rb-dayone

A means to create DayOne entries in ruby.

Examples

You can create an entry pretty simply:

e = DayOne::Entry.new "# Hello, world!"

You can also set up other values via a hash:

e = DayOne::Entry.new "I totally posted this an hour ago", creation_date: Time.now-3600

Otherwise, you can set values using simple accessor methods, as you'd expect:

e = DayOne::Entry.new "I need to remember this."
e.starred = true

When you're ready to save your entry, just run the create! method:

e.create!

Searching

You can now search your DayOne archives. Use the DayOne::Search object to start a search:

s = DayOne::Search.new do
    entry_text.include "Foo" # Entry must have "foo" in the entry text
    entry_text.exclude "Bar" # Entry cannot have "bar" in the entry text
    tag.include "baz"        # Entry must be tagged "baz"
    tag.exclude "caz"        # Entry cannot be tagged "caz"
    starred.is true          # Entry is starred
    starred.is false         # Entry is not starred
    creation_date.after t    # Entry created after +t+
    creation_date.before t   # Entry created before +t+
end

s.results # Retrieve an array of search results

Most of these methods can be combined, e.g.:

s = DayOne::Search.new do
    entry_text.include "Eggs"
    entry_text.include "Milk"
end

This will only find posts that contain both the words "Eggs" and "Milk" in the entry text.

Binary

Rb-dayone ships with a binary, dayone. Run dayone --help for instructions on how to use it.

Install

gem install rb-dayone

Author

Original author: Jan-Yves Ruzicka. Get in touch via email.

History

0.7.1 / 2014-01-15

[NEW] Save entries with Entry#save!, delete them with Entry#delete!
[NEW] Remove entry tags with Entry#remove_tag.
[FIXED] Will now recognise hashtags at the start of lines.
[FIXED] EntryImporter now adds the UUID to generated Entries
[FIXED] The Entry#auto_tag will now only accept tags with letters, numbers and underscores in them.

0.7.0 / 2014-01-14

[NEW] Use Entry#created_at for Entry#creation_date, Entry#auto_tag for Entry#add_tags_from_entry_text
[NEW] Search!

0.6.1 / 2014-01-13

[FIXED] Updated gem versions

0.6.0 / 2013-01-14

[NEW] Location support
[NEW] Re-added the binary with actual functionality.
[FIXED] No longer relies on LibXML - all Nokogiri!
[FIXED] Imports times correctly as UTC.

0.5.0 / 2013-01-09

[NEW] Added support for tagging entries via Entry#tag, Entry#tags, and Entry#add_tags_from_entry_text.
[REMOVED] Got rid of the binary. You can probably make a better library on your own.

0.4.1 / 2012-11-14

[FIXED] rb-dayone was looking in the wrong place for preferences
[FIXED] new preference files not json-parseable. Swapped to XML/Nokogiri

0.4.0 / 2012-10-22

Added image support

0.3.3 / 2012-08-17

[FIXED] LibXML will now accept UTF-8 characters in journal entries.
Added the command "repair" to the dayone binary, which will at least repair my damage.
Added the command "verify" to the dayone binary, which I at least find helpful.
Added a post-install note telling people upgrading from <= 0.2.0 to repair.

0.3.2 / 2012-08-16

Switched from REXML to LibXML-ruby for XML parsing. Now accepts ampersands in entries, as well as UTF-8. Rejoice!

0.3.1 / 2012-08-16

[FIXED] Minor bugfixes
[FIXED] REXML will no longer kill the whole program if it can't parse a journal file.

0.3.0 / 2012-08-16

[FIXED] Fixed several bugs in Builder xml output, including:
- Output of trailing
- Output of malformed DOCTYPE
You can now import existing DayOne entries and search them

0.2.0 / 2012-08-14

Now auto-detects DayOne journal location from your plist file

0.1.7 / 2012-08-13

The dayone binary can now add entries to your journal
[FIXED] Managed to break the gem's include in 0.1.6, and because I'm a terrible amateur at all this, didn't pick up on it.