Paste anything: bookings, links and screenshots into the trip

Most of a trip already exists somewhere else: an airline email, a hotel PDF, a blog post with eleven places in it, a screenshot a friend sent. Paste anything takes all of those. Scout reads what you pasted, sorts it into flights, stays, places and receipts, and shows you a list to tick. Nothing lands on the trip until you tick it and press Add.

Open it

• In the itinerary, open Add stop and choose Paste anything.
• On the board, the Ideas pen has a Paste button. With the pen focused, Cmd+V or Ctrl+V does the same thing.
• Drop a PDF or an image anywhere on the planner, or drop a link or text onto the Ideas pen.
• On Android, with Treader installed to the home screen, share a booking email, PDF or screenshot from any app to Treader. iPhone does not offer that share target, so copy and paste instead.

What you can paste

• Text: the body of a confirmation email, a list of places, a message from the group chat.
• A link on its own: Treader fetches the page and reads its text. A blog post with a list of restaurants works well.
• A PDF: an airline or hotel confirmation, up to 6 MB. Add it with Add a PDF or screenshot or drop it on the sheet.
• A screenshot: JPG, PNG or WebP. The image is shrunk on your device before it is read.

Tick what lands

1. 1 Press Find what is in it. A few seconds later the sheet lists everything Scout recognised, each row with a tick box.
2. 2 Every row has a Where it goes select. Flights and stays pick their day from their own dates. A place goes to the day the source named, otherwise to Ideas on the board. A receipt goes to Budget.
3. 3 Untick anything you do not want. A row with no day can still be filed in Travel Data on Discovery.
4. 4 Press Add N to the trip. Each row then reports where it went, or why it was skipped.
5. 5 Change your mind? Undo removes the whole batch, records and file included. Paste more keeps the sheet open for the next one.

Flights arrive as a linked pair, takeoff and landing, the same as a flight logged by hand, and the landing reads as the airport rather than whatever business sits nearest the runway. Places are grounded against the map, so their hours ride along and the stop can warn you if it will be shut when you get there.

Money on a booking

When a booking names what you paid, that amount becomes the cost of the stop it created, so the trip budget counts it. A bill with no booking attached, say a restaurant receipt, becomes a receipt under Trip Hub, Budget, Receipts. A price in a different currency from the trip stays a receipt too, so the budget is never quietly misstated.

Pasting the same booking twice

Reading a confirmation a second time does not double the trip. A flight, stay or Travel Data record that is already there is recognised and its row says so: Already on this trip, Already in Travel Data, Already in the budget.

On Discovery: bookings file themselves

Flights and stays come back as rows on Discovery only. Free and Pro see the count ("Found 2 flights and 1 stay") and the places, receipts and the rest. On Discovery the sheet also shows a Save bookings to Travel Data box, ticked by default: the flights and stays become records in your vault, which is where flight watch and claims read them. Under it, Keep the file in Documents and link it stores the PDF or screenshot you pasted and links it to every record that paste created, so the Records tab can open the source with one tap.