How to use pocketmail

imported
#1

So I got the part that you type your journal entries in, send it over the phone to somewhere. How does it end up in the online journal?

Thanks!

john moone

#2

send your entries to your pocketmail address, go online, cut & paste from the pocketmail online site. Easy as pie.

heald

#3

You can also send to a friend who can also post for you immediately if you give him or her your login ID and password.

If you send photo flash memory to that same friend (or another one),he or she can also download your photos choose good shots and upload to TJ so photos are posted while you hike. (Have your friend burn to a CD to save photos and then mail your fash memory back).

(I may have the down- and up-loads backwards, but the info moves from card to computer to TJ.) =)

GottaWalk

#4

Your “transcriber” can also proof read and fix your thumb typing errors for you. Since sometimes you won’t feel like writing at all you can just bang one out and not worry about how neat it is. Get the events of the day down and then they can paste it to Word and then to your journal.

Bushwhack

#5

The word that seems to be left out here is “e-mail address”. You send the entries to your transcriber or yourself via e-mail.

Word is not needed, though, editting can be done right in the TJ text box for your entry. I have transcribed for 3 different hikers using WebTV. Your transcriber does need to know how to cut, copy and paste (CC&P) text.

As heald said, you can do it yourself when you are in town, but sometimes computer time is limited and you probably have several days of entries to post. A transcriber is a very good person to have in your support team :wink:

Wild Hare

#6

Just make sure you have a good transcriber. On the trail, late at night, dead tired, your pocketmail email will contain errors. Your transcriber is the link to the world who watches your adventure along with everyone else. It’s a given typos will happen. Live with it and keep on tekken.

NedtheFed