Travel timeline software

Drop in a folder of holiday photographs and the trip lays itself out: dates and places read from the files, the route drawn on a map, the days in order.

The photographs already know where you were and when. A trip journal is mostly the work of typing that in again — so do not.

The folder does most of it

Upload a whole folder at once. Boromlia reads the date each photograph was taken and the coordinates it was taken at, clusters them into events by day and place, and leaves you naming the days rather than dating them. HEIC files from an iPhone are converted as they arrive.

What is left is the part worth writing: what that day was actually like. Add it to the event, or do not — a trip with dates, places and pictures is already a timeline.

The route, drawn

The Map style puts every located event on one route, in order, with a line between them. A two-week drive reads as the drive; a hiking route reads as the route. Open any waypoint and that day’s photographs and text are there.

Keeping it, or sending it

Export prints the trip as a document made for A4 — a title sheet with the period and the cover photograph, then a dated column with the pictures in the text — or writes a zip of every image in timeline order. On Advanced, a read-only link sends the whole thing to the people who were there.

Views worth leaving open

Map: The route as a route, with each day a waypoint you can open.

River: The trip as a read, day after day, photographs either side.

Cards: Two weeks on one screen, when you want the shape rather than the detail.

Questions

What if a photograph has no date or location?
Then it goes in without one and you set it yourself. Reading the file is a shortcut, not a requirement — every field can be typed.
Can I plan a trip with it, not just record one?
Yes. Nothing stops an event carrying a future date, and the Spans style shows the legs of a planned route as bars. It is built for recording, but the dates do not care which side of today they fall on.
Do the photographs come back out?
Yes. The photo export writes a zip of every image, numbered in timeline order, with a photos.csv manifest naming which event each one belongs to.
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