Day Plans and Notes
The Day Plan sidebar lets you organize places into days, add free-form notes, and manage the order of your itinerary.
The Day Plan sidebar is the left panel in the trip planner. Each trip day is shown as a collapsible section. Expanded or collapsed state is saved per trip in sessionStorage (key: day-expanded-{tripId}), so your layout is preserved across page reloads in the same browser session.
Each day shows a merged, time-ordered list of:
- Assigned places — with time, category icon, and action buttons
- Day notes — with their selected icon and optional time
- Reservations and transports — non-hotel types (flights, trains, cars, cruises) appear inline; hotels appear in the Day Detail panel
Items are sorted by their time or position index.
- Drag and drop — drag a place from the right-hand Places sidebar and drop it onto a day section or between existing items.
- Add button — Click on the day and then click the + button inside an expanded day section to open an inline search panel; find the place and tap it to assign.
- Mobile — tap the Add Place button inside an expanded day section to open an inline search panel; find the place and tap it to assign.
You can also reorder places within a day, or move them to a different day, by dragging and dropping inside the sidebar.
To remove a place from a day, click the X button next to the place in the day timeline.
A reservation that spans multiple days appears in each relevant day with a phase label:
| Reservation type | Start day | Middle days | End day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | Departure | In transit | Arrival |
| Car | Pickup | Active | Return |
| Other | Start | Ongoing | End |
Car rentals that are in the "Active" (middle) phase are shown in the day header rather than the timeline.
Click the note + button in any day section to add a note. Notes have three fields:
- Title (required) — the main note text shown in the timeline
- Subtitle / detail (optional) — a free-form text field (Markdown supported) displayed beneath the title
- Icon — choose from 20 icons: FileText, Info, Clock, MapPin, Navigation, Train, Plane, Bus, Car, Ship, Coffee, Ticket, Star, Heart, Camera, Flag, Lightbulb, AlertTriangle, ShoppingBag, Bookmark
Notes interleave with places and transports in the day timeline and are ordered by their sort_order. Use the ↑ / ↓ chevron buttons on a note to reposition it within the merged timeline. Notes can also be repositioned by dragging.
Click a day header to open the Day Detail panel. It appears as a floating panel centered in the map area and shows:
- The weather forecast for that day (see Weather-Forecasts)
- Reservations linked to assignments on that day
- Accommodation block (hotel check-in / check-out, with check-in window and confirmation number)
The panel can be collapsed to a slim header bar or closed entirely with the X button.
At the top of the Day Plan sidebar:
- Export PDF — downloads a PDF of the full trip plan. See PDF-Export.
- ICS — exports the trip as a calendar file (.ics) for import into calendar apps.
- Expand / Collapse all — toggles all day sections open or closed at once.
- Undo — reverses the last drag, reorder, or assign action.
Route calculation controls (optimize order, open in Google Maps) appear inside each expanded day section after the place list.
See also: Places-and-Search · Map-Features · Route-Optimization · Weather-Forecasts · Reservations-and-Bookings