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Agents: the short version of this page is at /llms.txt Jump to: What is this? · Add my travels · Places email can't see · Map Keys · Why 195? · Layovers · "Recently" · What we store · Deleting · Gemini · Advanced · Credits What is this?Passport Guestbook is a homepage for your travels, built like it's 1996. Your AI assistant reads your travel confirmations, works out which countries you've been to and when, and sends just that list here. You get a world map with your countries lit up, at a link you can share. Next to each country you can add your own verdict, GO! or SKIP IT, and a short note. Country pages collect those notes from every traveler who's been there. And like any good 1996 homepage, your map has a guestbook, where the friends you share it with can leave you a message. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Just a map and a hit counter. How do I add my travels?With an AI agent: Claude Code connected to your Gmail (or Gemini). Paste this into it:
It searches your email, asks you a couple of questions, and gives you a link. On that page you check the list, add places email missed on a map, and press one button. Nothing is published until you do. The step-by-step page shows how to connect Gmail. By hand: type or tick your countries on the Make Your Map! page. Can I add places that aren't in my email?Yes, and you should! Email misses road trips, trips other people booked, and everything from before you had that inbox. Just tell your assistant: "Also add Canada in 1995 and Mexico, I don't remember when." A year is fine, and so is no date at all. If you lived somewhere, say so, and it gets a little You can add more any time. Sending a place again never creates a duplicate. What's a Map Key?When your map is created, it gets a secret code like PGB-7K4Q-M2XD-9WTR-H3NC. It's the key to your map: with it, you or your assistant can add trips, fix mistakes, add notes to your countries, and sign other travelers' guestbooks as yourself. It has nothing to do with your real passport. Never type a real passport number anywhere on this site. Our server refuses anything that isn't a Map Key. You don't have to remember it. Your browser remembers it for you on the device where you made the map, and you can save it to your password manager, or as a passkey (Face ID, Touch ID or fingerprint), in one click for your other devices. If an assistant made your map, it gives you a secret edit link: open it once and your browser remembers the map from then on. There are no accounts and no password resets, so if every copy is lost, that map can't be edited anymore. You can always start a new one. Why "of 195 countries"?There's no single official number of countries. We count the 193 member states of the United Nations plus its two observer states, Vatican City and Palestine: 195 in all. Everywhere else counts as an "other place." That includes territories like Puerto Rico, Greenland and Hong Kong, and places with disputed or partial recognition, like Taiwan and Kosovo. You can add all of them, and they light up on your map. They're just counted separately. This isn't a political statement. We needed one well-known yardstick, and this is the most common one. Do layovers count?No. If you changed planes without leaving the airport, you haven't really been there. If you went through immigration and saw the city, it counts. Why does my trip say "recently"?Your map is public, so we don't want it to tell anyone your home is empty right now. A visit from this year shows the country, but the year says "recently." The real year appears on its own next January. What do you store?
We don't store your email address, real name or emails, and your IP address is never linked to your map. There are no accounts, no ads, no cookies and no analytics. Your browser keeps one thing for you: the Map Key of maps you made on it, in its own local storage, so it can welcome you back. It stays on your device, and you can clear it from the Make Your Map page. To stop spam, we count how many changes come from each internet address per hour. The address is scrambled with a secret that changes daily before it's stored, and both the counts and the secrets are deleted within a day, so they can't be traced back to anyone later. Our host, Cloudflare, also sees visitor addresses in order to deliver the site, as every web host does. How do I delete my map?Ask your assistant to delete your Passport Guestbook map, and give it your Map Key. Deleting is permanent and takes your notes and your guestbook with it. Messages you left in other people's guestbooks stay, but no longer link to your map. Can I use Gemini instead of Claude?Yes, but connecting Gemini to Gmail takes more setup today. Both Gemini CLI and Google Antigravity read Gmail through Google's Workspace tools, which need your own Google Cloud project: enabling the Workspace APIs, creating an OAuth client, and adding it to the agent's settings. Google's guides walk through it: Workspace CLI (for Gemini CLI) · Workspace MCP servers in Antigravity. Once your Gemini agent can read Gmail, paste the same sentence as for Claude Code:
Advanced: other assistants, browser agents and APIsOther assistants (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini in a browser, Grok, Codex...) work too if they can read your email: paste the same sentence. If they can't send data to websites, they'll give you a short list to paste on the Make Your Map! page. MCP: Passport Guestbook is also an MCP server at https://passportguestbook.com/mcp, for assistants that support adding one. Browser agents can use the Make Your Map! page directly: it offers WebMCP tools. Developers: everything an agent needs is in /llms.txt and /openapi.json. CreditsCountry shapes: Natural Earth (public domain). |
on your map, and your notes about that country carry a LIVED HERE stamp.