A Journey is a guided group experience around a story. A guide opens one of their projects to a group of readers, who take part in its activities together as the story unfolds.
Guides and participants
- The guide is the author of the journey's project. They open the journey, approve requests to join, publish activities, and see how readers respond.
- Participants are the readers in the journey. Each one asks to join, and takes part once the guide approves them.
A journey also has a Journey Name, a Capacity (the number of readers the guide hopes for, which is a goal rather than a limit), a Reading Pace, and notes for participants in its Journey Notes.
Journey statuses
A journey's Status decides who can see and join it, and what the guide can still change:
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Draft | Only the guide can see it, and can change all of it. |
| Open | Readers can find it and ask to join. |
| Active | It has begun, and participants are taking part. No new readers join. |
| Paused | It's on hold: participants can't take part in activities for now. |
| Completed | The guide has ended it. Participants can finish what they haven't. |
| Archived | It's been removed, and readers no longer see it. |
Where a participant stands
Each participant has their own status in the journey, separate from the journey's:
- Pending: asked to join, and waiting for the guide.
- Rejected: the guide declined the request. They can ask again.
- Active: in the journey, seeing its activities and getting its notifications.
- Paused: still a member, but taking a break, without notifications.
- Finished: reached the end of the journey's activities.
- Left or Removed: no longer in the journey.