Saving Your Work

Saved Presets

Save your selected POI categories, search radius, custom distances, per-category POI limits and custom marker colours as named presets for quick access. Perfect for recurring trip types like bikepacking, hiking, or road trips.

Creating a Preset

1. Select the POI categories you want
2. Set your search radius (and custom distances if needed)
3. Click File → Save POI Preset
4. Enter a descriptive name (e.g., "Bikepacking Setup", "Hiking Essentials")
5. Click Save to Browser, or Download as File to keep the preset as a .json file

Loading a Preset

1. Click File → Load POI Preset
2. Select from your saved presets
3. The preset will apply immediately and automatically search if a route is loaded
4. The same dialog can load a preset .json file you downloaded earlier

Managing Your Presets

Below is a list of all your saved presets. You can view details, load, or delete presets from this page.

Features

• Active Preset Indicator - Shows which preset is currently active
• Auto-clear on manual changes - Indicator clears when you manually change categories, radius, or distances
• Overwrite protection - Warns before overwriting existing presets
• Browser storage - Presets saved locally in your browser (no account needed)
• Timestamp tracking - See when presets were created and last used

Project Save/Load

A project is your work under a name, kept in this browser: the routes, the POIs you found, your settings and the map view. Once a project has a name, PitStopper keeps it up to date as you work (see Auto-Save), and Version history keeps earlier versions you can go back to.

What is in a Project?

• Routes: every route with all its points, elevation and colours, route groups and multi-day plans, and a route you are still planning, so it reopens in the planner
• POIs: everything you found, with your stars, flags, notes and custom icons, the POIs you deleted, and the photos a stop carries
• Search settings: categories, search radius, custom distances and counts, category colours
• Your plan: distance markers, start time and pace
• The view: map position, zoom and map layer, units, and dark mode
• Location mode: the place you were exploring, when there is no route

Saving a Project

The first time, give the work a name:

1. Click File → Save Project, Save on the save status button (top right), or press Ctrl+S (⌘S on a Mac)
2. Enter a name (e.g., "Wales Day 2 Planning") and, if you like, a description
3. Click Save to Browser

After that, Save and Ctrl+S save straight away, with no dialog, and each Save is kept in Version history as "Saved 13:05". In between, auto-save keeps the project up to date every minute. To make a copy under a different name, use File → Save Project and type the new name. If it is the name of another project you already have, you are asked before it is replaced.

Loading a Project

From the landing page: your three most recently used projects appear as cards, each with Load, Download and Delete. View All Projects opens the full list.

From the File menu: File → Load Project lists every saved project with its details, each with Load, Download and Delete, and Load from File opens a .psp.

Loading a project when you already have work open keeps that work in Version history first ("Before loading ..."), so opening the wrong project never loses anything.

Downloading & Sharing Projects

Download a project as a .psp file to back it up, move it to another device or send it to someone:

• In the Save Project dialog, enter a name and click Download as File, or
• Use Download on a project card or in File → Load Project, or
• Use Download .psp at the bottom of Version history.

A download from the Save Project dialog can carry extras for using it offline in PitStopper On-the-go: POIs in your pocket (POIs further from the route), Emergency POIs and Offline map tiles. These are fetched when you download, and are not kept in the browser copy. The same dialog's Send to PitStopper On-the-go sends the project straight to your phone, and Share Project makes a link anyone can view.

About .psp files:

• PSP stands for PitStopper Project. It is the whole project, compressed (gzip), so it is usually several times smaller than it is in the browser.
• To open one, drop it on the landing page, click Upload GPX, GPZ, FIT, KML or Project File, or use File → Load Project → Load from File.
• A project opened from a file is not added to your browser's projects until you Save it, so it can never replace a project of your own with the same name.

Managing Your Projects

Below is a list of all your saved projects. You can view details and delete projects from this page.

Important Notes

Use Cases

• Multi-day trip planning: Save each day as a separate project
• Alternative routes: Compare different route options by saving each as a project
• Work in progress: Save once, and your work is kept as you go; come back to it later
• Trying something out: Name a version first, then experiment; restore it from Version history if you change your mind
• Shared computer: Keep multiple users' projects organized

Auto-Save

Your work is never lost. Every minute, PitStopper keeps it in your browser: in the open project if it has a name, and in a recovery draft if not yet. The draft is what the "Unsaved work found" prompt restores if the browser closes unexpectedly. There is nothing to turn on, and nothing to manage.

The save status button

At the top right of the screen, just before the PitStopper logo, a button shows the state of your work:

• All changes kept - what is on screen is safely in your browser, and matches the last time you saved.
• Edited since 13:05 - also kept, and changed since you last pressed Save at that time.
• Not saved as a project - kept for recovery, but with no project name yet. This is also what you see for a project opened from a .psp file or a shared link.
• Save failed - usually browser storage being full. See Browser Storage.

Click it for Save (also Ctrl+S, or ⌘S on a Mac), Name this version..., Version history... and Share Project. The first Save asks for a project name; after that, Save saves at once.

Version history

Open it from the save status button or File → Version history. It lists earlier versions of your work, newest first, grouped by day, and any of them can be restored:

• Named versions - yours. Type a name, or leave it blank for the time, and press Name this version. Take one before a big change: trimming the stops, re-planning a section, trying a different set of categories. They stay until you delete them.
• Saved - every Save marks a version too, labelled with the time.
• Automatic - taken while you work, every 15 minutes of editing and when you leave the page. Older ones are thinned out: all from the last two hours, then one an hour for the past day, then one a day for two weeks.
• Safety - taken before something replaces your work: restoring a version, loading another project, or replacing the route file. The last ten are kept.

Restoring never loses anything: where you are now is kept as a safety version first, so if you restored the wrong one, restore the safety version. To go back to the last time you saved, restore the newest "Saved" version. Named versions only hides the automatic and safety ones.

You never need to pause auto-save to try something out: name a version first, experiment freely, and restore it if you change your mind.

Versions of other projects are under Other projects at the bottom of the list. Version history lives in this browser only: Download .psp in its footer gives you a copy to keep elsewhere. Photos are stored once, however many versions show them.

Undo (Ctrl+Z) is a different thing: it steps back through individual actions, within the current session. Version history jumps back to a whole earlier state, and survives a reload.