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Passport

Your Passport is the record of everywhere you've been. It is the geographic autobiography that Tomoda builds quietly in the background every time you publish a moment, attend an event, or check in at a place.

The story

Most travel apps ask you to log your trips. You pick from a dropdown, you fill in dates, you tell the app where you went. We built the opposite: the app watches what you actually do and records it automatically. Post a moment in Tokyo and Tokyo goes in the Passport. Attend a concert at a venue in Lyon and Lyon goes in. You don't "check in" to earn it — you just go there, and the Passport remembers.

The result is a record that's honest in a way that self-reported lists aren't. It only knows what you've actually done with the app. That constraint is also the point: every city in your Passport is a city you were genuinely in, not one you flew through or pre-filled from memory.

The Passport surfaces in two ways. The cover is the summary visible on your profile — how many countries, regions, cities you've been to. It's the headline view: quick, readable, honest. The journal is the detail: a page-by-page look at what you actually did, grouped by time and place. Each segment of the journal is the moments, events, and check-ins that prove you were there. Below that is the atlas — the geographic index, organized by country, letting you browse places by region, dive into a specific country's visited places, and see the full catalog of what you've recorded there.

Privacy is respected throughout. If you've set your passport to private, nobody sees the journal or atlas. Friends-only means only accepted friends can browse your journal. The cover counts are always visible to the viewer your settings allow, and no more.

What we're optimising for

  • Automatic, not declarative. The Passport builds itself from what you do in the app. No separate "log a trip" flow.
  • Honest geography. Cities, regions, and countries you've actually visited via a moment or event — not a wishlist.
  • Chronological truth. The visit timestamp is the moment's actual time, not when it was synced. The record is a real diary.
  • Visibility that follows you. The same privacy settings that control your profile control your Passport. One setting, consistent everywhere.
  • The journal as narrative. The journal groups by trip-day and location, so the record reads like a travel diary rather than a database export.

What a Passport is not

  • It is not a manual travel log. You cannot add a city you visited before Tomoda, or a trip where you didn't post anything.
  • It is not a collection of achievements. The Passport records where you've been; it doesn't score or rank it.
  • It is not public by default. The default visibility mirrors your profile setting; you control who sees it.

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