![]() ![]() Journey wasn’t too bad, but for me it was expensive and the developers had a kinda snotty attitude towards supporting Linux, like they did but they really resented it. RedNotebook is close, but it has no iOS app, and while it saves your entries in plain text, it uses some idiosyncratic formatting called txt2tags instead of something more standard like Markdown, so yup, you guessed it, importing those entries anywhere else takes a looooot of manual clean-up. The truth is that none of these platforms have been exactly what I wanted from a journalling platform. Your next question might be, “But why do you want to move all your entries?” and this is a good question. So you could say I’m familiar with this “but how do I move all my entries?” conundrum. Of that, the first year or so of entries were originally written in RedNotebook (external link), the next 18 months’ worth were written in Journey (external link), and I’ve only actually been journalling with Notion for six months. The archive I’m referring to in this post only goes back to 2017. A chunk of uni-era entries are in 750 words (external link). ![]() The earliest ones are private posts in an old Dreamwidth (external link) account I have. I’ve journalled off and on since high school (separate from blogging, which I’ve also done off and on since high school), using an array of different apps. So today, you get a gnarled tale of me trying to move my archive of journal entries from Notion (external link) to Standard Notes (external link). Unfortunately, the reality is that many apps’ import and export functions fall way short of what you’d hope for, leaving you with a ton of manual work to do if you’re determined to switch apps. Everyone likes the idea that when you put your data into an app, you’ll be able to get it out again easily. ![]()
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