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Packhacker

Packhacker is Oikonotes' native trip-planning workspace: keep your travel closet, reusable loadouts, travel groups, trips, and packing progress together in one place.

What Packhacker Covers

  • Track travel inventory with wishlist, shared, worn, consumable, and modification-aware weight handling.
  • Build reusable loadouts, attach them to trips, and generate persisted packing checklists.
  • Save reusable travel groups with members and shared gear, then apply them to a trip when the same people travel together again.
  • Copy people and shared items from an earlier trip when you need a one-off fallback instead of a reusable group.
  • Plan routes, save coordinates, and refresh live Met Office forecasts without leaving the trip board.
  • Sync a trip into native Oikonotes Calendar, Shopping, Projects, and Budget surfaces from the same workspace.

Suggested Flow

  1. Capture or import the gear you already own into Packhacker inventory.
  2. Build a loadout for the kinds of trips you repeat.
  3. Create reusable groups for the people and shared gear you travel with often.
  4. Create a trip, attach one or more loadouts, then apply the right group.
  5. Adjust trip-specific participants or shared items only when this plan needs something different.
  6. Add route coordinates, then refresh the forecast when you need live weather.
  7. Use Sync workspace to create the supporting calendar event, shopping list, prep project, and budget category.

Groups vs. Copying From a Trip

  • Use groups for recurring travel companions and shared gear you expect to reuse.
  • Copy from a trip when the participant mix was specific to a single journey and does not deserve its own reusable group.
  • After either action, review participant statuses and shared items before sending trip invites.

Weather Forecasts

Forecast refresh uses the Met Office sitespecific three-hourly API. Travel stores the fetched summary plus the raw forecast snapshot so trip planning can stay lightweight while keeping provider parity.

Settings

Packhacker has a dedicated settings page at Settings > Packhacker. Use it for import defaults today, then return to Packhacker to manage inventory, groups, loadouts, and trips.