Your trip is not a spreadsheet.
Spreadsheets are brilliant at numbers and rubbish at Tuesday. They don’t know a café from a museum, how far apart two places are, or that the museum is shut on Mondays.
- Adding a place
Partly. A spreadsheet: Type it into a cell; the address and hours are yours to look up
Yes. Ampersand: Type the name: it finds it on the map, with its address, hours and website
- Shaping a day
No. A spreadsheet: Rows in the order you typed them
Yes. Ampersand: Drag plans onto days; walking times and a shorter order worked out
- Opening hours
No. A spreadsheet: Only if you checked
Yes. Ampersand: “Closed Mondays” on the stop, with a one-tap move to a day it’s open
- On your phone
Partly. A spreadsheet: Pinch, zoom, scroll sideways
Yes. Ampersand: Made for a phone, and works with no signal at all
- Tickets and bookings
No. A spreadsheet: A link in a cell, the PDF somewhere else
Yes. Ampersand: The ticket sits on the stop it’s for, offline
- Planning together
Partly. A spreadsheet: Everyone edits; nobody knows who changed what
Yes. Ampersand: Everyone adds and votes; recent changes show who did what
- Sums and splitting costs
Yes. A spreadsheet: Any formula you can write
Partly. Ampersand: Costs per day, a budget bar, and who owes whom
Where a spreadsheet is better
- Any calculation you can dream up
- Total control over layout
- Already on everyone’s computer
Switching takes a minute
Paste the column of place names into the inbox: each line becomes a plan and fills itself in.
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Can I bring my spreadsheet in?
Copy the column of names and paste it into the inbox or a day: one plan per line, each looked up on the map.
Can I get it back out?
Money exports every expense as a spreadsheet, and the whole trip exports any time.