For the last two months, I’ve been working on a Mac app to automatically import my blog posts into a Day One journal. I think it’s now in a state for others to start taking a look at. So if this is something that interests you, please feel free to give it a try.
@lmika interesting - and what you say about the IFTT formatting is spot on … i will download later when on my Mac - but quick question - will it move the archive over - or is it ‘switched on’ from the point you start?
@JohnPhilpin Sorry, I’m a little unsure by what you mean by archive, but I’ll try to answer what I think you’re asking. Feed Journaler doesn’t import anything from IFTTT; it is it’s own thing that just run locally on your machine. So you will need to setup the feed configurations manually.
Also, it will be switched on (i.e. start importing RSS articles) as soon as the feed URL and journal is selected. Clearing either of these fields would stop the feed polling (a dedicated toggle to turn off a feed is something I’d like to add in the future).
Finally, given that there is no history of what was imported, the first poll will import all the articles from the feed. I suggest creating up a test journal first to import the first bunch of feed items, and moving the entries that you’d like to keep into your main journal within Day One (this is another thing I’d like to add as well).
Hope that answers your question.
@lmika Thankyou
“Finally, given that there is no history of what was imported, the first poll will import all the articles from the feed.”
That answers my question .. looking forward to trying this out.
My IFTTT feeds a totally seperate journal already, your app will have a dedicated journal.
@lmika | sad face | .... installed - ran the sudo command - added the feed - but none of the journals come up to point it to - am I missing something?
@JohnPhilpin Ah, yeah. That's a known issue. I haven't found a nice way to get the list of journals from Day One - the dayone2 tool doesn't provide a way to do this, and I haven't yet gone spelunking in the Day One data files themselves. You should be able to type in the name of the journal you want the entries to be imported directly into Feed Journaler (it might be case sensitive, again I'll need to do some more testing here).
@lmika got it - so i added a journal called 'TEST' (pre created).
Pointed at the micro blog feed :
and ... now waiting.
@lmika so a whole lot better than IFTTT that’s for sure - got some feedback thoughts … here - or somewhere else?
@JohnPhilpin Ah, that’s good. You can email feedback to feedback@feedjournaler.app if that works for you.
