Once you've recorded a walk (and possibly produced a slideshow), NatureNotes has several ways for you to share your slideshow or entire walk with others.

The way you decide to share a walk may depend on the size of the walk record, which includes all the photos and any audio files you wish to share. Small, short walks, will often allow emailing entire records, whereas longer walks with more images will require reduced-size images or modes of transfer other than email. However, if you're uploading a Web folder to a server, this may be a moot point since you're not limited to email size constraints.

Slideshows:

All of the sharing methods allow you to select a slideshow for sending or extraction. A slideshow is a subset of a walk containing only the elements (titles, descriptions, images, and audio files) you selected for the slideshow.

These are the sharing options available in NatureNotes:

1. Normal email

    This is the best option for most people. Images are sent as attachments embedded in the email. Emailing allows walks or slideshows to be sent quickly and easily, at the possible expense of reduced image size.

2. Web folder

    This is the best option for sharing good quality images with a large number of people. There is generally no limit to the sizes of images you can store, and therefore you get the best possible image resolution. The index file produced has a built-in slideshow viewer, so that images are shown full screen in the correct sequence. The downside of this option is that you need to have a Web server available and know how to use it. You will undoubtedly need a cabled connection to copy the folder to a computer for uploading.

3. Export file

    An export file contains the information in a walk record in a format for importing directly into NatureNotes. Sending an export file is the only way to give someone a recording of your walk that can be run in another copy of NatureNotes.

   

Full copy:

It's most likely that a full export file will need to be transmitted by direct connections between a computer and the devices. First the file needs to be produced in NatureNotes, then copied to a computer over a cabled connection. Then the target device is connected to the computer, and the file copied to the device. Finally, the file can be imported into NatureNotes on the target device.

Cabled connection:

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Reduced copy:

NatureNotes can attempt to reduce the sizes of images to the extent an export file less than 20mb can be produced. If the process is successful, you can then email the export file with NatureNotes, and they can use Apple Mail to store the file into the NatureNotes directory before importing it into their copy of NatureNotes. The advantage with a reduced copy is that a direct connection isn't necessary, and, if successful, the file can be emailed. The disadvantages are that very large walk records (with a large number of images) may not be reduced adequately, and, even if they are, images may have poor resolution.

   

Text-only copy:

If someone else would just like to see where you made your observations, with the possible intent of repeating your walk by themselves, NatureNotes can produce a text-only export file that is identical in all ways to the normal export file except that it doesn't contain image or audio files. This means that any walk can be sent over email, since it won't be limited by image size. This is ideal for very large walk records that are not easily transmitted in full but you only need to share text and locations.