Switching notes apps usually means abandoning your history. Every app has an importer, and almost every importer does the same thing: it dumps your old notes into a folder called something like “Imported Notes” and wishes you luck. The notes made it; the days didn't.
Hejour 1.5 asks a different question about every note it imports: what day do you belong to? A daily note named 2026-07-08.md becomes July 8's page — the same page you'd land on by searching “8.7” in the palette. A journal entry from Day One lands on the day you wrote it. An undated scratch note falls back to its creation date. When the import finishes, there is no pile. There's just your history, on its days, as if you'd been writing in Hejour all along.
How moving in works
Settings → Import → Choose App. Pick your old home — Apple Notes, Obsidian, Logseq, NotePlan, Bear, Day One, or any folder of Markdown files — point Hejour at the vault, folder or export file, and it shows you the plan before touching anything: how many days, the date range, how many todos it found, and how many undated notes will land by creation date. One click later, your days are in.
Where each app's notes come from:
Apple Notes — straight from the Notes app; notes land on their creation days.
Obsidian — your vault folder; daily notes by name, the rest by creation date.
Logseq — your graph folder; journals land on their days.
NotePlan — your notes folder; calendar notes land on their days.
Bear — a backup file (File ▸ Backup Notes in Bear).
Day One — a JSON export (File ▸ Export ▸ JSON in Day One).- Markdown folder — anything else; dated filenames win, creation dates fill in.
What survives the move
Structure, not just text. - [ ] lines become real Hejour todos you can tick — and - [x] lines arrive already ticked, because a finished task is part of the story of that day. Headings stay headings, bullet lists stay lists, fenced code blocks keep their syntax highlighting, and images referenced by your notes are copied in and shown inline on their days.
Safe to run twice
Two things made us comfortable shipping this. First, a backup of your Hejour notes is taken automatically before anything is merged — if an import ever surprises you, the state before it is one folder away. Second, Hejour remembers what it has already imported, so pointing it at the same vault twice never duplicates a note. Re-run it after a month of using both apps and only the new notes come over.
And if you ever move out
The door swings both ways, on purpose. The same Settings pane has Export all days as Markdown: every day becomes a date-named Markdown file — todos, headings and code blocks in plain text, images in an attachments folder. Your notes were never hostages; they just live on their days now.
Download Hejour 1.5 — free, notarized by Apple. Bring your days with you, then browse them with ⌘K or search them with ⌘P.