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Tips and guides for capturing the places you discover, turning them into plans and trips with friends, and keeping the memories worth going back for.
62 articles · 4 topics
Discovery & Hidden Gems
Find places worth going — and capture them before they disappear.
7 articles
Planning & Collections
Turn what you have captured into plans, collections, and trips.
46 articles
Travel & Destinations
Plan the trip, live it, and bring the memories home with you.
4 articles
College Life
Campus gems, student budgets, and weekend adventures.
5 articles
Latest
How to Get Parents to Reply About a School Trip
Chasing thirty parents for a headcount, drivers and permission? How to run a school trip so the replies land in one place and parents install nothing.
Run a Team Season Without Three Group Chats
Fixtures, kit, lifts and who is actually turning up on Saturday. How to run a team season without three group chats, with parents who install nothing.
How to Organise a Beach Bonfire That Moves
How to organise a beach bonfire when the spot keeps moving: publish a Live Beacon, re-pin it in one tap, and let everyone find the fire. Free.
How to Run a College Club Without a Facebook Group
How to run a college club without a Facebook group: a Beacon gives the society a page, a printable QR code and followers before term starts. Free.
Invite People to a House Party Without Posting It
How to invite people to a house party without posting it publicly: an unlisted Beacon page shared as a card. Anyone with the link sees the address.
A Shared To-Do App for Couples, Minus the Nagging
A shared to do app for couples: a task is accepted or declined, one person owns it, and the reminders do the chasing instead of you. Free, both of you.
From the knowledge base
How Collections work in Blinko
Collections group the Spots you have captured — by trip, by mood, by whatever you will actually search for later. How to make one, how to add to it, and when a Collection beats a Trip.
What Discover Nearby shows you, and what it does not
Nearby now answers one question: what is around me right this minute. How the radius and categories behave, where the results come from, and why it is not the same as your Follow tab.
How check-in works, and what it does not do
Check-in tells the people on a plan that you have arrived. It is a message you choose to send, not a location anyone can follow. When it opens, why it sometimes refuses, and what it never does.
How to turn saved Spots into a Trip
A Trip strings Spots into stops you move through in your own order. How to build one, what Start actually does on the day, and what Blinko deliberately leaves to your maps app.
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