🎒 Packing

✨ What It Does

Packing keeps every item you might take on a trip—laptop charger, hiking boots, passport—in a single library. Tag items with useful metadata (essentials, charging needs, morning-of reminders) so every trip checklist is accurate with almost no manual work.

🚪 Access & Activation

Enable Packing from Settings → Features → Packing. See the Enabling Features guide for details on feature toggles and visibility options.

🧭 Core Workflow

• Open Packing items to see your master list. Use the search bar for quick filtering and Add item to capture something new.
• Each item card shows emoji/name, description, and badges for flags like “Essential,” “Needs charging,” “Expendable,” or “Double check.”
• Associate items with Packing activities (e.g., “Skiing,” “Gym”) so trips that include those activities pull the right gear.
• Multi-select header tools let you bulk delete or edit when you’re cleaning up the list.

🛠️ In-Feature Settings

• The item form includes:
  • Emoji + name + description.
  • Activity multi-select (with inline creation) so you can tie the item to specific trip contexts.
  • Flags:
    • Essential → always included when you generate packing for a trip.
    • Expendable → reminds you it may need re-purchasing each trip.
    • Needs charging → surfaces in the trip charging board until marked Charged.
    • Needs to be double checked → keeps it prominent for day-of review.
  • Charging status (Not charged → Charging → Charged) to track progress even outside the trip board.
  • When to pack (e.g., NightBefore, InTheMorning) so the trip filters can show morning-only items.

⚡ Alfred & Quick Actions

Learn more about Alfred in the Alfred & Spotlight guide.

• Create a new packing item: opens the packing item form
• Create a new packing activity: opens the activity form
• Navigation shortcuts to the Packing pages

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

• Cmd/Ctrl + K: open Alfred to access Packing commands

🔗 Integrations & Dependencies

• Trips use packing items in two ways:
  • All essential items get pulled into every trip automatically.
  • Items tagged with a trip’s selected activities are added when you press Start packing.
• The trip charging board only shows items marked Needs charging, using your per-item charging status to track progress.
• Packing activities serve as reusable templates; you can create them on the fly from the item form or via Spotlight.
• Stays and Transports live beside packing so you can plan lodging and movement while you curate the checklist.

💡 Tips & Edge Cases

• Give essentials neutral colors/emojis and reserve bold icons for activity-specific items to scan faster.
• Use the When to pack field to keep “morning-only” items out of the main queue until departure day.
• After a trip, reset charging statuses so future packing runs start fresh—either from the packing board or directly on the item.

🤝 Related Features

• Trips: build itineraries that pull in your essentials, activities, stays, and transports.
• Trip Activities: organise gear by scenario so the right checklist appears automatically.
• Stays: track lodging details and booking status for each trip.
• Transports: log every leg of travel with seats, buffers, and notes.