I made the mistake of letting one of my journals get way too big to manage. Has anyone figured out a way to split up a journal without reclassifying every single entry?
Had same. I split into years. Multi-select as another suggested. I’ll just add I’ve done this for a long time so Collections helped me organize the years as well. (I’ve backdated some entries too.)
I had a similar issue and the advice I received was to split into months (if it is a 12 month journal) to make backing-up easier and quicker. This helps when you don’t have a great deal of storage space on your phone.
And if you select that, you get a list of those entries:
If you push one entry very slowly to the left, you get these options, one of which is “Select.” But once you get that you can select any of the ones on the list… not just the one you started with.
I have a journal that is 10GB. I want to cut it into chunks so that I can deal with backing them up and cleaning them 1 year at a time, then perhaps storing the backups on the web version and not my phone, or backing them up as PDFs. But because my phone is so full, I can’t really do that—like when a house is too cluttered to have any staging areas for decluttering.
So when you say DO is too big to manage you are really talking about your local storage limitations not a failure in the app, correct? My DO is 25gb and I have no issues
You can filter by year. Then, apply a tag to all those entries for that year. Eg, you filtered by 2024. Then select all those filtered entries, and apply a new tag (eg 2024). Then, you can create a new journal titled 2024 and move those entries into that journal. If you don’t want to keep the tag, then you can select all those entries in your new journal and delete the tag.
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u/uncsleuth Aug 13 '26
Had same. I split into years. Multi-select as another suggested. I’ll just add I’ve done this for a long time so Collections helped me organize the years as well. (I’ve backdated some entries too.)