Printing and Exporting Your Journey

Your Journey page shows a beautiful timeline of all your homeschool activities, journal entries, and learning moments. Now you can easily print or export your journey to share with family, submit to review boards, or keep physical records.

How to Access

1. Go to Journey in the main navigation
2. Use the filters to select the date range, students, subjects, and activity types you want
3. Look for the Print and Export buttons next to "Activity Feed"

Printing Your Journey

The Print button creates a clean, print-friendly version of your journey that's perfect for:

• Creating physical records
• Sharing with grandparents
• Submitting to review boards
• Portfolio reviews

Print Features:

• Smart Warnings - If you have 20+ images, you'll get a heads-up about print time and paper usage
• Clean Layout - Removes navigation, filters, and other screen-only elements
• Photo Management - Multiple photos are listed (not in sliders) and sized appropriately for printing
• Professional Format - Includes header with team name, date range, and filter information

Tips for Better Prints:

• Filter to specific date ranges to reduce page count
• Select specific students or subjects if you don't need everything
• Consider printing in black & white to save ink
• Use "Print to PDF" if you want a digital copy

Exporting Your Journey

The Export button creates a downloadable ZIP file containing:

• HTML File - Standalone webpage that works offline
• JSON Data - Machine-readable export of all your data
• Images Folder - All photos from your filtered journey
• README - Information about the export contents

Export Process:

1. Click Export with your desired filters applied
2. The export job queues in the background (won't slow down your screen)
3. Check progress in Pathfinder → Reports → Exports tab
4. Download when ready (expires after 48 hours)

What Gets Exported:

• All sessions matching your filters
• Student names, subjects, activity details
• Session notes and grades
• All photos (organized and numbered)
• Complete activity information

Perfect For:

• End-of-year record keeping
• Sharing complete records with evaluators
• Backing up your homeschool journey
• Creating offline archives
• Transitioning to new systems

Filter Options

Both print and export respect all your filter selections:

• Date Range - Last 7 days, last 30 days, this month, custom ranges, etc.
• Students - Select specific children or all
• Subjects - Filter to particular subjects or show everything
• Activity Types - Choose which types to include (journal entries, planned activities, masterpieces, etc.)

Managing Your Exports

All your exports (from Journey and Portfolio pages) are tracked in one place:

1. Go to Pathfinder → Reports → Exports tab
2. See status of pending/completed exports
3. Download when ready
4. View file sizes and expiration dates

Exports automatically expire after 48 hours to save storage space, so download them promptly when you're ready!

Tips & Best Practices

• Start Small - Try printing/exporting a week first to see the format
• Use Filters - Only export what you need to keep file sizes manageable
• Regular Exports - Create quarterly or semester exports for your records
• Name Files - Downloaded files include the date range in the filename for easy organization
• Keep Track - The Exports tab shows all your exports in one convenient place

Need help with something else? Check out our other tracking and reporting articles or reach out to support!