Your bucket list

Your bucket list follows each goal from an idea to a trip you've taken: Dream, Pick a date, Plan, Done. The left menu is grouped the same way.

Add a goal

• From the catalogue: on any activity, event or place, click Add to bucket list.
• Your own: in My bucket list, click Add a goal, type What do you want to do? and click Add to bucket list. While you type, the site suggests matching activities, events and places ("Is it one of these?"); picking one fills in the place and dates when you plan a trip.

You can give a goal a priority, categories, a budget, who it's with and what inspired it. A goal you added your own way can be linked to the catalogue later with Link to the catalogue on its edit page.

Give it a date

My dates lists your goals by when they happen:

• Coming up: goals with a date, each with Plan a trip.
• Needs a date: for an activity, the site offers its next dates (Upcoming:); or click Set dates to choose your own.
• Date has passed: did you do it?: click I did it, or give it a New date.

Plan a trip

On a goal, click Plan a trip. Check the trip's name, place, First day and Last day, and click Start the trip. You become the trip's editor (starting a trip).

Several goals can share a trip: under Or add it to a trip you already have, click Add to this trip. On the trip, a link lists your goals on it.

Tick it off

Click Done on a goal. Give it Your rating, write How was it?, add up to 10 Photos (optional), and click Mark as done. For a goal from the catalogue, tick Share as a public review to post your rating and notes as a review, marked Been there.

A trip that's over shows Trip over: tick it off on its goal, and a prompt on the trip page.

My adventures keeps everything you've done, by year, with its photos.

Photos and albums

A goal can have photos at any stage: click its Photos link. My albums gathers photos into albums: click New album, then add photos from your goals and trips (Add the ticked photos) or upload new ones. Make cover picks the album's cover; Take out removes a photo from the album without deleting it.

Photos count towards your 1 GB of storage for photos and tickets; see storage.

Badges

Badges mark milestones: your first goal (Dreamer), ten goals (Big dreamer), goals ticked off (First adventure, Adventurer, Seasoned traveller, Legend), goals done in three or ten countries (Globetrotter, World explorer), your first event (Front row), your first trip for a goal (Trip planner) and your first photo (Snapshot). They show on your dashboard and in My adventures.

Who can see it

Your bucket list is private. A goal marked Show on my public bucket list appears on your public page, but only when your profile is set to public. Albums follow the same rule. Your public page can be opened by anyone with its link, but it asks search engines not to list it.

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