How to create a Check-in

🏕️ How to create a Check-in

Logging the amazing places you stay—whether it’s a paid campsite, a secret wild camping spot, or a helpful mechanic—is the core of building your digital travel timeline.

Here is how to create a rich, detailed Check-in in seconds.

Step-by-Step

1. Open the Wizard Navigate to the Trips tab and tap on your current Expedition. Tap the massive + Check In button (or tap the “Parking” button on your live Journey Card).

2. Choose your Starting Point The Check-in Wizard will appear. You have two choices:

• The Magic Way (Recommended): Tap one of the recent photos displayed in the horizontal carousel. The app will use this photo to instantly auto-fill your location, altitude, weather, and AI tags. (See The Magic of Check-ins: Automated Journaling for how this works).
• The Manual Way: If you didn’t take a photo, scroll to the bottom and tap “Create Manually”.

3. Set the Type and Rating In the editor screen:

• Choose the Place Type (e.g., Wild Camp, Free Aire, Campsite, Mechanic, Water Point).
• Use the slider to give the spot a 1 to 5 Star Rating.
• Toggle Overnight if you slept there.

4. Add Services Did the spot have free electricity? A place to dump your grey water? Tap the beautiful service icons in the Services grid to log exactly what facilities were available. (This makes the spot searchable later!)

5. Save Tap Save in the top right corner. The Check-in will instantly drop a pin on your Unified History Map and appear in your chronological travel feed.

Troubleshooting

“My photo didn’t auto-fill the location!” If your photo doesn’t have location data, it means your iPhone’s Camera app doesn’t have permission to save GPS coordinates. You can fix this by going to your iPhone Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Camera, and setting it to “While Using the App”. 👉 The Fix: In the Check-in Editor, simply scroll down to the Location section and tap “Use current location”. The app will grab your live GPS coordinates instead!