02 ·travel itinerary app ·in development
Cairn
Built-in parser turns a pasted, imported or photographed itinerary into a structured day-by-day trail, with maps navigation on each stop.
In development.
Cairn is a Flutter app meant to solve one question well: where are we going today, and how do we get there?
There are many itinerary planners out there that let users plan in extreme depth. There are few that keep the day’s plan visible without extra navigation. The most repetitive task when travelling is checking the next location in the itinerary and then using maps to see how to get there. This app serves to solve just that issue.
The Trail
The trip renders as a winding path with one node per day and a flag on today. Days advance by the clock, never by completing anything. Open the app in the morning and the itinerary for the day is simply there.
Context-dependent maps handoff
Each tap opens a maps search scoped to that stop’s own itinerary context. The most repetitive task when travelling is checking the next location and then working out how to get there, and this closes that loop in a single tap.
A parser to allow import of itineraries
The parser measures at 81% accuracy against test sets. Its designed fail-safe encourages it to be quiet rather than guess, which significantly reduces the likelihood of it being confidently wrong. A plan you have to correct is worth more than a plan that is confidently wrong.
A plan can arrive as anything
A plan can be pasted, imported from a .txt, .csv, .docx, .xlsx or .pdf, or read out of a photo or screenshot with on-device text recognition. Every route lands in the same box as ordinary text, for the person to see and fix, before the parser reads a word of it.
Creating memories
Users are pinged once a day to take BeReal-style dual shots, to allow spontaneous memories to be created. Everything lands in a pool sorted by day, so the record of a trip builds itself instead of being assembled afterwards.