The ticket that never was an email

Start with what this isn’t, because it will save you a download.

If you want an itinerary, use a trip planner. TripIt, Kayak Trips and the rest work by reading your confirmation emails and building a timeline of the trip. Keeplea doesn’t read your email and doesn’t build itineraries. For a complicated trip with six legs, they’re the right tool and we aren’t.

What they leave behind

The bookings that never arrived as an email in the first place:

• The PDF a friend sent you in a message, for four seats under their name
• The paper ticket, the cloakroom stub, the wristband slip with a code on it
• The parking reservation for the airport, printed at the desk
• The museum entry card, the ferry booking, the ski pass
• The confirmation someone read to you over the phone while you wrote it on the back of something

None of these get near a trip planner, because there’s no email to forward. They end up in a camera roll, in a chat thread, or in a bag.

Share it in, once

Wherever the ticket is, use the share button and pick Keeplea. A PDF and a photograph go in the same way, and the whole file is kept, so the barcode is still a barcode when you open it.

Keeplea reads it and builds a card from what is on it — the date, the place, the name, the reference. Ask for it later the way you would describe it to a person: the ferry booking, the parking at the airport, the tickets Sam sent.

One booking is one thing

A family’s four tickets in one PDF stay one item, however many pages. That’s how you’ll think of it when you go looking, and splitting it into four would only mean finding four things instead of one.

Alongside your wallet, not instead of it

Apple Wallet and Google Wallet hold the passes that scan at a gate, and they’re better at that than anything else. Keep using them.

This is for everything that wouldn’t go in a wallet: the reservation with the seat numbers, the booking reference someone will ask you for, the ticket that’s a PDF and always will be.

The rest of the trip

The same share button takes the hotel confirmation, and the same camera takes the parking level, the room number, the wifi card, and the sign at the trailhead. What you photographed while you were away gathers itself into a trip on its own, which is a nicer way to find it a year later than scrolling.