The Trip Book — turning a trip into something you’ll keep

Most photo books start the same way: you open the photo book tool, drag in a hundred images, fight with the layout for an hour, give up. The output is fine but the process taught you nothing about your own trip.

Atlas does the layout for you, in the same shape your trip had. The Trip Book is built straight from the structure you’ve already entered: cover photo, dates, the cities you stopped in, the places inside each city, and the photos anchored to those places. One click, a PDF appears.

What’s inside

• A typeset cover page with the trip title, dates, and your chosen cover image.
• A short AI-drafted narrative — the shape of the trip in plain English, the kind of paragraph you’d send to your parents after you got home.
• A day-by-day section: each day is a stop, the places, the photos at those places, in the order you walked them.
• A “Places” index at the back — every spot you marked, alphabetized, with a back-reference to the day.

Why it’s a separate artifact

A web view is for browsing. A book is for finishing. The moment a trip becomes a book, it’s done — you stop editing it, you put it on the shelf, you come back in five years and the Hokkaido week is exactly as you left it. The digital version stays editable on your atlas; the book is the closed memory.

Print it if you want

We’re working on direct print fulfillment via Lulu. Until then, the PDF is the artifact — open it in Preview, send it to a print-on-demand service, or just keep it as a clean digital archive. It’s designed for both.