Vision boards

Vision boards are a freeform canvas for the before of a trip. Drop in places, hotels, flights, cards, and stickers; group them; react, comment, tally the budget; and when you're ready, turn the board into a real trip in one click.

Creating a board

From the Boards tab, click New board. Give it a name (e.g. Italy summer 2026), and optionally a destination and currency. Boards are independent of trips — you can materialize one into a trip later.

Item types

A board item is one of five types:

• Card — a text-only sticky note. Pick between note (free-form) and activity (things to do). Optional estimated cost rolls up into the board budget.
• Location — a place card with name, address, coordinates, and an optional photo. Search a place to add; Google Places details can be hydrated automatically.
• Hotel — an accommodation idea with name, address, check-in/out, price range, and booking URL.
• Flight — a route idea with origin, destination, date, airline.
• Availability — a shared coordination card for travel windows (one per board). Each collaborator adds the date ranges they're free; overlap is computed client-side.

For image stickers (GIFs, photos), use the sticker flow — search Giphy inside the board, or paste any public image URL. Giphy images are linked directly; other URLs are fetched and re-hosted to yumo's CDN for durability.

Drag any item to reposition; resize from the corners.

Groups

Select multiple items and click Group to bundle them. Groups have a name, color, and optional icon. Use Auto-layout to tile a messy group into a tidy grid.

Each item belongs to at most one group (single-group invariant) — adding an item to a group removes it from any previous group automatically.

Connections

Draw a dotted line between two items by hovering an edge and dragging onto another item. Good for expressing "if X then Y" — flight to Rome → hotel in Trastevere.

Reactions

Click the reaction button on any item to leave a lightweight signal — no comment required. Six emojis are available:

• heart — love it
• fire — let's do it
• eyes — worth a look
• thumbs_up — approve
• ban — no-go, flag as rejected
• question — needs discussion

Reactions are per-user and toggle — click again to remove yours. Everyone on the board sees the running count.

Comments

Each item has its own comment thread. Click the comment icon to open it; comments are plain text up to 4000 characters. Add comments to explain why an item is here, flag trade-offs, or loop in a specific collaborator.

Comments added by Scout are tagged Assistant so collaborators can tell human context from AI reasoning.

Budget

Any item can carry an estimated cost. Open the Budget panel on the board to see totals grouped by — you guessed it — group, plus an "ungrouped" bucket for loose items. All totals are shown in the board's currency (default USD; change it in the board settings).

This is the cleanest way to answer "how much is the Italy plan if we skip Sicily?" — put Sicily items in their own group and read the per-group totals.

Collaboration

Boards have their own collaborator list (separate from trip collaborators). Click Invite and pick a role:

• Editor — can add, edit, and delete items, groups, connections.
• Viewer — read-only, but can still react and comment.

Collaborators see each other's edits live. Pending invites sit in the invitee's invitation inbox until accepted.

Materializing into a trip

When the board is ready, pick the items (or whole groups) you want to keep and click Materialize → Create trip. yumo:

• Creates a new trip with the name, destination, and dates you choose.
• Turns activity cards and location items into bucket-list entries.
• Turns hotel and flight items into draft logistics.
• Turns note cards into trip notes.
• Skips availability items (they're board-only coordination).

The board itself stays intact so you can iterate in parallel.

Archiving

Done with a board but want to keep the inspiration? Archive it from the board menu. Archived boards stay searchable via the Show archived toggle; unarchive any time. Permanent deletion is available in the UI but is owner-only and not reversible.