Carafolio

Carafolio is a private folio for the places worth remembering: the restaurant a friend swore by, the old city wall you were told to walk at dawn, the thirteenth-century church you found reimagined as a bookstore. Not everywhere you have been. Only the places you would vouch for. PROVENANCE When someone shares a place with you, Carafolio keeps who told you and why. A recommendation stays attached to the person who made it, so years later you still know whose taste to trust. The crowd's rating is kept as a footnote, not a verdict. CIRCLES Keep places with a circle of up to six, the size at which everyone still contributes and stays candid. Past six, a group starts watching rather than sharing, and the best recommendations stop coming. THE RECORD OF A PLACE Why you were interested before you went, and what you thought afterwards. Your photographs and notes, alongside the notes of the people you keep it with. YOUR FOLIO Your trips and circles, pinned where you can reach them. Ask brings back any place you have kept in a few letters, and a new one can be kept the moment it catches your eye. TRIPS Everyone's flights, so you know who is arriving when. The itinerary: the dinner reservations, the museum tickets, the plans. And the places saved for wandering in between, the gallery or the shop you might happen upon. THE PRACTICAL Inside every trip, a guide tailored to the cities you are visiting: the tipping customs, the local apps worth having, the neighborhoods worth knowing. Kept current, and ready on your phone when you land. THE MAP Only what you kept, never everywhere. While you are out, switch the key to see what is near you, a shop or a restaurant, and where you are. At home, see what you have visited, what you favourited, and what you still want to see. Filter by geography, trip or circle. VOLUMES Once you have experienced enough places, compose a volume with your own through-line. A Black Book is your own guide to the places you would send a friend, gathered around a thread you choose. A Group Memory is a coffee-table volume of a trip or an occasion: the people and the moments as well as the places. Carafolio drafts each around your thread, and you refine it into a finished volume, ready for print. Volumes are composed on carafolio.com from a desktop browser. Carafolio is by invitation. Your notes are yours: they are not used for advertising, not sold, and not used to train models.