MapVault: Future-Proofing My Polarsteps Journal
⚡ The Problem & Why It Mattered To Me I spent my yearlong travel sabbatical using Polarsteps to journal my thoughts, photos and location each day. When I got back, I wanted to keep those memories safe in a format I could still open 10, 20, 30 years from now. Most apps don’t last that long. So I requested my data from Polarsteps. What I got were JSON files, packed with deeply nested lists that were anything but user-friendly. That’s when I decided to write this script, to pull out the journal entries and turn them into something more usable. And of course, I went the little extra mile to plot the countries I travelled to on a map 😊. ...