Import journals from other apps ✍️#13

Please enable a way to import my old entries in some generic way to capture the subject, body, and any attachments. I would hope it preserves a time stamp for the entry so items are sequenced right in stoic. You would make stoic experimenters very happy and quicker to adopt your platform.

– suggested by Ashim via email

I have over ten years of daily journaling from the DayOne Classic Application, which I still run in My M1 MBP under Rosetta! If I want to use any other journalising app, it is critical for me to be able to import this massive collection of daily journaling into the new app. As a software engineer, I was planning to create my journaling app to do so, but if you guys can do it, I can finally make this switch. I am also aware that this is a problem for many other people as DayOne was one of the first journaling app back in the day, which got the job done right, but the classic was discontinued, and then the company behind the app changed its business model to a subscription service and left behind its first users.

@Payam49er Thanks for sharing! We are definitely introducting DayOne import and to achieve that we have a few blockers that we need to address first. We want to make sure that the import will not compromise on anything and we don’t skip a single datapoint of your DayOne data. This is super important for us.

Stay tuned for this feature as it will be definitely be announced :)

Any news on the topic? i would move my previous data from DayOne but so far isn’t possibile.

Also looking forward to this feature. I almost tried to do this manually. Looking forward to getting that data over and deleting dayone. Stoic is just… everything.

What about Evernote? I’d like to migrate from Evernote if possible.

It would be really useful to be able to enter them manually as well. I have a couple entries from another app I want to migrate to stoic, but entering dates further in the past is really difficult (you have to scroll through each individual day to get from today to 2012 for instance). You also can’t enter custom location for the entry.

I would be willing to switch if i could transfer my dayone data

I’m basically waiting on this feature… any updates?

I’m basically waiting on this feature as well. Would love an update <3

I’m split on renewing my subscription with Stoic because of their lack of support.

I would also love to see an import option for DayOne.

Hello everyone! We are sorry it is taking so long, and we’re very far past the deadline we’ve set ourself to achieve this functionality.

Some of the milestones we need to reach before enabling DayOne import:

• Markdown Support [In Progress]
• Video Support [Completed]
• New Streak mechanics (so you dont lose you day one streak!) [In Progress]

However we in the middle of the intruduction of Markdown we have realised we want to make the rich text experience much more powerful. We are currently very far into the development of improved editor with more text styling capabilities and once we are happy with the result we will be able to allow you to import your DayOne (and other apps!) data along with the rich text styling you have crafted.

If everything goes right we should be ready before the summer.

I will be updating you here once we have something to announce!

Best, Witek.

P.S. make sure to join our discord community! It’s were we have the best conversations about the app and much more :)

I’d really like to import my data from ”Journal” by Apple into Stoic easily. Could you implement a feature that helps with this?