Journ – Use it a Little or a Lot

Journ users vary from the minimalist (track and shoot) to the avid journaler (Full Journal) to somewhere in between. Read on to determine which level of use fits your needs.

Track and Shoot – Use Journ to record your daily walk, bike ride or run. The Track and Shoot user creates a track and sets out.  Along the way, this user stops to take photos. At the end of the track, the user has a map of the track, distance traversed and photos taken along the way.

Track, Split and Shoot – This user could be anyone who travels and has a need to document the trip and expenses. For example, Journ allows a businessman to focus on business and not tracking expenses, mileage or accumulating piles of receipts. Journ can also be used to take photographs at meetings, record notes of meeting attendees, accomplishments or action items. If you are traveling with others and sharing expenses - not a problem. Journ is a master at expense management and sharing.  A photo of the receipt can be taken and saved with your trip information. In addition, a trip report can be quickly created complete with photos and emailed to interested parties. Journ can be similarly useful to those traveling for enjoyment.

Full Journal – This level of user takes advantage of each and every feature of Journ.  Their life is the journey and they wish to document every moment of it.  Journ can record the occurrences of each day – tracks, events, dining, entertainment, photos or other items. At the end of the day, Journ creates a complete recap of your day.

Regardless of your level of usage of Journ, the outcome is the same – a memorialization of your life. Journ creates a map of your travel complete with photos, expense reports, notes, etc.  Further, Journ makes sharing of any portion of your trip quite simple via social media, email or archive your memories to Evernote.

Journ's Super Enhanced Camera

Journ  is an travel app which simplifies trip photo taking, management and sharing. This app offers a super enhanced camera to ensure the best shots. In addition, Journ uncomplicates the culling, captioning and managing of photos.  Finally, Journ facilitates sharing your trip tracks, photos, captions and notes with others via email, social media, PicasaWeb and Evernote.

Camera Features - To memorialize a trip, one must have a good camera.  Journ fulfills that need and then some.   In addition to normal shoot and self-timer photos, Journ offers a “Guest Taker” mode. This mode allows someone outside the group to take a photo and even thanks the Guest Taker. In the “Clean Screen” mode, all the buttons disappear and touching the screen anywhere takes a photo.  If a lit screen could bother others, activate the Journ “Stealth” mode and touch anywhere on the screen to take a photo.  The “Take Photo on Launch” mode is perfect for the tired traveler. In this mode, a photo is taken each time Journ is launched.  Further, the number of exposures can be set to 2 or 3. Photos are taken one second apart and which ensures a  greater chance at the perfect shot.

Managing Photos - Often on a trip, many photos are taken. Some good, some not so much.  Journ includes a photo rating feature which allows the user to quickly rate each photo none, 1 or  2 (best) stars.  The starring facilitates the selection of which photos to use in slide shows, social emails, posting to social media and archiving to PicasaWeb, Flickr and Evernote.  

Photo Captions - Journ allows captions to be added to photos and even does some of the work for you. Journ tags photos with time taken and GPS location. Further, Journ contains an interface with Google Places which will suggest the name of the photo location.  The GPS interface allows a map of your trip to be created with points of interest and accompanying photos.

Sharing - Not only does Journ create a detailed trip journal, Journ makes sharing the trip with others quite simple.  Any part or all of a trip map and photo journal can be easily shared via emails, social postings, slide shows, PicasaWeb or by posting a  nicely prepared journal entry to Evernote.  

If you are a person who not only loves to travel, but loves to share and remember travels, Journ is the app for you.  With Journ, the trip is never over. It can be relived through your travel maps, item descriptions, events, notes, photos, captions and slide shows.

Life is a journey. Capture yours with Journ.

Understanding the Journ 1.0.2 Trip Main Screen

Explanation of Journ Settings

Explanation of Journ Settings

Journ is a highly customizable app.  Throught the Settings, a user can select an archive destination, the display characteristics, communication content and sharing options.  The user may even enter their height and weight to allow Journ to estimate calories burned on a trek! The Journ Settings are defined below.

Setting	Default	Purpose
General		Green = Yes = On. White = No = Off.
Options
Use Current Users On Create	No	If Yes, current trip participants will be participants in new trip. If participants in either trip are edited, the edit will impact all trips.
Photos to Camera Roll	Yes	Pictures are saved to phone's camera roll.
Allow Undeleting Trips	No	If Yes, deleted trips can be restored.
Only Real Splitters Get Emails	No	Participants who are not payers or splitters do not receive email.
Archive to Google Drive	No	If Yes, trip, including photos, are archived to Google drive. Answer questions to allow archiving. Journ must be open to archive. Archiving occurs between 2 - 5 am local time.
Display
Fonts	Helevetica	Select fonts to use for header, row, label, currency, footer and quick guide.
Place Totals on Headers	Yes	Displays total expense for the day on the day header.
Show Person Usage Icons	Yes	Displays icons for persons that split and payed.
Show Payment Type	Yes	Identifies mode of payment - credit card, cash, check, gift. On iPhone, touch More to view.
Show Time Zones		Displays time zone beneath calendar. On iPhone, touch More to view.
Present Item Types by Usage	Yes	If yes, when adding an item, item types will be presented in an order that reflects previous usage. For example, if most expenses are of the type Dining Out, that type would be the first option to select in the type selection.
Order View Sections	Reverse	Select Forward or Reverse. This setting controls the day ordering of the main item list. Reverse will show the current day first and oldest day last. Forward will show the oldest day first and the current day at the end of the list.
Number the Sections	No	If yes, the sections (day, week, month, quarter, year) to be numbered. On a trip, the days will be numbered. The numbering may be helpful when comparing to other itineraries.
Section Items By	Day	Select from day, week, month, quarter or year.
Financial Emails
To CC, BCC		Establish the To (up to 3), CC (up to 2) and BCC (up to 2) for trip social emails.
Subject		Enter the subject for email.
Include Csv and Text Files	Yes	If Yes, expense files will be included.
Include Html Files	Yes	If Yes, an HTML representation of the email body and inline photos will be attached to email.
Include Location Info	Yes	If Yes, includes a places file which maps the location of every item in the trip. Also includes a KML file which depicts the path of the trip.
Include Photos	No	If Yes, includes a places file which maps the location of every item in the trip. Also includes a KML file which depicts the path of the trip.
Sharing and Archiving
Social Emails
To, CC,BCC		Establish the To (up to 3), CC (up to 2) and BCC (up to 2) for trip social emails.
Use the Following BCC List	Off	Touch to open keyboard. Can enter BCC emails via keyboard. Keyboard will stay open. Scroll to next field. Alternatively, can create distribution from email address book, select all copy. Long touch on the Journ setting BCC llist, touch paste. Slide to green to use, slide to white to turn off.
Subject		Enter subject, such as trip name.
Use Google Drive Photos	No	If Yes, photos are archived to Google drive. This allows photos to be inserted in line in emails versus as attachments.
Inline Photo Size	400 pixels	Size of photos in emails.
Photos	2 stars	Select if all photos, 2 star or 1 and 2 star photos will be included in email.
Include Day Track	No	If set to Yes, a link to the track will be included in email.
Included Csv and Text Files	No	Files which contain only expense data (which are generally not included in social emails).
Attach Html File	No	If Yes, an HTML representation of the email body and inline photos will be attached to email.
Attach Location Info	No	If Yes, attaches GPS map information on items in trip.
Attach Photos in Item Emails.	No	If Yes, includes a places file which maps the location of every item in the trip. Also includes a KML file which depicts the path of the trip.
Slide Show
Photos	All	Select if all photos, 2 star or 1 and 2 star photos will be included in email.
Captions	Yes	If Yes to enable photo captions.
Slide Duration (Seconds)	3	Select the time each photo will appear during slide show.
Start Slide Show on Map	No	Slide shows displayed with the trip or track map as background. Photo icons appear at location taken.
Social Postings
Photos	2 star	Select if 2 or 1 and 2 star photos will be included in social posting.
Include Map Links	No	If Yes, trip location links via Google maps will be included.
Social Postings		Set to Yes posting destinations. Can post to Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo or Tencent Weibo.
Evernote Archiving		To archive trip journal to Evernote, enter Evernote email account. Select which photos to share - only 2 star or 1 and 2 star photos. Slide Google Docs/Drive for Photos to on (green). In addition, to archive to Evernote, the user must create an Evernote Journ trip folder.The name of the Journ trip is included after an @ at the end of the folder name.
Web Albums		Options to share journal with Picasa and Flickr. To share with Picasa, Picasa album name must be included in album name field. To share with Flickr, Album Name is optional. Can share both congruently. Option to select which photos will be shared - 2 star or 1 and 2 star.
Location Services
Display Units	English	Choose English or metric.
Optimize Power When Tracking	No	If Yes, the device to automatically power down the GPS when you haven't moved for a while (about 15 minutes).
Process Day Tracks	No	If Yes, a new Day Track begins every 24 hours. The Day Tracks feature tracks the iPhone location throughout the day.
Day Track Prefix	No	If Yes, entered text will precede track number and date. Pound sign # must be last character in string with a space before and after, e.g., Europe Trip #
Show Current Location	Yes	If Yes, current location is shown as a blue dot maps.
Track Colors to Show	Rainbow	Select from Rainbow - Track shown in a rainbow colors. Speed - depicts speed variation by color. Red - fastest, green - average, blue - slowest. Distance - Cycles through every color each mile of the track., Repeat of a color indicates travel of 1 mile. Altitude - Displays altitude variations by color. Red - highest, green - middle, blue - lowest.
Speed Alarm Sound	None	Select sound to be emitted if speed alarm is exceeded. Alarm will sound only if Journ is active.
Speed Alarm Limit	0	If 0, off. Enter MPH above which speed alarm sound would be emitted.
Show Trip Info on Top Bar	Yes	If Yes, the featured attributes of the current or last track interacted with are displayed at top of screen.
Start Slide Shows on Maps	No	If Yes, slide show will be initiated as map based. If No, slide show will consist of photos without map.
Height (inches) for Steps		Enter user's height to increase accurancy of step counting.
Weigth (pounds) for Calories		Enter user's weight to more accurately calcuate calories burned.
Help		Options to access DC Software Arts website, email for support, access the blog, rate the app, turn off or on the Help Popups.

Welcome to Journ

My inspiration for Journ was the desire to take our Trip Splitter app to the next level in terms of capturing everything about a trip. So, in addition to expenses, Journ allows the recording of Events, Places, Notes and Tracks. Further, the photo capability has been greatly enhanced with a new built-in camera tailored to trip photography.  Finally, Journ allows the trip to be easily shared and archived via many available venues. 

Journ was originally designed to keep track of Trips:  shared expenses and journaling where you went and what you did. It can also be used to capture your Everyday Life, as well as the trips that are a part of that. Both ways to use Journ have their own configuration of settings that help make Journ work best for how you want to use it.

Journ - life's a journey, capture yours.