Why bring your history over
If you've logged months or years of sessions elsewhere, starting a new journal from zero means losing the pattern. Importing means Insights has real data to work with from day one: when you tend to meditate, for how long, and which practices you come back to.
What you need
A CSV file of your sessions. In the Insight Timer app:
- Open Settings, then Features & Preferences.
- Choose Session, then Export log.
- Save the CSV file it gives you somewhere you can find it, or email it to yourself.
How to import
- In Solvance, go to Settings → Data & Account and choose Import your history.
- Choose your file, or drop it in. Solvance recognizes an Insight Timer export and says so; if it guessed wrong, change it under Not right?.
- Check the preview: how many sessions, the dates they span, and any rows that will be skipped (and why).
- Press Import. Your sessions appear in the Journal like any other.
Solvance reads Insight Timer's Started At, Duration, Preset and Activity columns on its own; the activity (Meditation, Yoga, Breathing…) becomes each session's practice type, and a preset's name is kept in the session's notes. Importing the same file twice never adds a session twice, so if an import is interrupted, simply run it again, and an import that went wrong can be undone in one step.
What to expect after the import
- Times use your time zone. A time without a zone is read in the time zone set in Settings → Profile, so check that first if your sessions land at odd hours.
- Practice names come across too. Activities from the file can be added to your Practice type list while there is room on your plan; the Free plan holds up to five practice types, so you may want to tidy the list before a big import.
- Nothing is lost if you stop halfway. Run the import again and anything already in is recognized and left alone.
- No feelings yet. Imported sessions have no feeling tags, so Insights can tell you when and how long you meditate before it can tell you how it went.
If your file is not from Insight Timer
Any spreadsheet will do. Choose the file the same way; Solvance reads it as A spreadsheet of sessions and guesses from the column headings which one holds the date, the duration and, if you have them, the practice name and notes. You can correct any guess before anything is saved. Dates can be written most common ways, and durations as 00:20:00, 20:00, 20 or 20 min. A date with no time is placed at noon.
What to look at first
Open Insights and see which times, lengths and practices line up with the sessions you rated best. That's the question Solvance exists to answer.
One thing to know: an export carries when and how long you meditated, not how each session felt. To get the full picture, tag a handful of past sessions you remember (from the Journal, several at a time) and mark the ones that stood out as profound. Every session you log from here on adds to it.