Plan Your Trip in Focused Sessions (With Wandering Hermit + Foci)

Trip planning looks fun until you open seventeen browser tabs, compare flights for two hours, and still have not booked anything. The problem is rarely the itinerary — it is sustained focus on boring but essential tasks.

This guide pairs two free tools from our product family:

• Wandering Hermit — AI trip planner plus curated day-by-day guides for Europe and Asia
• Foci — Pomodoro timer, tasks, Smart Plan, and a Trip Planning task template

Plan the route on Wandering Hermit. Execute the prep in focused sessions on Foci.

Step 1: Build your itinerary on Wandering Hermit

Start at wanderinghermit.com:

1. Enter your destinations and trip length (up to 14 days).
2. Generate a custom AI itinerary or browse a curated guide (France, Japan, Portugal, Spain & Portugal, and more).
3. Email the plan to yourself or keep it open in a tab.

You now have the what — days, cities, and activities. Foci handles the when you actually do the work.

Step 2: Load tasks into Foci

Open Foci and choose one of three paths:

Option A — Trip Planning template (fastest)

1. Open the task panel menu → Templates.
2. Select Trip Planning ✈️.
3. Foci creates nine pre-built tasks (visa research, flights, hotels, itinerary review, etc.).

Option B — Import CSV from Wandering Hermit

On any Wandering Hermit itinerary page or after generating an AI plan, click Download planning tasks (CSV). Then in Foci:

1. Settings → Import & Export Tasks
2. Upload the CSV
3. Tasks appear with titles like “Review itinerary — Day 3: Kyoto temples”

Option C — Manual list

Add tasks yourself: one Pomodoro per booking decision beats an unstructured “plan trip tonight” block.

Step 3: Run Pomodoro sessions on real work

Assign one task per focus block:

| Task | Suggested timer | |------|-----------------| | Compare flights | Classic Pomodoro (25 min) | | Review full itinerary | Deep Work (50 min) | | Book hotels for 3 cities | 2–3 Pomodoros | | Print cheat sheet / insurance | Short Sprint (15 min) |

Select a task in Foci, turn on brown noise or lo-fi if it helps, and press Start. When the timer ends, take the break — then pick the next booking task.

Use Smart Plan if tasks have due dates: Foci schedules them across the days before departure.

Why this pairing works

• Wandering Hermit reduces decision fatigue on where to go and what to do each day.
• Foci reduces decision fatigue on when to do the admin — flights, insurance, reservations.
• Together they separate creative planning from execution, which is how most people actually finish trip prep.

Quick checklist before you leave

• [ ] Itinerary saved or emailed from Wandering Hermit
• [ ] Flights and main hotels booked
• [ ] Inter-city transport reserved where needed
• [ ] Language cheat sheet downloaded (French, Spanish, etc.)
• [ ] Travel insurance and emergency contacts noted
• [ ] One final Pomodoro to re-read Days 1–2

Start now

1. Build your itinerary on Wandering Hermit →
2. Open Foci and apply the Trip Planning template →

Both are free, work in the browser, and require no signup to get started.