🧳 Trips

✨ What It Does

Trips turns Benji into a lightweight travel cockpit. Create a trip with dates, transports, stays, and relevant activities, then let Benji generate packing tasks, track charging prep, and link project plans so every departure feels buttoned up.

🚪 Access & Activation

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

🧭 Core Workflow

• Open the Trips list to review upcoming, in-progress, and past travel grouped by timeframe. Filter with the search bar or grouping dropdown when the list grows.
• Click Add Trip to launch the form:
  • Set name, destination, start/end dates, and whether you’re staying at your own place or using your own transport.
  • Attach packing activities, stays, transports, and relevant projects so the dashboard is fully populated on first load.
• Saved trips flip into cards showing travel dates plus booking indicators for linked stays and transports. Use the ••• menu to edit, duplicate, or delete.
• Opening a trip drops you into the travel dashboard where the timeline, packing board, charging queue, and linked projects live side by side.

🛠️ In-Feature Settings

• Multi-select pickers in the form pull from your existing data:
  • Activities seed the packing list with the right gear templates.
  • Projects attach full todo roadmaps to the trip for checklists and follow-up tasks.
  • Stays and Transports prefill the travel timeline so you can see the agenda at a glance.
• Trip menu actions let you:
  • Spin up a fresh project or project template scoped to the trip.
  • Run packing commands: Start packing, Refresh packing items, Sync with packing lists, or Start packing from scratch when you need a clean slate.
• Packing board filters (Show packed items, Show charging items, Show items planned for the morning) persist per user, keeping the view tuned to what you care about.

🗺️ Trip Dashboard Surfaces

• Travel timeline: horizontal pills for inbound/outbound transports and stays with quick-edit affordances. Booking badges mirror the status of the underlying records.
• Packing board: groups items by “Needs packing,” “Packed,” and “Morning of” with quick toggles for charging status.
• Charging board: focuses solely on items flagged Needs charging, tracking progression from Not charged → Charging → Charged.
• Projects panel: displays any linked projects with progress rings so you can work through travel-specific todos without leaving the page.
• Quick links: shortcuts to create new stays, transports, or packing activities without navigating away.

⚡ Alfred & Quick Actions

Learn more about Alfred in the Alfred & Spotlight guide.

• Create a new trip: opens the trip creation form
• Navigation shortcuts to Trips, Stays, Transports, and packing pages

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

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

🔗 Integrations & Dependencies

• “Start packing” pulls in every Essential item plus gear linked to the trip’s chosen packing activities.
• The charging board reads charging status directly from your packing items, so updating it in either place keeps both in sync.
• Linked projects surface in the dashboard and feed the global leaderboard via their tasks—use them for itineraries, shopping lists, or post-trip follow-up.
• Trips surface across Planner (getTripsForPlanner) so travel windows block out calendar space and inform Weekly planning.
• Stays and transports you edit from the trip view update the same records shown on their dedicated pages, preventing duplicate data entry.

💡 Tips & Edge Cases

• Keep transports and stays updated—those pills double as quick-edit shortcuts for rebooking.
• Use “Sync with packing lists” after you add new essential items so existing trips pick them up without a reset.
• When you’re finished packing, “Start packing from scratch” clears statuses for the next outing while keeping the trip data intact.

🤝 Related Features

• Packing: manage the gear library that feeds every trip checklist.
• Trip Activities: map context-specific gear bundles that auto-load when selected.
• Stays: log lodging details and booking status that appear on the trip timeline.
• Transports: capture every travel leg, seat assignment, and arrival buffer.