What is Plannery?
The handful of ideas Plannery is built on — trips, days, stops, Want to go, Bookings, Guides, and Ask Plannery — and how they fit together.
Plannery is a trip planner. You build a day-by-day plan, save places you might visit, keep your flight and hotel confirmations together, and ask questions about any of it. This article introduces the pieces so the rest of the help center makes sense.
Trips and days
A trip is one unbroken run of days with a start date. Days are numbered — Day 1, Day 2, and so on — and each one's calendar date follows from the start date, so changing the trip's dates moves every day with it.
Because the days are continuous, a trip can't have a gap in the middle. Two weeks in Japan, a month at home, then a week in Lisbon is two trips.
A trip that visits more than one city is split into trip-legs — "3 days in Madrid, then 4 in Barcelona." Each day belongs to exactly one trip-leg.
Stops
A stop (also called an activity) is something you'll do on a specific day: a museum at 10:00, dinner at a particular restaurant, checking into a hotel. A stop sits on a day, in order, and can carry start and end times and a Note for practical details like a confirmation number.
The places behind stops come from a shared catalog — the same restaurant whether it's on your trip or someone else's. Your stop is your scheduling of it.
Want to go vs. Going
Every place has one of three states relative to a trip:
- Unmarked — visible in a guide or search, but you haven't done anything with it.
- Want to go — you've saved it. This is personal and not tied to one trip, so you can save places before you've planned anything. Inside a trip, the Explore tab shows the party's Want to go places for that trip's cities.
- Going — it's scheduled as a stop on a day of this trip. Wherever a place is shown as Going, you'll see its date.
Saving a place doesn't put it on your itinerary. Scheduling it onto a day makes it Going, and the Want to go mark stays with you afterward.
Guides
Guides are Plannery's researched pages for a city and its neighborhoods — an overview, the essentials, and curated places you can save or schedule. Opened from inside a trip, a guide shows each place's state for that trip. When Plannery builds an itinerary, it draws from the guide for each destination that has one and generates suggestions where none exists yet.
Bookings and Documents
Two things on a trip are yours alone and never come from the catalog: a Stay (where you sleep, check-in to check-out) and Transportation (a flight, train, or transfer). Together these are your Bookings, each with its own confirmation number, cost, and files.
A Document is any file you add to a trip — a ticket PDF, a confirmation email, a photo of a booking. Plannery reads every Document and, when it can, links it to the matching stop or Booking. You can also email confirmations to your personal forwarding address; they wait in your Inbox until you add them to a trip.
Ask Plannery
Ask Plannery is a conversation about your trip. Open it from a trip, a day, or a place and ask in plain language — "is Thursday too much walking?", "find a quieter dinner near the hotel", "move the market to Saturday." It can look things up and make changes; anything that moves or removes existing plans is laid out for you first and only happens when you say yes. Your conversations are private to you, even on a trip you share with others.