Thread: New Dream Journal System!!

Special thanks to slash112 for creating this tutorial!
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Dream Journal User Guide
This guide will show all the features of the new Dream Journal system, and how to use them.
The images are all resized, as they are too big to fit. Just click one if it isn't clear enough to view the original image.

Also check out the video tutorial:



Going into the Dream Journal Section
When you click the "Dream Journal" tab at the top, you are taken to a page with the most recent Dream Journal Entries.

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Widgets
Notice one the tight hand side there are some widgets.
- First one being the Recent entries and Most Popular entries.
- Then Recent comments.
- Then a search box, where you can search for Dream Journal entries.
- Then there is a list of categories (lucid, non-lucid, nightmare, false awakening, memorable, task of the month, task of the year) - Just click a category and it will take you to all DJ entries where the authors have chosen to put their entry under that category.
- Then there is a tag cloud with a list of tags, with the most used tags being bigger in size than the less used tags.
- Then the archive, which has a calendar where you just click a date and it shows all entries for that date.

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"My Dream Journal"
The "My DJ" button brings you to your own Dream Journal. This page will be just like going to someone else's Dream Journal (more detail later), except you can edit, by putting your cursor over the title and then clicking the pencil that appears.

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Visiting Other People's Dream Journals
There are many different ways to find someone's Dream Journal:



1) Via Recent Entries. Two ways to do so shown in this screen shot:




2) To view full DJ from a single entry just click the user's name at the top as shown here:




3) Via forum posts. Two ways As shown in this screen shot:




4) Via user profile. A few ways as shown in this screen shot:




4) Via "Members DJ's", as shown below:

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You can leave comments on Dream Journal entries. It is just like on the forum, at the bottom there is a box that looks like the quick reply box from the forum (As shown below) and if you click "Go Advanced", it takes you to a bit that works just the same as the Advanced reply in the forum.



You can also subscribe to a Dream Journal.


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Settings

When you click on "Settings", the page that comes up is where you change the description of your dream journal.



You can change what widgets appear and what order they appear. As shown here:


And you can make your own one too, just click that "Add Custom Block" button, and it brings up a box like this:

Spoiler for just the normal posting box:

A good use for this is to put the lucid/non-lucid color code key in there, like this:

And there are plenty other possible uses for it.


You can view your own DJ stats as shown:



Managing and viewing your DJ subscriptions:


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Posting to your Dream Journal

First click the "Cream New Post" button.


Then it brings you to a bit that works just the same way as on the forum, except a few additions.

This screenshot shows everything below the box where you type in your dream:



Moving old Dream Journal posts (See screenshot below)