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The Journal

Notes on keeping trips — turning photos into tickets, printing what matters, and not letting the good days blur together.

The cover of a printed ticket booklet titled 'Two years of going places'

2026-07-16

An Anniversary Gift Idea They'll Actually Keep: A Ticket Booklet of Everywhere You've Been

Skip the flowers. Turn your trips together into a printed booklet of ticket stubs — one per journey — for an anniversary gift that's personal, cheap and impossible to buy.

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A concert ticket stub made from a real show photo: stage lights over a festival crowd, titled 'Encore at midnight'

2026-07-16

Concert Ticket Stub Generator: Remember Every Show

Your ticket to the show was a QR code that expired before the encore. How to turn a concert photo into a ticket stub — artist, venue, date and the line you screamed all night.

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A digital scrapbook spread: three custom ticket stubs made from real travel photos — a lakeside hike, a red-rock road trip, and a sunrise flight

2026-07-16

Digital Scrapbooking for Travelers: A 10-Minute Weekend Project

No washi tape, no glue, no free weekend required. How to build a digital travel scrapbook out of ticket stubs — one photo per memory, ten minutes per trip.

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A custom cinema-style ticket stub made from a night photo of Shibuya, Tokyo

2026-07-12

How to Make a Travel Ticket from a Photo (in About a Minute)

Turn any travel photo into a custom ticket stub — pick a template, stamp the city and date, let the colors come from the photo, and export a print-ready keepsake. A step-by-step guide.

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A boarding-pass style keepsake ticket made from a photo of a plane wing above the clouds

2026-07-12

Photo to Boarding Pass: Turn a Flight Photo into a Keepsake

Airlines delete your boarding pass; your photos stay. How to turn a window-seat photo into a boarding-pass keepsake — for anniversaries, first flights, and the trips that changed things.

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A travel strip: three custom ticket stubs from one trip stacked into a single tall image

2026-07-12

10 Travel Memory Ideas That Aren't a Photo Dump

You took 2,000 photos and looked at none of them. Ten low-effort, high-return ways to actually keep a trip — ticket stubs, one-line journals, printed booklets, and more.

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The cover of a printed Ticketfolio travel booklet titled 'Two years of going places'

2026-07-12

Why I Built Ticketfolio

Ticket stubs quietly disappeared, and the photos that replaced them are too many to mean anything. Ticketfolio is a small attempt to bring the stub back — the story behind the counter.

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