Field guide No. 02 · Photo history

Turn years of iPhone photos into a travel journal.

Your camera roll already holds the rough chronology: when you left, where you stopped, and when you came home. OTrip helps turn that outline into trips you can review.

A blank journal asks too much. Your photos give you a place to begin.

Starting a travel diary years after the trip can feel impossible. Exact dates blur. City order gets rearranged. The smallest moments — the train platform, the afternoon detour, the name of the second town — are often the first to go.

Photos preserve useful anchors. OTrip reads dates and available location metadata from PhotoKit. When you start the AI photo flow, it sends structured timestamps, coordinates, counts, and travel clues through OTrip's backend to OpenAI, which groups likely travel periods and proposes a draft. A suggestion is not an automatic verdict. You can approve it, change the dates, reshape the stops, or skip it.

Once the outline is right, the record can stay simple: a title, a stamp, and the places you visited. Or it can grow into day-by-day notes and a personal atlas. The goal is to reduce the cost of beginning without pretending software understands the memory better than you do.

01 · SCAN

Find likely travel periods.

OTrip reads your library on the iPhone, then sends structured date and coordinate evidence — not image files — for AI grouping.

02 · SHAPE

Correct the draft.

Merge or remove stops, adjust the dates, name the trip, and reject anything that was not really travel.

03 · WRITE

Add only what matters.

Keep a spare log or expand it into a journal. OTrip gives the memory a structure without forcing a daily habit.

Old photos, useful answers.

How far back can OTrip look?

As far back as your camera roll goes, depending on the dates and location metadata available in those photos.

What if a photo has no location?

Location-poor sections may need more review or manual editing. OTrip treats the metadata as evidence for a draft, not a guarantee.

Are photo files uploaded for detection?

No image or video files are uploaded for detection. The AI photo flow does send structured timestamps, coordinates, counts, and travel clues through OTrip's backend to OpenAI. Read the privacy policy for the full data flow.

Bring an old camera roll.

OTrip is in private iPhone beta. Request access and tell us how far back your travel history goes.

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