How MyTripLog works

From the first waypoint to the finished book

One trip, all the way through — setting up, capturing on your phone, sharing as you travel, folding in the photos from your real camera, writing it up at home, and printing it. Read the diagram top to bottom to see who holds what: your devices, MyTripLog, and your own cloud storage.

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1 · Set up 2 · Capture 3 · Share as you go 4 · Camera photos 5 · Organize 6 · Publish Your devices phone, camera, desktop Any device Create a free account. Connect Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. Phone Drop a waypoint: place, time, note, rating, photo. Works with no signal. Phone Postcard from a waypoint. Story cards for the day. A live link to the trip. Camera → desktop Drag a folder of photos onto the trip. Nothing to sort by hand. Desktop Reorder photos, caption them, write the story, choose the covers. Desktop Journal · Poster · Slideshow · Archive · Book MyTripLog the story layer — never your originals Trip record Title, dates, timezone. Which of your providers this trip writes to. Waypoint place · time note · rating category Preview 1200px Tile 400px small copies only Share link A read-only page. The person you send it to needs no account. Shows the small copies, never your originals. Photos read Grouped by time and place, matched to the waypoints you already logged. you confirm each one on a map Your edits Photo order · captions Day notes · opening and closing pages Cover photo per waypoint one order, every output follows it Laid out in your own browser, from the notes and the small copies Your cloud where every full-size photo actually lives Connected Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive — yours, signed in once. Your original Full size, untouched. MyTripLog Photos/ {Trip}/Day 3, 12-Jun-2026/ Sharing adds nothing here. It only sends the small copies out. Your original Full size, untouched — filed into the same day folder. Kept tidy Rename a waypoint and the files in your cloud can be renamed to match. Trip archive A readable copy saved beside the photos. .html · .gpx · trip.json Your full-size photo. Goes from your device straight into your own cloud — around the MyTripLog lane, never through it. What MyTripLog keeps. The waypoint itself, and two small copies of each photo — one for reading, one for thumbnails. Borrowed back to print. When you make a journal, the originals are fetched from your cloud so the pages print at full quality.
Time runs left to right; height tells you who holds what. The heavy line is your photograph — at both the moments a photo enters a trip, it drops past the MyTripLog lane without stopping and lands in your own cloud. MyTripLog's row never fills up with originals, which is why disconnecting it leaves your photos exactly where they are.

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Your phone or laptop You take the photo, or drag it in from a camera. the file is here, and nowhere else yet MyTripLog · the go-between Hands out a one-time link to your cloud folder, then notes where the file landed. It never sees the photo. Your cloud The original. Full size, exactly the file your camera made. MyTripLog Photos/{Trip}/ Day 3, 12-Jun-2026/ MyTripLog Two small copies — one to read the trip by, one for thumbnails. Plus a note of where the original lives in your cloud. about 1 KB each way your photograph, sent straight there the two small copies
The same story for one photo. MyTripLog hands out a one-time link and afterwards writes down where the file went — roughly a kilobyte of traffic in each direction. The photograph itself never touches it. That is what makes "your photos stay in your own cloud" literally true, rather than a matter of policy.
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What you can make

Waypoint postcard
3:2 or 4:5

One stop — the photo, the place, the map, your note. Made to send.

Day story cards
1080 × 1920

A day of the trip, sized for Instagram and WhatsApp Stories.

Live trip link
no account

Read-only. Whoever you send it to just opens it — nothing to sign up for.

Trip journal
A4

Cover, a page per waypoint, day maps. Prints from your browser.

Route poster
A4–A1, 11×17–24×36″

Five designs. The whole route as one numbered map.

Slideshow
4:3 or 16:9

One photo per slide; reframe any of them, hide the ones you don't want.

Trip archive
.html · .gpx · trip.json

A readable copy saved beside your photos — and one you can import back.

One honest limit: the journal, poster and slideshow are laid out in your browser and go to its print dialog. There's no downloadable file yet — that's what the one-click export is for.

Not built yet

What's coming

Printed book & album
planned

A bound copy of the journal, and a layflat photo album, printed and posted to you. Not built yet, and nothing about it is decided.

One-click PDF export
planned

A real file instead of a print dialog. Needs the layout rendered on a server rather than in your browser, which is the piece that doesn't exist yet.

Travelling together
planned

Invite the people you're with, so everyone's waypoints land on one shared timeline.

The app is free. Everything in the other column — capture, maps, sharing, and making the journal, poster and slideshow yourself — has no limit and no subscription. There is nothing to buy.

Details the diagram leaves out

  • No signal is fine. Waypoints and photos wait on your phone and upload themselves when you're back online. You don't have to remember to do anything.
  • Photos in one waypoint upload one at a time, though separate waypoints go at once. That's on purpose — the files are numbered as they land, so two at once would collide in your folder.
  • Making a waypoint from a photo already in your gallery works on iPhone only. Android removes the location from photos handed to an app, so there's nothing left to place it with. Taking a photo inside the app works on both.
  • Camera photos are matched, not guessed at. Photos taken within about an hour and a half of each other are grouped together, and a group lands on a waypoint you already logged if it was taken within 150 m of it. Anything less certain is shown to you on a map to confirm.
  • Every trip needs a connected cloud account — that's where the photos go, so there is no version of this where MyTripLog quietly keeps them instead.

Your next trip deserves to be remembered.

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