Another month has passed and we’ve rolled out a new release. This release we have mainly focussed on improving usability, but also added a few bells and whistles to improve the look and content of your journal.
One area we have spent some time trying to improve is the settings page, and in particular managing the privacy settings. I’ll write another post about this, but we hope we have made this area a lot easier to understand and manage.
The journal page now clearly labels whether posts have been sent from the phone or the web, or if it is an automatic tracking entry. If there are several automatic entries in a row from the same place, we now only show one entry. We’ve also made it a lot clearer whether you’re looking at the public view of a journal, or the friends and family view, or your private view.
The entry editing page now lets you chose a place from a map as well as being able to just enter a name. There are also a lot more photos available for many more places to add to your post.
Our database that maps cell towers to places is getting better, but we don’t always get a city level location and can only identify the country you’re in. To make this clearer, when you view an entry for a country we show the whole country and highlight it. We have some big enhancements in the pipeline that will allow us to track to city level a lot more often.
As well as many more photos we have started to add links to information about places so the people reading your journal can learn a little more about the places you are visiting (and maybe you’ll find it interesting too).
To help you keep in touch with your friends and family, we’ve also added a ’share your travel journal’ link to the settings page so you can quickly send an email with your journal details to make sure people at home know what a great holiday you’re having.
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