Do apps make good friends?: TipIt, the driving album

Travelers typically play on two teams. The first boils down to a single word or phrase, "Yolo," while the second plans everything down to the last detail, from the neatly packed contents of their luggage to the schedule of sightseeing and snacks on site. In the 2000s, before the spread of smartphones, the organized team would set off with a plastic folder full of paperwork in their suitcases.

Train or plane tickets, hotel reservation emails with check-in and check-out times, the up-to-the-minute itinerary for a ten-day road trip. There are, of course, still a few diehards today, but those days are almost over with the spread of apps – or even buried now with ChatGPT and the like . TripIt, a pioneering travel planning tool, was launched in 2007 in San Francisco.

Since acquired by the American business travel management software company, Concur, it allows its claimed 20 million users to organize