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Welcome back.

Life is better with something on the calendar.

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Friends

Your people, requests, invites, and messages.

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Profile

Your account, availability, and notifications.

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Calendar

Memories

Completed events, recaps, photos, Post-its, and the original event archive.

Reminders

Upcoming deadlines from every group and event, all in one place.

Add a friend

Search their exact PlanVenture username.

Friends

Friend requests

Choose a friend to start messaging.

Invitations

Group and event invitations waiting for you.

Your profile

Profile photo

JPG, PNG, WEBP, or GIF · up to 5 MB

Display name

Username

3–24 characters. Letters, numbers, and underscores only.

Appearance

Calendar & availability

Set the schedule PlanVenture uses when groups compare dates. Your detailed work pattern stays private.

Schedule type

Days you usually work

Shift starts

Shift ends

Week A work days

Week B work days

Pick a date in Week A

Typical shift

One-off unavailable dates

These override your normal schedule. Add appointments, trips, overtime, or anything else that makes a date unavailable.

Scan a calendar or work schedule

Upload a monthly calendar screenshot/photo. PlanVenture will separate real busy time from non-blocking entries like holidays, birthdays, payday, and reminders. Nothing is saved until you review it.

Calendar review

Check the interpretation before PlanVenture changes your availability.

Partial days are treated as busy by Best Date for now. Dates left as “Review” will not be saved.

Notifications

Choose what PlanVenture is allowed to notify you about. These preferences will also control phone push notifications once push is enabled on this device.

All notificationsMaster switch for PlanVenture notifications.

Phone notifications

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Analytics

Product health and AI spending. Internal/test accounts are excluded from product metrics but remain visible in AI costs.

Welcome message

This is the message new pilot users see the first time they enter PlanVenture.

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Body

Patch notes

Publish the newest patch note shown after login. Only the newest active patch is shown.

Release key

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Active

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PlanVenture pilot inbox

Private feedback, bugs, and ideas sent to @shawn.

Open

Needs attention

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Closed

Resolved reports

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What You Missed

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Group EventsPlanning, planned, and completed adventures.

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In Planning

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Planned

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Completed

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Live updates on

Group Feed

A shared space for ideas, updates, links, photos-in-spirit-for-now, and everyday group chatter.

Trip Reminders

Deadlines and shared to-dos for the whole multi-day trip, separate from any one day.

Meals

Every meal planned across the trip, pulled together from each day.

Things to Acquire

Everything the trip needs, pulled from each day. Claim a slot if you can bring or buy it.

Lodging

The shared place everyone is staying for this group or trip.

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PlanningLive · updated just now

Choose how much structure this event needs

This event was finalized before PlanVenture added Simple / Standard / Complex. Pick a complexity to continue into In Production.

Planner's Toolkit

Choose only the decisions this event actually needs. Each becomes a pinned action item in the Planning Feed.

Planning progress

Progress is based on the action items the creator selected.

Planning Feed

Ideas, polls, and conversation all live together. Pin anything the group needs to keep visible.

Planning is locked. The planning feed is preserved here as a read-only archive.

Official Plan

Planning locks

Creator only · optional. Add only the decisions this event needs.

Feed Board

Official updates, posts, pinned notes, and comments.

Things to Acquire

Gear, supplies, groceries, and anything else this event needs.

Reminders

Simple reminders for the event.

Lodging

Where you are staying for this event.

Original Event Archive

A read-only record of the original planning and event details.

Live Event LIVE

Today

What changed?

EVENT RECAPRecap

Building your recap…

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Original event · read onlyPlanning details are preserved exactly as they were.

Add car / transportation

Name

Type

From

To

Capacity

Notes

Assign members

Estimated gas cost

Estimate this car's fuel cost and split it evenly across the members assigned to the car.

Total trip miles

Vehicle MPG

California regular gas average ($/gal)

Prefilled from the California AAA regular-gas average on Sept. 13, 2026. You can update it before saving.

Enter miles and MPG to see the estimate.

Add day

Date

Day title

Day color

Notes optional

Add to day

Title

Start time optional

End time optional

Location optional

Details optional

Stay details

Property / hotel

Address

Check-in

Check-out

Confirmation / booking info

Notes

Edit day

Date

Day title

Theme / outfit

Notes

Color

Add to day

Add post

Post

Add to feed

Create a new password

This will become the password you use to log in to PlanVenture.

New password

Confirm password

Finish your PlanVenture profile

Pick the name your friends will see and a unique username they can use to find you.

Display name

Username

Letters, numbers, underscores. 3–24 characters.

Profile photo (optional — you can add it later)

Create group

Name

Description

Blend style

Quick palettes

Color 1

Color 2

Theme preview

PlanVenture Group

Your group will look like this.

Create event

Name

Description

This event is independent—it will not create or join a group. Invite friends with its private event link after you create it.

Also show this event in Groups

This does not attach the event to a group. It only gives the standalone event a card on your Groups tab.

Add to a group?

Choose a group, or leave this as a standalone event.

Trip day

This event becomes the workspace for that day of the trip.

When are you roughly planning this?

PlanVenture compares the saved availability of everyone currently in this group.

From

To

Color style

Quick palettes

Color 1

Color 2

Planner's Toolkit

Choose only the decisions this event actually needs. They will be pinned in the Planning Feed.

Custom planning item

What needs to be decided?

Lock in decision

Start date

End date

Final choice

Add meal

What is the meal?

Day

Choose which event day this meal belongs to.

Time

Estimated cost

$

Enter your own estimate for the whole meal.

Roles

One role per line. Add | number for available spots.

Notes (optional)

Assign members

Add trip reminder

Reminder

Due

Notes

Add reminder

Reminder

Due

Notes

Add thing to acquire

Item

Quantity / responsibility slots

Notes

Add placeholder person

Use this for someone who will never need a PlanVenture account.

Name

Create in Planning Feed

Choose what kind of post you want to add. Everything lands in the same feed.

Add activity idea

Activity

Details

Add poll

Type

Question

Options

Deadline (optional)

If set, PlanVenture can remind people before the poll closes.

Quick Event

Skip Planning and launch this event directly into In Production.

Add to group?

Leave this standalone, or attach it to one of your groups.

Event name

Description

Start date

End date

Start time

End time

Location

Theme / vibe (optional)

Budget (optional)

Complexity

Finalize event details

Lock the official details before choosing how much planning this event needs.

Start date

End date

Start time

End time

Location

Vibe

Budget

How much planning does this event need?

The planning phase is finished. Choose the workspace that fits this event. You can upgrade later.

Add post

Post

Pin this post

Members

Add friend to event

They will join this event only. They will not be added to the parent group.

Invite a friend

Only accepted PlanVenture friends appear here.

Planner's Toolkit

Choose which modules this event needs. Feed always stays on.

FeedAlways included ItineraryYour current itinerary PlanningMeals and experiences LodgingStay details, rooms, and beds TransportCars, rides, and assignments PackingYour current inventory / things to acquire

Planning team

Planning is private to the people you assign here. Members can be on Meals, Experiences, or both.

🍽️ Meals

✨ Experiences

Billable members

Meal and shared experience costs are split across the members selected here.

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Total event members

The real number attending, including people who are not on PlanVenture. Meal quantities use this number.

Billable event members

The real number sharing billable costs. This can include people who are not on PlanVenture.

Select the PlanVenture members below who should personally see billable costs in their “Your cost” bubble. The split itself uses the Billable event members number above.

Live Event info

Emergency contact

Important Live info

Live Event memories

Show memories during the eventWhen off, photos and Post-its stay hidden from attendees until Live Mode ends. Default is hidden.

Add experience

Type

Title

Day

Choose a trip day, or All days for general itinerary info. One-day events default to Day 1.

Time (optional)

Notes

Lodging cost

Member

Expected contribution

$

Your expected cost

A live estimate pulled from the modules that currently contain billable costs.

Experience cost

Choose whether this is a per-person cost or one total split across the event's billable members.

Cost method

Amount

$

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Welcome to PlanVenture!

Hi, Shawn here. Welcome to the pilot of PlanVenture: an app that brings plans to life.

A lot of this is a work in progress, and you may come back to things moved around. You are among the first to actually use this app.

Please provide feedback, bugs, and any ideas! Have fun and plan your next adventure.

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What’s new in PlanVenture

Friends

Requests and invitations in one place.

Notifications

Friend requests and group activity that needs your attention.

Pitch an idea

Keep it rough. You do not need an exact date yet.

Idea title

What are you thinking?

General timeframe

General location optional

Link optional

Campfire comments

Talk it through before it becomes a plan.

Interested

People who might be down.

Turn This Into a Plan

Interested people are preselected. Add or remove friends before sending invitations.

What are you planning?

Share an update, idea, or spontaneous plan with your friends.

Add a photo (optional)

Send Shawn a report

Tell me what broke, what feels confusing, or what would make PlanVenture better.

What kind of report is this?

Message

The current screen will be included automatically.

What are you thinking?

Keep it simple. “Burgers and pasta” is enough — we’ll turn it into a meal for the event headcount.

Meal idea

Any modifications?

Edit meal

What do you want to change?

Recipe

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Your event is happening now

PlanVenture will open into the live event while it’s happening.

What are you doing today?

You have more than one event live right now. Pick your primary event for today.

little moment ✎

Leave a Post-it

Live Event settings

Auto-open this Live EventTurn this off if you want PlanVenture to open at Base Camp instead.

Restore this event?

This reverses completion. If the event is still inside its Live window, Live Mode will reopen for attendees.

End Live Event for everyone?

Everyone will be moved to the Recap. New photos and Post-it notes can no longer be added.

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Stay in the loop?

PlanVenture can send useful updates like friend requests, invites, polls, and event reminders to this device.

Share with a friend

Send this Campfire pitch in a private message.