Slow with imported DayOne (long) note

nickmilo22

I imported a very large DayOne note at 300 KB which was 35,000 words. (It was actually many notes, but DayOne is lame and exports to plain text as one mega txt file.) Once it went into The Archive, I experienced significant slowdown while trying to type within that note. This brings up a few questions:

• Should it just be expected that really long notes cause slowdown?
• Maybe the slowdown was caused by the meta-data DayOne provides for each entry? It uses the " ``` " markdown and looks like the below:

Date:   June 13, 2014 at 1:01:14 PM PDT
Weather:    52°F Cloudy
Location:   50.7545° N, 83.9838° W

• Does too much markdown cause slow down?
• Does the " ``` " markdown specifically cause slow down?

I'm interested to hear what everyone has to say, thanks!

ctietze

Yeah, too long or too complex files are pretty slow at the moment. I am working on a better Markdown highlighter that should handle these things in a breeze.

nickmilo22

Okay sounds good, thanks for the reply!

micahredding

I used the dayone_export script to write my DayOne notes to multiple files. I created my own export template for it.

This only works with DayOne v1, however.

https://github.com/nathangrigg/dayone_export

JustinW80

I use DayOne on Mac at home but at work on Windows, I use jrnl.sh as a substitute, and it claims to be compatible with DayOne's storage method.

You might have to be a bit comfortable with installing Python to use jrnl.sh.

EDIT -- Oh yeah, my point was that jrnl.sh can export individual entries to individual files.