You planned for the whole trip.
Sometimes things turned out differently.
You still had
an amazing time.
You came back
from the trip.
Your friends asked
for the guide.
You wanted to give them
something fresh.
And that means fixing what changed, and explaining it, so it actually makes sense to someone who wasn't there.
That's a lot, for something that was
supposed to be easy.
So why not just share
your memory?
There are plenty of tools to help us plan a trip. Few make it easy to update and share that plan based on what we actually experienced.
After a trip, friends often ask for the guide. But the plan only tells part of the story. Some places were worth the detour. Others weren’t quite what you expected. Sharing those details means going back through everything all over again.
TripSharer brings all these pieces together on an interactive map, so people can make sense of a trip they weren’t on.
Start with the map
Travel recommendations often come as a list of places. A list tells you what to look up, but not how those places fit into the trip.
TripSharer puts those places back into the city on a stylized map, with three levels to explore.
The wider view shows how they’re spread across the city, with nearby places grouped into clusters. At this level, the map keeps the background simple, showing main roads and water to help you get your bearings. Click a cluster, and the map moves closer to that area. The cluster opens into individual pins, so you can see where each place sits in relation to the others. Click a pin to explore one of the places. Smaller streets appear around it, and a card opens with its description, rating, and personal notes.
Each level adds the detail you need without filling the whole map at once. You can also zoom back out through those levels to see how the place you’ve just explored fits into the bigger picture.
Filter
The map shows where the places are, but sometimes you want to start with what you’re looking for. Open the list to browse the recommendations, or filter by category to find somewhere to eat or something to see. You don’t have to open every pin to find the places that interest you.
Each entry includes a rating and a short note alongside the name. A name alone may not mean much if you haven’t been there. These details tell you what kind of place it is and what the person sharing the trip thought of it, so you can decide which ones to explore further.
Select an entry, and the map moves in to show the place and open its card. From there, you can read more, then step back out to see what else is nearby. The list helps you narrow things down, while the map keeps those recommendations connected to the city around them.
Route
Knowing which places you’d like to visit is a start. Working out how to fit them into a day is another thing. Switch to Route to see how the trip was arranged, with stops grouped by day and listed in the order they were visited. It gives you a route to work from when putting together your own.
Some things need more room than a short note beside a place name. Scroll below the map for the travel notes, where the person sharing the trip can explain their choices and what they learned along the way. Together, the route and notes help you understand how the trip worked, and decide what you’d do differently.
That’s how you explore someone else’s trip. What if you want to share your own?
Putting it together
You don’t need to write a whole new guide to share your trip. Start with what you remember. It might be a great meal, a place you’d skip next time, or something you wish you’d known before going.
TripSharer comes with a Notion template to keep those notes in. Each place has room for a name, category, rating, and a few words about your experience. Maybe the meal was worth the wait, or the view was better than the food. A sentence or two is enough.
Add places as they come to mind. There’s no need to work through the trip in order or turn every memory into a full review.
Once you’ve added a few places, you can put them in the order you visited. Give each one a day and a stop order, then add a note about the day if there’s more to explain. You don’t have to reconstruct every hour. Just enough to show how the places fit together.
Some things need more than a field in a table. You might want to explain how you got around, what needed booking, or what you’d do differently next time. Write those in the city page, with room to go into as much detail as you need.
You keep the content in Notion, and TripSharer turns it into a website you can share.
These records become the views you’ve already seen. A place’s name, rating, and notes appear on the map and in the list. Its category makes it easy to filter, while the day and stop order put it into the route. The longer notes sit below the map. You enter the information once, without having to put together a separate version for each view.
Keep adding to it
You can share a link so people can explore the trip. But sharing it doesn’t have to mean you’re finished writing it up. You might remember a useful detail later, or realise a note needs more explanation when a friend asks about it. Add it in Notion, then update the site when you’re ready. The same link takes them to the updated version.
And it leaves you with something to look back on, too. Not just where you went, but what you thought of it at the time.
Outro
TripSharer is a personal project that grew out of sharing my own travels. I wanted a way to pass on the little things a trip leaves you with, without turning it into another writing task.
There’s still room to explore where it could go. If the idea resonates with you, or you’ve found your own way of sharing trips, I’d love to hear about it.
