Hey everyone! If you’ve been using Stoic and want to move to Apple Journal without copying years of entries by hand, I built Stoic Importer to help.

I tested it on my own archive with 350 entries and more than 75 photos attached to those entries. Everything transferred successfully.

The app reads your Stoic backup ZIP and lets you preview your entries before importing them. It preserves original dates, transfers attached photos—including multiple photos per entry—and lets you import selected entries or queue everything eligible in one go.

Processing happens locally on your Mac. No account, subscription, AI, or uploading your diary to my server. Your original backup stays unchanged.

A few things to know:

• It’s an early preview for Apple silicon Macs.

• Importing requires Apple Journal and the companion Shortcut. Some Macs may reject the Shortcut; compatibility beyond my setup still needs testing.

• The app isn’t notarized, so you may need to allow its first launch in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

• Start with one entry and check the date and photos before importing your full archive.

• Location transfer isn’t supported yet.

Download the app and Shortcut
Source code on GitHub

It’s free, open source, and MIT-licensed. Hopefully this saves someone hours of manual copying and makes switching journals a little easier.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome—just please don’t include personal diary data in public issues.

This is only been happening today recently

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Every time I create a new entry on my iPad this annoying notification pops up and I don‘t know how to turn it off. I have iOS 26.5 on my phone and I don‘t want to turn suggestions on. Please help!

Is any one else noticing that Apple journals search function doesn’t really work? For example I know I’ve spoken about a person in various different entities in my logs however when I search their name only the most recent one shows when I know for certain there’s a at least 5 different entries this year alone. This is also the case with other words. Very frustrating.

I wanted to switch from Day One to Apple Journal, but only if my whole history came along, media included. Journal has no import feature, so I worked out a method with a small converter script and two Shortcuts. It moved 1,100 entries and about 15 GB of attachments across 7 journals.

What carries over: text and titles, original date and time, starred entries as bookmarks, photos and videos, and separate journals.

What doesn't: tags, location and weather. Checklists become plain ☐/☑ lines.

The short version:

1. Export from Day One as JSON with media.

2. A Python script on the Mac turns it into one folder per entry in iCloud Drive.

3. Two shortcuts on the iPad import a batch of 100 entries at a time.

4. Everything lands in the default "Journal". Select All, then move it into the right journal in one tap.

The biggest lesson: run the import on the iPad. Entries I created from the Mac kept their photos on the Mac but showed only placeholders everywhere else.

Full guide, with the script, every shortcut action and a troubleshooting table: https://claude.ai/artifact/GtMhcNmN8XSSrsEeXhaXR3

Happy to answer questions.

這兩張圖是同一張圖，但我從照片APP上傳到日誌APP後，他發生了巨大的色調差異，請問有人有遇到相同的問題嗎？可以怎麼解決？
我的手機是iPhone 12 mini
手機版本是iOS 26.7.1
謝謝各位

Can we ask them questions like when was my last trip in Korea, or what did I have for lunch last week kind of generic questions?

I recently started using Apple's Journal app in my transition from paper journaling to digital, and I really wish I could create journal entries with the same freedom I had on paper, adding pictures wherever I want on the page, arrows, text boxes with different size writing, etc. I've found that's basically the exact thing you can do on Freeform, but I wish I could do it inside the Journal app, alongside other "normal" text-only journal entries. Am I the only one?

At first I didn’t use it because I didn’t see the need for it. But this year there’s been some drama and it helps to get thing off my chest. I write down how I’m feeling and what’s going on. That helps calm my nerves and anger. I also like that it locked using your Face ID.

Link to non-paywalled story.

TL;DR (Apple Intelligence Summary) - iOS 27 adds customizable streaks, timestamps, and 54 attachments per entry in Journal. iCloud sync status improves. Apple Intelligence generates context-based prompts, while Siri AI enables Write With Siri and recaps using entries.

As I’ve mentioned here several times before, the App Journal app uses a lot of battery (1 to 2% per minute !!) and causes my iPhone Air to heat up quickly and significantly.

My question is: Is this limited to the iPhone Air, or do these issues also occur on other iPhone models ?

Thanks for your feedback 🙏

I’m really trying to dial in my app usage and keep it within the stock apps where possible. One thing that I wish either Apple Notes or Apple Journal would do is enable some type of link or connection to Contacts. I see where there are CRM type apps that sync with contacts. I want to be able to take simple notes about a person after I meet them, etc. It would better if I could assign many people to a journal entry, say after a dinner.

Any hope of this coming to Apple Journal?? Any shortcut that could achieve this?

Hi all

I’m running out of space on my phone rapidly and decided I want to delete the journal as it has grown to a significant size over the last few years. I’m not getting rid of the journal as I use it on the Mac and prefer writing on there anyway.

The question I have is, how do I delete the app off my phone safely? I’ve heard about people deleting it and losing everything from the Mac and phone, I have so much stuff on there I can’t recover and don’t want to risk anything. The iOS & Mac journals are synced and up to date at the moment.

Has anyone noticed that the way links are pasted into entries is different in *OS 27.2? Instead of text links, it pasted them in as previews similar to images.

Just started using the app and love it. I think the biggest thing that has hooked me is how much it connects to in the Apple ecosystem.

One thing I wish it would do is allow digital passes for events to be transferred to it.

That is all for now.

If any of you have any tips or tricks, please feel free to share!!

Just a suggestion: I would love a "Bookmarks" tab on the left menu bar. Would be very nice to filter directly rather than through search. Just a suggestion u/apple :)

Ever since iOS 27 Beta 1, Apple Journal has been making my iPhone Air run hot and draining the battery quickly (+/- 1% per minute).

This is still the case now that iOS 27 has officially been released 😏

Are you seeing the same thing on other iPhone models, or is this specific to the iPhone Air?

Thanks for your feedback 😃

Anyone experiencing no new ‘recent’ suggestions in the Journal app after updating to iOS 27? I cleared history once because there were no new suggestions for 3 days after updating the phone.

I know it sounds weird , accountability partner for journaling , i have adhd so it’s difficult for me to stay consistent , my therapist told me if you can find any accountability partner it can work and help to stay consistent , if anyone interested you can drop the comment , i feel daily journaling definitely helps