Photo Journal Entries: A Picture in the WritingComing soon
Some days the photograph is the entry. Pensio puts it in the writing, at the cursor, rather than in a gallery somewhere else.
Coming soon: it is built, and a small group is trying it before it opens to everyone. Start free now and it will turn up in your account.
Benefits
In the writing, not beside it
The photo goes in at the cursor, between the sentences it belongs to. Ten per entry on Pro, one on Free.
Location removed
Every photo is re-encoded on the way in. Where you were standing, and which camera you used, never reach the file that is kept.
Stored in the EU, served only to you
Photos live in a European bucket and there is no public link to any of them. Deleting one waits thirty days, then it is gone.
In your export
Your journal export carries every photo, next to the entry it belongs to.
Photos in an entry
A picture in the writing, where it belongs, with the location stripped out
Some days the photograph is the entry. Putting it in the writing, at the point it belongs, is different from keeping it in a gallery somewhere else and describing it here.
An example
We took the long route through the park — the one that adds 15 minutes but passes the food trucks.
- Kept the picture
- Removed where you were standing
The photograph of the bench sits in the middle of that paragraph, where you put it. What is stored is the picture and nothing else: the place it was taken, the camera, the time of day, all of it is removed before it is saved.
What you can do
- Put it where the cursor is
- The photo goes into the entry at the point you are writing, and the writing flows around it.
- Take it out again
- Removing it from the entry removes the file too. It is not left behind somewhere you cannot see.
- Take them all with you
- Your export contains every photograph, not only the words around them.
How It Works
Tap the photo button in the composer
Pick from the camera or the library: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 8 MB.
It lands at the cursor
The picture sits in the text where you put it, resized to 2,560 pixels and stripped of its metadata.
Write around it
The entry still needs words; a photo alone is not an entry. Emotions and reflections read the writing.
See them across time
Photos from every entry, in one place, each one a link back to its day.
Use Cases
One photo per entry on Free, ten on Pro; 250 MB of media on Free, 5 GB on Pro, shared with voice recordings.
The day that was a picture
A view, a plate, a face: the thing you are writing about, in the entry.
A visual record of a season
A photo a day in the journal becomes a strip you can read back months later.
Keeping the file, not the metadata
The picture stays; the GPS trail does not. What you keep is the memory, not a map of where you were.