The guide
Properties
Properties comes after Spots under The guide in a guide's sidebar. It decides which facts every spot of the guide can carry besides its fixed fields, such as how hard it is to get there or the best season, and which of them buyers can filter by. Beside the boxes (below them on a narrow screen), a phone shows one of your spots the way buyers see it, with every property in place.
Everything here saves the moment you confirm it: a new property, an edit, a move, a removal. Every spot's form follows at once. On a live guide, buyers see the change once you publish your changes (Save, preview and publish).
A guide you create in the studio starts with these properties: Best time of day, Best season, Crowds and Sleeping there. Keep them, change them or remove the ones you do not need. The Onboarding step Custom properties counts as done once you change anything on this page, or once the guide has been live. It comes after Add spots: with a few spots in, it is easier to see which facts they need.
Always included
Every spot has these fields, whatever the guide's properties. You fill them in on each spot (Spots); this box only lists them, and nothing in it can change.
| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Photos | The spot's photos. Their credits stay attached. |
| Title | The name of the place. |
| Location | Where the spot is: a Google Maps link or a pin. |
| Categories | What the spot is, like Lake or Viewpoint; the first is its map pin. |
| Short description | One or two sentences under the title. |
| Long description | The whole story, as long as it needs. |
The blue asterisk marks the four a spot needs. A spot cannot be saved without a title and a category. Without a pin, or without a photo while it shows photos, it counts as not ready, and the guide cannot be published until every spot has them.
Your custom properties
The guide's own properties, in their order. Each row shows:
- the kind's icon and the property's name, with the blue asterisk when it is required;
- Filterable or Not filterable: whether buyers can filter by it, which the kind decides (The kinds);
- the kind in blue and an example value, such as "e.g. Moderate": a value from one of your spots, or a sample while no spot has one.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| New property | Opens the dialog for a new property (below). |
| The arrows | Move the property up or down. The new order saves at once and applies everywhere (Order). |
| The pencil | Opens the property to edit it (Editing a property). |
| The bin | Removes the property after asking (Removing a property). |
With no properties, the box reads No properties yet and suggests what to add: the things your followers ask about, such as how hard it is, when to go and how to get there. A guide works without any: the fields above are enough.
A guide holds up to 50 properties in this list; removed ones do not count. At the limit, the studio refuses a new property, and the restore of a removed one, until you remove another.
Suggestions
Under the list, the studio suggests ready-made properties for common facts, such as effort, access, elevation or parking. Each card names the property, says whether it is filterable and why a buyer cares, and shows its kind and its options.
One click adds the property at the end of your list, options included, and the preview shows it right away. A card leaves once the guide has a property with its name, and comes back when you remove that property. If the removed property kept values on your spots and has the card's kind, a click on its card restores it with those values instead of adding a second one. With every suggestion in use, the box is not shown.
| Suggestion | What it holds | What it tells buyers |
|---|---|---|
| Effort | One choice of Easy, Moderate or Challenging. Buyers can filter by it. | How hard it is to get there. |
| Access | A short text in your words, like 1h hike. Not a filter. | How far the spot is from the road or the stop. |
| Elevation | A number in metres. Buyers can filter by range. | Height above sea level. |
| Parking | A short text, like Free lot at the trailhead. Not a filter. | Where to leave the car. |
A starter property you removed comes back as a suggestion too. Where your spots leave a property empty, the preview shows an example value instead, such as Moderate for Effort, so you see where it lands. The spreadsheet template you download for a guide without spots uses the same examples in its sample row.
The kinds
The kind decides what a spot holds, how buyers see it and whether they can filter by it. You pick it when you create a property, and it is locked from then on.
| Kind | A spot holds | Buyers see | Filter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short text | One line in your own words, like 1h hike. | A fact on the spot page. | Never |
| Number | A number, with the property's unit, like 1240 m. | A fact, such as 1,240 m. | By range |
| Multi-select | Any number of choices from the property's list, like Summer and Autumn. | A fact listing the choices, separated by commas. | By choice |
| Single select | Exactly one choice from the list, like Moderate. | A fact. | By choice |
| Date | A calendar date. | A fact, such as Jul 14, 2026. | By date range |
| Own page | A block of text, as long as it needs. | A row at the foot of the spot page, named after the property, that opens the text as a page of its own. | Never |
A spot without a value simply leaves the fact out. A date is the day you pick, for every buyer: they see it, and filter by it, as that same day, whatever their time zone.
How buyers filter
Buyers filter on the guide's Explore page. Once the guide has a filterable property, a Filters chip opens a panel with one group per filterable property, in your order:
- Multi-select and single select: the choices, each with the number of spots that hold it. Several choices in one group show the spots with any of them; choices in different groups must all match. A group with more than 8 choices shows the 8 most used ones and any the buyer picked, with a way to show them all.
- Number: a minimum and a maximum, with the unit beside them.
- Date: a from date and an until date.
Short text and own pages never filter. The search on Explore looks at a spot's title, the names of its categories and its descriptions, not at its properties.
New property
The dialog of the same name adds "a structured field every spot in this guide can fill in."
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Label | The property's name: the field's label on the spot form, the fact's label on the spot page and the heading of its filter. Required. |
| Kind | One of the kinds above, each with a line on what it holds. The kind is locked once the property exists. |
| Unit | Number only, and optional. Written after the number on the spot form, on the spot page and in the filter, like m or km. |
| Options | Multi-select and single select only: the choices. Two empty rows to start; Add option adds another, and the X beside a row removes it (the last row stays). Empty rows are left out. A property needs at least one option, and holds up to 100. |
| Placeholder | The other kinds: grey text in the empty field on the spot form. A date field shows none. |
| Required | Every spot must fill it in before it saves (below). Off to start. |
Create property adds it at the end of your list, and it shows on every spot's form at once, empty. The button stays grey until the property has a label and, for the kinds with options, at least one option.
Each property also gets a key, made from its first label: Effort gets the key effort, Best season best_season. The key never changes, even when you rename the property, and spreadsheet imports and AI agents can use it to name the property. A removed property that kept values on spots keeps its key, so a new property whose key is already taken, by a property in your list or one under Removed properties, gets it with a number added: effort_2. A property removed before any spot had a value for it frees its key.
The key keeps only the label's Latin letters and digits, with accents dropped: Höhe gives hohe. A label written only in another script, such as Japanese, Greek or Cyrillic, gets the key property, then property_2 and so on; the label itself shows as you wrote it.
A new property with the same name as one in your list is refused with "This guide already has a property called "Effort"": give it another name.
Required
A required property carries the blue asterisk on the spot form, and the studio refuses to save a spot without a value for it ("Missing required property"). Spots saved before you switch it on keep what they have, but their next save needs the value. Until then, the spot list says what is missing and counts them as not ready (Spots), and a spreadsheet import lists rows without it as errors (Import spots).
A spot with Show properties off is the exception: it shows no property fields, so it saves without the value and does not count as not ready for it. Switch them back on and the spot needs the value again.
Editing a property
The pencil opens Edit "Effort". Its first line names the kind (locked), whether buyers filter by it, and the key.
| Field | What changes |
|---|---|
| Label | The name, everywhere. The key stays, and so do the values on your spots. |
| Unit | Number only. The unit after every value of this property. |
| Options | The choices (below). |
| Placeholder | The kinds without options: the grey text in the empty field. |
| Required | Whether a spot can be saved without a value. |
Save property saves it; Cancel closes without a change.
To give a property another kind, create a new property with another label and remove the old one. Values do not move over: the new property starts empty on every spot.
Options
- Rename an option freely: spots that hold it keep it, under the new name.
- Add option adds a choice at the end. The X on a row you have not saved yet removes it.
- The X on a saved option archives it instead, and the row turns grey and struck through. An archived option leaves the choices on the spot form and in the buyers' filter. Spots that hold it keep it, and their spot pages still show it.
- Restore shows on every archived option and brings it back when you save: it returns to the choices on the spot form and to the buyers' filter, with the spots that still hold it.
- A saved option whose text you clear is saved as Untitled.
Options keep the order you add them in. The limit of 100 counts archived options too.
Removing a property
The bin opens Remove "Effort"?. What happens depends on whether any spot has a value for the property, archived spots included; the dialog says which case applies.
- No spot has a value: the property is deleted. It leaves this list, every spot's form, the spot pages and the filters, and its key is free again. A suggested or starter property shows under Suggestions again, ready for one click.
- Spots have values: the property leaves this list, every spot's form, the spot pages and the filters, but the values your spots hold stay saved, out of sight. The property moves to Removed properties (below), keeps its key and cannot be edited until you restore it.
Remove property confirms; Keep property closes without a change. On a live guide, buyers see the property, and can filter by it, until you publish your changes.
Removed properties
Removed properties that kept values sit behind a quiet row of that name at the foot of the page, with their number beside it. The row is closed by default; click it to open the list. Each property shows its kind and how many spots keep a value for it.
Restore beside one brings the property back at once, at the end of your list: its field returns to every spot's form with the values your spots kept, and it is back on the spot pages and in the filters (on a live guide, once you publish your changes). At the limit of 50 properties, a restore is refused until you remove another one.
Order
Your order is the guide's order everywhere:
- the facts on the spot page;
- the filter groups on Explore;
- the own pages, each a row at the foot of the spot page;
- the spot form: the facts first in your order, then the own pages in your order, so a status sits above the text it sums up.
The first short text property also shows under the spot's title on the spot cards in the guide's grids, such as a collection's page or a buyer's Liked list: a region or a place name works well there. On the reader cards of a chapter, the first few short text, single select and number values fill a small grid.
The preview
The phone shows the spot page as buyers see it, and it changes with every edit on this page. Once the guide has spots, it shows one of yours: the one with photos and the most properties filled in. Empty fields show an example value, so every property shows where it lands. Before your first spot, it shows an example spot.
Filling in properties on a spot
Each spot's form has a Custom Properties box under the fixed fields, with one field per property: the facts first, two to a row where they fit, then the own pages across the whole row. Edit properties in its corner opens this page.
| Kind | The field on the spot form |
|---|---|
| Short text | One line, showing your placeholder while it is empty. |
| Number | A number, with the unit at its end. Write it the way you would on paper: 2.5 or 2,5 for a decimal, -12 below zero, and 1,240 or 1'240 read as 1240. The field takes digits, a sign and separators only. Text it cannot read, like 1.2.3, shows "Not a number." and leaves the property empty. |
| Date | A date picker. |
| Multi-select | A row of chips: click a choice to pick it, click it again to drop it. |
| Single select | Chips for a short list: click one, click it again to clear it. A long list is a dropdown, where None clears the choice. |
| Own page | A text box that grows with the text. |
The values save when you save the spot. A choice you archived later shows struck through on the spots that still hold it: click it to take it off the spot. In a dropdown it reads "(archived)", with a note to pick a live choice or clear it.
Without properties, the box says so and links to this page. Show properties under the spot's Advanced options hides its values from buyers and from the filters while keeping them saved; the box then shows a note instead of the fields, and required properties do not apply to the spot (Spots).
Custom properties on routes and places
Routes and places in Planning have custom properties of their own: free label and value pairs for anything their fields do not cover. They belong to that one route or place. They are not the guide's properties, and they never filter.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| A suggestion chip | Adds a row with that label, such as Notes or Booking. A chip leaves once a row uses its label. |
| Custom property | Adds an empty row. |
| Property label | The left field: the row's label, like Notes. |
| Property value | The right field: the value, like Icy until late June. |
| The X | Removes the row. |
The rows save with the route or place. An empty row is dropped; a row with only one side filled in stops the save ("Property label required" or "Property value required"). Buyers see each row as a labeled detail of the route or place.
The example guide
In the read-only example guide, this page shows Its properties in place of Your custom properties, without New property, arrows, edit or remove buttons, and without suggestions; the note under the phone names the example's spot. Its routes and places show their custom properties without add or remove buttons, and an empty list reads "None."