DayOne importer testing

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Hello testers,

If some of you are interested in testing Bear’s DayOne importer, please Leave a message here or by DM.

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I would be interested. Thank you.

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I’m curious, however, what does it do with location data? It’s very precious to me as I travel a lot.

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I’d be interested too. Thanks

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This is up for debate. DayOne JSON exporter provide the following information regarding the location

"location" : {
    "region" : {
      "center" : {
        "longitude" : 10.098931312561035,
        "latitude" : 44.689674377441406
      },
      "radius" : 75
    },
    "localityName" : "Fornovo di Taro",
    "country" : "Italy",
    "timeZoneName" : "Europe\/Rome",
    "administrativeArea" : "Emilia–Romagna",
    "longitude" : 10.098931312561035,
    "placeName" : "Fornovo di Taro",
    "latitude" : 44.689674377441406

Based on this I can generate a google maps link to place at the bottom of the note e.g.

[Fornovo di Taro - Emilia–Romagna - Italy](https://maps.google.com/...)
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That would be nice, but you’re going to run into people not wanting Google links for privacy reasons, understandably. Everybody will want that data to be processed in different ways, which makes things tricky.

In the spirit of Bear’s simplicity, I would recommend:

  • allow these map links to use Google, Apple or OpenStreetMap upon import (satisfying everyone) and make them optional
  • additionally, tag the geolocation data that is provided, as Country/State/City for instance.
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I’m not sure what I’d do with such a thing, but would not mind kicking it around for LOLz.

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@trix180 - please include me. I would like to be able to move my data from DayOne to Bear. Thx!

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@trix180 I received your email, however, I get this error message when clicking on the link you sent:

CleanShot 2024-01-12 at 07.33.43@2x
CleanShot 2024-01-12 at 07.33.43@2x1870×352 50 KB

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Please try again with the same link.

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That worked. Testing… Thx.

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@trix180 I’m sorry, I can’t get anything to work. I did NOT copy the app to the applications directory and running it from a folder within my downloads folder. I right-click on an entry in Day One and choose export. There are 3 options, and I’ve tried them all. When I go to Bear and click on import from Day One, and I select the folder with the Day One export, nothing happens.

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I would like to try the day one importer.

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I would love to try this as I have almost 2000 entries I would like to move over. Thanks

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An Update: I imported a few Day One entries into that build of Bear, and it worked like a charm! No issues whatsoever for me.

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Appreciate if I can get access to day one importer testing. Thanks!

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Day One importer is complete and now in the main released version via the app store, so the version used for this testing is out of date.

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I can vouch for the Day One import function which is now included in the released app. I’ve been evaluating whether to keep my journal in Day One or Bear, so I put the importer to the test. It worked flawlessly.

One request: would it be possible to include the option to use the journal entry’s date and time as the title vs. the first line? With 4,500 journal entries, using the first line as a title overwhelmed the rest of my notes and made it difficult to find and organize entries.

I ended up exporting the Day One imported entries to markdown, running a Hazel rule to rename all the notes to creation date/time, then re-importing. This worked, but for others wanting to make the switch from Day One, having the date/time option as note title up front would save time and headache.

Thanks for making this transition from Day One possible!

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Converting the entry date into a title is not problematic but, out of curiosity, how do you manage your 4.5K note titles in Day One? Can you please tell me more about why the titles are overwhelming?

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Managing large numbers of journal entries in Day One is easier because it naturally organizes everything by date with its built-in calendar system and tags.

If I import my journal entries using Bear’s Day One Importer, the first line of the journal entry becomes the title. Since I use Quick Open (CMD-O) almost exclusively to navigate notes, those 4,500 first lines from my journal make it practically impossible to find anything because of the avalanche of similar and duplicate note names that pop up.

Further, importing new notes with duplicate note names (I tend to be repetitive in my journal!) creates havoc with existing links (see this forum post on that issue). I learned this the hard way.

By renaming the journal entries to a sortable date format like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM, the functionality of Quick Open isn’t cluttered, and you can quickly navigate to a specific journal entry either by Quick Open or in the tag organizational pane, and existing links are preserved.

I use a simple Apple Shortcut to populate the title with the current date and time for new entries.

Again, I’ve got all this working now, but allowing the option to title the entries with the entry date instead of first line might save some headache for others attempting to import a large number of Day One journal entries into Bear.

I hope this makes sense…

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