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
• Optionally titles your entries with a local LLM via Ollama — “Wrote about Formula 1”, “Expressed frustration at airport security”, etc.

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

1. 1

   Download your Twitter data — request your archive here.

2. 2

   Install Day One and its CLI, open the app, and (optionally) sign in.

3. 3

   Create the journals: go to dayone://preferences → Journals and add Tweets (and Twitter Replies if you want replies too — don't forget to disable the "Show in …" options for that one).

4. 4

   (Optional) Pause sync in Day One preferences → Sync if you're on a metered connection.

5. 5

   (Optional) Setup Ollama on your Mac (see the next section for more details)

6. 6

   Download the latest Twixodus.zip from Releases.

7. 7

   Launch Twixodus and drop your twitter-….zip (or the unpacked folder) onto the window.

8. 8

   Walk through the settings — journals, date range, whether your account still exists — 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.

9. 9

   Keep the Day One app running during the import: it's what moves the staged media into the entries.

Execute following commands in your terminal:

brew install --cask ollama-app &&
  ollama pull qwen3.5:9b-mlx &&
  ollama serve

Then flip on “Title entries with a local LLM” in the app. qwen3.5:9b-mlx runs quickly on Apple Silicon Macs with 16 GB+ of memory; on smaller Macs pull qwen3.5:4b-mlx instead and change the model name in the app. When the model can't tell what a tweet is about, the title stays a plain “Tweeted”. Delete the model afterwards with ollama rm qwen3.5:9b-mlx to reclaim the storage space.

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