Diary, locations, and playback
Voice Voyager gives every recording a place in a dated diary. You can browse by time, search the written record, follow a tag, listen again, and inspect where the entry was made.
The diary and search
The Diary tab is a calendar-based view of your field record. Select a day to see the entries made on it. This makes it easy to reconstruct a session, a trip, or a specific workday without relying on file names.
Calendar navigation
Browse by date and see entries grouped on the day they belong to. Edit the entry date when a recording is logged later than the event itself.
Text search
Search across entry titles, notes, and tags. A useful search term can be a place, a project code, a species, or a phrase from your notes.
Tag filters
Tap a tag to see every entry that uses it. The Diary also shows commonly used tags for the selected day and across the whole journal.
Entry detail
Open an entry to review its audio, note, attachments, GPS data, file details, and timestamps in one place.
Tags work best when they are deliberately repeated. For example, a project might use one tag for the site, one for the activity, and one for a recurring subject. That makes search precise without forcing a rigid folder system.
Locations and routes
GPS is chosen at the beginning of a recording. Location can be disabled entirely, which is appropriate for private or indoor work. When enabled, Voice Voyager uses one of two modes:
| GPS mode | What it saves | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Start/End | A coordinate at the start and another at the end of recording. | A concise record of where the observation began and ended, with little overhead. |
| Track | A series of points collected while recording. | A route or movement trace for walks, inspections, surveys, and travel. |
| Off | No GPS data. | Location-sensitive work or entries where place is not relevant. |
When an entry has location data, its detail view can show a map with start and end markers or the collected route. GPS accuracy varies with the device and surroundings; treat it as field context rather than survey-grade measurement.
Choose Export GPS from a recording to create a route file. Voice Voyager supports GPX, KML, and GeoJSON, which are widely useful for mapping software, GIS workflows, and long-term storage.
Playback and export
The Player tab lists recordings by date. Select an entry to play, pause, seek through the audio, or adjust the speed from 0.25x through 2x. Faster listening is useful for review; slower listening can help with dense speech or unfamiliar sound.
You can rename a recording file from the Player and export an individual entry. An entry export packages the recording with its accompanying journal metadata and attachments, making it easier to share or archive one documented observation.
Editing and deleting entries
You can return to a saved diary entry to update its title, date, tags, Markdown note, GPS mode information, and attachments. The original recording timestamps remain part of the entry detail.