Day One is arguably one of the most clean and well developed journaling applications on the Mac platform. It plays nice with iOS, Apple’s natural complement to Mac, but everything else is dead in the water. So I wrote ETD, a script that imports emails and turns them into Day One entries.

You probably don’t want to use this anymore, now that Day One 2.0 has IFTTT integration. Here’s a recipe for you instead.

The premise is fairly simple: email an address you specify with an image attached and your entry. The result will be converted into a Day One entry.

This is how you set it up.

Grab the script

Let’s start by grabbing the script. At this point, it would be helpful to install rvm if you haven’t already.

git clone https://github.com/nicatronTg/email-to-DayOne.git
cd email-to-DayOne
rvm install '2.0'
rvm use '2.0'
bundle install
cp config.yaml.example config.yaml

Configure the

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