Convert daily files to a yearly file

[baogiadoan]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The problem is that I used Org-journal for a long time and my setting for org-journal is 'daily which means that I have a lot of separate files now; however, my need changes and I used 'yearly as the moment; however, I can't see how I still keep the old journals (i.e. convert them into a yearly files)

Describe the solution you'd like

A function to convert the daily files into a single yearly file compatible with the current `yearly that I set up

[bastibe]

I'm afraid there's currently no such functionality implemented in org-journal.

But if anyone wants to contribute a function or external script, I'll happily accept a pull request.

[chasecaleb]

Hi, I just converted daily files to monthly like this:

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
(require 'org)
(require 'org-refile)
(require 'org-journal)
(require 'cl-lib)

;; Step 1: convert
(org-map-entries
 (lambda ()
   (let* ((original (file-name-base (buffer-file-name)))
          (year (substring original 0 4))
          (month (substring original 4 6))
          (day (substring original 6 8))
          (new-ts (format-time-string org-journal-created-property-timestamp-format
                                      (encode-time (org-parse-time-string (format "%s-%s-%s" year month day)))))
          (dest (expand-file-name (concat year month ".org")
                                  (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name))))
          (org-refile-keep t))
     (cl-labels ((post-refile ()
                              (org-set-property "CREATED" new-ts)
                              (save-buffer)))
       (let ((org-after-refile-insert-hook (list #'post-refile)))
         (org-refile nil nil `("fake-toplevel-heading" ,dest nil nil))))))
 "LEVEL=1"
 (directory-files org-journal-dir t (rx bos (= 8 digit) ".org" eos)))

;; Step 2: delete original dailies after reviewing results.
(seq-do #'delete-file
        (directory-files org-journal-dir t (rx bos (= 8 digit) ".org" eos)))

This isn't quite polished enough to merge as is, but it's really close if anyone wants to finish it up. I think these are the only assumptions that need to be fixed:

1. Assumes daily files are named like yyyymmdd.org (see directory-files regexp arg).
2. Assumes monthly files should be named yyyymm.org (see dest variable). Should use org-journal-file-format to create the destination file name instead.

[bastibe]

Wonderful, thank you! Would you like to add it to the README as a code example of how to do this sort of thing?

[chasecaleb]

I don't have time to put together a pull request, sorry... my comment was just a quick drive-by for posterity. You're welcome to put it in the readme or use it however you'd like though.

[baogiadoan]

Hi Caleb, Thanks for your contribution, I'm much appreciated if you can modify the code to include the yearly file as well and write a README and code example like Bastian's suggestion.

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