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Nice app! The anonymous login and sample trip are a nice touch. Turas.app may have helped plan my trip to Patagonia with friends. I ended up writing my own app

Nice app! The anonymous login and sample trip are a nice touch. Turas.app may have helped plan my trip to Patagonia with friends. I ended up writing my own app because my taskpaper trip notes (shared via dropbox) were impossible to view in a nice way from my friend's computer: https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g5qrmfinno8a5j/patagonia.taskpaper https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/... These are real notes from a trip I successfully planned (with sensitive info like passport numbers stripped out). I hope they help in the development of your app~ Note my friends and I had very different trip-planning styles. I like to plan about 2 major activities per day in advance (plus lodging, food, and transportation). I let my friend plan our day in Buenos Aires, which consisted of doing research after we arrived at our hotel, then hitting several tourist sites for a short time each.

CharlieDigital 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your notes; I love to see how others think and organize information! Definitely have some ideas like budgeting and tagging (your "@"?). How do you feel about the more free-form style versus a more structured style Turas? Do you think Turas should have some features which are less structured?
- Leftium 4y ago
  The tags are borrowed from the taskpaper format. I didn't utilize it here, but tags can also have values like @due(2023-01-17) I think most users would prefer a more structured graphical view, especially on mobile. But having a less structured text mode would be nice. I personally prefer working (mostly) in plain text, then rendering graphical views of the text. Plaintext-press is a view that formats, linkifies and filters the original text file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g5qrmfinno8a5j/patagonia.taskpaper https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g5qrmfinno8a5j/patagonia.taskpape... I envision other views like a calendar view or even a map view. The reason I prefer plain text is because I find it faster if I can just use the keyboard without clicking/dragging etc. Search, copy-paste, etc are easier, too. And you can use your favorite text editor (like Vim). Although I did all the planning in text, I actually also had folders of non-text files where I saved pdf/png files of tickets, receipts, order confirmations, scans, etc.

CharlieDigital 4y ago

Thanks for sharing your notes; I love to see how others think and organize information! Definitely have some ideas like budgeting and tagging (your "@"?). How do you feel about the more free-form style versus a more structured style Turas? Do you think Turas should have some features which are less structured?

Leftium 4y ago
The tags are borrowed from the taskpaper format. I didn't utilize it here, but tags can also have values like @due(2023-01-17) I think most users would prefer a more structured graphical view, especially on mobile. But having a less structured text mode would be nice. I personally prefer working (mostly) in plain text, then rendering graphical views of the text. Plaintext-press is a view that formats, linkifies and filters the original text file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g5qrmfinno8a5j/patagonia.taskpaper https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g5qrmfinno8a5j/patagonia.taskpape... I envision other views like a calendar view or even a map view. The reason I prefer plain text is because I find it faster if I can just use the keyboard without clicking/dragging etc. Search, copy-paste, etc are easier, too. And you can use your favorite text editor (like Vim). Although I did all the planning in text, I actually also had folders of non-text files where I saved pdf/png files of tickets, receipts, order confirmations, scans, etc.