

You can also add your phone calendar to the app, so you can see and manage everything in one place.

You can filter events and attraction by type, date, location or time, view them on a map and add them to your Facebook calendar, so it’s simple to control what you see and keep track of what you’re interested in. Some of these will be from friends and pages that you follow, but it will also dig up other local public events, so you’re likely to discover things that you wouldn’t have found on your main Facebook feed. It links to your Facebook account then shows a bunch of events listed on Facebook that are near your current or home location, or another place of your choice. Polarsteps is also nice to look at, easy to use and completely free, making it near essential for anyone who wants a visual record of their trips.įacebook Local (opens in new tab) is all about finding events and attractions nearby. You can keep your trips private or share them with friends and family, and by following people in the app you can see their journeys as they happen. This might sound like it would hammer your phone’s battery, but in fact Polarsteps is designed to only use around 4% each day and it doesn’t even need to be connected to the internet, which is ideal if you’re traveling somewhere where data costs extra. You can make trips manually and add any photos it missed, but creating trips automatically means you’ll have at least a partial record of your adventures without doing anything. The app will track where you’ve been and add photos from your travels, giving you a map and gallery of all your trips, simply by having the app running in the background on your phone.

There are all sorts of apps designed for journaling your travels, but Polarsteps (opens in new tab) can do much of the work automatically.
