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Publish from apps with Micropub

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Publish from apps with Micropub

Micropub is a W3C standard that lets a publishing app post to your own site instead of a social network. Moments speaks it, so an app on your phone or desktop can add a moment to your journal: photographs, a field note, a title, and tags, arriving exactly as if you had added them from the dashboard.

Publishing from apps is included with Moments Plus. See plans and pricing.

01

Connect an app

Micropub apps exist for most platforms. Indigenous (iOS and Android) and Sunlit (iOS) are good places to start for photography; any app that supports Micropub with photos will work. You never type a password into the app itself.

  1. 01

    Give the app your journal address

    When it asks for your website or blog, enter your journal address, for example yourname.moments.im, or your custom domain.

  2. 02

    Approve it on Moments

    The app sends you to a Moments page that shows exactly what it asked for. Sign in if you need to, then approve.

  3. 03

    Add moments from the app

    The app can now add to your journal until you disconnect it. Each new moment appears in the dashboard like any other.

02

What carries over

A moment needs at least one photograph; Moments is a photo journal, so a post without one is declined with a clear message. The app's text becomes the field note, its title becomes the moment's title, and its categories become tags. The capture date is read from the photographs' own EXIF, the same way a dashboard upload pre-fills it.

Drafts and visibility work too. An app that marks a post as a draft creates an unpublished moment you can finish in the dashboard. Public posts can appear in the community as usual, unlisted ones stay link-only, and a post marked private arrives as a draft, safely invisible until you decide.

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Stay in control

Settings, then Apps, lists every app you have approved, with when it connected and when it last added something. Disconnect one and it can no longer add anything; the moments it already added stay yours, in your journal, like everything else.

If Moments Plus access pauses, connected apps rest rather than disconnect. Nothing is revoked and nothing is lost; publishing from apps resumes as soon as Plus access does.

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