When you log a Daily Training entry in the ENCODED iOS app, you're prompted to photograph the pages from your ENCODED Anchor Journal. It's a fair question: why photograph the pages instead of just marking the entry complete?
The short answer: marking an entry complete records that you trained. Photographing the pages preserves what you trained.
You're Building Your Training Archive
The handwriting is the practice. That's why the physical Anchor Journal sits at the center of ENCODED. But handwritten pages live in one notebook, on one shelf.
Every entry you photograph becomes part of your permanent training record inside ENCODED: a complete, personal archive of your journey, covering every morning imprint, every evening close, and every shift in how you think and write over weeks and months.
A checkmark can't capture any of that. The photos can.
Your Photos Will Power Training Summaries
Training Summaries, readable digests generated automatically from your handwritten pages, are in final development. Once the feature launches, ENCODED will read the pages you've photographed and turn each entry into a consolidated digital summary, and the entries you're archiving today will be part of that record from day one.
Until then, your entry is complete the moment you submit it. An entry without a summary isn't missing anything.
Who Can See My Entries?
Your entries are personal, and we treat them that way. Photos of your journal pages are securely stored and encrypted, just like all of your other ENCODED data. They're part of your account and your training record.
Make It Part of the Routine
The photos take a few seconds at the end of a session you've already completed. For the step-by-step, including how to log without photos and attach your pages later, see How Do I Log My Daily Training in the Mobile App?
Think of it the way you'd think of any long-term investment: small, consistent deposits that compound. Your future self will have the complete record to work with, because you kept it complete.