Current trip

• Add references below:
  • e.g. LUGGAGE weight/size, weather, intinerary screenshots
• Add special items needed for the current trip
• RETURN TRIP? -> add its “special items” from list above here
• DELETE irrelevant checklist items outright (e.g. no check in for train trip) before start

One week before

• Add CHECK IN DATE to calendar!
• Buy TRAIN TICKETS if any
  • BahnCARD-25 that I have
  • Contingenies for late trains — flex ticket?
  • Is it the CORRECT AIRPORT?
• Check my PLANS for the trip and PEOPLE there
  • Recent birthdays?
  • Planned special occasions?
  • Any appointments HERE when I’m away?
• Check relevant TAGS in taskwarrior: +UA/DE/LT, pro:h.trip
• Timezones? Target + intermediate points
  • 0: IT=DE=PL=HR (+0)
  • 1: Lithuania=UA=Turkey (+1)
• Any DOCUMENTS for there/back that take time?
• Need to REFILL any prescription medicines?
• Any important POST or Packages? Fill/sign form if yes
• Anything to eat before leaving?

Evening before

• START CHARGING:
  • phone
  • laptop
  • powerbank(s)?
  • bluetooth headphones
  • bluetooth button thingy
• CHECK IN
  • Download (or use shiny app for) BOARDING PASS
  • Note WEIGHT/size requirements
  • Is the AIRPORT correct?
• Entertainment
  • Download podcasts or movies?
    • Podcasts
      • sth long like Fall of Civilizations Podcast , or casual like Nightvale?..
  • Papers to read?
• Laptop:
  • git push or backup:
    • Work stuff
    • DTB
    • qs
    • ..dotfiles?
  • CLOSE programs before the battery does
  • Small BACKUP to external drive?
• Set any ALARMS

Bureaucracy and documents

• Documents
  • PASSPORT(s)
  • NIEDERLASSUNGSERLAUBNIS (the valid one!)
  • Credit cards
  • Health insurance
  • BahnCARD
  • Anything else needed there or on the way back?
  • LEAVE any unneeded documents
    • Clean wallet, leave S-Bahn tickets etc.
• SIM cards
  • Take BOX with them + paperclip
  • CHARGE any SIM cards

Practicalities

• KEYS for all potentially needed apts, both directions
  • LEAVE unneeded keys
  • Take lanyard if hotels planned
• Clean:
  • wallet
  • backpack
• MONEY in carry-on
  • 2x of planned, all currencies
• Last time, what will be needed on the WAY BACK? (Docs/keys/…)

Electronics

• Electronics
  • USB-hub + cables!
  • Подовжувач?
  • Laptop
  • MOUSE and the CORRECT (!) USB dongle
  • HEADPHONES wired and/or bluetooth
    • incl. charger/cables if applicable
  • Bluetooth button thingy
• CHARGERS/cables/…
  • Phone charger
  • Laptop charger
  • Powerbank
  • HDMI cable?
• DISCONNECT unneeded USB dongles from laptop

Personal

• Teeth
  • Toothbrush
    • IF electronic - all needed BRUSHES
    • IF trip is long - CHARGER
    • ?Irrigator
  • All the tiny things to clean teeth
  • Small Listerine bottle with my current mouthwash
• MASKS: 1x of both types
• HAND SANITIZER
• My water bottle
• MEDICINES
  • The usual PRESCRIPTION stuff
    • HOW LONG will I be away?
  • For the trip:
    • Something agaist NAUSEA
    • Atoxil / Eliminal / Sorbex
    • Painkillers
• Second pair of glasses if conference or long trip

? Camping stuff

• Camping stuff
  • Glasses box if planning to take glassess off often (sea, camping, …)
  • my metallic cup to keep phones glasses etc
  • Salt, sugar?
  • Tea

Trip

• What will be needed on the WAY there?
• What is available / will be / is needed in TARGET?
• (Nalgene?) WATER that won’t roll in a plane
• Кульки
• Серветки
  • сухі
  • мокрі
• Thermoflasche?
• SLEEP MASK, беруши? Clothing with hood?
• Баф?
• Рассческа
• BOOK
• PEN AND PAPER (or notebook)
  • pencils/pen/eraser for drawing?..
• Is any of the food liquid?
• Instant tea/coffee?
• Card holder + lanyard, if hotels planned
• Chewing gum

Clothes

• WEATHER
  • Check weather at target point:
    • Leipzig,
    • weather Vilnius next 5 days - Wolfram|Alpha
    • Berlin
    • Kyiv,
    • Rome - BBC Weather
  • If it’s COLD
    • pants are more important than upper body
    • Термобілизна
    • Капюшон
    • Handschuhe?
  • If it’s WARM - too-warm-shoes will make life hell
    • HAT!
    • Sunscreen?
• Polo with BREAST POCKET¹ for passport/docs
• Comfortable shoes
• Belt
• N underwear
• N socks
• Плавки?
• Одежа для “дому” - футболка, тапки, …
  • Яка ок для вулиці теж!
• Backpack rain cover

DEPARTURE CHECKLIST

• LUGGAGE
  • info:
    • Baggage on short-haul flights with LOT | LOT.com
    • Handgepäck | Gepäckbestimmungen | airBaltic
  • WEIGHT within limits
  • Paper with date, flight, contact info
  • Take PICTURES inside, outside
  • Remove stray TAGS
• ROOM clean
  • Take away the TRASH
  • Especially ORGANICS
• Everything turned off
  • WINDOWS closed
  • Electricity off
    • Things in sockets taken or disconnected
  • Water off
• Go last time through stuff that was charging overnight
• Toothbrush
• ESSENTIALS
  • Phone, phone charger, laptop, laptop charger
  • Passport + Aufenthaltstitel
  • CORRECT TICKETS printed or downloaded

Old / removed

• Fitbit charger
• Bluetooth button thingy
• internal passport :(

Related / references

• https://github.com/jpcaparas/travel-checklist
• TODO: put steps in each group in order of importance

Changelog

• 2022-06-11: added bit about timezones
• 2023-04-03: added list of timezones + LOT luggage rules
• 2023-05-15: added the bits about me now havig a BahnCARD
• 2023-01-03: added the bits about the button thingy, Thermoflasche; removed obsolete items
• 2023-08-07: added USB hub thing
• 2024-05-10:
  • added: second pair of glasses
  • removed/deemph.: corona
• 2024-12-23:
  • added thermal clothing, backpack rain protection, gloves, “current trip”
  • removed: corona stuff, student ID, netflix
• 2025-05-12: completely removed corona stuff
• 2025-06-05: Added Listerine bit
• 2025-08-06: Deemph. masks; added swimming stuff
• 2025-08-07: “Add items from past checklist”
• 2025-08-26: “Set alarms”; “delete irrelevant items” (instead of marking them as done)
• 2025-08-29:
  • Added versioning to keep track of this between different Obsidian vaults. Yay v.2.0.0
  • 2.0.1 add old/removed
• 2025-11-17: Added ’the valid one’ to Niederlassungs., what the hell it’s my checklist