Create a moment

Choose photographs from your device and let each upload finish. Moments reads useful camera metadata where it is available and prepares web renditions while keeping the original file for export. Upload progress and current plan usage are shown while you work.

Drag the completed photographs into their reading order. That order carries into the public moment and its lightbox, so the first frame can establish the scene and the last can give it a natural close.

The detail step can hold a title, location, captured date, field note, and tags. The captured date is the date the moment belongs to in the journal, which is different from the date it was uploaded. When the photographs contain a capture date, Moments can use that evidence to make dating easier.

The field note is rich text for the moment as a whole. Use it for the few lines that bind the sequence together, or for a longer account when the photographs need one. It can also include cards that point to other published or unlisted moments.

Tags appear as part of a moment's context and are offered again in the editor so naming stays consistent across the journal. They are labels for display and reuse; Moments does not currently build a filtered community or journal archive from them.

Use the field note for the whole set and photo captions for individual frames. A caption might name a person, record a detail, or explain why one frame matters. Each photo can also have distinct alt text when its visible caption is not the clearest description for a screen reader.

Saving keeps the work in the dashboard without placing it on the journal. Publishing makes it available according to the visibility you chose. Public, unlisted, and password-protected moments deliberately have different discovery rules; review that choice before sharing a link.