Tips

• Try before signing up. Visit Home as an anonymous user and you'll see a fully populated demo trip. Click around — the demo is read-only, but everything else works.
• Install it like an app. On phone or desktop, use your browser's “Install” or “Add to Home Screen” option. PacklistPRO is a Progressive Web App (PWA), so installed copies launch full-screen and work offline.
• One free account, unlimited trips. Create a free account — no payment, no ads, no upsells. You can make as many trips as you want.
• Pick your detail level. See the Modes & detail levels section below. You can switch any time with the Detail Level selector on your Packlist or Tasklist.

• Duplicate, don't restart. On All Trips, duplicate a similar past trip rather than building a new packlist from scratch — items, tasks, and tags carry over. Dates and descriptions reset so you can fill them in fresh. You choose whether to clear the item and task statuses too — keep them to make a backup, clear them to start the packing fresh.
• Use BACKUP and TEMPLATE in trip names. Trip names containing BACKUP or TEMPLATE sort to the bottom of your trip list automatically, so your current trips stay on top.
• Trip Dashboard is your home base. Trip Dashboard shows packing progress, upcoming tasks, and recent notes for the selected trip on one page.
• Your last trip is remembered. The trip you last viewed is restored automatically the next time you login — even after you log out and back in.

• Mark items “Always bring.” From the Configure Items page, check Always bring for items you take on every trip. They'll be added automatically when you duplicate a trip or quick-start a new one.
• Find the important items without hunting. Importance is set per item on Configure Items, and the checklist deliberately draws every checkbox the same so nothing shouts at you. To act on it, open Options and set Group By or Sorting to Importance — the important rows come to the top together.
• Tag-based suggestions. Add a trip tag like Beach or International and the relevant items appear automatically — sunblock, passport, adapters, and so on.
• The ⋮ menu has the hidden options. Each item row has a kebab menu with quantity steppers, alternate quantities (bringing / packed / buy / requested), and a remove-from-trip option.
• Quick-add at the bottom of each group. Type a new item name in the quick-add box at the bottom of any group to add a custom item directly to your trip.
• Email yourself the list. ✉ Email to Me at the bottom of your Packlist sends it to your own account address — useful if you're packing in a different room from your laptop. To get it to a co-traveler, share the trip instead, or use 🖨 Print / PDF and send the file yourself.

• Schedule by timing, not by date. Tasks are organized by weeks before, day before, day-of, when you arrive, and when you return — so the same template works for every trip.
• Mark tasks “Always do.” Like packlist items, you can flag tasks you do for every trip (refill prescriptions, hold mail, set out-of-office) so they auto-add when you start a new trip.
• Strike-through shows what's done. Completed tasks stay visible with a line through them so you can see progress without losing the full list.
• Sort and group different ways. Group by timing or importance, sort A–Z or by importance — your preference is remembered per device.

• Attach a date to a note. Use the date field for itinerary items like “Tuesday: 6pm dinner at Joe's, confirmation 4837.” Dated notes show a badge so they're easy to find.
• Share notes with co-travelers. Mark a note as Shared so anyone who has the trip's share link can see it — useful for joint packing lists or shared confirmations.
• Don't lose work. If you've edited a note and navigate away without saving, your browser warns you so you can save first.
• Print or email a full notes packet. The print view of your notes bundles them in one document, perfect for printing or sending to yourself before a flight.

Yes — any number of trips, and you have granular control. Once two or more trips are linked, you can request items or tasks from the group. Anyone in the group can create Notes, Expenses, or Itinerary items that are private or shared. You can also share read-only access to your packlist or tasklist if you'd like.

The process works like this:

1. Go to Edit Trip → Trip Link, then send the Trip Link Code to your buddies by email or however you want.
2. Your buddy receives the email and clicks the Review & Accept button, which takes them to the site (they login if necessary).
3. On the Home page, under Trip Invitations, they click Accept, then select their own trip they want to link it to — or let the site auto-create a trip for them.

A few variations:

• Already have an account? They don't even need to click the email — they can just go to the site and accept from Home.
• No account yet? They receive a welcome email instead. Once they join using that same email address, they can Review & Accept just like above.
• Have the code? If they were given the Trip Link Code, they can simply type or paste it into the Join a Trip box to join. Lots of options.
• Track who's in. The inviter can view the status of everyone they invited on Edit Trip → Trip Link — it shows who was invited and whether they accepted or declined.

• Short List — the bare-minimum checklist. Best for weekend trips and travelers who want one page and no clutter.
• Standard — the everyday default. Quantities, descriptions, and common items by category.
• Full Catalog — every option exposed: weight, volume, alternates, products, brands. For multi-week expeditions and gear nerds.
• Switch any time with the Detail Level selector on your Packlist or Tasklist. It is one account-wide setting reachable from several pages, not a per-page one — but it is per person, so you and your travel partner each pick your own.
• Two things ignore it on purpose: Quicklist (which has no Detail Level selector at all) and your Packlist's Recommended Items view. Both are already narrowed by Trip Tags, so they show every match whichever level you are on.
• Site Mode is a different setting — how much interface you see, rather than how much catalog. In Simple, PacklistPRO hides the display/sort/per-page controls on your Packlist, Tasklist and Shopping List, plus the Weather and Where-Am-I cards on Home. Nothing is switched off: whatever you had those controls set to still applies, you just aren't shown the dials. Set it in Preferences.

• Dark mode. Toggle dark/light in Preferences. The site remembers your choice across devices. Maps have their own Maps setting there — light by default, or dark.
• Font size. Small / medium / large is a one-click change in Preferences. Especially useful on small phones or for older eyes.

• Read it anywhere, save when you're back. Pages you've already opened keep working without a connection — review your packlist on the plane, read notes in a basement hotel. Saving needs a connection: while you're offline a banner says so and Save simply warns instead of writing, so check things off once you're back on signal.
• Install to home screen. Use your browser's “Install” or “Add to Home Screen” option. The installed app launches full-screen without browser chrome.
• Push & email reminders (already on). Reminders start enabled — visit Notifications to turn any of them off, or to subscribe this device for push. Email is what actually arrives by default; push additionally needs each browser subscribed. Nudges are timed to each item's weeks before, day before, and day-of window.
• Designed for thumbs. Every tap target is at least 44×44 pixels. Long dropdowns stay within the viewport on small screens.

• Back-to-top button. A small ↑ button appears in the bottom-right once you scroll down. One tap and you're back at the page header.
• Clearable search. The X button inside search boxes clears the input in one tap — faster than backspacing.
• Paste a whole address. On an Itinerary plan, the Starting Location on Edit Trip, or Add / Edit Park, paste the full address into the street box and it's split for you — City, State, Postal Code and Country fill in on their own. Outside the US and Canada, include the country. Tap Undo under the box if it guessed wrong.
• Most pages have a Tutorial. Where one exists, a floating ❓ button appears in the top-right corner — tap it for a quick guided tour of that page. If there's no ❓, that page has no tutorial yet. The full list is the Tutorials tab under More → ❓ Help.
• Sessions last a year. You stay logged in across browser restarts and idle periods — no need to login every visit. If your session ever does expire, the site offers to re-authenticate without losing your work.
• Quicklist for browsing. Quicklist lets you browse the full catalog of items and tasks by tag without picking a trip first — useful for research or building a personal master list. Your checks are kept as a scratch pad (in this browser only, and ✕ Clear Checkboxes empties it), and ＋ Send these to a trip copies whatever you've checked onto a real trip when you're ready.

• Forgot password? Use the Forgot Username or Password page. We email a single-use link, good for 45 minutes, where you choose the new password yourself — your current one keeps working until you do, so an email you didn't ask for can simply be ignored.
• We never sell or share your data. See Security & Privacy for the full breakdown of what we store and why.
• Track your support submissions. Contact Us Log shows the status of every bug report or feature request you've sent us.

A guided tour of PacklistPRO, in three parts — the essentials, then the day-to-day features, then tuning the app to fit you.