Travel being built

Everywhere you have been, what you actually did there, and what you made of it. The point is not a scrapbook: it is that the next trip gets planned out of your own history instead of a stranger list of the top ten things to do in a town.

What it will do

• Name the town you went to and the restaurants, bars and things to do there are pulled in, so recording your trip is picking from a list rather than typing one out.
• Rate and write up each place while you still remember it, rather than six months later when it has all blurred into one.
• Tag who was with you from the people this account already knows, so a travelling companion is the same person here that they are everywhere else in the line.
• Plan ahead by looking through a town before you go, and keep a shortlist against a trip you have not taken yet.
• Set a budget for a trip and see what it actually came to against it.
• Suggestions for the next trip drawn from your own ratings and notes, and from what you said you were willing to spend.

Why it is built this way

The recommendations come from your history rather than from what is popular, and that is the whole idea. Standing in an unfamiliar town on the third evening, the useful question is never what is the best restaurant here. It is what would we like here, which nothing can answer without having quietly paid attention to what you enjoyed before and what you did not.

Where it has got to

Not written yet. It exists as a row in this application and as the description above, and nothing more. It is listed so the shape of the whole line is visible rather than hinted at.