Organizing places into days

One of the most useful features in Trovvana is the ability to organize your saved places into specific days of your trip. Instead of looking at a flat list of pins on a map, you can structure your itinerary day by day and see the route for each day visualized on the map.

Assigning a place to a day

Every place in Trovvana has a Day field. You can set it when you first add a place or update it later by editing the place.

When you create or edit a place, you will see a day selector with numbers corresponding to each day of your trip. If your trip runs from March 5 to March 10, you will see Day 1 through Day 6. Select the day you plan to visit that place, and it will appear under that day’s section in the sidebar.

If you are not sure when you will visit a particular place, leave the day unassigned. The place will show up in an Unassigned section at the top of the sidebar. You can assign it to a day later once your plans are more concrete.

How days appear in the sidebar

The sidebar groups all of your places by day. Each day section shows a header (such as “Day 1, March 5”) followed by the places assigned to that day, listed in visit order. Unassigned places appear in their own section above the day groups.

This layout gives you a quick overview of your entire itinerary. You can scan through each day to see how many stops you have planned, what categories they fall into (using the color-coded labels), and whether any day looks too packed or too light.

Drag-and-drop reordering

The order of places within a day matters because it determines the sequence you will visit them and how route lines are drawn on the map. Trovvana lets you reorder places with drag and drop.

To move a place:

1. Hover over the place in the sidebar until you see the drag handle (a set of dots or lines on the left side of the place card).
2. Click and hold the drag handle.
3. Drag the place up or down within the same day to change its position in the visit order.
4. Release to drop it in the new position.

The map updates immediately to reflect the new order. Route lines and directional arrows redraw to follow the updated sequence, so you can see right away whether the new order creates a more efficient path through the city.

You can also drag a place from one day to another. This reassigns it to the new day and places it at the position where you drop it.

Using the day filter

When your trip has many places spread across several days, the map can get crowded. The day filter lets you focus on one day at a time.

Click on a day in the sidebar or use the day filter control to select a specific day. The map will show only the places assigned to that day, along with the route lines connecting them. All other markers are hidden temporarily.

To return to the full view showing all days, clear the day filter. This toggles all markers and route lines back on.

The day filter is especially helpful when you are fine-tuning the order of stops for a particular day. By hiding everything else, you can focus on the geographic layout of just that day’s places and rearrange them for the most logical walking or driving route.

Visit order within a day

The position of each place in the sidebar determines its visit order for that day. The first place in the list is your first stop, the second is your next destination, and so on. Route lines on the map follow this order, drawing a path from the first place to the second, the second to the third, and so on through the day.

Getting the visit order right makes your exported PDF itinerary easier to follow and helps you estimate realistic timing for your day. If two places are close together on the map but far apart in your sidebar list, dragging them next to each other can save travel time and make the day flow better.

Tips for organizing days

• Start each day near your accommodation. Place your hotel or rental as the first stop so the route starts from where you wake up.
• Group nearby places on the same day. Use the map to spot clusters of pins and assign them to the same day to minimize travel.
• Leave some flexibility. Packing too many stops into one day is a common mistake, especially when traveling with kids. A lighter schedule leaves room for unexpected discoveries and downtime.
• Use unassigned as a wish list. Save places you are interested in but have not committed to, then drag them onto a day when you are ready.