Slogger with Day One 2

Day One 2 is out¹, and I’m very happy to say that the team there has offered an easy way to keep Slogger working with it. If you’re not familiar with either, check out Day One on the App Store and Slogger in my projects.

Previously, Day One used a folder of XML files as the entries in a journal. It’s moved to a database format now, but there’s an “Auto Import” folder created for each journal. Because Slogger was built around the XML pile, some of the features that allow searching and modification of journals will stop working, but I doubt many people besides me used those much anyway.

To get Slogger working with the new version, you simply need to change your storage path directly to the auto import folder (stop using the “icloud” value as that won’t work anymore). Here’s an example:

storage: /Users/[username]/Library/Group Containers/5U8NS4GX82.dayoneapp2/Data/Auto Import/Default Journal.dayone/

The /Library/Group Containers/5U8NS4GX82.dayoneapp2/Data/Auto Import/Default Journal.dayone/ portion should remain constant, so only your system username needs editing.

Note that only the Default Journal is currently available for auto import. I’m hoping that a future version will be able to import to specific secondary journals using the same method.

I’ll look further into incorporating some of the newer features (such as multiple images, which are supported in both Tweets and Day One 2), but for now that one change will keep your current system running.