MJDOC Converter

Extract text from MacJournal documents (MJDOC)


Drop or upload your .MJDOC file
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How to extract text from your MJDOC file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MJDOC file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert MJDOC to another file type

To convert MJDOC documents to another format, you need MacJournal or other Database software.

Convert a file to MJDOC

To convert other file formats to the "Journal Database File" file type, you need software like MacJournal or a similar tool.


About MJDOC files

A .mjdoc file is a proprietary document created by MacJournal, a journaling application for macOS developed by Dan Schimpf Software. These files store diary entries, formatting data, and embedded media. The primary disadvantage of the .mjdoc format is severe platform lock-in. It requires a Mac running MacJournal. You cannot open a .mjdoc file natively on Windows, Android, or web browsers. For long-term archiving, users must export journals to standard targets like PDF, RTF, DOCX, or TXT. This file format is difficult to open or convert because standard online converters fail to parse its closed database structure. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your MJDOC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert MJDOC file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use MacJournal or similar software from the "Journal and Diary Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to MJDOC, try MacJournal or another comparable tool in the "Journal and Diary Storage" category.



The MJDOC Converter Story

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 MJDOC converter.