How do you keep a note of what you want to do somewhere

[Captain Halliday]

Then on another sheet of paper work out how long in each place and string together an itinerary.

Sticky tape to join the sheet of paper to the string, or do you find staples more secure?

 

[drron]

paper clips.

 

[clifford]

Back of an envelope works for me. And I have plently from all my incoming mail.

 

[tdimdad]

I have an Excel workbook. I also do some bookmarks in the browser or print to PDF some interesting articles of destinations I'm likely to want to visit (or some of those "Top 10 underrated places in..." articles) and save them on a cloud drive.

In my workbook, I have tables that look like this (a past trip as an example). I usually code in only the things I've decided on or booked. The empty space is for exploration and ad hoc things. It's also my contingency for people who I'd like to see but who suddenly need to change our agreed meeting times. The times & booked things I also enter into Google Calendar so they will show up on my phone.



For many destinations I also collect lists of sights I'm interested in. Unless they are specifically booked in, I do those sight more organically as I go. Some days are busier, on other days I soak in the atmosphere and do less. Bold font = I want to do it, grey background = done. As I carry my laptop on my trips, it's easy to maintain the lists on the go (and I could also do it on the phone but that's more tedious).


The approach has worked OK for far. Not perhaps the easiest one, though, but flexible. However, I'm interested to see that would a trip look like on TripIt? And what would an email to TripIt look like if you need to add e.g. a bus connection, a concert, visits to friends, etc?

 

[Hvr]

I have an Excel workbook.

I also do this, it's the cover page of the folder with my bookings/reservations etc. It was very funny looking at the face of the woman on the UK immigration desk try to give me a hard time about whether or not I was a genuine traveller who intended to leave at the end of my journey. I was able to show her what I had planned for every day of my trip, right down to the train seats I had booked.

The numbers on the sheet matching the numbered tabs was the final nail in her failed attempt to question my bona fides as a genuine traveller.

 

[JohnM]

Faaaark, I thought I was OCD.

No.

 

[VPS]

OMG - I couldn't travel with some of you. I do have some things organised by like a bit of spontaneity. Especially if I'm doing a road trip I don't always have accommodation booked for the following night. Mind you I don't travel in high season either