A useful first session
Do not start by rebuilding five years.
Start with the trip you remember best. Enter the exit, the return and the source that confirms each date. Once one record is trustworthy, add up to four more.
The 15-minute starter workflow
- Add your current status and a planning date.
- Enter one recent exit and return from a booking email or passport stamp.
- Add up to four more trips, newest first.
- Review the PR and citizenship timelines separately.
- Keep uncertain dates flagged until another source confirms them.
Is one real trip ready to record?
If all three are checked, this is a useful first record—not a five-year reconstruction.
What a useful first record should prove
The workflow succeeds if you can answer three questions: Which dates are verified? Which trips remain uncertain? What should you maintain after the next return to Canada? The value is a record you can review and continue—not a one-time total.
If the first record is still unfinished after 15 minutes, do not add more history. Identify whether setup, date entry, verification or the result screen caused the stop →
Day 1, Day 7, and the next return
Finish one trusted record
Verify one exit and return from a real source. Stop before uncertain dates become guesses.
Resolve one uncertainty
Return to the timeline with one additional source—an email, passport stamp, calendar entry, or available border record.
Create the lasting habit
Record the trip when you return to Canada, while the date and evidence are still easy to retrieve.
Choose capabilities around the job you need
Name the outcome before opening the purchase screen: maintain a longer history, use advanced planning, create an export, or manage separate family-member records. That answer determines whether Monthly, Pro or Family fits the work.
Your seven-day activation check
Return after seven days and answer four yes-or-no questions: Is at least one trip verified from a real source? Is every uncertain date still visibly marked? Can you explain the next date that matters? Did you record any new return while it was fresh? If fewer than three answers are “yes,” repair the record before considering an upgrade.
Open the travel-journal checklist →
Add a private Day-7 calendar reminder
Make the first record reviewable
Use a trip you can verify today, retain the source and let the same timeline support PR, citizenship and future-travel planning.