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If you have been writing somewhere else, bring it with you. Your mentors read your past the same way they read your present, so an imported history is not an archive sitting in a corner — it is context they use from your very next entry. Your history, arriving whole
The Life Note importer

Settings → Data Management → Import your journal

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What you can bring

AI conversations

ChatGPT, Claude, Kin AI — the export files those apps give you.

Journaling apps

Day One, Journey, Reflectly, and .zip archives from most others.

Plain files

.json, .txt, .md — anything you have kept as text.

Or just paste it

No export file? Paste the text straight in.

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How it works

1

Open the importer

Go to Settings → Data Management → Import your journal.
2

Drop your file, or paste your text

Drag the export in, click to browse, or switch to the Paste text tab and paste directly.
3

Look at what we found

Life Note reads the file and shows you a count of journal entries and memories before anything moves. Nothing is written to your journal until you say so.
4

Bring them home

Confirm, and your entries settle into your timeline on the dates they were originally written.
Your mentors take a little while to absorb a large history. If the first entry after an import feels like it hasn’t caught up yet, give it a few minutes.

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If the file is unusual

Exports vary wildly, and some are genuinely strange. When Life Note cannot read yours, it will offer to leave it with us — a real person formats it by hand and emails you when it’s ready, usually within a day or two. You don’t have to reformat anything yourself.

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Changed your mind

An import can be undone. Go back to Settings → Data Management, choose Undo import, and every entry from that batch is removed. Your original entries are untouched.
Your file is not kept. It is stored encrypted only until the import finishes, then discarded. The entries themselves are encrypted at rest like everything else you write — see Privacy and security.