Using Calendar and summary
See Field Chronicle outings on a calendar and review wildlife activity summaries across any range of time.
Field Chronicle isn’t trying to be “another photo gallery”—it’s trying to be the operating system for your time in the field.
Calendar places your journal in time. Summary aggregates the same records across a range. Together they answer when you were in the field and what that effort added up to—perspective a photo archive does not give you.
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LegendThe month grid shows outings, richness bars, and markers. The info pane waits on the right.
Browse days, weeks, and months
Open Calendar to see outings (and related journal activity) on a month, week, or year grid. Select a day to inspect what you logged. This is the right view when you remember “it was a Tuesday in April,” not the species name.
Month and week views have a Legend control in the header. It explains the orange richness bar at the bottom of a day (1–3, 4–10, or 11+ species), the colored dots for outings, planned outings, gear, archives, lifers, and first-of-year species, and the dashed border for days that had activity on the same date last year.
Read activity summaries
The Home activity summary covers a chosen range: last three months, year to date, a custom span. It rolls up places, sightings, and photographs. Use it for seasonal reviews—migration windows, a breeding quarter, or a quiet winter—without opening every outing.
Why a calendar belongs in a field journal
Wildlife is seasonal. A list of species without dates hides effort and timing. The calendar makes gaps and patterns visible: how many times you actually made it out this month, a patch you have not visited since spring, outings that only work before sunrise. That is field memory, not a folder date. Birders especially use it to plan the next outing rather than repeating last year’s route by habit.
Pair this with the Field Journal for places and the birder guide if seasonal coverage is your main goal.