Your public journal
Keep using littledots for a while and something nice happens. Without ever sitting down to write anything, you end up with a record of where you’ve been. The trips you pinned, the places you stopped, the countries that filled in along the way. A diary you didn’t realize you were keeping.
Your public journal is that record, turned into a small webpage you can share. It lives at a simple address: littledots.com/yourname. Just your travels, laid out like a story, meticulously curated, for whoever you decide should see them.
It starts switched off
This is the first thing to know, and the most important one. Your journal is off by default. Nothing about your trips is public until you decide to turn it on, and even then, you decide exactly what goes in.
When you’re ready, you flip it on once in the app. From that moment your page exists at littledots.com/yourname. Until then, there’s nothing there for anyone to find.
You choose what shows, trip by trip
Every trip and every place you’ve recorded has its own visibility, and you set it however you like.
For each one, you decide:
- Who sees it. Everyone, only signed-in users, or nobody. “Users only” entries stay invisible to anonymous visitors, who just see a quiet locked card hinting there’s more if they log in.
- How much of the date. The full month, just the year, or nothing at all.
- Where it was. Only the country, or the exact spot on the map. Sometimes “somewhere in Italy” is all you want to give away.
- Whether specific photos show. Off until you say so.
- Whether specific itinerary items show. All or some of your stops, flights, and plans, or none of it.
Set your defaults once and easily let your entries follow them. Each trip is private by default. You can make it inherit your default presets, or when a particular trip wants different treatment, override just the settings your like to override.
Your photos are yours until you say otherwise
Like itinerary sharing, photos sharing is very strict. Every photo is private until you tick it. Nothing you uploaded shows up on your journal just because the trip is public. You add each one on purpose, one at a time. We would rather you have to opt a photo in than ever discover one slipped out.
When you do share them, they sit where they belong: under the stop they were taken at if you’ve shared the associated itinerary item, or together in the trip’s own little gallery if not.
The map fills in
Your journal carries a similar map that you know from the app. Countries you’ve added to your journal light up in color. Trips and places drop as dots you can tap to jump to their entry.
If you turn them on, two optional badges can ride along: how many countries you’ve explored, and how much of your time lately has been spent away. They show only the number and the tier you’ve reached. The trips behind the number never leak, even the private ones. It’s a headline, not a list.
The shared map is a separate thing
You may have seen the live map, where everywhere the whole community went lights up together. That’s its own feature with its own switch, also off by default, and turning your journal on doesn’t turn that on. One is your story, told your way. The other is the community’s year, anonymous and uncredited. You can join either, both, or neither.
That’s the whole idea. A journal that’s genuinely yours: off until you want it, public only where you point it, and quiet everywhere else.
