How to

How Journolog works

Journolog keeps a trip together the way it happened: day by day, with your words, your photos and the places you went. Here is everything it can do, step by step.

Step 1

Start a journey

  1. Sign up with your name, email and a password. It's free.
  2. Create a journey: give it a title, and if you like a description, the country and region, a cover photo and the dates of the trip.
  3. That's your logbook. Every day of the trip becomes an entry in it.

Step 2

Write entries

  • The editor. Write as much or as little as you want, with headings, bold and italic text, and links.
  • Photos. Put them right in your text with “Upload image”, and give the entry a cover photo. With Navigator, an entry can also have a gallery of up to 10 photos.
  • The place. Search for where you were and the entry gets a pin on your journey's map. Readers can click a pin to jump to that day.

Travel tips

Add a tip box anywhere in an entry, so the useful bits stand out from the story. Pick the kind of tip:

  • Food & Dining
  • Transportation
  • Stay & Lodging
  • Sights & Activities
  • Pro Tip & Advice
  • Watch Out / Warning
  • Money & Budget

This is how a tip looks in an entry:

Food & Dining

Breakfast at the pier

The stalls by the pier serve rice soup from 6 am. Go before the tour groups arrive.

Step 3

Share it your way

Public

Anyone with the link can read it, and it can appear on Discover.

Password-protected

Public, but only people you give the password to can open it.

Private

Only you can see it. With Navigator.

Every journey has its own link, like journolog.com/j/your-journey, and you have a profile page with all your public journeys. Share the link with family and friends: they don't need an account or an app to read along. Public journeys can also be found on Discover.

Step 4

Readers and community

  • Follow travellers you like, and see their latest journeys in one place.
  • Like a whole journey, or just the day that moved you: each entry has its own heart.
  • Ask questions and leave notes, on the journey or on a single entry.

Likes, comments and followers are for Navigator journeys; anyone with an account can give them.

Plans

Voyager or Navigator

Voyager is free. Navigator is $24.95 a year, renewed automatically; you can cancel any time in your settings, and it stays active until the end of the year you paid for. Voyager's limits count what you have now. Every photo counts: covers, photos in the text, and the ones you took out but that are still in your Media Library; your profile picture doesn't. Move a photo you don't use to the Trash, or delete a journey, and its place is free again. If you leave Navigator, you keep everything you made; you just can't add more than Voyager allows.

What you getVoyagerNavigator
JourneysOne journeyUnlimited
Public journeys, with your own link
Password-protected journeys
Private journeys, only for you–
Photos10 in total, up to 5 MB eachUnlimited, up to 50 MB each
Photo galleries on entries–
Likes and comments on your journeys–
Readers can follow you–
Like, comment on and follow other travellers

Coming soon

Posting from WhatsApp

Soon you'll be able to update your log straight from the road via WhatsApp.