Import Day One Entries, Each at Its MinuteComing soon
Years of writing in Day One can come with you. Export it once as JSON, choose the file, and see what it holds before anything leaves your device.
Coming soon: it is built, and a small group is trying it before it opens to everyone. Start free now and it will turn up in your account.
Benefits
At the minute you wrote it
Day One knows the time and the timezone of every entry, and Pensio keeps both, so a late night stays on the night it was, in the order it happened.
Photos and voice notes too
Photos arrive in the entry where you put them, iPhone photos included. Voice notes keep their recording and are written down so you can search them.
Places, weather and tags kept
Each becomes a short line at the end of the entry. What cannot come across, videos and PDFs, is named in a report with the day it belongs to.
Once, and reversible
Choose the same export twice and nothing is brought in twice. If you change your mind, one button removes the import and nothing you wrote in Pensio.
Import from Day One
Bring your Day One journal across, every entry at the moment you wrote it.
Years of writing in Day One can come with you. Export it once as JSON, choose the file, and every entry arrives at the moment you wrote it, with its photos, voice notes, places and weather, ready for Explore, your insights and search.
An example
“Home at last. Twenty past midnight, and the street was quiet.” Written at 00:20 in Lisbon, with one photo and the tag Home.
- Date the day and minute you wrote it
- Photo in the entry, where you put it
It arrives on that day at 00:20, not the day before that the export's clock in UTC would give it, with the photo where you put it and “Home” as a line of the entry.
What you can do
- See what is in it before anything leaves your device
- The export is read in your browser first: each journal's entries, the months they cover, and how many photos and voice notes, before you choose Import.
- Bring several journals at once
- A Day One export holds every journal you exported. Each entry keeps its journal in the import record, so a later export of the same journals brings in only what is new.
- Leave and come back
- If an import stops, choose the same export again. What already came across is skipped, and nothing is brought in twice.
- Take it back
- For 30 days, one button removes everything an import brought in and nothing you wrote in Pensio. You can keep the entries you changed since.
How It Works
Export from Day One as JSON
On an iPhone: Day One, then Settings, then Import/Export, then Export, then JSON. On a Mac: File, then Export, then JSON. It saves a ZIP with your photos and voice notes inside.
Choose the file in Pensio
Your browser reads the export first and shows how many entries, which months, and how many photos and voice notes it holds.
Import it
Entries come across one by one. If the page closes, choose the same export again and it carries on where it stopped.
Read the report
It says what came across and names everything that could not, such as videos, with its day.
Use Cases
Opening to a small group of accounts first.
Leaving Day One without losing a decade
Every entry, at its minute, with its photos, ready for Explore and search the same day.
Moving to Android or the web
Day One is at home on Apple devices. Your entries can come with you to a phone or a laptop that is not one.
Keeping both for a while
Import now and keep writing in Day One. A later export brings in only what is new or changed.