Ideas and goals on a trip
Keep things to fit in on a trip's Ideas shelf, vote on them, put them on a day or make them an option, and see whose bucket-list goals they are.
Updated October 27, 2026
Not everything you'd like to do on a trip has a day yet. The trip's Ideas shelf holds those things: "Day trip to Salzburg", "Augustiner Keller", "Oktoberfest 2027". Everyone on the trip sees the shelf and can vote; editors move ideas onto the days.
The Ideas shelf
On the trip page, Ideas is the fold after About this trip, with how many are waiting ("Ideas · 7"). Each idea shows:
- what it is, and a link to the catalogue place, activity, event or city it's about, when it has one;
- its notes, who added it, and whose bucket-list goal it is ("🎯 Debbie's goal") when it came from one;
- 👍 and how many people voted for it, with their names.
An idea leaves the shelf once it's on a day or in an option. The shared read-only link never shows ideas.
Adding ideas
Anyone who can comment on the trip can add ideas (who can do what):
- Type one at the bottom of the shelf, choose what kind of thing it is if you know (something to do, somewhere to eat, a stay, travel), and click Add idea.
- From the catalogue: on a place, activity, event or city page, click Add to a trip and pick one of your trips (places and events). It goes on that trip's shelf, linked to the catalogue page. Adding the same thing twice keeps one idea.
- From your bucket list: putting a goal on a trip makes it an idea there (see below).
Click Edit on an idea you added to change it or remove it. Editors can change or remove any idea.
Voting
Click 👍 on an idea you'd like to do. Click it again to take your vote back. A bucket-list goal on an idea counts as its owner's vote.
Putting an idea on a day
Editors choose a day and what it becomes, then click Put on this day. The kind starts as the idea's own, or as the catalogue item suggests: an activity or event is something to do, a Food & drink place somewhere to eat. The new item opens so you can add its time and details:
| It becomes | Filled in from the idea |
|---|---|
| Do (an activity) | the title, notes, the catalogue place (or the activity's or event's venue) and the event |
| Eat (a meal) | the name, notes and the catalogue place |
| Stay | the name and city, from the day it starts |
| Travel (a journey) | a planned journey to the idea's city |
| Note | the title and notes, linked to the catalogue item |
The place's city joins the trip's cities. Delete the item later and the idea goes back on the shelf.
Making an idea an option
When you haven't decided yet, choose Option of "Afternoon" (Day 4) for an undecided choice, or New choice on Day 4, and click Add as an option. The idea becomes an option travellers can vote on (choices, options and votes); an idea linked to the catalogue also brings its item into the option. Delete the option, or the choice, and the idea goes back on the shelf.
Bucket-list goals
When you put a goal on a trip (Plan a trip or Add to this trip on the goal, or Add one of your bucket-list goals on the shelf), it becomes an idea on the trip's shelf, linked to the same catalogue item as the goal. Your personal notes stay private: only the goal's title and catalogue link are copied. If someone else's goal is about the same thing, you share one idea and it shows both: "Debbie's and your goals".
If you can only read the trip, the goal is linked to the trip but no idea is added.
When the trip is over, Tick it off offers the goals whose idea made it onto the trip: put on a day, or in an option that was picked or taken in a split. Goals still on the shelf, or in an option nobody took, aren't offered.
Save for someday
Save for someday on an idea, or on an option under Considered, adds it to your own bucket list for another time: the catalogue item it's about, else its title. If it's already on your list, it says so and adds nothing.
On the map
The trip's Map (the top of the page) has an Ideas switch, off at first: it shows ideas on the shelf that have a place as faint pins.
Problems
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| No Add idea box | You can read the trip but not comment. Ask an editor for the commentor role. |
| No Put on this day | Only editors put ideas on days. Vote for it instead. |
| Add to a trip lists no trips | It lists trips that haven't ended and that you can comment on. |
Related guides
- Reading your tripFind your way around a trip page: the days at a glance, each day's plan, and where the confirmation numbers and phone numbers are.
- Your trip in your calendarSubscribe to a trip from Google, Apple or Outlook calendar so its flights, trains, stays, activities and booked meals show up on your phone and stay up to date.
- How to add a day to your tripAdd a day, fill in its details, then add travel, stays, things to do, meals and notes with one line each.
- Changes and undoSee what changed on a trip and who changed it, undo a change, and bring back something removed by mistake.
- Choices, options and votesPut several options on a day ("Afternoon: castle or museum?"), let everyone vote, then pick one, or split up so different people take different options.
- Travel legsAdd trains, flights and drives, from a rough plan to a booked journey with exact times, and make a return trip in one go.
- ChecklistsPacking lists, travel documents and things to do before you go, ticked off by everyone on the trip, one box per person where it matters.
- The budget and splitting costsRecord who paid for what, see each person's share and who owes whom, and see the whole trip in one currency.
- Tidying an itineraryTurn travel tables into real journeys, and use the clean-up suggestions to remove text that repeats a booking or contact, or belongs on a place.
- Comments and notesLeave a note for everyone on a trip, on the trip itself or on a day, a plan or a task, and edit or delete your own.
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