Mobile digital Logbook

For centuries sailors have kept logbooks of their travels and experiences. Sailors log dates, positions, distances sailed and other events occuring during the journey. These became wonderful assets for historians, but were really poor for realtime sharing. As we now live in the digital age, I wanted to try to build a mobile and digital version of the Logbook. I then used it in the archipelago, yes, we have GPRS coverage, where there is 'just' nature.

The concept is a vertical timeline, where I have a small thumbnail and then a column of text and a button to open the full post. (See attached photo) The concept seems to be quite good. I invited my family to watch it and they seemed happy getting pics and updates of journey progress. I decided to write in Swedish, as it is only for a restricted audience.

What I noticed is that sailing at 5 knots and typing is actually more 'processor' intensive than driving 100km on the freeway. I just noticed that I either lost my course or made typing errors. This peaked one day with 30knots of wind.

What I really enjoyed is that it is quite unobstrusive to create content and while sailing there are plenty of small moments when it is posible to create content.

The PC is just too big, power hungry and vunerable at sea.

This type of concept will work well for all kinds of ad hoc travel logs, where the traveller travels light, only with the mobile.

I used the ATOM enabled blog client proof of concept we created. We we have shown once in a while.