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Trip planning shouldn’t be hard

The pilebecomesthe plan.

Every link you are weighing up — the Airbnb, the flight search, the place a friend mentioned — held in one workspace that turns them into a route, a budget, and a set of bookings.

Now drawing
AUSAMSAmsterdam
Distance
5,001mi
In the air
9h 40m

The workspace · one trip, four steps

Austin → Amsterdam → Kotor → Marseille

planmapgo route overview showing an Austin, Amsterdam, Montenegro, and Marseille itinerary beside its map

Step zero

Papers, then places.

No password to remember and nothing to configure. An address, six figures, and the trip you start in this browser follows you to every other one.

  • Free to startThe whole workspace, no card
  • Nothing to installIt is a web page
  • Yours to shareA view-only link redacts prices and notes

The whole idea

Planning is a pile before it is a plan.

Most of a trip lives for weeks as a scatter of links. Tools that want a flight described in twenty fields before they will hold it are the reason that scatter ends up on paper. This one takes a link, a line about why you like it, and a rough price — and asks for the rest at the moment it exists, which is when you book.

6 links · 0 stops · nowhere to put them

Skyscanner · AUS → AMS≈ $612
Canal house, Jordaan≈ $180 / night
Trainline · AMS → Splitno price yet
Airbnb · Kotor old town≈ $95 / night
Hertz · Dubrovnik airport≈ $41 / day
Sunset kayak, Bay of Kotora friend mentioned it

Four steps, and it says so.

Nothing is ever locked · a fare found while booking can send you back to the route

  1. Where you are going, in what order, and how you get between the stops.

    Done whenEvery stop has a length and every connection has an answer.

  2. Every link you are considering, laid out along the route, with a star on the ones you are taking.

    Done whenEvery part of the trip has a starred pick.

  3. Your stars, in risk order — flights, then stays, then cars. Drop in the confirmation and the reference, the dates and the free-cancellation day are read out of it.

    Done whenEvery pick has a booking against it.

  4. What you will actually do once you are there, on a day that opens half-written — arrivals, check-ins and departures are already on it.

    Done whenEvery day is planned, or deliberately left free.

Ready and Travel are next, and the rail says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Nothing assumes you are flying

Every connection starts as a question.

A new leg is undecided, not a flight. The map draws it as a question mark captioned How? and asks nothing else of it — no ticket is needed for a journey nobody has decided how to make. Answer one and it walks you to the next.

Connection 2 of 3

Unanswered
LeavingKotorArrivingMarseille

How are you getting from Kotor to Marseille?

Until it is answered, nothing else is asked of this leg

Your next trip is already half in your head.

Put it somewhere that keeps up with you. Free to start, no password to remember, and every guess held honestly until it hardens into a plan.

plan.map.go

Trip planning shouldn’t be hard