Downloading Trail Journals

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#1

I’ve been following Brown Bess’ journal while he’s been doing his thru-hike this year.

Following a journal online gets a little tedious and I’d like to keep a copy of it as reference/inspiration.

Does anyone know of a way to download a journal to a Word document? (Other than cutting and pasting hundreds of entries)

I would think those who have created their own journal would also like a single document with all of their enties.

Thanks

Too-Dang

#2

My wife copied ours by pasting since we did want all the hyper links, tabs etc showing. Open two windows and put them side side, close all your other programs so you don’t crash and scroll the journals on the left and paste to a Word doc on the right, hit SAVE every few times. Took her an hour. Some time this winter we’re going to print this off on some cool paper and work on the scrap book…three year later.:cheers

Bushwhack

#3

Cut-n-paste is what I do. I don’t know any other way.

Some advice to journalists: it’s a good idea to keep a copy of your journal someplace other than your website. I keep mine on my hard drive and also backed up on a disc. You never know what will happen to your journal site. The site where I originally had my 1999 journal (you know, that OTHER site) all of a sudden deleted all the journals. I’m glad I had already copied my journal onto my computer.

Trailjournals has been GREAT, and I don’t anticipating any journals “disappearing”, but a lot of work goes into your journal, and I think it’s better to be safe than sorry.

yogi

#4

I’ve taken your advice and cut/pasted Brown Bess’ journal to a Word document, please feel free to go to this page and click on ‘Brown Bess’

It wasn’t too bad to do once I set up a Word macro button to convert each ‘table’ to paragraphs and go down to the bottom of the document and get ready for the next entry.

http://groups.msn.com/8thMichiganCavalry/page.msnw?fc_a=0&fc_p=

Too-Dang

#5

there’s gotta be a way to wget -r it, then de-html-ize it…

Dog Tag (aka Ken Woods)

#6

Offically their are some copyright issues with printing a journal as well as saving them.

If you are a journalist as yogi suggests it is best to have a copy of your journal as you put online. No system is 100%. We have backups and haven’t lost any journals yet, knock on wood. (The other journals are still online at www.archive.org If you don’t have a text copy I can email you one.

For those wanting a cleaner journal check this out. The pages might not sort right, which is why it isn’t “public”

ZipDrive

#7

Thanks for this insight ZipDrive, had no idea having something easier to read could be a copyright issue. :eek:

I’ll delete my dataset and apologize to those who would have liked to have read Brown Bess’ journal.

Too-Dang