Stop treating your holiday like a data entry job
Planning a trip usually starts out fun. You pick a destination and look at some photos. But then you book your flights, and suddenly you are doing data entry. You have a massive Google Sheet open. Your inbox is full of booking confirmations. You have Google Maps open in another tab to check if your hotel is actually close to the train station. It is a complete mess.
The copy-paste loop
We have all done this painful loop. You get a confirmation email. You copy the booking reference. You paste it into a spreadsheet cell. You open a new tab for your calendar and manually copy the times over. Then you book a tour or a restaurant, and you repeat the exact same process.
It feels like you need a dual monitor setup just to organise a simple getaway.
Forward your emails, skip the spreadsheet
I built ryokko because I was sick of collating arbitrary details across five different apps. It is a desktop app designed specifically for travel planning, and it removes all the tedious copy-pasting.
Instead of manually entering your flight and hotel details, you just forward your reservation emails straight to ryokko. The app handles the data entry for you.
Plan with a real map, not a browser tab
When it comes to figuring out what to do, you do not need to bounce back and forth between a spreadsheet and a browser. ryokko lets you use Google Maps directly within the app. You can look up locations, see how far apart things are, and add items straight to your planned schedule.
The interface is actually built for plotting out days and times intuitively.
Take your itinerary anywhere
A spreadsheet is terrible to read on your phone when you are standing in a busy airport or walking down a street with bad reception. ryokko lets you export your finished itinerary as a clean PDF, or you can print a hard copy to keep in your bag.
If you prefer using your phone's native apps, you can push the whole schedule directly to your Google or Apple calendar.
Travel planning should not feel like admin
ryokko is in active development right now and getting close to an early release. If you want to ditch the spreadsheets and actually enjoy putting your next trip together, drop your email on the waitlist. I will let you know as soon as it is ready.