Twixodus

By importing your Twitter archive into Day One, you can:

• Browse your entire tweet history offline with lightning-fast random access
• Rediscover what you posted “on this day“ in past years—like Timehop, but nicer and with no limitations
• Browse all your tweeted photos and videos in a sleek, organized gallery
• Perform full-text searches that actually work
  • Easily purge any unwanted kompromat from your old tweets

• Beautifully classifies pure tweets, threads, retweets, quote-tweets, replies, etc., and acts accordingly
• Handles threads gracefully and combines them into single, cohesive Day One entries
• Supports media attachments, hashtags, locations
• Appends like/retweet count under each tweet
• Remembers what it already imported — run it again next year with a fresh archive and only the new tweets get imported
• Titles your entries with a local LLM via Ollama — “Wrote about Formula 1”, “Expressed frustration at airport security”, etc.

Requirements:

• macOS Sequoia or newer. If you don't have a Mac, find a friend who does or spin up a virtual machine.
• Day One Silver subscription for more than one attachment per entry (free trial available, feel free to cancel it right after the import)

Then:

1. Download your Twitter data. It will be delivered to your email within 24 hours.

2. Install the Day One app and its command-line tool, open the app, and (optionally) sign in.

3. Go to dayone://preferences → Journals, and create two journals: Tweets and Twitter Replies.

4. (Optional) Pause sync in Day One preferences if you're on a metered connection. You can turn it back on once the import is done.

5. Install Ollama on your Mac by executing following command in your terminal:

   curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

6. Install an LLM model to process titles for your threads.

   ## For ~16gb Macs:
   ollama pull qwen3.5:9b-mlx &&
   ollama serve

   ## For ~32gb Macs:
   ollama pull qwen3.5:27b-mlx &&
   ollama serve

Note: when the model can't tell what a tweet is about, the title stays a plain “Tweeted”. Delete the model afterwards to reclaim the storage space:

ollama rm qwen3.5:9b-mlx

1. Download the latest Twixodus.zip.
2. Launch Twixodus and drop your twitter-….zip (or the unpacked folder) onto the window.
3. Walk through the settings — journals, whether your account still exists, etc. — and press Start Import. You can pause or cancel any time; the ledger remembers every imported thread, so the next run picks up where you left off.
4. Keep the Day One app running during the import: it's what moves the staged media into the entries.

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