Content → Journal
The Journal is a tool with which you can record your thoughts and experiences online. By adding your journal or individual posts of it to a page you can allow other users to place feedback and comments on it. Thus, you can create a dialogue with your audience.
Per default, every user has one journal available. You can also have multiple journals.
Overview of a journal with journal entries
You can change the title of your default journal (and all others if you have enabled multiple journals) and add a description as well as tags.
Journal settings
All journal entries you make are private to you until you put them into a page. Thus, the publishing of a journal / journal entry is a three-step process:
Post your journal entry by following the steps below.
Journal entry
When you attach files directly to a journal entry, others can see them whenever they have access to the journal entry.
Attachments for journal entries
Click the Add a file button and then the Select button to select the file(s) from your Files area that you wish to attach.
Alternatively, you can upload additional files directly.
License: You see this field if the site administrator turned on license metadata. Choose the license for the artefact that you are uploading. You can set your default license in your account settings.
Licensor: You see this field if the site administrator turned on license metadata. If you are uploading a file that somebody else created, you can attribut the work to them here and provide their name for example.
Original URL: You see this field if the site administrator turned on license metadata. If you are uploading somebody else’s file, provide a link to the original Internet address so that others can go there and view the original file.
Click the Browse button to select a file from your computer to upload.
If you wish, you can have your uploaded images resized automatically if they are larger than the recommended size. You can only see this option if the site administrator made the image resizing option available.
Instead of clicking the Browse button to upload files, you can drag and drop files from your computer directly onto the “drop zone”. You must still observe the maximum file size upload for each file and the maximum total file size cannot be exceeded either.
Note
This functionality is not available in all browsers. Generally, users of Chrome 7+, Firefox 4+, Internet Explorer 10+, Opera 12+ (Windows only) and Safari 6+ can use drag and drop.
If you attached a file that you do not wish to attach anymore, you can click on the Remove button to take it off your list of attachments.
Once you are done, you can click the Close button.
You can add images to your journal entry in two ways:
Images that are freely accessible online are easy to add to a journal entry. However, make sure that you have the permission to use this image in your portfolio.
Link an external image in a journal post
Note
The dimensions for width, height, border, vertical and horizontal space are given in pixel. The first value is for the width and the second one for the height. Only change one of the dimensions and delete the value from the second to retain the original proportions of the image.
If you are not happy with how the image looks in your journal entry, select it (it will get little square handles) and click on the Image button again to make adjustments.
Link an external image in a journal post
Note
The dimensions for width, height, border, vertical and horizontal space are given in pixel. The first value is for the width and the second one for the height. Only change one of the dimensions and delete the value from the second to retain the original proportions of the image.
If you are not happy with the alignment or the dimensions of the image in your journal entry, select it and click on the Image button again to make adjustments.
Content → Journals
If you wish to use more journals, e.g. to put your writing into categories for making all posts from one category available in a page without having to select each journal entry, you can go to your Settings and tick the checkbox Multiple journals.
Multiple journals enabled
Warning
When you click the Delete button, you receive a confirmation message whether you really want to delete the journal or not. Once you agree to delete the journal, your journal and all its content are removed permanently.