Handbook

Learn the details.
Understand the whole.

Clear, practical guidance for creating, shaping, publishing, and sharing your photo journal.

Start with the basics

6 chapters · 21 guides

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Every detail, in one place.

Find the feature or question you’re looking for, then go as deep as you need.

Folio 01

Start here

Make a journal, publish your first moment, and learn the small set of ideas that everything else builds on.

  1. Begin a photo journal
  2. Create a moment
  3. Publish, revise, and remove work

Folio 02

Photos & privacy

Understand what Moments keeps, how photographs are presented, and exactly who can see each moment.

  1. Photos, originals, and metadata
  2. Captions, alt text, and the lightbox
  3. Choose who can see a moment

Folio 03

Shape your journal

Give your journal a visual character, useful pages, a considered navigation, and focused collections.

  1. Journal identity and appearance
  2. Pages and journal navigation
  3. Curate with collections
  4. Use a domain you own

Folio 04

Sharing & the open web

Share without turning your journal into a performance: direct links, community, feeds, conversation, and embeds.

  1. Share directly or with the community
  2. Connect the journal to the open web
  3. Fediverse following and conversation
  4. Receive Webmentions
  5. Follow journals with RSS
  6. Put Moments on another site

Folio 05

Supporter

Explore the extra room and features included with the Supporter plan, and know what stays safe if your plan changes.

  1. Everything in the Supporter plan

Folio 06

Ownership & account

Read your private statistics, take your work with you, understand plan limits, and manage the account behind it all.

  1. Read private analytics
  2. Export your journal
  3. Plans, upload limits, and storage
  4. Billing and account basics