{"id":188,"date":"2012-01-03T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shortword\/2012\/01\/03\/exporting-notes-from-day-one-to-scrivener\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T23:05:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:05:34","slug":"exporting-entries-from-day-one-to-scrivener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shortword\/2012\/01\/03\/exporting-entries-from-day-one-to-scrivener\/","title":{"rendered":"Exporting Entries from Day One to Scrivener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I\u2019ve been enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/dayoneapp.com\/\">Day One<\/a> (Bloom Built) on my MacBook Pro and iPad from day one of 2012. I\u2019m already using it to record thoughts and ideas on a range of topics, and I tried my first export of journal entries today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dayoneapp.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shortword\/files\/2012\/01\/mac-1-2-calendar-2012-01-3-13-492.jpg\" alt=\"mac-1-2-calendar-2012-01-3-13-492.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One problem is that Day One exports all of the entries into a single text file. I like the text file. But I don\u2019t like (a) not being able to choose which entries to export, and (b) having them all in a single file.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I don\u2019t have a solution for exporting a selection of entries. It appears that Day One is working on that, including some sort of tag feature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/scrivener.php\">Scrivener<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/scrivener.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/share_scrivener\/ForWriters.png\" alt=\"Scrivener. Y'know - for writers.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Scrivener gives you an easy way to convert Day One\u2019s single text file into separate entries.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Day One, conclude each entry with any set of characters that you\u2019re unlikely to use in the body of your entries. I use five dashes.<\/li>\n<li>Export your entries from Day One (File -&gt; Export).<\/li>\n<li>In Scrivener, select File -&gt; Import -&gt; Import and Split. A file selection window should open.<\/li>\n<li>At the bottom of the file selection window, you should see a smaller window labeled \u201cSections are separated by:\u201d Type your character set there (for example, it\u2019s five dashes for me), and click \u201cImport.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That should do it. You should now see all of your Day One entries as separate documents in Scrivener\u2019s binder. And if you wish, you can easily export these from Scrivener as separate files in one of several formats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I expect that Day One will provide their own solution in the future, but I couldn\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been enjoying Day One (Bloom Built) on my MacBook Pro and iPad from day one of 2012. I\u2019m already using it to record thoughts and ideas on a range of topics, and I tried my first export of journal entries today. 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