Glossary

SEL (on your Packlist)

Short for Selected — "I'm bringing this." Checking it puts the item on your list for this trip. Open your Packlist.

SEL (on your Tasklist)

Same three letters, different job. Here it means "this task is on my list." Unchecking it removes the task from the trip entirely — DONE, Doing and any group request go with it, and re-checking starts it over from scratch. On the Packlist, unchecking SEL only clears flags; the item stays. Open your Tasklist.

PKD

Short for Packed — "it's in the bag." Checking PKD checks SEL for you, so you can go straight to it. Packlist only.

DONE

The Tasklist's equivalent of PKD — "finished." Checking it checks SEL for you.

Bringing

A third box, in the ⋮ menu, that starts already checked. Uncheck it to keep an item on your list but flag it (not bringing) — struck through, and left out of the progress bar's total. Nothing else marks an item that way.

Doing

The Tasklist's counterpart to Bringing, also in the ⋮ menu and also checked by default. Uncheck it to park a task: it shows (not doing) and goes struck through, but still counts toward your progress total.

The SEL cascade

Unchecking SEL on the Packlist also clears PKD and Bringing for that item — packing progress goes with it. Your Buy flag survives.

Buy

A per-item flag in the ⋮ menu. It sends the item to your Shopping List and selects the item, so something you weren't taking joins your packlist. It's also the switch for the green "where to buy" rows — products only ever appear under Buy-flagged items.

Request from Group

On a shared trip, moves an item or task off your list into 👥 Group Items / 👥 Group Tasks until a companion claims it. A (requested) row is not struck through — someone else still has it.

Important / low priority

Every item and task carries an importance — Important, normal, or low priority — which you set per item on Configure Items (or Configure Tasks). The checklist does not color it: hover or focus a row's checkbox to hear or see its level, or use Group By → Importance or Sorting → Importance in Options to bring the important rows together. A red ⋮ means a selected row is flagged (buy) or (not bringing) — still waiting on a decision.

Packlist

Things you take. Belongs to one trip, saved to your account, and tracks what you've packed. Open it.

Tasklist

Things you do. Also per-trip, but organized by Timing — weeks ahead, days ahead, day of, on arrival, after you're home. Open it.

Quicklist

A preview, not a list. Pick tags and see what PacklistPRO would suggest, with no trip involved. Checks are a scratch pad kept in this browser only — nothing is written to your account, so another device starts empty. Use ＋ Send these to a trip to make any of it real. Open it.

Shopping List

Things you need to buy. The odd one out: it belongs to your account, not a trip, and it fills up from the Buy flag on any trip's items. Open it.

Timing

When a task or item belongs in your run-up. On the Tasklist, Group By → Timing puts the most urgent first — Last Minute, Day Of, Day Before, Days Before, Weeks Before, Months Before — then When I Arrive and When I Return. Your Packlist runs those first six the other way round.

Itinerary · Notes · Expenses

The rest of a trip: your flights, drives and stops; anything you want to remember; and what it all cost. Each is per-trip. See them all on the Trip Dashboard.

Trip Tags

What you'll be doing — beach, hiking, business, kids, pets, and so on. Tags are how PacklistPRO knows what to recommend: they drive the Recommended Items and Recommended Tasks filters. Without them those filters fall back to showing the whole catalog. Set them on Edit Trip.

Recommended Items / Tasks

A filter (under ⚙ Options & Filters) that narrows a list to just what matches this trip's Trip Tags, instead of the full catalog. Carrying any one of your tags is enough — so more tags means more results, not fewer. Recommended Items asks for one thing more: the item has to be marked required or useful for that particular tag, which is what keeps a beach trip from recommending every item that merely mentions the sea. Because that flagging is already a curation, Recommended Items ignores your Detail Level — you get every recommendation whichever level you are on. Recommended Tasks is still the plain tag match, and still respects Detail Level.

Items I've Packed Before

A Packlist filter (under ⚙ Options & Filters, in View) built from your own history rather than from the catalog: every item you have ticked PKD on any of your other trips. It counts PKD only — selecting an item (SEL) doesn't put it here until you actually pack it — and it ignores the trip you're looking at, so packing something now doesn't add it to its own history. It needs no Trip Tags, which makes it the one recommendation you still get on a trip that has none. Recommended + Items I've Packed Before is the two lists together: what this kind of trip needs, plus what you always take. When you pick Items I've Packed Before, the Packlist offers to select every item on it that isn't selected for this trip yet — tick the confirmation box, then untick whatever you don't need this time. Like Recommended Items, both ignore your Detail Level.

Tasks I've Done Before

A Tasklist filter (under ⚙ Options & Filters, in Filter) built from your own history: every task you have ticked DONE on any of your other trips. It counts DONE only — putting a task on a trip (SEL) doesn't add it here until you finish it — and it ignores the trip you're looking at. It needs no Trip Tags and ignores your Detail Level. When you pick it, the Tasklist offers to select every task on it that isn't on this trip yet — tick the confirmation box, then untick whatever you don't need this time.

Share Packlist / Share Tasklist

Two ticks on Edit Trip that let your trip companions look at your list. Turn one on and your name appears in their Companion's Packlist (or Companion's Tasklist) filter, which narrows their list to the items or tasks that are on both of yours — handy for "are we both bringing a tent?". It is strictly view-only: nobody can tick, add or change anything of yours, and anything you added yourself stays private because it was never in their catalog to begin with. The two are separate decisions, they apply to that trip only, and unticking takes the access away immediately. Not to be confused with Request from Group, which moves one item off your list onto the shared board for someone to claim.

Trip Link Code

A short code generated once per trip that never changes. Give it to a travel companion and they enter it in Join a Trip on their Home page, which sends a request the organizer approves on Edit Trip. Each of you keeps your own trip, joined into a shared group. An emailed invitation needs no approval — accepting it on Home links it to one of your own trips. Pasted under Linking a trip on Edit Trip instead, the code only connects the two trips' shared notes: no group, no approval.

Group Items / Group Tasks

The shared pool on a trip with companions. Anything you Request from Group waits here until someone claims it — tasks with I'll Do It. On an item, Not Bringing tells every companion you’re not planning to bring it.

Trip Dashboard

One overview of a single trip — countdown, progress, tags, and a fast way into every part of it. Open it.

Detail Level

How much of the catalog you see: Short List (essentials only), Standard, or Full Catalog (everything). It is one account-wide setting, not one per page — changing it on Configure Items changes it on your Packlist too. Expected something that isn't there? Raise the level.

Always Bring / Always Do

Marks an item or task to be added already checked to every trip you create from now on — passport, phone charger, that sort of thing. It does not touch trips that already exist.

Configure Items / Configure Tasks

Where you set your own defaults across the whole catalog at once — Importance, When to Pack, Always Bring. All three start switched off. Configure Items · Configure Tasks.

Site Mode

How much of the interface you see: Simple, Standard, or Everything. Separate from Detail Level, which is about the catalog. Set it in Preferences.

Search vs. Filter

Not the same thing. On your Packlist and Tasklist, typing in the search box ignores your filters, Status and Detail Level and searches everything — every word you type, in any order. Clear the box to get your filters back. (On Configure Items, Detail Level still limits search.)

Products

The green "where to buy" rows. On your Packlist they appear only under items you've flagged Buy, whatever the Products setting is in Options — except while a search is active, when any matching item shows its products.

Carry-On

The bag you keep with you in the cabin. Size and liquid limits vary by airline; anything valuable, fragile or irreplaceable belongs here. Carry-on guide.

Checked Bag

The bag that travels in the hold. Assume you won't see it until you arrive — and sometimes later than that.

Personal Item

The smaller bag most airlines let you bring in addition to a carry-on — a backpack, tote or laptop bag that fits under the seat.

Packing Cubes

Zippered fabric boxes that divide a suitcase into compartments, so you can find one thing without unpacking everything. Packing-cube guide.

3-1-1 Rule

The usual carry-on liquids limit: containers of 3.4 oz / 100 ml or less, in 1 clear quart-size bag, 1 bag per passenger. Confirm with your airport — it varies.

Capsule Wardrobe

A small set of clothes chosen so everything works with everything else — the usual way to cut a packlist down without running out of outfits.

Layering

Packing several thin garments instead of one thick one, so you can adapt to a range of temperatures with less bulk.

Base Weight

The weight of your pack without food, water and fuel — the part you can actually plan down. Hiking term.

Dry Bag

A roll-top waterproof sack for anything that must stay dry — electronics, documents, a change of clothes.

Universal Adapter

Changes your plug's shape to fit foreign sockets. It does not change the voltage — that needs a converter, and most modern chargers don't need one. International guide.