Reflection guide

Create Journal Events From Photos Or Voice

Speak one event, share or capture photo moments, review every import in one inbox, and gather confirmed events into private or collaborative chapters.

• 11 min
• remember moments from photos or speech
• Speak, capture, choose, or share photos; review the proposed events and uncertain details; then save or add them to a chapter only when they are right.

Speak naturally or use photos when starting from a blank page feels difficult. Logit proposes a matching journal template and factual event details—such as a time, duration, place, visible activity, or readable text—then waits for you to review and save.

This suite is rolling out gradually and is not yet available on all plans; access will widen over time. Until it reaches your plan, Logit does not load the photo import, inbox, chapter, collaborative chapter, On This Day, or Photos-share workflows; selected Photos-share copies stay on the device and can be removed without uploading. Your existing journal entries remain available and are not rewritten or removed.

🎯 Use This When

• You would rather speak one event than type it into a form.
• You want to capture one moment with the camera or a group of related photos.
• You want Loggy to help sort an older camera-roll history into several events.
• You want Camera Roll Time Machine to import every photo in one album.
• You want to send selected photos to Logit from the iOS or Android Photos app.
• You want one inbox for unfinished, failed, paused, and ready photo imports.
• You want a trip or occasion journal that gathers existing events without combining or rewriting them.
• You remember the scene more easily than the words.

🔒 What Stays Private

Your recording, transcript, selected photos, their metadata, and proposed events are visible only to you in Logit. Audio or selected media and optional context are sent to Logit's secure processing so Loggy can transcribe, choose a template, group photos, and propose objective details. The Auto journal voice flow does not attach or retain the raw recording. Photo processing copies are kept only for the temporary retention period described in Logit's privacy policy. Logit never saves a journal event while it is drafting or grouping.

Logit does not write a reflection, guess how you felt, identify people, or turn an uncertain detail into a fact. Your meaning remains yours to add.

About device access

• Photos. Logit asks for photo access only when you choose images or an album for a journal event, and it reads only what you choose: the individual photos you pick, or — when you choose an album import — the photos in that album. On supported devices you can grant limited access to selected photos instead of your whole library.
• Camera. Logit asks for camera access only when you choose to capture a new photo for a journal event.
• Microphone. Logit asks for microphone access only when you record a private voice note or add spoken context, so it can transcribe your words for review.

All three are optional. You are asked the first time you use each feature, and you can review or change these permissions anytime in your device settings. Whatever a photo, camera capture, or voice note becomes stays a private draft until you approve and save it.

✅ One Thing To Do Now

For one moment, open Reflect → Add event → Auto journal, then choose Speak a journal event, Camera, or Photos. Review the proposal and press Save event only when it is correct.

Create One Journal Event From Your Voice

Use this path when you can describe one event more easily than typing it.

1. Open Reflect → Add event → Auto journal.
2. Choose Speak a journal event.
3. Choose Start speaking, then describe one event naturally. Include the activity, time, duration, people, or feeling only when you want them recorded.
4. Choose Stop and create draft. Loggy transcribes your words and proposes a Life Wheel area, Life Ring, time, duration, tags, and matching event template.
5. Read the transcript and Loggy’s understanding. Choose Try again if it is wrong, or Review event to open the proposed template.
6. Check and edit every prefilled field. Low-confidence results are marked for extra review, and you can go back to choose a different template.
7. Add the personal reflection on the spot, or choose Reflect later. Choose Save event to finish; when a required reflection is the only blank field, Save and reflect later keeps it blank and creates the event so you can reopen the same template later.

The saved event keeps its template, structured answers, transcript, and AI provenance so it can be understood and edited later. The raw recording is not attached to the event. To keep audio as part of the journal, use the separate Voice attachment action instead.

Create One Journal Event From A Photo

Use this path when one photo represents one event.

1. Open Reflect.
2. Choose Add event.
3. Select Auto journal.
4. Choose Open camera to take a new photo, or Choose multiple photos to select an existing photo.
5. If prompted, allow camera or photo-library access. You can choose limited photo access on supported devices.
6. Optionally type context or record a short voice note, such as “Mum’s birthday.” Review the transcript before continuing.
7. Wait for the private draft, then check its title, date and time, place, Life Wheel area, Life Ring, minutes, objective details, and attached photo.
8. Correct anything that is missing or wrong. Add your reflection now, or choose Reflect later, then save the event.

The journal event is created only after step 8. Your original photo remains in your device library and is not changed or deleted.

Photograph A Written Journal Page

Keep writing on paper — Logit turns a photographed page into digital journal events without losing a word.

1. Open Reflect → Add event → Auto journal and photograph the page with Open camera, or choose an existing photo of it.
2. Logit transcribes all legible writing exactly as you wrote it — including your own feeling words — and proposes a matching journal template for the entry. The full transcription lands in the template's Captured notes field, so even text that fits no other field is preserved on the saved event, alongside the photo of the page itself.
3. If the page plainly covers more than one moment — say a morning run, a lunch catch-up, and an evening of reading — Logit proposes one event per moment, each with its own life area, template, and slice of the transcription, all marked Same written page. Review them together: delete the proposals you don't want, or select several and Merge them back into one event. Nothing is saved until you confirm each one.
4. Anything you wrote as an action — a to-do line, a checkbox, a stated goal, or a habit intention — appears as a suggestion while you review. Keep the ones you want and Logit creates them as real Tasks, Goals, or Habits with the save; dismiss the rest. The written items always stay recorded on the journal event either way.

Logit only transcribes and organizes what you wrote. It never adds feelings, meaning, or actions you didn't write yourself, and long numbers (like account or phone numbers) are left out of the transcription for safety.

A few things Logit does to make a photographed page land cleanly:

• Two pages, one entry. If you photograph both pages of a spread (or the front and back of a page) in one go, Logit stitches them into a single entry in the order you took them — no retyping across the page break.
• The day you wrote it. If the page shows a date ("Monday, July 14"), Logit proposes that day for the event rather than the day you photographed it, and asks you to confirm — handy when you catch up on scanning a few days later.
• Your to-dos, matched. A written to-do that already exists as a task in Act is offered for completion or as-is instead of creating a duplicate, and a checkbox you ticked done on paper proposes completing that task with the page as evidence. You review every one before anything changes.
• The people you wrote about. When you name someone on the page ("coffee with Sam"), Logit offers to tag them on the event so it joins that person's relationship journal. If the name matches someone already in your people, Logit offers to tag the existing person; otherwise it offers to add a new one. You keep or drop each name — nothing is tagged or added until you do, and your people list is never sent anywhere to make the match. When that person later joins Logit, you can link their relationship journal to their profile.
• A daily rhythm. If you keep a paper journal, add the **Scan today's journal page** habit (Act → add a habit): completing it opens the camera, and a gentle daily reminder keeps your digital copy current.

Approve Several Photo Events At Once

In Reflect → Import inbox, select the ready events and choose Approve selected. When any of them carry written to-dos, Logit shows a short list so you can keep or drop each one before it becomes a Task, Goal, or Habit — the same review the single-event flow offers, in bulk.

Create One Event From Several Related Photos

Use this path when several photos belong to the same moment, such as one meal, walk, birthday, or concert.

1. Open Reflect → Add event → Auto journal.
2. Choose Choose multiple photos.
3. Select every photo from that one moment in the same selection.
4. Review the single proposed event and confirm every selected photo appears in its photo strip.
5. Add the required minutes, correct the other details, and choose Save.

Auto journal treats one photo selection as one journal event. To turn a mixed batch into several events, use Loggy instead.

Import Photos Into Several Journal Events With Loggy

Use this path when a selection may cover different days, places, or occasions.

1. Open Ask Loggy from Reflect or the Loggy chat.
2. Attach one or more photos. Before sending, remove any photo that does not belong in the import.
3. Optionally add written context or a short voice note. Loggy uses it only as objective context and leaves reflection blank.
4. Send the message and wait for Loggy’s grouped event proposals.
5. Review each proposal’s photos, date, place, Life Wheel area, Life Ring, minutes, and visible artifact details.
6. Select one or more proposals.
7. Choose Confirm to review each selected event template. Loggy carries the objective fields and every photo into the form, then asks whether you want to reflect now or later. Use Merge to combine selected proposals, or Delete to remove them from this review.
8. Open Detailed review whenever a date, category, location choice, or objective detail needs editing before confirmation.

Nothing is saved merely because the photos were sent. Only confirmed proposals become private journal events.

Import A Complete Album With Camera Roll Time Machine

1. Open Reflect → Add event → Camera Roll Time Machine.
2. Choose Import all photos in an album.
3. Select the album. On the web, select all of that album’s photos in the system photo picker because browsers cannot list albums directly.
4. Review the album name, photo count, expected batches, and detected years in the preflight screen.
5. Start the import. Logit groups likely events by local day and location, then queues manageable review batches.
6. Review, edit, split, merge, delete, or save the proposed events in each batch.
7. Choose Review next album batch until the queue is complete.
8. Choose View timeline to open the imported history in All Time Journal.

If the app closes or an upload is paused, return to Reflect → Add event → Camera Roll Time Machine and choose Resume album import. Every server-created batch is checkpointed before the next batch begins. Failed photos remain paused for a retry or an explicit skip; completed batches do not need to be uploaded again.

Share Directly From Your Photos App

Use the system share sheet when you are already browsing your camera roll.

1. In Apple Photos or your Android photo app, select one or more photos.
2. Choose Share, then choose one of Logit's photo-share targets. On iOS, open Logit and then choose the destination in its share panel. If Logit is not visible yet, use the system action to add it to your share options.
3. Choose One Auto Journal event when every selected photo belongs to the same moment, or Loggy for several moments when Loggy should group the selection into one or more event proposals.
4. When the share panel says the photos are ready, open Logit if it is not already in front. Android photo apps may bring Logit forward automatically; iOS keeps the handoff safe until you open the app. Confirm the active account if the photos were shared while signed out or before that account was active.
5. Review the photos and proposed details. Nothing enters your journal until you explicitly save or approve it.

Logit copies only the photos you selected into private, backup-excluded app storage so normal operating-system cache cleanup does not strand a pending handoff. The copies are still temporary: a failed handoff remains recoverable in the Import inbox only until its displayed expiry. Removing a pending share or import never deletes the original from your device library.

Use The Unified Import Inbox

Open Reflect → Import inbox to find Auto Journal drafts, Loggy proposals, Camera Roll Time Machine batches, Photos-app shares, failures, and paused work. Import jobs and event drafts have deliberately separate selection controls:

• Select import jobs to pause, resume, retry, remove, or open them.
• Select event drafts to approve ready events, open detailed review, merge proposals across imports, or delete only those unsaved proposals.

Bulk approval is available only when all required details and every photo are present and no uncertain field or duplicate choice is unresolved. Before bulk approval saves anything, Logit asks whether to review each reflection now or Reflect later for the selected events. Removing a job clears Logit's temporary drafts and working copies; deleting an event draft does not remove camera-roll originals or an event that was already saved.

Imports are temporary. The inbox shows when each import expires so you can finish, retry, or remove it before its private workspace is cleaned up.

Review Confidence And Likely Duplicates

The event review keeps high-confidence details out of the way and highlights only fields that need a decision. Each uncertain date, place, template, or visible artifact explains why it is uncertain and links to the supporting photo. Choose Looks right or edit the field before saving.

Cross-import duplicate detection checks the selected camera-roll asset ID when available, exact photo content, visually similar images, and events that overlap in time and confirmed location. A likely match shows the existing event and the evidence for the match. Choose:

• Attach photo to add the selected photo to that existing event.
• Merge events to add the new objective facts and photos to it.
• Skip duplicate to dismiss the proposed duplicate event.

These choices affect only Logit's private copy and draft. They never delete or modify the source photo in your camera roll. Logit checks the evidence again at save time, so two imports of the same photo cannot silently create two events. If another import finishes first, the later review refreshes to show the saved match. Splitting a proposal keeps each photo's duplicate evidence with that photo, and Merge events remains unavailable until every uncertain field you would add has been reviewed.

Build A Trip Or Occasion Chapter

A chapter is a parent journal such as Japan 2024 or Mum's 70th. Its events remain normal, independently editable journal events.

1. Open Reflect → Chapters, then choose Create chapter.
2. Give it a title and optional description. Keep it private, or choose one of your relationship Circles for a collaborative occasion.
3. Open the chapter's Timeline tab and choose Add events.
4. Select existing journal events. Removing an event from the chapter later removes only the link; the original event and its photos remain intact.
5. Use Timeline, Map, Places, and Artifacts to review the trip or occasion chronologically, follow confirmed locations, and find visible tickets, menus, signs, certificates, or programs.

You create and curate chapters manually today. The same structure leaves room for Loggy to suggest a chapter later from confirmed dates and locations; a suggestion must still be reviewed before any event is added.

Contribute To A Collaborative Occasion Chapter

For a chapter connected to a relationship Circle, each member chooses what to contribute. Open the chapter, choose Contribute selected details, select an event, enter an editable shared label (which starts as Shared memory), then choose individual photos and whether its date, place, or artifacts may enter the shared chapter. Logit never fills that shared label from the private event title.

The contributor keeps control of their original event and can withdraw a pending contribution. Every eligible member of the chapter's Circle chooses Add to my private journal separately before that approved contribution becomes an independent private event in their own account. Logit copies only the details and photos the contributor approved; no member receives a live reference to the contributor's private original. Supported JPEG and PNG photos are decoded and re-encoded into metadata-safe contribution copies, so embedded EXIF location and capture time do not bypass those choices. Unsupported or mismatched image formats fail closed and remain private; Logit asks the contributor to choose a supported copy instead. On supported iOS and Android devices, Logit safely converts a bounded HEIC or HEIF copy to JPEG when you use the Photos/share target, camera, library, or album importer. Capture time and place may still help group your private import, but do not remain embedded in pixels shared with a Circle. If conversion cannot finish, Logit shows what happened and keeps your original unchanged in the device photo library. Contribution previews expire after ten minutes. Withdrawing the contribution, deleting its source event, or deleting the chapter revokes future previews and queues those temporary safe copies for deletion; it never deletes a device original or a private copy that another member already chose to import.

Shared chapter covers are also metadata-safe copies. Logit cleans up an old safe cover when you replace or remove it, or when the chapter is deleted, while leaving the original journal photo untouched.

Choose The Right Path

When Loggy finds several proposals, select one or more directly in the chat. Use Confirm to save the selected events privately, Merge to combine the selected proposals, or Delete to remove them from that review. Open the detailed review when you want to edit dates, categories, minutes, or other fields first.

In short: use Auto journal to speak one event or when one photo selection is one event; use Loggy when a larger batch may contain several events. Review everything before saving.

Camera Roll Time Machine lists native photo albums on Android and iOS. It keeps the 250-photo per-job safety limit but queues every album photo across as many review batches as needed, preferring local-day boundaries. If one same-day place has to cross a job boundary, Logit joins those ready parts into one event draft, so confirming it keeps every photo in one journal event. A single event review can hold up to two thousand five hundred photos; a larger detected moment pauses with a clear message before anything is merged or saved, so you can split it deliberately in Import Inbox. Browsers cannot list albums, so they clearly ask you to select the album photos in the system picker.

Review Before You Save

Check the title, date and time, place, Life Wheel area, Life Ring, minutes, and photo selection. Low-confidence details are marked for confirmation. Similar photos may be analysed once to reduce processing, but every successfully uploaded photo stays attached to its proposed event. You can reorganize the photos into different event drafts before saving. Photo and voice review also loads your active custom journal event templates; Logit can choose one when its name, keywords, and objective fields fit, and you can always choose a different template during review.

Your written reflection begins blank. Add only what the moment meant to you. Choose Reflect later when you want to save the verified event first. If a required reflection is the only missing answer, choose Save and reflect later. Reopen the saved event and its original template from your journal to finish the reflection without rewriting the photo-backed facts.

Before saving, make sure the photo count shown on the proposal matches what you expect. Every successfully uploaded photo is attached to its confirmed journal event, including similar photos that were analysed only once.

You can type context or record context for Loggy to transcribe before choosing photos. Review and edit that transcript first. Only the approved text helps the objective draft; raw audio is not saved as journal media or reflection. Visible tickets, menus, signs, race bibs, certificates, and event programs may produce editable artifact fields. When photo coordinates are available, review discloses that fact but keeps them off by default. Turn on Use photo location on map only when you want a map pin visible in your private journal; otherwise Logit keeps the place label only. Opening the Google map sends the coordinates needed to render that map to Google Maps.

On the same local calendar day in a later year, Reflect may surface the saved event as an On This Day memory. You can add a new private reflection without changing the historical event or the audience you originally chose. Choose Not today to dismiss the section for the current session, hide one memory without affecting its journal event, or turn the feature off from Settings → On This Day memories.

⚠️ When Details Are Missing

Screenshots, edited images, and photos shared through some apps may have no original time or location. Logit uses the details it can verify and asks you to confirm the rest. Failed album photos keep the queue paused for retry; skipping them requires an explicit confirmation. Earlier batches stay queued for review.

🌿 Why This Matters

A balanced life is easier to understand when real moments are captured without turning memory into a performance. Photos reduce the effort; your review keeps the record honest.

🧠 Related Concepts

• Private evidence
• Review before save
• Objective facts and personal meaning

🧭 Related Areas

• Reflect
• Self

⭕ Related Life Rings

• Reflect Ring
• Understand Your Life Rings

🛠️ Related Features

• Daily Life Wheel notebook
• Loggy
• Journal templates
• Journal history

📚 Continue Learning

1. Use The Daily Life Wheel Notebook
2. Understand Memory And Meaning
3. Write A Private Note

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Does selecting several photos in Auto journal create several events?

No. One camera capture or one multi-photo selection is treated as one event. The one time this differs is a photographed page of writing that plainly describes several distinct moments: Logit proposes one event per written moment, and you review, delete, or merge them before anything is saved.

What happens to the writing on a photographed page?

It is transcribed exactly as written into the event's Captured notes field (or preserved as a "Captured writing" section), the page photo stays attached, and written to-dos, goals, or habit intentions become reviewable suggestions you can keep or dismiss. Logit never invents actions or feelings you did not write.

How does Logit recognize people from a photographed page?

Only from the names you actually wrote in the text — never from faces or how anyone looks in the photo. A recognized name becomes a reviewable suggestion to tag that person on the event so it joins their relationship journal. Matching a name to someone already in your people happens privately on your device; your people list is never sent anywhere for the match. You decide whether to tag an existing person, add a new one, or skip it.

Does stopping a voice recording save the event?

No. Stopping creates a transcript and draft only. Review event opens the prefilled template, and Save event is the explicit persistence action.

Is the voice recording attached to the journal event?

No. Auto journal saves the approved transcript, structured template fields, and event details—not the raw recording. Use a Voice attachment when you want to keep the audio itself.

Can Loggy split a large batch into different events?

Yes. Loggy uses photo times, locations, and burst information to propose groups, then uses visible details to draft each event. You can split or merge proposals before saving.

Does importing an album stop after 250 photos?

No. Time Machine uploads and analyses the album in manageable jobs of up to 250 photos. Related parts from the same day and confirmed place are joined for review, and one confirmed event keeps all of its photos. If a single detected moment contains more than two thousand five hundred photos, Logit pauses before merging and asks you to split it deliberately. After the final reviewed batch, View timeline opens the All Time journal list.

If the app closes just after a batch reaches Logit, continuing the album checks the private server batch and its exact photo asset IDs before advancing. Review queues stay in an account-scoped device checkpoint behind one short route token, so even very large albums can resume without putting the photo list in a link.

Will Logit write how I felt?

No. It proposes objective details only. Reflection and meaning are yours.

Are duplicate photos deleted?

No. Similar photos are analysed once to reduce processing, but every successfully uploaded photo stays attached to the proposed event. Your device library is not changed.

Can I finish a failed or paused import later?

Yes. Open Reflect → Import inbox. Select the import job to retry or resume it without choosing the photos again. The inbox shows the temporary import's expiry so you know how long it remains recoverable.

Does putting an event in a chapter move it?

No. A chapter links existing events into a trip or occasion view. Editing or removing chapter membership does not delete or replace the underlying event.

Can another Circle member copy all of my chapter photos?

No. You choose the event, individual photos, and optional date, place, and artifact details that may be contributed. The receiving member explicitly imports that approved subset as an independent private copy; your original event remains under your control.