Trips & itineraries
A trip in OrientME is a full itinerary: the flights and hotels, a day-by-day plan, a wish-list of ideas, expenses, and the photos and memos you collect along the way. You’ll find your trips under Travel → Trips.
Create a trip
Click New trip, give it a name (for example “Spain 2026”), optionally add comma-separated destinations, and click Create. You land on the trip’s detail page, ready to fill in.
Pick a trip icon
Every trip has an icon. Click it to open the picker, which offers 24 travel symbols plus the full list of country flags — searchable by country name, two-letter code, or a common alias. Type “USA”, “UK”, “Bali”, or “Dubai” and the matching flag appears.
The trip detail page
The header holds the trip’s icon, an editable title, destinations (each with its own dates), and the overall date range. To add a destination, click Add destination (or Add place) and start typing a city or country — matching places appear in a dropdown, so you can pick “Paris, France” rather than guess the spelling. Two buttons live here too: View opens a clean, shareable read-out (see Sharing a trip), and Sync schedule builds day rows automatically from your flights, stays, and transport so you’re not creating each day by hand.
Below the header, a trip readiness banner scores how complete the trip is and lists what’s left — missing dates, days with nothing planned, flights without a confirmation number, and so on. Each gap has a Fix link that jumps to the right tab.
Everything is organized into tabs: Days · Logistics · Ideas · Memories · Calendar · Expenses · Library.
Plan with AI
Don't want to start from a blank page? Click Plan with AI in the trip header and OrientME drafts a full day-by-day plan you can keep, tweak, or delete.
You need two things first: your travel dates and at least one destination (a country is enough — a city is even better). If either is missing, the sheet tells you exactly what to add.
When you open it, a short panel lets you set how you like this trip to feel:
- Pace — relaxed, balanced, or packed.
- Who's going — solo, couple, family, friends, or business (a friends' trip can lean into nightlife; a family trip stays kid-friendly).
- What you love — food, history, art, nature, nightlife, shopping, and more.
- Food & dining, budget, mornings, and how much walking you're up for.
- Anything we should know and anything to avoid — free-text, for must-dos, the occasion, or things to skip.
- Activities per day and whether to suggest places to eat.
Click Plan my trip and watch the days fill in one at a time — each with timed activities, locations, short notes on why they're worth it, rough cost and duration estimates, and a one-line summary for the day. A few extra ideas land in the Ideas tab too.
You don't have to wait. A longer trip can take a minute or two to plan. Click Run in background (or just close the sheet) and OrientME keeps planning while you do anything else in the app — a small progress pill stays on screen so you can peek at how it's going, jump back to the trip, or cancel. When it's done you get a notification (on mobile, even if you've left the app), and the trip is ready to review. Changed your mind mid-run? Cancel stops it — anything already added stays.
Everything AI adds is a starting point you own. Reorder, edit, or delete any of it, and add your own activities alongside. Your own activities and notes are never changed — AI suggestions are always added next to them. Run it again any time, and you can replace the previous AI suggestions while keeping everything you added yourself.
Set your usual style once under Account → Travel profile and the sheet starts pre-filled from it on every trip — you only adjust what's different this time.
Days — the day-by-day plan
The Days tab is a two-pane planner: a list of days on the left, the day’s editor on the right. Add days one at a time or as a range. Each day has:
- Day notes — a rich-text space (with slash commands) for plans and reminders.
- Activities — what you’re doing, each with a category, time, location (linked to maps), an estimated duration and cost, notes, and a heart to mark a highlight.
- Photos, files & voice memos — attach anything to the day, including recorded voice memos.
Activities with a time sort themselves chronologically; you can drag the rest into order, or move an activity to another day.
On a multi-city trip, each day shows which city you're in — both in the day list and at the top of the day — with a small color stripe down the side of each day so you can see at a glance when you change cities. A travel day that spans two cities shows them as Paris → Rome.
When your trip is underway, opening Days jumps straight to today — today’s entry is highlighted with a Today badge so you land on the right day without scrolling.
Logistics — flights, stays, transport
The Logistics tab is where the bookings live:
- Flights — add a flight, then use Look up to auto-fill its schedule from the flight number. Once a flight is looked up it’s confirmed and locked — its airline, number, route, dates, and times become read-only so a verified itinerary can’t be changed by accident. To look up a different flight, delete that flight and add it again. (Confirmation code, cabin, and notes stay editable.) You can combine several flights into a single multi-leg journey, add connecting legs, and store a confirmation code.
- Stays — hotels and rentals with check-in/check-out dates, an address (with a map link), and a confirmation code.
- Transportation — cars, trains, ferries, and buses, with pickup and drop-off details, and an optional link to the flight they connect to.
Add your flights and stays first, then click Sync schedule in the header — OrientME creates a day for each date so your itinerary skeleton is built in one click.
Ideas — a trip wish-list
The Ideas tab is a place to collect things you might do, each with a priority and a location. When you’re ready, Add to day turns an idea into a real activity on a specific day and marks it Planned. Ideas with a location can be shown as pins on a map.
On a multi-city trip, ideas are grouped by city under color-coded headers (the same colors used on your days), so a wish-list that spans several places stays easy to scan. Ideas without a location collect under Unsorted — add a location to file one under its city. Suggestions from Plan with AI already come tagged with a city.
Expenses
The Expenses tab tracks what you spend, by category, with an optional budget bar. On a group trip you can record who paid and split costs equally or by custom amounts; a settlement summary then shows who owes whom. Export everything to CSV, and attach receipts to any expense.
Add the people you’re traveling with under People on this trip — they don’t need an account. Splitting and settlement only appear once there’s more than just you.
Memories and Library
- Memories collects every activity you hearted as a highlight, plus a photo grid of all the images attached anywhere in the trip.
- Library is one place to find every file across the trip — tickets, confirmations, receipts, and voice memos — alongside a trip-level document uploader.
On mobile and on the calendar
Trips appear on your main Calendar and in the trip’s own Calendar tab, and the whole planner is available in the mobile app — including Plan with AI (tap the ✨ sparkle in the trip header) and the Destinations card on the trip’s Overview tab, where you can add a destination (with the same place suggestions), tap one to edit its name and dates, or remove it. When you’re ready to show someone, see Sharing a trip. For watching flight prices before you book, see the Flight tracker.