The first question almost every new member asks is the same: where do I even start? If you have been travelling for years, the thought of adding every city at once is enough to make you close the app. Do not. The trick is to work in passes, not in one heroic sitting.
Pass one: the ones you will never forget
Open your map and pin the cities you can name off the top of your head - the honeymoon, the big trip, the place you lived for a summer. These are the anchors. Most people get to twenty or thirty pins before they even have to think, and already the map starts to look like a life.
Pass two: let your sources do the work
Now jog your memory with the things you already have. Old boarding passes, the camera roll, the folder of hotel confirmations in your inbox, the stamps in your passport. Each one is a pin waiting to happen. Work backwards a year at a time; it is far easier than trying to remember chronologically.
Pass three: the half-remembered
There is always a layover city, a day trip, a wedding in a town you could not place on a map. Pin them anyway. Part of the fun of a travel map is being reminded that you were somewhere you had almost forgotten.
Turn pins into something useful
Once a city is on the map, add a photo and a note or two while you are there - the restaurant you would go back to, the walk that was worth it. That is how a pin quietly becomes a city guide you will actually use next time. We go deeper on that in other posts on the blog.
And if you get stuck on the mechanics - syncing, sharing, what a Journeyraphic is - the F.A.Q. has you covered. The important thing is to start. Your map only gets better the more of your life you put on it.