Guide
How to use AI for trip planning without it ruining the experience
What AI does well in travel, what it ruins, and what to look for in any planning tool you actually trust.
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Notes on regional discovery, trip planning without booking bias, using AI well, and the build of Planark.
- Comparison
ChatGPT vs trip planners: an honest comparison
General AI, Mindtrip, Google Maps, and regional discovery — when each wins, and when to skip chat entirely.
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What is regional travel discovery?
Why the best travel apps answer "what's around me?" before they ask where you want to go.
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How to plan a multi-city trip in Europe (without a booking app)
A practical approach to road trips and multi-stop routes — geography first, commissions never.
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Nobody built a travel app for families. So I did.
A playground hunt in an unfamiliar town turned into Planark — regional discovery on open data, not booking pressure.
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I'm a designer who built an app with AI. Here's what that actually means.
Ten years of product design, zero production iOS experience — and a year of learning systems, APIs, and when to trust the model.
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Why the future of travel planning isn't a chatbot
Chat assumes you already know what to ask. Planark is built for the moment you don't.
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