Collections
Collections is a personal, server-wide library of saved places that lives outside of any single trip. Keep multiple named lists of places you have discovered — a "Norway road trip" wishlist, "Best coffee in Lisbon", "Someday" — each with a want-to-go / visited status, and share a list with other users.
Admin: enable Collections in Admin-Addons.
A place you save to a trip only exists inside that trip. Collections is the opposite: a place library that belongs to you, independent of any trip, so a spot you find while planning one trip is still there for the next one. Places are copied into and out of trips (never linked), so editing a saved place never changes a trip and vice versa.
When the admin has enabled the addon, a Collections entry appears in the main navigation (and a bottom-tab on mobile). Opening it shows your lists on the left, the active list's places in the middle, and a map on the right.
The dashboard also gains a Collections widget that surfaces your lists as compact badges. Each user can hide that widget from their own dashboard under Display Settings without affecting anyone else.
- Create a list from the "New list" action in the rail. A list has a name, a colour, an optional cover image (upload your own or search Unsplash), a description and a set of links.
- Edit or delete a list from the Edit button in the list's hero (owner only). Deleting a list removes its saved places.
- All saved is a built-in view that unions the places from every list you own or co-own, so you can search and act across your whole library at once.
Every saved place carries a status you can cycle with one tap:
- Idea — something you noted but haven't committed to.
- Want to go — on the shortlist.
- Visited — been there.
Status is a Collections concept and is not carried into a trip when you copy a place.
Places can be assigned a category from the same admin-defined set used across TREK (see Admin: Categories). Category colours and icons show on the place avatar, the place detail and the list rows, and you can filter a list by category.
- Search and add — the "+" action opens a search; pick a result and set the name, category, status, a markdown description and links before saving, all in one step.
- Save from a trip — the place inspector and the trip place context menu both offer Save to collection, which toggles that place in or out of each of your lists.
- Bulk-add from a trip — in the trip place list, enter select mode, tick several places, and use the Save to collection action in the selection bar to copy them all into a chosen list at once. Duplicates (by name or coordinates) are skipped automatically.
Clicking a saved place opens a detail sheet showing a cover photo (fetched automatically when the place has none of its own), its category, its labels, a live status control, a markdown description, and links. Editing the place also lets you assign its labels. From there you can edit the place, copy it into a trip, or remove it from the list.
Above the places sit compact filters — by status, by category, and by label — plus a Select toggle. In select mode you can:
- Select all the currently filtered places.
- Assign label — add one or more of the list's labels to every selected place at once.
- Copy to trip — copies the selected places into any of your trips (carrying their name, description, category, notes, price, coordinates, photo and tags).
- Move or Duplicate the selection into another of your lists.
- Delete the selection.
Each list can define its own labels — for example Berlin, Hamburg and Ostsee inside a "Germany 2026" list — to group its saved places beyond the shared category set. Labels belong to the one list they're created in and are shared with everyone on it.
- Manage — a label manager (reachable from the filter bar) lets you create, rename, recolour and delete labels.
- Assign — set a place's labels from its detail sheet, or add labels to many places at once with Assign label in the selection bar.
- Filter — pick one or more labels in the filter bar to narrow both the place list and the map to places carrying any of them.
Managing and assigning labels needs edit rights (Editor or Admin); filtering by label is available to every member, including Viewers. Moving a place to another list drops its labels, since labels belong to the source list.
Lists are private by default. The owner can share a list by inviting other users, similar to Vacay fusion. Invited users see the list once they accept, and changes sync live over websocket.
When sharing, the owner assigns each member a permission role, and can change it at any time:
| Role | Can do |
|---|---|
| Viewer | View the list and copy its places into their own trips, and filter by label — no changes to the list. |
| Editor (default) | Add new places and edit existing ones, and manage + assign the list's labels. |
| Admin | Everything an editor can, plus delete places. |
The owner always has full control. The owner can also remove a member, and a member can leave a shared list themselves. Permissions are enforced on the server, so a role can only ever do what it is allowed to.