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l-nemu/travelminimal

17SwiftAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5ActiveSetup · moderate

TLDR

An iOS SwiftUI app for keeping a minimal personal travel journal, with budget planning, daily logs, a map view, and data export across four tabs.

Mindmap

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    Inputs
      Trip dates
      Budget and spending
      Daily notes
    Outputs
      Calendar of trips
      Account summary
      Exported records
    Use Cases
      Plan a trip budget
      Log spending while travelling
      Review past trips
    Tech Stack
      Swift
      SwiftUI
      Xcode

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Plan a trip budget and track planned transport costs in the Preparation tab

USE CASE 2

Log daily spending and itinerary notes on a map while travelling

USE CASE 3

Review past trips on a calendar and export the records

USE CASE 4

Use the project as a SwiftUI reference for tab-based, store-backed apps

Tech stack

SwiftSwiftUIXcode

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Needs Xcode on macOS to build, and the README and UI strings are in Chinese.

In plain English

TravelMinimal is an iOS app written in Swift and SwiftUI for keeping a personal record of trips. The README is short and in Chinese, and it describes a deliberately minimal interface for logging where a person goes, what they spend, and what they did, with the ability to export those records later. The repository is an Xcode project rather than a packaged product, so a developer needs Xcode and an Apple platform to build and run it. The code is organized into clear top-level folders. An App folder holds the routing setup and a root tab view, which is the bottom tab bar that switches between four main pages. A Core folder defines the data models, including travel logs, spending records, and archive entries with support for serialization and comparison, and a Store object that holds the global travel data and handles saving, loading, and exporting. Four feature pages sit under a Features folder. A Calendar page shows trips on a calendar, supports selecting a date range, and lets the user look up the log for any single day. A Preparation page is used before a trip to set a budget, track planned costs, and fill in transport details. A During page is used while travelling and combines a map, daily spending, budget statistics, and per-day itinerary notes that the user can swipe between. A PostTrip page wraps up the journey with an account summary, data export, and a list of past trips. The TravelMinimalApp file is the program entry point that wires together global state, the root page, and environment configuration. Screenshots from on-device testing are included alongside the project.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Open TravelMinimal in Xcode and run it on the iOS simulator
Prompt 2
Walk me through how the Store object in TravelMinimal handles save, load, and export
Prompt 3
Add a new currency option to the spending model in TravelMinimal
Prompt 4
Replace the Calendar tab in TravelMinimal with a timeline view
Prompt 5
Translate the TravelMinimal README from Chinese to English
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