Hello! I'm Rei, an official Notion ambassador.
December has arrived, and it's travel season with Christmas and New Year's holidays coming up. How do you all plan your trips?
This time, I'll show you how to plan a trip with Notion.
I'll be introducing the travel itinerary I created for my own trip, along with how to use it!
This content is highly recommended for those who say, "Planning is a hassle, so I always just wing my trips..." or "I'm taking notes on my iPhone or LINE, but it's a bit inconvenient..."
I'll be explaining this template in detail, so please read to the end!
🎬 Director：Rei
✍🏻 Writer：Minokurumi
Why I planned my trip with Notion.
Are you someone who meticulously plans your trips?
Planning a trip can be fun when you're looking for places to go and things to eat, but the detailed parts like schedules and the order of visits can be a bit tedious, right...?
Also, there are times when you have a lot of places you want to visit, but you couldn't actually go to any of them when you traveled...
So, I thought, "Couldn't I easily decide on those slightly tedious schedules and efficient routes?" and decided to plan my trip with Notion.
I was able to easily organize places I wanted to visit by area and genre, and plan together remotely, which made scheduling incredibly simple.
I actually traveled while looking at Notion on the day, and it was so convenient that I thought, "I really want to recommend this to everyone...!" So, I'm going to introduce it in detail this time!
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2. Everything can be consolidated in Notion, making it simple.
3. It remains as a memory and can be used as a template for future trips.
How to create a travel itinerary.
Now, I'll show you the contents of the travel itinerary I actually made and how to plan it.
The very top section is a memo of places I want to go, and where I set the timetable.
The database is one, and I used it by switching between views: table view to set the schedule, and gallery view to choose places I wanted to go. It's exciting to see them lined up as images, isn't it...!
Here are the items I memoed:
- Check if visited
- Time
- Place to visit
- Genre (travel / food / sightseeing, etc.)
- Area
- Google Map URL
- Website, phone number memo, tickets, etc.
It can be a bit of a hassle to look up the next destination on Google Maps or find ticket information each time, but by gathering all this information here beforehand, you can save time searching on the day of the trip. I highly recommend it.
For planning, I recommend first brainstorming all the places you want to go, regardless of time or location, then organizing them by genre and area using tags, and finally deciding on the schedule.
The bottom part of the page is for notes on expenses incurred during the trip and places to visit next time. I mainly used this section to write things down while traveling.
What was convenient about using Notion.
Finally, I'll share the points that I found convenient after trying to plan a trip with Notion.
1. You can plan together remotely.
It would be great to plan a trip together in person, but sometimes it's hard to find enough time, right?
In my case, I planned over the phone, but with Notion, when you share a page, you can see each other's edits in real-time, making planning very easy even while on a call.
On the day of the trip, we could both view the page on our smartphones, so we literally traveled together, looking at Notion like a travel guide.
2. Everything can be consolidated in Notion, making it simple.
It can be a bit of a hassle to look up the next destination on a map or search for tickets each time during a trip, right?
With Notion, not only can you create a schedule, but also Google Map links, hotel notes, and tickets can all be managed in one place. This was incredibly convenient as it saved me the trouble of looking things up on the day of the trip!
Being able to check off places I'd visited was also a bit fun, like a stamp rally. (laughs)
3. It remains as a memory and can be used as a template for future trips.
With iPhone notes or paper itineraries, it's easy to delete or lose them, but with Notion, the fact that it remains as a memory is a nice bonus.
When you go to the same place again, you can remember "Oh, I couldn't go there last time..." which makes planning easier. Even when traveling to a different location, you can duplicate it and reuse it as a template.
Once you've accumulated a lot of travel records, it might be fun to create a summary page and look back at them together!
Summary
That concludes the introduction to how to plan your trips with Notion! What did you think?
It makes trip planning incredibly easy, so please try creating your travel itinerary with Notion for your next trip!
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