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Every way to save a place — never lose a spot again

Share it, forward it, paste it, or let the location log catch it. Whichever route a place takes to get into WayCrumb, it arrives complete — with a Places photo, address, rating, and hours — ready to organise into a trip or collection.

Four ways to save a place

Different moments call for different flows. All four end with the same complete pin.

Share from any app

Tap Share in Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Safari, or any browser and pick WayCrumb. The link is parsed on the fly — venue name, address, photo, rating, price level, and opening hours all come in populated. No copy-paste, no typing.

Best when you spot a place mid-scroll and want it saved in two taps.

Forward an email — with confirmation parsing

Forward newsletters, TripAdvisor lists, hotel confirmations, restaurant reservations, or a friend's recommendation email to your personal @waycrumb inbox. Our parser extracts every place mentioned, resolves each one against Google Places, and files it into the right trip or collection. Multi-place emails (a Time Out top-10, a curated city guide) turn into 10 clean pins in one forward.

Best for newsletters, itinerary confirmations, and long-form recommendations you don't want to retype.

Paste a link inside the app

Drop any URL — Google Maps, an Instagram reel, a blog post, a Reddit thread, a Substack — into a trip or collection. The link is fetched, the venue is identified, and the pin is created complete with a Places photo, address, and summary. No half-formed pins with a missing image.

Best when you're researching on desktop and want everything captured in one place.

Search & add inside the app

Use the in-app search to autocomplete against Google Places. Type a name, pick the match, and it lands on your trip with the exact same enrichment as every other path — never a bare title with no data behind it.

Best when you already know the name of the spot and want it in without leaving the app.

Deep dive

Email forwarding, with confirmation parsing

Your inbox is full of place recommendations you never act on. Newsletters, "best of" round-ups, hotel and restaurant confirmations, a friend forwarding you a Substack. Forward any of it to your personal WayCrumb alias and the parser does the rest.

  • Extracts every named place — 1 or 30 — from the email body
  • Resolves each name against Google Places for canonical data
  • Rejects anything outside your target trip's geographic bounds
  • Pulls a real Places photo, rating, price level, and opening hours
  • Sends you one summary of exactly which pins landed and where

Fwd: Time Out — 10 best in Lisbon

to lisbon-2026@waycrumb.co

Cervejaria Ramiro — Cais do Sodré

A Cevicheria — Príncipe Real

Manteigaria — Chiado

Miradouro da Graça — Graça

+6 more places parsed

All 10 pins added to Lisbon 2026 — with photos & hours.

When you save a place matters as much as how

WayCrumb is built around four moments — before a trip, between trips, mid-trip, and the easy-to-forget ones.

Ahead of a trip — building the plan

Weeks before you leave, save every restaurant, viewpoint, museum, and hidden gem you come across into the trip. Everything is bounded to the destination, so Jerusalem finds don't sneak into a Tokyo trip. When it's time to build days, you already have a rich pool of pins to cluster on the map.

Places you just like — Collections

Not every place belongs to a specific trip. Save "someday" spots, favorite bakeries, dream hotels, or a running list of coffee shops in your city into Collections — grouped by theme or city — and pull from them whenever a matching trip comes up.

Spontaneous finds while traveling

Walking past a place that looks incredible? Share it into today's trip in two taps. It gets pinned, geo-checked against the trip bounds, and shows up on your itinerary map with everyone else's finds. No more "wait, what was that place called?" the next morning.

Location log — the ones you'd have forgotten

The location log runs quietly while you travel and surfaces spots you stopped at but never pinned. A café you sat in for an hour. A shop where you bought something. A viewpoint you paused at. Each is presented as a suggestion — accept it and it joins the trip as a complete pin, so nothing gets lost to memory.

The pins you would have forgotten

The location log is the quiet safety net. When you get home and try to remember that little bookshop off the main square, WayCrumb already surfaced it — and you either saved it or dismissed it in the moment. Nothing gets lost between trip and memory.

Frequently asked questions

What happens when I forward an email with several places in it?

The parser reads the whole email, extracts each named place, geocodes them against Google Places, filters out anything outside your target trip's bounds, and creates one enriched pin per place — with photo, address, rating, price level, and hours. You'll get a single confirmation showing every pin that landed.

Do pins added by different methods look different?

No. Every pin — whether it came from a share, an email, a paste, an in-app search, or the location log — goes through the same enrichment pipeline. Same shape, same Google Places data, same photo quality. There is no "second-class" pin.

How does WayCrumb know which trip an email belongs to?

Each of your trips has its own forwarding alias. Forwarding to your general inbox lands the pin in a review queue or a matching wishlist collection; forwarding to a trip's alias drops it straight onto that trip.

Can I turn off the location log?

Yes. The location log is opt-in per trip, runs only while you're at the destination, and can be paused any time. Suggestions are always presented for you to accept or dismiss — nothing is added silently.

What if the link I paste isn't a real venue?

If the URL doesn't resolve to a place with an address and coordinates, the pin isn't created. WayCrumb never inserts placeholder rows — a pin either arrives complete or not at all.