Here's how to use Greenthumbr's rich journaling to connect with others.  This is part one of many, dealing with the basics of journaling.

Getting There

First, you need to get to the journal-writing screen.  You can bookmark this url, or follow this path:

First, get to your Dashboard.  If you're logged in, you can always do that from the links up in the blue sky on every page, near the top right.

Once you're at your Dashboard, you'll see your user menu on the right-hand side.  It includes a section to play with your journal.

Pick Write and you'll be at the screen where you can write in your journal.

The Basics

Like an email, writing in your journal needs a title and some content.  The portion for writing is smack in the middle of your screen.

In addition to the content, you can tag your entry. 

Tags are just little words or phrases that are meaningful to you.  You can add any tag that you like.  Just separate multiple tags with commas.  You can later browse your journal entries and images by the tags you have given them.

Working With Images

A picture is worth a thousand words, so inserting some images can save some typing.

Every journal entry can have one-or-more images associated with it.  Let's start by simply inserting an image from your gallery into the entry.

When you first start, your content will include no images, and your journal entrie's gallery will be empty.

By clicking on the All Images tab of this box, you will be able to browse all images you've already uploaded to Greenthumbr.

Clicking on a picture, or selecting Insert into entry will cause the image to be nicely inserted into your journal entry.

Alternatively, clicking Add to gallery will add the image to the gallery associated with this journal entry, without inserting it into the content.

If you want to upload new images, simply select the Upload tab of the image box.  If Flash is behaving, you will be allowed to upload many files. 

All of the uploaded images will be added to your post's gallery, but not immediately inserted into the content of the journal entry.

At any time, you can easily delete an image from the content or the associated gallery.

All images in the post's gallery will be made available to your readers, even if they don't appear in the actual content of the journal entry.

Save & View!

When you're happy with the content of your journal entry, just click Save and it'll be published to the site.

What's next?

Read Part 2 about using Topics while journaling.