Import from Journal

[berot3]

Apple Journal App1

Have not seen any current solution.

Similar to day one or Apple notes it allows easy logging of daily things and photos.

But since there is already Apple notes supported, maybe journal is not completely different?

[gracjankn]

An ability to import entries from Apple Journal would be very helpful. I’m considering to try out the app, but I’d like the reassurance that I can easily move my data back to Obsidian if I wish.

In iOS 18 settings there’s an option to export everything from Journal. I’m not sure if it was in iOS 17 too, I don’t think so. Someone not currently on the system beta needs to check that.

The exported data is a ZIP file containing three elements:

• index.html file with links to every entry,
• “Entries” folder with one HTML file per individual entry,
• “Resources” folder for attached things like photos (also audio notes I presume and so forth).

[kepano]

I have not looked at the Journal export format but if it's HTML there is already an option in Importer to import HTML files.