Import guide

How to import your Journey journal into Innerholm

Years of Journey entries are not something you retype. Journey gives you a clean ZIP of everything you have written, and Innerholm reads it directly: no converter, no spreadsheet, no copy and paste. Here is the whole path, and an honest note about the one thing that does not travel yet.

Export your journal from Journey under Settings › Export, choosing the ZIP option. In Innerholm, open the sidebar, click ↑ Import at the bottom, choose Journey, and upload the ZIP. Your entries, their dates, your tags, your mood ratings, the weather Journey recorded and your starred entries all come across. Photos are not attached in this first version; they stay safe inside the file you exported. The whole thing takes about ten minutes.

Step by step

Export from Journey

Open Journey and go to Settings › Export. Choose the ZIP option, which Journey also labels JSON. Journey builds an archive holding one file per entry, with your photos in a folder beside them. Journey has moved this screen between versions, so if you cannot see it, look for Export anywhere under Settings.

Open the import wizard in Innerholm

Upload the ZIP

Drag the file Journey made into the upload area, or click to browse for it. Archives up to 200 MB are accepted, which is room for a decade of writing with the photos still inside.

Look at the preview first

Before anything is written, Innerholm shows the first ten entries with their dates, titles, tags and word counts, and tells you how many the file holds altogether. If a date or a title looks wrong, this is where you find out, not afterwards.

Import

Confirm, and your entries arrive on their original dates, unfiled: Journey keeps one timeline rather than separate journals, so there is no journal name to file them by. You will find them under All Journals, and you can move any of them into a journal afterwards. Tags you did not have yet are created, and tags you already had are reused rather than duplicated.

What comes across from Journey

Journey records more than most journalling apps, and most of it has somewhere to go here.

What Innerholm maps from a Journey export
Journey	Innerholm	Notes
Entry text	Entry body	Your writing, as written
Entry date	Entry date	Your timeline keeps its order exactly
Tags	Tags	Created if new, reused if you already have them
Mood	Feeling	Journey's one to five scale is the one Innerholm uses
Weather	Weather	The description and temperature Journey recorded
Starred	Starred	Appears in your starred filter
Photos	Not yet	Kept in your export file; see below
Location	Not stored	Innerholm records a place only when you ask it to, at the moment of writing

The one thing that does not travel yet

Photos. This first version of the Journey importer brings your writing across and leaves the image files behind. The preview marks which entries had photos, so you can see exactly what is waiting, and every picture is still inside the ZIP you exported from Journey.

So keep that file. Innerholm remembers each entry by the identifier Journey gave it, so running this import a second time skips everything already here rather than duplicating it. That is also why it cannot go back and add photos to entries later: when photo import ships it will read your export afresh, which is why the file is worth keeping.

Two smaller things, for completeness. Journey's location data is read and then deliberately dropped: Innerholm records a place only when you ask it to, on the page you are writing, and back-filling a decade of coordinates from an archive is not that. And a mood is drawn on the page in a journal that keeps a feeling mark; in one that does not, the rating is still held with its entry and appears if you turn the feeling mark on later.

Frequently asked questions

Can I import Journey into Innerholm?

Yes. Innerholm reads Journey's ZIP export directly, with no third-party converter in between. Export from Journey under Settings then Export, choose the ZIP option, and upload it in Innerholm's import wizard. Your entries, their dates, your tags, your mood ratings, the weather Journey recorded, and your starred entries all come across.

How do I export my journal from Journey?

Open Journey, go to Settings, and choose Export. Pick the ZIP option, which Journey also labels JSON. Journey builds an archive with one JSON file per entry and a folder of your photos beside them. Journey has moved this screen between versions, so if you cannot find it, look for Export anywhere under Settings.

Does my mood come across from Journey?

Yes. Journey's one to five mood scale is the same one Innerholm uses, so the rating stays on the entry it belongs to. It is drawn on the page in a journal that keeps a feeling mark; in one that does not, it is held with the entry and appears if you later turn the feeling mark on.

Do my photos come across from Journey?

Not yet. This first version brings your writing, dates, tags, mood, weather and starred entries; the photo files themselves are not attached. The preview marks which entries had photos so you can see what is waiting, and every image is still inside the ZIP you exported. Keep that file: an import skips the entries it has already brought across rather than adding to them, so photo import will read your export afresh when it ships.

What happens if I import the same file twice?

Nothing is duplicated. Innerholm remembers each entry by the identifier Journey gave it, so a second import skips everything already here and brings in only what was missed. If an import is interrupted, running it again is the fix rather than a problem.

Do I have to leave Journey to try this?

No. Exporting from Journey changes nothing in Journey, and importing into Innerholm changes nothing either. You can bring a copy across, live in both for a while, and decide later. Innerholm exports your whole journal back out as Markdown or a Day One ZIP, free, whenever you want it.