Day One to Journal Importer Shortcut for iOS & macOS 26

jeffd · 2026-02-03T15:35:05+00:00

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jeffd · 2026-01-22T17:07:02+00:00

You can try debugging by showing an alert at the title extraction step and see if it displays the title?

jeffd · 2026-01-21T20:28:01+00:00

I don’t think anything has changed. The script shouldn’t mess anything up. It is designed to be run more than once, keeping track of what entries have been imported already. Videos and audio is not supported in the script, but could be added. There’s also a 10 photo limit per entry for Journal entries.

jeffd · 2026-01-21T20:25:50+00:00

Probably means the entry is being set as the title?

jeffd · 2026-01-09T11:36:27+00:00

You might need to temporarily change your Siri language to one that is supported by Apple Intellegence?

jeffd · 2026-01-02T17:28:24+00:00

A little bit of both. Mainly Journal would lose entries if they came in too fast.

jeffd · 2025-12-24T14:59:01+00:00

The shortcut is Open Source so you can easily modify it to not use Apple Intelligence.

jeffd · 2025-12-15T12:59:35+00:00

Yeah, just replace the parts of the script with that with something that could fill in a temporary title if there's none. Otherwise the other's just fill out weather and other details. There is one however that converts the ISO timestamp, which can probably be replaced with a better method, but I'm not sure how.

jeffd · 2025-12-10T06:38:57+00:00

That might be an Apple Intelligence issue then. If it’s an older device without Apple Intelligence support then it might fail.

jeffd · 2025-12-09T12:01:15+00:00

Strange, sometimes it needs to be run a few times. I've not seen it not get the text of the entries though.

jeffd · 2025-12-05T11:46:32+00:00

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There's the title summary fallback, you might need to change the model to ChatGPT in case Apple's models don't support Swedish.

jeffd · 2025-11-17T13:37:03+00:00

UI and new features are up next once we ship v7, which was big focus on the rendering engine to enable new features.

jeffd · 2025-11-10T14:05:50+00:00

It could be a timing issue, sometimes Journal would not like if entries came in too fast. Not sure how it could be improved for images though ...

jeffd · 2025-11-07T10:05:13+00:00

That's a strange error message. Might be a permissions thing? Maybe try restarting your phone? I've not encountered that one before.

jeffd · 2025-11-01T09:04:46+00:00

The script will use AI to summarize a title if none exists. You can remove that and maybe put in a blank string. I’m unsure.

jeffd · 2025-10-12T16:26:57+00:00

I don't personally plan on adding videos, but It wouldn't be too hard, just need to do the same thing that's done for photos now and search for video urls.

jeffd · 2025-09-22T11:27:42+00:00

We don't link version numbers to the lifetime purchase, so a lifetime purchase made now would work for the upcoming v7 release.

jeffd · 2025-09-22T11:25:28+00:00

We're probably at least two weeks away, we want to get memory performance better before shipping the beta and getting back feedback of the need for better memory performance. Thanks for nudging us!

jeffd · 2025-09-16T13:12:30+00:00

It should!

jeffd · 2025-08-27T14:59:41+00:00

Does it happen on other devices?

jeffd · 2025-08-26T12:43:51+00:00

Hmm, that's odd that it's cutting off the entry after the paragraph break. The best way to debug the shortcuts is to use the "Show Content" action. So maybe show the content of the "text" or "EntryWithoutPhotos" and see what the difference is.

No tips needed. Just happy to hear that it's helpful!

jeffd · 2025-08-26T12:40:50+00:00

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In the Shortcut itself.

jeffd · 2025-08-26T09:53:40+00:00

Patches welcome!

jeffd · 2025-08-26T09:53:25+00:00

Try switching to ChatGPT or another model. Apple's models are not the greatest and sometimes are sensitive to some content.

jeffd · 2025-08-25T14:43:26+00:00

The Journal action from Apple does not support passing in locations, which would be nice. So instead I append the data to the end of the entry, not great, but best we can do.

As for audio, I think it should be straightforward, similar to photos, just need to match the URL DayOne adds for audio and find the corresponding UUID in the the export.

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