Shared Journal Permissions
A chart to explain the permissions and actions available to owners and members of a Shared Journal.
Here’s a chart to explain the permissions and actions available to owners and members of a Shared Journal. Here’s more on Shared Journals Privacy.
| Active Journal Member | Journal Owner | |
| Add entries to a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| View all entries in a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| View all media in a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| View a map of all Shared Journal entry locations | ✅ | ✅ |
| View a calendar of all Shared Journal entry dates | ✅ | ✅ |
| Comment on all entries in a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| React to all entries in a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| Print a Shared Journal (iOS only) via Book Printing | ✅ | ✅ |
| Export an entry to PDF, plain text, JSON and Save to Files (iOS) | ✅ | ✅ |
| View the entry author’s location (if entry author’s location is enabled) | ✅ | ✅ |
| View the entry author’s weather, moon phase, altitude, and creation device for the entry (iOS) | ✅ | ✅ |
| See other members of the Shared Journal (including their name, profile picture, member length, number of entries, and reactions) | ✅ | ✅ |
| View the total number of entries, media, and days of a Shared Journal. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Receive notifications of Shared Journal activities, including new entries, updated entries, new members, and members leaving a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| Take screenshots of entries | ✅ | ✅ |
| Save media in a Shared Journal to their device | ✅ | ✅ |
| Change journal settings (Name, description, color, or Journal Sharing) | X | ✅ |
| Leave a Shared Journal | ✅ | X (only after transferring ownership to another member) |
| Hide the Shared Journal from their On This Day, Today View, and Streaks | ✅ | ✅ |
| Delete comments from a Shared Journal entry | ✅ (If entry author or comment author) | ✅ |
| Move their Shared Journal entries to a private journal | X (feature currently disabled, but will be coming soon) | X (feature currently disabled, but will be coming soon) |
| Move other member’s Shared Journal entries to a private journal | X (feature currently disabled, but will be coming soon) | X (feature currently disabled, but will be coming soon) |
| Move entries from one Shared Journal to another | X | X |
| Edit their own entries in a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| Edit other member’s entries | ✅ (when Entry Editing is set to Anyone) | ✅ (when Entry Editing is set to Anyone) |
| Delete their own entries in a Shared Journal | ✅ | ✅ |
| Delete other member’s entries | ✅ (when Entry Editing is set to Anyone) | ✅ |
| Delete the Shared Journal | X | ✅ |
| Invite other people to the Shared Journal | X | ✅ |
| Transfer ownership of a Shared Journal | X | ✅ |
| Revoke access of a member | X | ✅ |
| Edit their own profile | ✅ | ✅ |
