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Trip Planner Overview
The trip planner is where a trip is built. Open it by clicking a trip card on the dashboard.
Layout
On a desktop or a tablet (768 px and wider) the Plan tab has three parts:
┌─────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ Days │ │ Places │
│ (left) │ Map │ (right) │
│ │ (centre) │ │
└─────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
- Days on the left: the trip day by day. Every day is a card with its places, bookings, transports and notes. See Day Plans and Notes.
- Map in the centre: the places of the trip, the route of the selected day and the booking routes you switched on. The lock on the map (Lock the map view) keeps the view where it is, so picking a day or a place no longer zooms or pans; click it again to let the map follow the selection. See Map Features.
- Places on the right: every place of the trip, with search, filters, import and a select mode. See Places and Search.
The two side columns float over the map. Drag the inner edge of a column to make it wider or narrower. On a tablet the edge follows a finger as well and shows a grip, also in the narrower portrait layout, and with the keyboard focus on it the arrow keys change the width. The small tab on its edge tucks the column away, and a tucked column leaves a tile named Plan or Places at the edge of the map that brings it back.
Two panels open over the map, centred between the columns:
- Day details opens when you click a day's head band: the weather, the day's bookings and its stay. The chevron folds it to a slim bar, X closes it. See Day details panel.
- The place inspector opens when you click a place, in either column or on the map. See The place inspector.
Opening a day also narrows the places column. With a day open, Planned in the Show menu of the places column lists and counts only the places on that day, the same set the map draws, and a chip under the filters says Showing the open day only. Its X (Show the whole trip) closes the day again, so list, count and map return to the whole trip. All and Unplanned stay trip-wide on purpose: a place on some other day is planned, whichever day happens to be open.
With the Road trip addon on, a Days / Road trip switch sits above the days column. See Road trip view.
Tabs
The tab bar sits directly below the main navigation bar.
| Tab | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Plan | Days, map and places, as described on this page. Always shown. |
| Transports | Flights, trains, buses, cars, taxis, bicycles, ferries, cruises, cable cars and public transit, as cards, a list or a timeline. See Transport: Flights, Trains, Cars. |
| Bookings | Stays, restaurants, events, tours, parking and other bookings, in the same three views. See Reservations and Bookings. |
| Lists | Packing list and to-dos. See Packing Lists and Todos and Tasks. |
| Costs | Expenses, splits and settling up, as a list or a table. See Costs. |
| Files | Tickets, receipts and other documents. See Documents and Files. |
| Collab | Chat, shared notes, polls and What's Next. See Real-Time Collaboration. |
Admin: The Lists, Costs, Files and Collab tabs only appear when the matching addon is enabled. See Admin-Addons.
The active tab is saved in sessionStorage per trip, so switching between trips brings you back to where you were. The installed app (PWA) goes further: after the system closed it, it reopens on the trip and the tab it was on, and on a phone on the plan day as well.
Bookings on the plan
A booking or transport opens its detail first, wherever you click it on the Plan tab:
- a booking or transport row in a day,
- a rental car pill in a day's head band, or the ticket at the end of a stay pill there (Open booking),
- a booking in the day details panel, including the booking box of a stay,
- a booking card in the place inspector,
- an endpoint of a booking route on the map,
- a ride, terminal or booking chip in the road trip rail.
The detail shows status, type and day, the booking code with a copy button, the times, travelers, notes, files and linked expenses. Its footer holds On map, Change route for a public transit journey, Delete and Edit. Edit opens the editor. See Reservations and Bookings for everything the detail shows.
Dialogs
Every dialog of a trip shares one frame. The head band carries an icon tile, a small line that says what the dialog does (for example Edit Place or Add accommodation), the name, and pills for facts such as the status, the type or the category. In the dialogs for a place, a booking, a transport or a note, the name is a field: you type it straight into the band. Cancel and the save button sit in the footer. Escape or the X in the head band closes the dialog without saving.
When a dialog opens, the focus moves inside it (on a desktop into its first field), and Tab stays inside until it closes. In the dialogs for a place, a booking and a transport, a stray click beside the dialog or Escape no longer throws away what you typed: once something has changed, TREK asks Discard your changes? with Keep editing and Discard.
Undo
The planner keeps your recent actions in a short undo ring: adding, deleting and importing places, putting them on a day, taking them off, moving them to another day, reordering, optimizing a route, clearing a day, locking a place and changing categories. The Undo button (a curved arrow) sits in the head band of the days column. It is greyed out until there is something to undo, its tooltip names the last action (Undo: Route optimized), and a click reverses it.
Deleting a day is not in the ring. The question before the delete lists what goes with the day instead; see Deleting a day. An earlier reorder of the days can still be undone afterwards, minus the day that is gone.
Road trip view
With the Road trip addon enabled, the Days / Road trip switch above the days column turns the day cards into one continuous drive: arrival times, daily travel times, driving limits, range, search along the route, via points and current hazard warnings. The choice is kept per trip for the browser session. All of it is on its own page:
- Daily travel times and day endings, including End the day here and dragging an end-of-day label on the map.
- Driving settings, shared by everyone on the trip.
- Search along the route, Add manually and adding a stop from the search, with the accommodation portals.
- Charger availability and tariffs.
- Weather warnings and disaster alerts.
- Booked nights on the drive and starting and ending the day at the stay.
- Importing a Google Maps route.
- MCP tools for planning a drive from an assistant.
In the Road trip view, Edit on a stop on the way or on a booked night opens the compact stop dialog with its stay and check-in instead of the full place form; More details in that dialog opens the full form. Ordinary places keep the full place form.
Mobile layout
On screens narrower than 768 px, TREK does not squeeze the three columns together. It opens a dedicated trip screen instead: a rail of day chips under the top bar, a switch between the day plan and a full-screen map, and a dock at the bottom for the other tabs. While a trip is running, today's chip is marked, and a button beside the rail (Jump to today) scrolls back to it, in the plan and on the map. Reopening a trip selects a day again instead of showing an empty plan.
Splash screen
When you open a trip, a short loading screen shows the trip title while the plan and the place photos are fetched. Once the data is there and a short grace period for photos has passed, the planner appears.