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Build a day plan and send it to somebody

Stack a few events into a plan, see them on a map in order, then hand the whole thing to a friend as one link.

The video for this one is not shot yet. The written walkthrough below is the whole thing, not a summary of it.

Most event sites stop at the listing. You find something, you copy the link, you paste it into a group text, somebody asks what time, somebody else sends a different event, and now there are nine messages and no plan. The day planner is the fix for that. You build the night once and send one link.

Adding things

Every event card and every event page has a plus button. Tap it and the event goes into your plan. Tap it again to take it out. There is no account and no sign up, and the plan lives on your device until you decide to share it.

Add more than you expect to do. The plan is a shortlist, not a commitment, and it is much easier to cut two things later than to go find them again.

Putting it in order

  1. Open your plan. Everything you added is there, grouped by day.
  2. Drag the cards into the order you want to do them in. Times are shown on each one, so overlaps are obvious.
  3. Open the map. This is the step that changes plans. Two events that sound fine on paper are sometimes twenty minutes apart in opposite directions, and you can only see that on a map.
  4. Cut whatever the map just told you to cut.

A plan holds up to 30 events. Nobody needs 30. If you are near the cap you are probably using it as a wishlist, which is fine, just start a new one for the actual night.

Sharing it

Hit share and you get a short link. Send that instead of five event links. Whoever opens it sees the same plan you built, in order, with the map, and they do not need the app or an account to look at it.

The link is a plan, not an invitation, so there is no RSVP and nothing to accept. Think of it as a nicer version of pasting a list into a text message. You can also print it, which sounds old fashioned until you are running a group of people around a festival and half of them have dead phones.

Where this actually earns its keep

  • Somebody visiting town for a weekend. Build them a plan instead of a paragraph of suggestions.
  • A first date where you want a backup two blocks away.
  • Festival days, where the whole point is going from one thing to the next without thinking about it.

If you are going to be out with it, put the app on your phone first. Plans are much better one tap away than four.

Still stuck, or think this guide is wrong about something? Email byron@akronpulse.com, or head back to all the guides.

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