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Plan the trip

From forty open tabs and a chaotic group chat to one trip everyone can actually follow — decide the bookings, build the itinerary, and give each person their own day.

By RECT · 3 templates

Every trip starts as a mess of open tabs and a group chat nobody can scroll back through. Flight prices in one window, three hotels in another, a Google Doc someone started and abandoned, screenshots of confirmations buried in the chat, and a vague plan that lives entirely in the head of whoever's "good at this." Then you land and spend the first morning arguing about what you're even doing today. Planning a trip isn't hard because the information is scarce — it's hard because it's scattered. This kit pulls it into three clean steps: make the booking calls without the tab spiral, turn the plan into one page everyone can follow, and hand each person their own day-by-day so nobody's asking "wait, where are we meeting?"

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Turn the plan into one page everyone can follow

Once the big pieces are booked, they need somewhere to live that isn't a doc nobody opens. A Travel Itinerary brings routes, flights, hotels, day-by-day plans, essentials, and open questions into one mobile-ready page — the thing you actually pull up at the airport gate and the restaurant. It's TripIt or Wanderlog without the manual data entry: one link, always current, readable on the phone in your hand instead of buried in someone's inbox.

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Give everyone their own day-by-day

A shared itinerary is great until six people are reading the same forty-line plan differently. My Schedule distills that master trip into each person's own clean day view — just what, when, and where they need to be, minus the entries that don't involve them. Splitting off for the afternoon, arriving a day late, skipping the 7am hike? Everyone gets their slice, so the group stays in sync without anyone squinting at the whole spreadsheet.

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Decide the flights and stays without the tab spiral

Every trip has a handful of real decisions hiding under a hundred options — this flight or the cheaper one with the brutal layover, the central hotel or the nicer one 20 minutes out. A Purchase Comparison puts the real candidates side by side and weights what actually matters to you — price, location, cancellation flexibility — while comparing true cost (resort fees, baggage, the "from $99" that's really $180) and pulling review signal into one view. It's the sanity you wish you had with fifteen Google Flights and Booking.com tabs open — a confident "book these" instead of decision paralysis at 1am.

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