Journal is a game-element that stores recent actions of Trainer. It contains entries with information such as: items received from spun Photo Discs at PokéStops and Gyms, caught Pokémon or Pokémon that returned from defended Gyms.
Journal page
Journal page[]
To enter the Journal page player needs to:
- click on Profile Icon in the bottom-left corner of the Map View,
- on the Trainer page, click on the Journal button below the Trainer's level bar.
Journal Page can display up to 50 entries of recorded actions.
Recorded actions[]
There are plenty of in-game activities and actions that are being recorded to the Journal.
Most of these entries are for activities related to specific Pokémon, thus there are icon of them next to te entries. Some of these entries have icon responding to the game elements which activities were related with.
All kinds of entries in Journal has the date and the time of performed action.
These are kinds of actions that are stored as entries in Journal:
- Catching Pokémon and hatching an Egg
- Most common Journal entries regard obtained Pokémon by catching them and hatching eggs.
- Such Journal entries inform about CP of specific Pokémon.
- If Pokémon is Shiny or Shadow it is displayed respectively.
- Pokémon caught
- Pokémon ran away
- Pokémon hatched
- Received items
- Another common Journal entries regard Items received from spinning Photo Disc of PokéStops or Gyms, interacting with a Power Spot, winning a raid, from Adventure Sync or promo code redemption.
- Such entries inform about amount and kind of items received.
- Items received from PokéStop
- Items received from Gym
- Items received from Power Spot
- Items received from raid
- Items received from Adventure Sync
- Items received from code
- Buddy Pokémon related actions
- When Buddy Pokémon finds a Candy or gives Trainer a present it is also recorded to the Journal.
- Buddy found a Candy
- Buddy brought a Gift
- Research tasks related actions
- Completion of any kind of Research tasks or achieving Research Breakthrough is recorded to Journal as well.
- These entries also inform about amount and kind of rewarded Items, however if the reward for a task is a Pokémon encounter, Journal just displays that Research task was completed.
- Completed any Research task
- Research Breakthrough achieved
- Friends related actions
- There are couple of Journal entries regarding friend actions such as: opened gifts, gifts sent to a friend and traded Pokémon.
- Items received from Gift
- Gift sent to a friend
- Traded Pokémon
- Battle related actions
- Trainer Battles, GO Battle League set battles and defeats of Team GO Rocket members are too recorded in the Journal.
- Trainer Battles
- Trainer Battles against both other Trainers and Team Leaders have the same kind of entries with respective Battle League or Cup displayed.
- Single battles in GO Battle League are also displayed like this.
- If Trainer loses the battle, Journal stands that "Battled against someone".
- If Trainer loses the battle, Journal stands that "Won a battle against someone".
- Team GO Rocket member defeated
- Battles against Team GO Rocket members are recorded to the Journal once the particular member gets defeated.
- GO Battle League
- Winning a number of matches in GO Battle League set also gets recorded in Journal.
- Journal also records rank, rating and rewards at the ending a season in GO Battle League.
Notifications Tab[]
In-game Notifications Tab
There were some informational entries stored in the Journal initially, but they were moved to Notifications tab in the in-game news view. These entries are:
- Pokémon defending a Gym returned
- Informs about optional PokéCoins received for a defending a gym if a daily limit of PokéCoins is not reached.
- This is also a togglable push notification.
- Pokémon defending a Gym needs a treat.
- Informs about low motivation level of Pokémon defending gym.
- This is also a togglable push notification.
Some of these Notification Tab entries are not related directly to player's actions but to social features such as Friends and Gifts. These entries are:
- Friend sent a gift
- This is also a togglable push notification.
- Friend received and opened a gift
- Informs about number and kinds of items that friends receive from gift sent by player.
Trivia[]
- Journal page unlike most of scrollable page in the game cannot be quit by swiping page downwards at its very top to make X mark appear above the content.
- Due to some bugs, player can sometimes see recently Pokémon hatched from egg, before even seeing the hatching animation in the first place. However, quitting journal and profile pages triggers hatching animation as it can start only in the Map View.