It still overwrites.
I just put mine together on trailjournals. I have my gear up and only 1 entry. So they won't update mine real time until I have 3 entires. If you search Garmon on trail journals mine will come up.Originally Posted by hikerbee
Adding/updating your postholer journal via email is pretty darn easy. To add a new entry, send an email. To update an existing entry, resend the email with your updates. If you prefer, use the mobile version with an internet connection.
Also, you can configure your journal to delay the visibility of your entrys by days or weeks for those concerned about security. Just specify the delay in 'Journal Setup'. Easy peasy.
Postholer journals has tons of features. No other journal site is as hiker centric. Period. It's easy to use for the journalist and reader. Here are the details:
Journal Features
+ No advertisements in your journal. It's all about your hike.
+ Add journal entries/photos by EMail, Smart phone, Kindle, whatever!
+ Google trail map of your entrys, same trace/WP's as our printed maps.
+ Postholer Mobile optimized for smart phone users!
+ Integrate SPOT Personal Messenger into your journal map!
+ Photo Manager, 5 photos per entry, 1,250 per journal. Ask for more.
+ Immediate, last 20 Twitter messages (tweet your map location, too!)
+ Gear List, spreadsheet like
+ Trip Planner, spreadsheet like
+ Training Log, spreadsheet like
+ Extended journal information, min/max temps, high/low elevation, etc.
+ Embed your journal in your website!
+ Option to make your journal private, does not appear in searches
+ Multiple journal handling that will blow your mind!
+ Download your entire journal in xml format
+ Optional guest book for your visitors, with your comments
+ Integrated journal & forum accounts
+ Automatic bookmarks for readers - up to 200 journals
+ RSS support for timely notification of journal updates
I use an IPOD and dont have wifi so when I "send" my entry it is in my out box waiting for wifi signal, I can then go into my email send box and write anything else on the entry that I want. It doesnt go out until I want it to.
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Has anyone used Facebook??
Unfortunately yes. BTW, real time posting makes it easier for LEO's to find you too just in case you need to know
https://www.facebook.com/TheAdventuresOfDakotaJoe
I give, What is a LEO????
I think Law Enforcement Officers based on the example of Dakota Joe.
I had a Facebook group and a blog. I didn't keep the blog current and it was hosted on another website so I have no information about it. I'm moving the blog of my hike over to blogspot and love being able to tell if anybody is even looking at it. There were times on the trail that I wondered if it was worth it and if anybody was following or cared. However, the Facebook group I was fairly vague about exactly where I was, but I was able to chime in in real time and people liked that.
My family and friends especially liked the FB page during Hurricane Sandy when I was able to tell the ones I didn't call that I was okay.
That would work, but the Facebook phone app is horrendous. For a company that claims to be made up of hackers practicing "the hacker way", Facebook puts out a surprisingly, but predictably, inferior product.
I think that at the least for some trails in some years now, Facebook can become THE way for on-trail hikers to pass information back and forth via their-year FB group. That was the case on the CDT, at any rate.
Agreed on the FB app. I prefer to use my browser of choice and get to FB that way.
Gadget
PCT: 2008 NOBO, AT: 2010 NOBO, CDT: 2011 SOBO, PNT: 2014+2016
Law Enforcement Officer is correct. Here is the WB thread if you weren't following:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...-Yo-Yo-attempt
I too was thinking of starting a blogg for my friends and family to follow. However, I think it would be tiresome to write in both a bound journal ( i am an addicted journal writter) and having to type everything out using nothing but a cell phones text options or a computer intown. Anyone have experiences about actually keeping up the blogg while on the Trail?
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I never really got into the anti-social networking thing and I'm not very interested in typical blogging, but that said...I'm thinking about doing the facebook thing. Mainly to keep family updated and post pictures, but if random people were actually interested in my updates and pics it wouldn't bother me for anyone to have an idea where I am.
Yes, I did a daily blog and it was difficult. I was up to a month behind on my blog by the end of my hike. I felt like I had homework all the time and on zero days after my chores, trying to get somewhat caught up on my blog was also one of my chores that I was never able to complete while on the hike. It was actually quite a bit of stress to do it daily and had I realized how much work it would be, I don't think I would have done it every day. Maybe a couple of times a week, with handwritten notes in a journal for the other days. However.....
If I had not felt obligated to keep the daily blog once I started it, I doubt I would have made the notes anywhere else other than in my AT Guide. At least there I could have marked where I stayed and been able to partially remember some details. None of the other people I hiked with kept a daily blog or journal and they all expressed gratitude that I did, because they could reference my blog later to remind them of what they were doing on their own hikes. Their families were following my blog as well, to see what they were doing.
Now that I've been back for a couple of months and have been moving my blog onto blogspot, I am incredibly grateful for my daily notes. As I edit and transfer each blog post I am reminded of things that I would have, had already, totally forgotten if not for the reminder of my daily blog. I especially appreciate writing down the names of almost everybody I met for any significant conversation or interaction. If I didn't write down their names, they are gone now. Totally forgotten.
So....it's up to you. I was big into keeping a regular journal for most of my life, though I got out of the habit for the last few years. My thruhike seemed like a good time to revive that old habit, and although I did struggle with it, it was completely worth it and along with my pictures it is the tangible evidence of what I did. It's my own great adventure story and thank goodness I wrote it down.
I've got a Wordpress blog set up, but I don't know how frequently I'll update it, for all the reasons Carry-On noted above. Like everything else, it'll be a work in progress.
I will say, here's one blog I followed last year and loved. Rayo updated daily or frequently, and it was one of the highlights of my morning to open my browser and see where he'd been. (And he finished, too, with a great summit photo. Congrats to him!)
I brought a folding bluetooth (wireless) keyboard to use with my phone, and found that it wasn't difficult to write up a daily journal while the days events were fresh in my head, just became part of my evening ritual. This approach isn't for everyone --- it's one more danged piece of gear to carry --- but it was worth it to me, and made it easier to stay in touch with others, and on occasion to use in accessing internet data, uploading photos."Anyone have experiences about actually keeping up the blogg while on the Trail?"
Gadget
PCT: 2008 NOBO, AT: 2010 NOBO, CDT: 2011 SOBO, PNT: 2014+2016
I did a daily journal on postholer using an iPhone. I was pretty disciplined about actually writing every day however short. At times it was a few days behind when I was out of cell phone range but there is no practical solution for that. I am very glad I did the daily entries. It allows me to remember details about days that would have merged together otherwise. Bit is an investment of time but one that you and others will likely appreciate during and after your hike.
One of the things that surprised me was how much TIME I had on the Trail, mostly at night sitting around or over sleeping. The extra time was one reason that I thought that a blog would be a good idea.
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