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Find your way around

The planner is two things side by side: the itinerary panel, which lists your days and stops, and the map, which shows the same plan in space. They stay in lockstep. Click a stop in the panel and the map finds it; add a place from the map and the panel gains a row.

The right-side dock

  • Chat is Scout, the planning copilot. Ask it for ideas near whatever day you are working on.
  • Map settings controls the basemap style, layers and what renders.
  • Trip Chat appears on shared trips: a message thread just for the people on the plan.

Map styles

In Map settings you can switch basemaps. Standard is a full-colour map, and the default. Muted redraws the world in Treader’s quiet palette so your stops and routes carry the colour. Satellite, hybrid and terrain are there when you need real ground.

When you are viewing a single day, stops from your other days stay visible as faint tinted dots, so you never plan Tuesday on top of Wednesday by accident.

Faster with the keyboard

The command palette reaches everything: trips, views, actions. These work anywhere in the planner:

Command palette ⌘K / Ctrl-K
Focus mode (planner) F
Toggle the board (planner) B
Toggle the itinerary panel [
Toggle the Scout dock ]
Open the command palette ?
Move through palette results ↑ ↓
Run the highlighted command
Close the palette or dialog Esc

Tip

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