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It's great, I'm doing planning for a trip to Rio next week. I signed up and gave it a try. My friend did exactly the same thing you used to do: created a share

by xrd 8y ago

It's great, I'm doing planning for a trip to Rio next week. I signed up and gave it a try. My friend did exactly the same thing you used to do: created a shared Google doc. At this point, I am not sure I would trade your implementation for doing it in Google Docs. Only because it is one more tool to use and manage and I know the warts of docs already. It's early, but your ideas suggested here don't compel me to jump in and abandon all alternatives. I'm sure you have your priority list already, but what would make it an easy switch for me: Add "day tabs" so I can plan things out by the day and easily see whatever day I want. For example, my friend has a daily itinerary which is hard to read and requires scrolling. Filtering for things appropriate for kids, etc. This requires you knowing that data, but maybe you could focus on at least allowing me to annotate the data I've added with notes about that, with the long term goal of pulling in that data automatically for me. Build a schedule for me given the things I'm interested in. This would be killer. We added a bunch of items to our Google Doc and figuring out the order in which we want to do things is going to be a lot of work and editing. Could you suggest items that are similar when I add something? If I am putting in Copacabana (and have added kid friendly things) it would be awesome to suggest "Hey, try Ipanema! Copacabana is for tourists and more dangerous." Or, "If you are going to Sugar Loaf, consider walking around Urca. It is a safe neighborhood because it has a military base right there, and has historic art deco buildings." (I obviously know about Rio, but traveling there with kids for the first time has shifted my priorities and this kind of information would be supremely helpful). Exciting first steps!

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arciini 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! Smart suggestions is something that I can really see happening as well. For the idea of "day tabs" - we actually used to have a calendar view in the product, but stripped it out for this format of "lists". Currently, it's possible to get close to what you want by just naming the place lists: "Day 1" or "Day 2" - see https://travelchime.com/plan/grayuczaswflzvto https://travelchime.com/plan/grayuczaswflzvto Would this work for you? Or do you like to plan hour-by-hour? The place suggestions based on what you have make a lot of sense. There are 2 approaches we've considered for that: by doing Netflix-style "users who watch these movies go to these places", and using crawled data. Basing it off of user preferences does require a good amount of data and lots of care to ensure good privacy. Because of that, I think we'll most likely start by expanding the range of pre-curated lists. There's tons of content on the web that we'd love to link out to for specific types of travelers: "best for families" or "best for adventurous" travelers. We can make that information easy to find and easy to incorporate into your own plans
- xrd 8y ago
  So, I'm not clear if naming things "Day 1" means I have an easy way to switch between the days. I don't see a way to do that with the example you shared (would have been happy to see this information when I visited Kona two months ago!). Are you saying that this allows a calendar view somehow? Or, that I can just organize into a list this way? I don't need the ability to see hour-by-hour (but having your system schedule things into a day calendar would be amazing). But, this seems like it does not solve the problem I have with needing to scroll around and lose context.
neivin 8y ago
> Add "day tabs" so I can plan things out by the day and easily see whatever day I want. For example, my friend has a daily itinerary which is hard to read and requires scrolling. That's why you should use the itinerary template in Google sheets instead of a blank doc.
- xrd 8y ago
  Cool. I didn't know about that. I'll check it out. Thank you.

by xrd 8y ago

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arciini 8y ago

Thanks for the suggestions! Smart suggestions is something that I can really see happening as well. For the idea of "day tabs" - we actually used to have a calendar view in the product, but stripped it out for this format of "lists". Currently, it's possible to get close to what you want by just naming the place lists: "Day 1" or "Day 2" - see https://travelchime.com/plan/grayuczaswflzvto https://travelchime.com/plan/grayuczaswflzvto Would this work for you? Or do you like to plan hour-by-hour? The place suggestions based on what you have make a lot of sense. There are 2 approaches we've considered for that: by doing Netflix-style "users who watch these movies go to these places", and using crawled data. Basing it off of user preferences does require a good amount of data and lots of care to ensure good privacy. Because of that, I think we'll most likely start by expanding the range of pre-curated lists. There's tons of content on the web that we'd love to link out to for specific types of travelers: "best for families" or "best for adventurous" travelers. We can make that information easy to find and easy to incorporate into your own plans

xrd 8y ago
So, I'm not clear if naming things "Day 1" means I have an easy way to switch between the days. I don't see a way to do that with the example you shared (would have been happy to see this information when I visited Kona two months ago!). Are you saying that this allows a calendar view somehow? Or, that I can just organize into a list this way? I don't need the ability to see hour-by-hour (but having your system schedule things into a day calendar would be amazing). But, this seems like it does not solve the problem I have with needing to scroll around and lose context.

neivin 8y ago

> Add "day tabs" so I can plan things out by the day and easily see whatever day I want. For example, my friend has a daily itinerary which is hard to read and requires scrolling. That's why you should use the itinerary template in Google sheets instead of a blank doc.

xrd 8y ago
Cool. I didn't know about that. I'll check it out. Thank you.