Travel should be exciting,
not stressful.

She came home with a G-tube and a schedule I couldn't mess up.

After our daughter was born, she was fitted with a G-tube — a feeding tube that bypassed her throat so she wouldn't aspirate during feeds. Her formula had to be thickened to an exact consistency. Her feed volumes were measured down to the milliliter. One wrong calculation wasn't just inconvenient. It was dangerous.

We didn't want to be stuck at home. But I couldn't hold all those details in my head — the tube supplies, the formula ratios, the feeding amounts that would need to scale across three days or five or a whole week. What if someone else was with her and I wasn't there?

I needed something that didn't just remind me what to pack. Something that actually knew her — her medical needs, her feeding requirements — and could figure out exactly what we'd need for any length of trip. That's the app I built. That's PackLyst.

For every kind of trip — even the hard ones

Not every trip is a vacation. Sometimes you're packing for a hospital stay, a funeral, or a deployment — and the last thing you need is a cheerful "have an amazing trip!"

PackLyst quietly reads the occasion. A memorial gets a calm, muted card and a dove — never a beach gradient or a party emoji. A hospital stay gets steady, supportive colors. Business trips stay focused. Celebrations stay bright. The same smart packing, with the tone the moment deserves.