Speaking for myself, I would just use Word. You could also use OneNote or Evernote. Both of these are really flexible for bringing in media and things from the web. They're not so good if you want to print a hard copy.
What hardware are you planning to use? Extended typing into a tablet is a pain. So is carrying along a full laptop. You could get a Bluetooth keyboard for your tablet, but the portable ones are a bit small to type on. I would think about using old fashion pencil and paper and transcribing to your word processor when you get home.
Are you wanting to publish to the web? Shutterfly offers free websites for members where you can show off your travel photos. You can also put some text on there, but it won't read like a journal.
Does anyone have any recommendations for apps or online travel journals that accept pictures and text?
Thanks for any help.
Just don't plan on publishing while on tour- with a few exceptions, the availability, reliability, and limited bandwidth of the internet there make it particularly hard to upload photos.
We were going to use Shutterfly or one of the other online programs (Snapfish, Mixbook, Blurb, etc.) to make trip books (which they print and bind). We actually started one, but never got around to finishing it. Instead, we now upload photos when ever we can to Facebook albums which can be viewed as a slide show by family and friends. Depending on the trip and internet availability, we sometimes start to upload on tour, and finish up when we get home. I'll add captions (and revise them) throughout the process. All too often we are so tired after a long, busy day and a typically late dinner that we crash and don't have time nor energy to mess with that stuff in the evenings.
When we get home we go through all the photos and pick out a dozen or more of the very best ones that are representative of where we went and what we saw. We send those electronically to Easy Canvas Prints who prints them on canvas- any sizes we choose- and mounts them.
I leave my laptop at home and just take my iPad (w/keyboard) on tour. This allows me to view and share, but I can't do much editing and processing. I download photos from my camera to it each evening, but as a precaution I also leave all the originals from the current trip on the camera (64 GB) memory card until we get home and I have downloaded them to my laptop. The iPad (128 GB storage) is also loaded with photos from all our previous Tauck tours in case a Tauck newby wants to learn about and see photos from the tour.
Thank you, all, for the extremely helpful information. I'm bringing my iPad w/keyboard and my phone, and I've found two apps, Journi and Tripcast, that might do the trick. I also set up a group on FB so I'm not sharing with absolutely everyone. Some of my relatives don't use FB, hence the need for apps. I'd thought of Evernote, but I've never really shared anything from it and wanted family to be able to see. Hmmm. Perhaps I should experiment with that.
I did wonder if there'd be time, energy, or wifi available for any of this. So perhaps it'll happen post safari after all. Is the wifi at all decent at the lodges?
Melanie
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What hardware are you planning to use? Extended typing into a tablet is a pain. So is carrying along a full laptop. You could get a Bluetooth keyboard for your tablet, but the portable ones are a bit small to type on. I would think about using old fashion pencil and paper and transcribing to your word processor when you get home.
Are you wanting to publish to the web? Shutterfly offers free websites for members where you can show off your travel photos. You can also put some text on there, but it won't read like a journal.
Hope this helps.
Just don't plan on publishing while on tour- with a few exceptions, the availability, reliability, and limited bandwidth of the internet there make it particularly hard to upload photos.
We were going to use Shutterfly or one of the other online programs (Snapfish, Mixbook, Blurb, etc.) to make trip books (which they print and bind). We actually started one, but never got around to finishing it. Instead, we now upload photos when ever we can to Facebook albums which can be viewed as a slide show by family and friends. Depending on the trip and internet availability, we sometimes start to upload on tour, and finish up when we get home. I'll add captions (and revise them) throughout the process. All too often we are so tired after a long, busy day and a typically late dinner that we crash and don't have time nor energy to mess with that stuff in the evenings.
When we get home we go through all the photos and pick out a dozen or more of the very best ones that are representative of where we went and what we saw. We send those electronically to Easy Canvas Prints who prints them on canvas- any sizes we choose- and mounts them.
I leave my laptop at home and just take my iPad (w/keyboard) on tour. This allows me to view and share, but I can't do much editing and processing. I download photos from my camera to it each evening, but as a precaution I also leave all the originals from the current trip on the camera (64 GB) memory card until we get home and I have downloaded them to my laptop. The iPad (128 GB storage) is also loaded with photos from all our previous Tauck tours in case a Tauck newby wants to learn about and see photos from the tour.
I did wonder if there'd be time, energy, or wifi available for any of this. So perhaps it'll happen post safari after all. Is the wifi at all decent at the lodges?
Melanie
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