Trip Planner
Plan upcoming trips with dates, destination and notes.
Overview
The Trip Planner is a lightweight place to capture every upcoming trip — confirmed, half-booked, or still a "maybe in October". Each trip has a name, a destination, start and end dates, and a notes field for itineraries, booking references, or that long list of things to research before departure. Together they form a personal travel calendar that is easier to scan than a generic calendar app, because every row is unambiguously a trip rather than a meeting, school event, or birthday.
A live duration preview shows the number of days and nights as soon as you enter the dates, so you can sanity-check ticket prices and accommodation searches against the real length of the trip. Sample presets demonstrate common shapes — a weekend, a week-long break, a long-haul tour — to get you started without staring at empty fields.
How it works
Each trip captures a name (for example, "Tokyo 2026"), a destination, a start and end date, and a free-form notes block of up to two thousand characters. Before saving, the form previews how long the trip will be — useful when you are juggling outbound and return flights across timezones. After saving, trips appear in a list you can revisit any time.
Use the notes field to keep the running plan in one place: flight numbers, hotel addresses, the restaurants you want to book, a packing reminder, the rough day-by-day. Because every trip has its own notes block, planning details stay attached to the trip rather than scattered across documents that you cannot find when you actually leave for the airport.
Examples
- A "Tokyo 2026" trip from late March to early April, destination "Tokyo, Japan", with notes covering JR Pass dates and a shortlist of ramen shops.
- A "Banff in winter" weekend, three days and two nights, notes about chains for the rental car and a backup plan for low-visibility days.
- A "Lisbon long weekend" trip with a draft day-by-day for Saturday and Sunday in the notes.
- A speculative "Patagonia tour" pencilled in twelve months out, dates loose, notes capturing research links and flight-fare watch points.
FAQ
Can I plan a multi-destination trip?
Yes. Use a single trip with a primary destination, then list the cities in the notes by date. For trips that genuinely feel like two separate journeys, create them as two trips.
Does it show trips on a calendar?
The list is date-ordered, which covers most planning needs. For a full calendar view, mirror confirmed trip dates into your main calendar app.
Can I attach bookings?
Paste confirmation numbers and links into the notes. Files are not stored directly — keep PDFs in your usual document storage.
What happens to past trips?
They remain in the list and act as a lightweight travel history. Delete them if you would rather only see upcoming travel.
Is there a budget tracker?
The Trip Planner is intentionally minimal. For costs, use the finance category tools and reference the trip name so you can correlate spend with travel.