PDF. And from those PDFs, I copied the data to Day One, one entry at a time. I supposed I could have hired an intern for chips ‘n’ beer to do that data entry for me, but… I gritted my teeth and got all the way through the old entries.
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Hi @sander1986,
As @stevekoterski said, you’ll need to make some modifications to the text files to match our formatting.
I recommend reviewing this guide to format your RedNoteBook entries to match Day One’s text files:
Importing Data from Plain Text
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