The complete guide to Diretix: from planning the trip to a moving presentation

Diretix isn't another list generator. It stays with you from the moment you have just an idea and dates to the moment the whole family sits down to a moving presentation of the trip, with music, videos and the story you wrote along the way. This guide walks through the whole process end to end: how one short conversation turns into a full itinerary, how to bring everyone on the trip on board, how to edit and arrange everything in a smart chat, and how your trip memories become a story and a film you'll want to keep for life.

Step 1: say what you want, in one conversation

There's no form. It all starts with one free line and one question: tell us about the trip you've dreamed of. Write in your own words ("a family trip in Europe, as little driving as possible, lots of attractions for the kids") or start from a ready-made idea like "a week in Italy with kids," "ten days in Greece," "a couples' trip to Portugal" or "a long weekend in Prague." You don't need to sign up to start.

From there, the AI agent holds a short conversation with you and asks only for what it's missing, usually three to six questions. It doesn't repeat what you've already said: if you wrote "ten days in Greece in August with two kids," the destination, dates and travelers are already noted and it moves on. Most questions come with ready-made choice buttons (one tap, and sometimes you can pick several), and above the conversation you can always see how much is left, something like "about 3 more short questions and we're done." The view is focused on purpose, one question on screen at a time, with the whole earlier conversation a tap away.

What the conversation asks

The agent goes through three layers, in order, and only covers what's missing:

• The basics: where, when and how many travelers. The kids' ages are asked here, and they're what later steers the pace and the kind of attractions.
• Preferences: what you love and what you skip, the pace of the trip, how many kilometers a day you're willing to drive, the attractions budget for the whole trip, and food preferences.
• Logistics: whether the flights are already booked, how you'll get around at the destination (rental car, public transport or bikes), and whether a hotel is already booked.

If something is already booked, a Booking details card opens from within the conversation: flight number, airport, landing time, hotel name and dates, rental company, and pickup and return points. These are exactly the details that prevent the classic mistakes: a first day built as if you landed in the morning when you actually land in the evening, or a day that starts in the wrong city. Anything you leave empty, the system fills in itself, and you can also skip the card entirely and come back to it later.

And when you're in a hurry, just tell the agent to build already. It stops asking, fills in what's left from what it already knows about you, and moves on to the summary.

The summary updates as you talk

Next to the conversation sits Your trip summary, and it fills in live as you talk: destination and regions, dates, who's traveling, the attractions budget, pace, maximum daily driving, what you love, what must be included, what you skip, the style of the trip, how you'll get around, outbound, return and domestic flights, the hotel, food and dietary preferences, and the car rental details.

Every line of the summary can be edited with a tap, without going back to the conversation: open the line, fix a date or a number, and save. A field you didn't fill in is marked "We'll choose for you," meaning the system will decide it on its own. That's the big difference from a form: you see exactly what the system understood from you, and you correct it before it builds anything, not after.

Approve, and the build begins

When the summary looks right, tap Approve and build the trip. Signing up happens only here, at the very end, and right after it the team of AI agents gets to work and builds a full daily schedule: ranked attractions with real opening hours, calculated distances and travel times, lodging recommendations and a daily budget, in minutes. You can stop in the middle of the conversation and come back later; it waits exactly where you left off.

Step 2: bring in the whole family or your friends

A trip is a shared experience, so in Diretix you can invite family and friends under Manage who's on the trip. Invite by name and email, or pick from the list of travelers you've already entered, and an invitation goes out with a link to join. Invitations not yet accepted are shown separately and can be canceled.

Behind the scenes there's a clear permissions system. Every trip has one owner. A regular member can view the trip, ask the chat, upload photos and videos, and write notes along the way. The owner can give a member edit permission ("Co-editor"), so that person edits times, attractions and days exactly like the owner, and the permission can be revoked at any moment.

The result: everyone on the trip is on the same page, everyone contributes photos and notes, and nobody has to pass screenshots around on WhatsApp.

Step 3: edit and arrange the trip in the chat

This is where Diretix really shines. Next to the itinerary there's a smart chat agent that understands requests in plain language and actually carries them out, rather than just giving advice. Tell it what you want ("move museum X to day two," "rearrange my day," "find me a restaurant instead of this one"), and it does it and updates the itinerary right away.

What the chat agent can do: the full list

The Diretix chat is a complete toolbox. For attractions, it can add one, or several at once, and edit all their details: name, description, address, Google Maps link, photo (including refreshing the photo), duration, cost, difficulty, start time and type of activity (visit, breakfast, lunch or dinner, check-in, check-out). It can also replace an attraction with a completely different place, move it to another day or position, swap the order of two attractions, delete an attraction, and add points of interest within a single site (for example several stops in the same park).

At the level of whole days, it edits a day's details: title, cover photo, the hotel and address at the end of the day, the morning starting point, mileage and fuel cost. You can ask it to rearrange a day (optimize it): it builds a shorter route, slots meals into the right time windows, closes dead gaps in the day and doesn't drop a single stop. It also recalculates real driving distances and times and fixes wrong pins on the map.

When it comes to finding places, the chat finds real candidate places to add or swap in, suggests alternatives to an attraction based on your preference, compares attractions by cost, duration and difficulty, and fetches opening hours (from Google) and map links for the trip or an attraction. For photos and weather, it fills in or refreshes missing photos across the itinerary, checks which attractions are still without a photo, and refreshes the weather forecast and the sunrise and sunset times for each day.

And when you have questions about the trip, the chat reviews the itinerary and the full schedule, shows gaps (which attractions you asked for didn't make it in, and which are duplicated), calculates costs per day and per attraction, fuel included, to answer budget questions, and reads the photos and notes the travelers uploaded, along with information about the trip's members.

Beyond that, the chat manages the members too: it adds a traveler, sends an invitation, links or removes members, and rechecks how a change in who's traveling affects the itinerary. It even remembers preferences you mention, and can produce the trip's story from the journal notes.

In short: almost anything you can do by hand in the itinerary, you can simply ask the chat for, and it doesn't guess distances or prices; it actually calculates them.

The travel journal: all your memories in one place

During the trip, every traveler can write notes along the way, from an attraction's page ("what it was like") or from the lodging ("morning" and "evening"). All these notes are gathered automatically into the Travel journal, organized by day and by place, with the writer's name and the time it was written.

This is the emotional heart of Diretix: instead of everyone remembering half a story, the whole family builds a living record of the trip together, and it later becomes the raw material for the story and the presentation.

The gallery: everyone uploads photos to every attraction

Alongside the journal there's a shared gallery, and it's remarkably simple. Every attraction page has a Photos from the visit section, and any member with write permission can upload photos and videos to it: drag and drop files onto the upload area, or click and pick several files at once. You can add an optional caption to each photo (it comes back later in the presentation's narration) and view everything in a handy lightbox, with the option to delete what you uploaded yourself.

All the photos from all the attractions are collected into one trip album, organized by day and on a map. The whole trip shares one storage pool, so everyone's photos are in one place, ready to become a story and a film.

The story workshop: turning notes into a story with photos

From the travel journal you can open the story workshop and turn your notes into a story. The AI takes all your notes (attractions, mornings and evenings at the hotel, in day order) and weaves them into a rich story, day by day. You choose a writing style from nine voices (Realistic, Funny, Hilarious, Serious, Romantic, Dramatic, Poetic, For kids or Epic adventure), and the story is produced as a PDF file that includes the photos from the trip and is emailed to you. From there you can download it, copy it, or share it on WhatsApp and by email.

That's how the scattered notes you wrote along the way become a designed keepsake with photos, without you writing a single polished sentence.

The travel studio: building a moving presentation

The high point is the travel studio (Trip Studio): this is where the photos, videos and story become a film of the trip with music, up to 10 minutes long, with a link to share. An online presentation for viewing and sharing is always created, and exporting to MP4 is optional.

Automatic or manual: full control over the frames

You can let Diretix build the presentation automatically, or switch to manual mode and control every frame. In the automatic build you set a few dials: the narration genre (the same nine styles: Serious, Funny, For kids, Poetic and more), the film's length (2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 minutes, or "by selection," where every frame you picked goes in), the frame pace (how many seconds each photo gets, from 1 to 10), and the output format (always an online presentation, plus an MP4 if you want one).

In manual mode there's a frame strip of thumbnails: you mark exactly which photos go into the film, drag to reorder the media, and even move media between days. The draft (frame selection, cuts and settings) is saved automatically for each trip.

Video editing: trimming, start and end points, and fades

Videos have a dedicated editor, Edit video clips, that gives precise control over exactly what goes into the presentation. Drag a start point and an end point along the actual video's timeline to cut exactly the segment that will be shown (with a readout of the start, the end and the segment's length). You can also cut out the middle and keep a few chosen segments, so the boring parts are simply skipped, and you have a live looping preview and a one-click reset to the default to help.

And the soundtrack has an audio editor in the style of professional editing software: add music or effects, and trim, split and add a fade-in and fade-out to each clip using handles at the edges, so the music comes in and out gently instead of cutting off abruptly.

The narration comes from the travel journal

This is what makes the presentation personal: the text of the travel journal becomes the film's narration. The same notes you wrote along the way, together with the photo captions and the travelers' names, are fed to the AI, which turns them into titles, a short text for each day and transition lines between groups of photos. All of it in your trip's language, so the film isn't just beautiful, it really tells your story.

Export to MP4 and share

When you're happy, tap Render an MP4 file. The rendering happens on the server, you see the progress percentage, and at the end the file is ready to download, and a link is emailed to you too. You can keep the file, send it to the family or upload it anywhere. Everyone on the trip sees the latest presentation as a "premiere" card with a play button, the soundtrack and a download option.

From the first idea to the premiere

An accurate itinerary, smart editing in the chat, a shared journal, a gallery, a story and a presentation: this whole process is in one place, and it starts with one sentence you write. Diretix builds the itinerary in minutes, and you fill it with memories until it becomes a film. One trip a month is built in full, for free, up to 12 days.