Here's a weird truth about travel: you forget most of it.
Not immediately...but give it a year, and those three weeks in Portugal become a handful of mental snapshots and a camera roll you never open.
Most people's travel "archive" is:
- 847 photos in a folder called "Portugal 2024"
- A few Instagram stories that expired
- Scattered voice notes they'll never listen to
- Memories that fade faster than they'd like to admit
What actually works:
The people who remember their travels well tend to do a few things differently:
1. **They journal in the moment** — even just one sentence per day
2. **They attach context to photos** — captions, locations, who was there
3. **They revisit** — looking back is what cements memories
The problem? Doing all this manually is a faff. Nobody wants to maintain a Notion database while standing on a cliff in Iceland.
Enter TripMemo:
TripMemo is a travel memory app that turns trips into digital "TripBooks" — think collaborative travel journals that actually look beautiful and feel worth revisiting.
The bits that make it different:
- Real-time collaboration — everyone on the trip adds to the same book, so you get the full picture (not just your perspective)
- Works offline — essential for flights and remote spots
- Visual-first design — polaroid-style memories, not a list of files
- Maps that show where you've been — every memory pinned to the world
It's less "photo storage" and more "travel scrapbook meets time capsule."
Why you would love TripMemo
Trips are expensive. Not just in money—in time, energy, coordination. You probably take 2-3 meaningful trips a year if you're lucky. Seems worth remembering them properly.