Import Journey Entries, Each at Its MinuteComing soon

Years of writing in Journey can come with you, from Android or anywhere else. Export it once, 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

Journey records the moment of every entry. Pensio keeps it, in the entry’s own timezone when the export names one and in yours when it does not.

Photos where you put them

A photo placed between two paragraphs stays between them. Photos are not held to a limit per entry.

Place, weather, music and tags kept

Each becomes a short line at the end of the entry. Videos cannot come across, and the report names each one with its day.

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 Journey

Bring your Journey diary across, every entry at the moment you wrote it.

Years of writing in Journey can come with you. Export it once as a ZIP, choose the file, and every entry arrives at the moment you wrote it, with its photos, places and weather, ready for Explore, your insights and search.

An example

An evening entry in Journey
“Rain on the way back, and the café was warm.” Written at 19:05, with one photo, a place and the weather.
  • Date the day and minute you wrote it
  • Photo in the entry, where you put it

It arrives on that day at 19:05, with the photo where you put it, and “Café Central, Lisbon” and “Light rain, 14 °C” as lines 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: its entries, the months they cover, and how many photos, before you choose Import.
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

1

Export from Journey

On Android or a computer: Settings, then Data & Cloud Services, choose a cloud service, then Export or Backup. On the web: Settings, then Cloud, then Backup. It saves a ZIP with your photos inside.

2

Choose the file in Pensio

Your browser reads the export first and shows how many entries, which months, and how many photos it holds.

3

Import it

Entries come across one by one. If the page closes, choose the same export again and it carries on where it stopped.

4

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 Journey on Android

Pensio has a native Android app too. Every entry, at its minute, with its photos, ready for Explore and search the same day.

Years of entries, read back

Once they are in, Explore and search reach all of them, and your most recent months get weekly and monthly insights.

Keeping both for a while

Import now and keep writing in Journey. A later export brings in only what is new or changed.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I move my Journey diary to another app?
Export it from Journey as a ZIP (Settings, then Data & Cloud Services, then Export or Backup; on the web, Settings, then Cloud, then Backup), then choose that ZIP on Pensio’s import page. Every entry arrives at the day and time you wrote it, with its photos.
Does it keep the time of day?
Yes. Journey records the moment of every entry. When the export names the timezone, Pensio uses it; many exports leave it empty, and then the timezone of the device you import from is used, and the report says so.
What happens to my moods?
Journey stores a mood as a number. Pensio keeps it as a line of the entry, so nothing is lost, and the report says which entries had one.
Does it keep my photos?
Yes. A photo goes into the entry where you put it. Videos stay in your export, and the report names each one.
Can I undo an import?
Yes, for 30 days. One button removes everything that import brought in and nothing you wrote in Pensio, and you can keep the imported entries you have edited since.
The timezone is often missing
Many Journey exports leave the timezone empty. For those entries, the timezone of the device you import from is used, and the report says so.
Photos count toward your storage
An import is never stopped for space. If its photos take you past your plan's storage, new photos wait until there is room.
Insights for the most recent 3 months
Weekly and monthly insights are written for your most recent imported months once Pensio has read them, newest first: 10 a day on Free, 30 on Pro. Older entries are in Explore and search, without an insight of their own.
People are not linked for you
A name in an imported entry does not connect to someone in your journal until you edit the entry and link them yourself.

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