Extract text from ENTRY files
To convert your ENTRY file to another format, you need Day One or other Text software.
To convert other file formats to the "Journaling Data File" file type, you need software like Day One or a similar tool.
A .ENTRY file is primarily a single journal entry created by the Day One journaling application, specifically from its 'Classic' (v1) era or specific backup exports. These files essentially function as containers for your memories, holding the body text of your diary entry alongside metadata like creation dates, GPS coordinates, weather data, and UUIDs.
While .ENTRY files are technically structured as XML Property Lists (.PLIST), opening them in a standard text editor reveals a cluttered mix of raw text and code tags, making them difficult for humans to read comfortably. Users often encounter these files when recovering old backups or trying to migrate their journals out of the Apple-centric Day One ecosystem. A common problem is accessibility: without the specific legacy software, your personal history is locked behind a proprietary structure.
To archive your journals or move to a platform-agnostic system, the best approach is converting .ENTRY files to TXT or Markdown for future-proof editing, or PDF for a layout-preserved reading experience. For developers or data hoarders migrating to new apps, converting to JSON ensures all metadata fields are parsed and preserved.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ENTRY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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If you want to convert ENTRY file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Day One or similar software from the "Digital Journal Entry" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ENTRY, try Day One or another comparable tool in the "Digital Journal Entry" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ENTRY converter.