Research resources
Some of what you gather for a trip is a booking. Most of it is not: a district guide, a ferry timetable, or a restaurant list. Voyalier keeps web links with the trip as resources, with your own title, note, and tags, and keeps them out of the evidence lane entirely.
Reading material, never evidence
Section titled “Reading material, never evidence”This is the line that matters, and Voyalier does not blur it. A resource:
- never becomes a confirmed booking,
- never creates a pending candidate for you to review, and
- never changes the readiness rollup.
Nothing you file here can make your trip look more ready than it is.
Confirmation files are not research resources. Use Importing confirmations, the only path where a local file can become reviewable candidate facts. The resource contract retains a metadata-only file kind for compatibility, but Voyalier does not currently store file bytes as resources.
Saving
Section titled “Saving”Paste a web link, then add your own title, a note, and any tags you want. Saving
is local and instant: nothing is contacted when you save. Only http and
https links can be saved.
Saving the same page twice keeps one resource, not two. Addresses that differ
only by tracking parameters (utm_*, fbclid, and similar), a trailing slash,
letter case, a default port, or a #fragment are treated as the same page.
Fetching what a page says is a separate decision
Section titled “Fetching what a page says is a separate decision”Voyalier does not read the pages you save unless you ask it to. There is one setting, allow fetching page details, and it is off by default. Until you turn it on, no fetch happens at all — the button is not there to click. Turning it off again is one click, and it takes effect the same way.
With it on, fetching a resource stores a dated snapshot: the page’s title, description, and readable text, with script and stylesheet content removed. Voyalier records when it fetched. Very long pages are stored truncated, and say so rather than quietly ending mid-sentence.
Read here shows that stored text inside the app, with the fetched date and a link to the original. That is what makes your saved reading available offline — and it is a copy taken on that date, not the page as it stands now. Fetched text is treated like every other retrieved page: untrusted material carrying a source and a date, never a fact about your trip.
Searching
Section titled “Searching”Resources are searchable in a trip’s search and in workspace-wide search across every trip. Your note, your tags, and any page text you chose to fetch are all searched.
A result says it came from a saved resource, distinct from an imported document, so reading material never arrives looking like evidence.
Saved resources are also one of the things Ask about this trip can be grounded in, since it finds its material with the same deterministic search.
What is encrypted, and what is not
Section titled “What is encrypted, and what is not”A resource’s fetched page text is not encrypted at rest. It is public web material, and it has to stay searchable.
Your own note on it is encrypted, like every other note in Voyalier. See The encrypted vault for how that works and what the optional passphrase adds.