One thing I kept hearing from people living full-time in their vans: they wanted a record of where they have been. Not a trip plan for where they are going next -- a diary of where they actually went, what it cost, how it felt, what they did each day.
So we built Journey Log.
It lives under Places in the nav. Every day you are on the road gets its own entry: where you were, what state, mood (five levels from great to rough), how many miles you drove, what you spent broken out into overnight/fuel/food/other, any activity tags you want (hiking, work day, laundry run), a weather note, and up to 10 photos per day. The typical high and overnight low for that spot pull from our climate data automatically so you do not have to dig for weather history later.
The part that surprised me most in testing: the auto-log. Turn it on once in your profile and every time you check in somewhere, a journal entry is created for that day automatically. Location, coordinates, city/state, climate normals, even an estimated miles driven figure from where you were yesterday. You just fill in the mood and any notes you feel like adding. Disable it at any time and your existing entries are never touched.
The stats bar at the top of the timeline shows lifetime totals -- total days logged, total miles, how many states you have hit, average daily cost. There is also an Excel export if you are the kind of person who tracks van life spending in a spreadsheet (I know some of you are).
Web and Android are both live now. Pro feature -- open to everyone while we finish the billing rollout.
What would you actually want to track in a log like this that is not already there? I built around what I heard most often but I know there is stuff I missed.
