One reference build to spec. One editorial restraint riff. Two deliberate counter-proposals that drop the map entirely. All Daylight, all real fonts, all real photos. Brass-only accent throughout. Reels infrastructure is dropped from every variation per locked decision #4.
Photo-led collection cards above the map; Mapbox-tinted Daylight basemap with cover-image collection pins. This is the spec rendered literally: State C home → Goa detail → Plan Q&A "must-keep". Microcopy verbatim from §16. Map strip stays at full snap for spatial screens; hidden for the text-heavy Plan Q&A per locked decision #2.
Pick what's coming with you.
I've checked the ones that fit; uncheck whatever you'd rather skip.
Same map+sheet+bar architecture as V1, but the sheet leads with typography, not photography. Italic country names sit large and quiet; eyebrows are mono-cap; place rows lose their thumbnails and gain a creator quote with a thin brass left border. The map keeps brass-tinted pins but drops the count badge — every detail dialed for editorial restraint.
French-leaning bakery and café in a Portuguese villa. Croissants, sourdough, slow weekends. Open daily 8:30am — 6pm.
"the croissants here ruined me for everywhere else"
From a saved reel
178 saved · 12 in the last week.
A user's saves form a personal travel diary. Reading them as a calendar gives the user a felt sense of momentum — "I've been thinking about Vietnam for a month now" — that a map never communicates. Companion blurbs sit between entries, always specific, never generic. The companion bar persists; the map doesn't.
Vietnam keeps showing up — five places this month.
Three new places landed today.
Cafés in Hanoi, mostly.
Six places in Goa, mostly North. Three days, family with kids — most of it works as a Saturday-to-Monday with one day in the south.
3 days, this weekend
Beach-shacks-and-sunsets Goa, Assagao-cafés-and-vinyl Goa, or both?
Both
Got it. Drawing it now — should take 20 seconds.
Collections are a layer the system imposes (state, country, theme). Maybe the user's actual mental model is just "the things I've found, in the order I found them." V4 honors that as a counter-proposal: a flat, time-led, letterboxd-style log of every place ever saved. Newest first. Date headers separate batches. Filters slide in to narrow without re-grouping.