Proofread a Polarsteps trip before printing a Travel Book

1. Open the finished trip in the Polarsteps app and tap the first step on the timeline.
2. Tap "Edit step", correct the story, and save before moving on.
3. Repeat for every step, since the Travel Book editor can hide step text but cannot correct it.
4. Generate the book from "My Travel Books" in Settings, page through the preview with the magnifying glass, and go back to the trip for each mistake you spot.
5. Typos in step 31 of 40 are easy to miss, and each fix means leaving the book preview and finding the step again.

I am ordering a Travel Book of my New Zealand trip. Fix typos and capitals in every step story, keep my wording, and do not touch dates or places.

1. 01

   Pick the trip being printed

   The agent lists your past trips and confirms the one you are ordering. If the book is already ordered, it asks first, because Polarsteps asks you not to change the trip while an order is processed.

2. 02

   Read every story in full

   It reads each step with get_step, not the short preview from the list, and skips steps that have no text.

3. 03

   Correct, not rewrite

   It fixes spelling, capitals and punctuation, and keeps your slang, the local names and the language you wrote in. A sentence it would change in meaning is left as it is and noted for you.

4. 04

   Clean the layout traps

   It removes spaces and empty lines after the last sentence, because those stop the book from placing a photo next to a short text.

5. 05

   Save text only

   update_step gets only title and story, never date or place, so the route line in the book does not move. You see each change before it is saved, unless you switch confirmation off.

Trip: New Zealand South Island (34 steps, 29 with text)
Corrected: 22 steps, 71 fixes (spelling 48, capitals 15, punctuation 8)
Cleaned trailing empty lines: 6 steps
Left for you: step "Milford Sound", unclear sentence about the ferry time
Not touched: dates, places, photos
Next: generate the Travel Book again from My Travel Books

• The Polarsteps Travel Book editor can switch step text on or off, but changing the text itself happens in the step in the trip.
• A Polarsteps Travel Book places a photo next to step text only when the text fits one column, and extra spaces or line breaks at the end block it.
• Polarsteps generates a Travel Book only from published steps, and the trip needs at least five published photos.
• After a Travel Book order, Polarsteps can take up to 24 hours to process it and asks you not to change the trip or the book settings in that time.
• Comments, likes and spots are not shown in a Polarsteps Travel Book, so a reply under a step reaches paper only if you copy it into the step text.

update_step asks for your OK by default. To run it on a schedule without you, switch confirmation off for that tool in your dashboard.

Sources: Polarsteps Help: What is a Travel Book? · Polarsteps Help: Why can't I add an image next to my step text? · Polarsteps Help: Why am I seeing 'a trip needs to have at least 5 photos'? · Polarsteps Help: Are comments, likes and spots also shown in the Travel Book? · Polarsteps Help: Can I split a trip over two Travel Books?

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/polarsteps/update_step \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"step_id":"231908554","fields":{"story":"Got lost in the old town, then found a tiny fado bar with six tables."}}'

{
  "step_id": "231908554",
  "updated": [
    "story"
  ],
  "date": "2026-10-09T19:30:00+01:00"
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is polarsteps_update_step. Example data.

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