Morning, afternoon and evening are stops on the same line
The parts of the day used to cut the timeline in three. They are now bars set on the rail itself, the rail drawn in the same ink as the route on the map, so a day reads as one line from where you wake up to your last stop.
A day on TripBudget is one sequence: where you sleep, where you eat, what you see and how you get from one to the next, on a single rail. The headings for the morning, the afternoon and the evening were the one thing not on it. Each sat in its own tinted box, the rail stopped above it and started again below, and the day looked like three lists stacked up.
- Each part of the day is a bar the width of the day, in its own colour, with a low sun, a high sun or a moon set right on the rail's line and its name beside it. The rail runs into the bar and out again, so the parts of the day are plainly part of the timeline rather than boxes stacked beside it. The day opens on Morning, and the stay you wake up in is its first stop.
- Every stop is two lines: its name, then what it is and what it costs together. Stops used to run from one line to four, so the rail's nodes fell wherever the text ended; now they fall at an even beat, and the directions link beside each connection wears the glyph Google Maps uses for it. The parts of the day wear Google's sun, sunset and moon.
- Each part of the day says which hours it covers under its name, in your own clock, so where a stop lands is never a guess. The stay you wake up in opens the day under it, its name a press away from the map like every other stop.
- The rail is the route's own colour, the indigo the map draws your day in, so the list and the map are plainly one drawing. It used to switch between grey, dotted and blue to describe the ride between two stops, and the map dashed every ride; both read as several lines. The way between two stops now sits beside the line in a soft pill of the route's colour, its facts in grey with a small glyph for its mode and Directions at its right, so the line's nodes are the places alone, and the line is one line. The way into each new city, in the itinerary, is the same pill. On the map only a leg too long for a road, a flight or a long train, is still dashed, drawn as the great circle it follows.
- The rail sets out from the stay you wake up in and ends at your last stop. In the editor an empty part of the day keeps its node and its Add, and the line carries on to the next part when there is one.
- Nothing moved for your hands or your screen reader: the headings are still headings, the Now marker still sits on the part of today you are in, Add is still on the right of each heading, and dragging into an empty part of the day works as before.
The itinerary is a list of days
On a shared trip the itinerary used to be a list of cards that opened in place, one at a time, which made it hard to tell the whole trip from the day you were reading. It is now one row per day, the day's number, city, date and cost with how many stops it holds and how far it goes underneath, and pressing a row opens that day. The same rows the editor uses, with the number in the route's colour.
A budget for each day
The total at the right of the panel header is now a button, on the itinerary and on a day alike, and under the date the header says how many stops there are and about how long and how far you are on the move. Press it for the budget, laid out the same in both: the total, then what went on the stay, food, rides and activities, each with its share. The line of category totals that used to sit above the timeline is gone, so the day starts on its first stop. And Free reads as a soft tint now, not a block.
The same timeline draws every shared trip in the community, so a day you copy looks exactly like the one you edit.