We've Developed an Online Travel Journal

[Jane And Rog]

One big thing Polarsteps doesn’t do is multiuser. Sharing drafts and posts between users or even phone/iPad.
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[Jane And Rog]

Jim am I right in thinking MHF is run on PHPBB? Is the journal an extension to the main site and Does the journal have an API?
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[johnandi]

We've developed an online journal. It has many of the features that dedicated travel journal sites enjoy. Essentially, it will work like this.

You can create a journal. This might be for a particular trip or maybe a year. Once created, you'll be able to make entries into that journal. You can have more than one journal if you wish.

You'll be able to put those journal entries into different categories. Things like UK touring. Continental touring, perhaps a van build journal or just a day-to-day life journal or an I quit smoking journal, literally anything.

For a touring journal, you’ll be able to plot yourself on a map. You’ll be able to make draft entries, set times and dates for when journal entries are published.

The journal can be public or private.

If you wish, you’ll be able to add information pages to your travel journal, maybe a page for your van, one for your dog, or a bucket list etc

If you choose to make your journal public then people will be notified when you post, they will be able to comment on your entry. We’ll also provide you with links to your journal, so you can let family and friends, who are not Funsters, easily follow your adventures.

Unlike a thread, all comments will appear under journal entries, so the flow of the journal is always unbroken, but you still get the essential interaction with a thread under each entry.

It’s looking good so far, hopefully I’ll have it live by the weekend; so if you fancy a bit of journalling, give some thought to what you want to journal about and start then.

Great idea, thanks Jim. We (Diane!) used to use a journal app which could later be turned into a printed book. Unfortunately the app folded.

 

[johnandi]

Hi Jim, any update on when the journal may go live please?

 

[coopc]

Looking forward to seeing this - We currently do a kraft book journal. We have a mini 2x3 photo printer to add pics. Use cuttings etc from things we find. Its a nice keep sake for our trips over a year - A online version would be a great addition/expansion to what we already do

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