This is a Node script to convert CSV files to Diarly Markdown files. I used to journal with iDoneThis, which isn't strictly for journaling, and they use CSVs to backup your entries. Not only do they use CSVs, but they also have multiple entries per date, which is not something that Diarly supports. So I modified this library so that it will take a CSV with multiple entries per date and append them, allowing for a single Markdown file for every day in your CSV file.
This code is mostly taken from the excellent work done by the good people at Ninjality.
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/WebInspectInc/convert-csv-markdown.git - Install dependencies:
npm installoryarn install(learn about yarn)
The entire script is in src/index.js. Anything configurable is declared at the top, so make sure to update CSV_PATH, MARKDOWN_DIR, getMarkdownPath, and renderMarkdown as needed.
The example.csv file is what will be used to convert posts into Markdown. Make sure to keep the same format, with the first line being the column names. It's also important to reference these column names correctly in the script.
You can run npm run convert or yarn convert to run the script, which by default will create .md files in the markdown-posts folder.
Many thanks to the creators of Noderize and csv-parse for allowing easier development of this script. We hope to update it in the future as an interactive CLI script that you can install globally through npm, but for now we hope this makes your migrations less painful!