Day One / CLI MAN

Download the Day One Mac Command Line Interface from the /Tools page.

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COMMANDS
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
AUTHOR

NAME

dayone -
Command line interface for the Day One journaling
application.

SYNOPSIS

dayone [
-d=<date> ] [ -s=true|false ] [
-p=<file> ]
[ -j=<file> ] [ -h ] <command>

DESCRIPTION

The dayone tool provides a way to interact with your Day
One journal file through the command line. It is typically
used for custom import scripts and utilities.

dayone
will only work properly if you have purchased the Day One
application and have run it at least one time on your
computer. You can purchase Day One by visiting

http://dayoneapp.com.

You must always
specify a command. Currently the only supported command is
new. The entry text is read from stdin.

COMMANDS

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new

Adds a new entry using text from stdin

OPTIONS

-d,
–date=<date>

Creation date of the entry. If
not specified then the current date is used. This option
accepts dates in most formats, including some natural
language strings such as ’tomorrow’ and
’yesterday’. The systemâs locale is used
when deciding how to parse a date. The date is parsed using
-[NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString].

-s,
–starred=true|false

Whether or not to star the
entry. If not specified the entry is not starred.

-p,
–photo-path=<path>

File path to a photo to attach
to entry. Most image formats are accepted. If any side of
the image is greater than 1600 pixels then it will be
resized. In all cases the image is converted to JPEG.

-j,
–journal-file=<path>

Location of Day One Journal
file. If not specified then the journal currently configured
in the Day One application will be used.

-h, –help

Displays help.

EXAMPLES

dayone
new

Waits for you type something
and then creates a new entry in the default journal.

echo "Hello World"
| dayone new

Creates a new entry containing
the specified text.

dayone new <
~/Desktop/note.txt

Creates a new entry containing
the contents of the file note.txt.

echo "" | dayone
-p=~/Pictures/image.jpg new

Creates a blank entry with
image.jpg as a photo attachment.

dayone -d="03/03/2011
5:30PM" -s=true new < ~/Desktop/note.txt

Creates an entry with a
specified creation date. The contents of note.txt are used
as the entry text. Additionally, the entry is starred.

echo "Work sucks"
| dayone -j=~/Documents/WorkJournal.dayone new

Creates an entry in a journal
other than the default.

AUTHOR

Ben Dolman -
@bdolman