Practical guides to organizing travel, from the makers of Petrel. No listicles, no filler, just things that make trips easier.
A practical guide to planning a multi-city trip: choosing the route shape, pacing the stops, and keeping every booking in one plan that reads offline.
September 1, 2026What Happened to TripCase?TripCase shut down on April 1, 2025 and the saved trips inside it were deleted. Here is what the app did, what became of your data, and how to rebuild an old trip from the confirmations still in your inbox.
August 31, 2026Trip Planning Automation: What to Automate and What to Leave AloneA practical guide to trip planning automation: which parts of a trip are worth handing to software, which are not, and a ten-minute setup for your next one.
August 28, 2026 · updated September 12, 2026How to Switch From TripIt or Wanderlog Without Retyping Your TripsTripIt has no export button. Here is how to get your trips out with its calendar feed, plus how to move out of Wanderlog or Tripsy, what carries over, what does not, and how to check the result.
August 24, 2026How to Turn PDF and Screenshot Travel Confirmations Into One ItineraryMost itinerary apps only read forwarded email. Here is how to turn PDF, photo, and screenshot travel confirmations into one plan, free.
August 21, 2026Flight Status Tracking: What Your Airline App Covers, and the Three Gaps It LeavesYour airline app is good at flight status tracking. Here are the three gaps it leaves, and a practical checklist for when the delay actually lands.
August 19, 2026Trip Itinerary Builder: How to Turn Scattered Bookings Into One Day-by-Day PlanWhat a trip itinerary builder actually has to do, plus a step-by-step for turning scattered bookings into one day-by-day plan that works offline.
August 13, 2026Offline Travel App: How to Make Sure Your Whole Trip Works With No SignalWhat an offline travel app really has to do, plus a checklist for making your flights, stays, and reservations readable when your phone has no connection.
August 9, 2026How to Get an Automatic Itinerary Without Connecting Your EmailMost travel apps build your itinerary by connecting to your mailbox. There is another way: send the app only the confirmations you choose, and nothing else.
August 9, 2026Why Travel Confirmations Are Harder to Read Than They LookBooking confirmations look like structured data and are not. Here are the specific problems that break naive parsing: missing years, trips that cross New Year, and flights that arrive twice in different formats.
August 3, 2026Shared Trip Collaboration: How to Plan a Group Trip Without Losing the ThreadShared trip collaboration done right: how to plan a group trip so everyone sees one itinerary, costs get split fairly, and nobody misses the early ferry.
July 27, 2026How to Create a Travel Expense Report (Without Losing a Single Receipt)A step-by-step guide to building a travel expense report for reimbursement: collect receipts, categorize spend, and export a clean report finance will accept.
July 25, 2026The Story Behind the Name: Why We Called a Travel App PetrelThe story behind the name Petrel: why a small storm-riding seabird that always finds its way home became the mascot for a travel app that plans itself.
July 22, 2026Email Forwarding for Travel Itineraries: How to Turn Confirmation Chaos Into One Clean Trip PlanForward your flight, hotel, and activity confirmations and get one organized day-by-day itinerary. Here's how email forwarding itinerary building actually works.
Forward a confirmation email, a screenshot, or a PDF and watch Petrel build your day-by-day itinerary.
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