Maurice
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Small requests from the discussions, each built end to end: planner and map (cycling mode, date first headings, clear a day, stay times per day, off-route stops, map lock, compact unplanned markers, pending stays, cable car, transit quick picks), places (location filter, category from OSM, open in maps, geo: link, image from an attachment, enrichment on file import, places near a pin, place name language, Amap first in China), lists and costs (packed counter, inherited sharing, Markdown to-dos, payment notes, bookings CSV, my plan PDF), sharing (unplanned places, travel only, without photos), journey (photo zoom, drafts, photo order, trip suggestion, day jump), atlas (region counter, region bucket list, places per country), vacay half company holidays, studio copy and paste plus the book's own layouts, and RESTORE_FROM_BACKUP for a first start restore.
7.8 KiB
General Settings
The General tab (Settings → General) controls your locale preferences and a few map-related display options. All changes save immediately to your account and persist across devices.
Where to find it
Open the user menu in the top navigation bar, select Settings, and stay on the General tab — it is the tab the page opens on.
The tab is split into three sections: Startup (where opening TREK lands), Language & region (currency, language, place names, temperature, distance, time format, week start) and Travel & map (booking route labels, always show booking routes, explore places on the map, blur booking codes, optimize route from accommodation).
Color mode (Light / Dark / Auto) is not here — it lives on the Appearance tab. See Appearance-Settings.
Start page
Where TREK goes when you open it — the app root (/), which is also what the installed PWA and any home-screen shortcut launch.
| Option | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Dashboard (default) | The trip overview, exactly as before. |
| Active trip | Straight into your active trip, skipping the dashboard. |
Your active trip is the one running today; if none is, the next one starting; if you have only past trips, the most recent one. That is the same trip the dashboard features in its hero, so the two never disagree. Archived trips are never picked, and if you have no trip at all, TREK opens the dashboard as usual.
The dashboard stays reachable at /dashboard — only the root redirects.
Start tab
Shown once Active trip is selected: which tab of the trip planner to open on. Handy when you mostly reach for one thing on the road, for example entering expenses on the Costs tab.
If the tab you picked belongs to an addon that is switched off, the trip opens on Plan instead. The same happens with Road trip on the desktop: that tab exists only on the phone, and the desktop reaches the drive through the Days / Road trip switch on Plan.
Linking to a tab directly
Any trip URL accepts a tab parameter, which is what the start-tab setting uses internally. It works for bookmarks, home-screen shortcuts and wrapper apps too:
/trips/42?tab=finanzplan
The parameter takes the planner's internal tab ids, which are historic German names:
| Tab | Id |
|---|---|
| Plan | plan |
| Road trip | roadtrip (phone only; on the desktop the trip opens on Plan, where the Days / Road trip switch sits) |
| Transports | transports |
| Bookings | buchungen |
| Lists | listen |
| Costs | finanzplan |
| Files | dateien |
| Collab | collab |
| A trip-page plugin | plugin:<plugin-id> |
The parameter is consumed on arrival and disappears from the address bar; switching tabs afterwards works normally, and a reload keeps whatever tab you were last on.
Currency
Your display currency — the currency you want to read amounts in on the Costs tab (totals, the category chart, balances, settle-up). It is presentation only: it never changes what is stored, and two members of the same trip can read it in different currencies and both see correct balances.
| Option | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Trip currency (default) | Each trip is shown in its own currency — a Tokyo trip in yen, a Moscow trip in roubles. |
A specific currency (e.g. USD) |
Every trip is converted into that currency for you, whatever its own currency is. |
165 currencies are available. Conversion uses live rates, so a converted total can shift slightly from day to day while the trip's actual balances stay fixed.
This is not the trip's currency, which is set on the trip itself and is the base its balances are calculated in. The distinction matters — see Currencies.
An administrator can set an instance-wide default in Admin → Default User Settings. It is not only a starting value for new accounts: it is merged in every time your settings are loaded, so it applies to anyone whose own display currency is empty. Picking a specific currency of your own overrides it. Trip currency does not, because it stores an empty value that counts as "not set", so the admin default takes effect again on your next reload.
Language
Select your preferred language from the button grid (desktop) or dropdown (mobile). The change takes effect immediately without a page reload. See Languages for the full list of supported languages.
Place names
The language place search, typed suggestions, place details and addresses answer in. Same as the app (the default) follows the language above. Pick another one to keep the interface in your language while places come back in, say, English or the local language of your trip. Where a place has no name in the chosen language, its local name is shown.
Temperature unit
Affects the weather widget on trip days.
| Option | Display |
|---|---|
| °C Celsius | Metric |
| °F Fahrenheit | Imperial |
Distance unit
| Option | Display |
|---|---|
| km Metric | Kilometres |
| mi Imperial | Miles |
Time format
Affects all time displays throughout the app.
| Option | Example |
|---|---|
| 24h | 14:30 |
| 12h | 2:30 PM |
Week starts on
The first column of every calendar in TREK: trip dates, bookings, expenses, to-dos, journal entries and photo date ranges. Choose Monday (the default), Sunday or Saturday; the choices show the day names in your language, and so do the weekday headers of the calendars.
An administrator can set the default for everyone under Admin → User Defaults; your own choice always wins. Vacay keeps its own Week start per plan, see Vacay.
The poll deadline on the phone uses the browser's own date field, which follows the device's region rather than this setting.
Booking route labels
Shows or hides station / airport names on the endpoint markers of booking routes on the map. When off, only the icon is shown. Set to On or Off.
Explore places on the map
Shows a row of category buttons on the trip map for finding nearby restaurants, accommodation, sights and more. TREK's own place index answers first and OpenStreetMap fills in, and installed plugins can add buttons of their own; see Exploring the map by category. Set to On or Off.
Always show booking routes
When On, every booking that has a route (flight, train, car leg, etc.) shows its route line on the map automatically, on every trip, without needing the per-booking toggle. Set to On or Off — off by default.
This only sets the default for a trip you haven't touched before. If you've already used the per-booking toggle or the trip's "show all / hide all" button (in the day-plan toolbar) on a given trip, that choice is remembered for that trip and isn't overridden by changing this setting afterwards.
Blur booking codes
When enabled, confirmation codes and reference numbers are blurred until you hover or tap. Set to On or Off.
Optimize route from accommodation
When On (the default), the Optimize button in the day's route tools anchors the route on that day's accommodation instead of only reordering the places among themselves: an ordinary day becomes a loop out from the hotel and back to it, a transfer day a run from the hotel you check out of to the one you check into that evening. Set to On or Off.
A day without an accommodation, or one whose hotel has no coordinates, is optimized from its first place as before. Locked and timed places keep their slots either way. See Route-Optimization.