Import and Export¶

Tag export¶

With:

jrnl --tags

you’ll get a list of all tags you used in your journal, sorted by most frequent. Tags occurring several times in the same entry are only counted as one.

List of all entries¶

jrnl --short

Will only display the date and title of each entry.

JSON export¶

Can do:

jrnl --export json

Why not create a beautiful timeline of your journal?

Markdown export¶

Use:

jrnl --export markdown

Markdown is a simple markup language that is human readable and can be used to be rendered to other formats (html, pdf). This README for example is formatted in markdown and github makes it look nice.

Text export¶

jrnl --export text

Pretty-prints your entire journal.

Export to files¶

You can specify the output file of your exported journal using the -o argument:

jrnl --export md -o journal.md

The above command will generate a file named journal.md. If the -o argument is a directory, jrnl will export each entry into an individual file:

jrnl --export json -o my_entries/

The contents of my_entries/ will then look like this:

my_entries/
|- 2013_06_03_a-beautiful-day.json
|- 2013_06_07_dinner-with-gabriel.json
|- ...