How the Shortlist Works
What it's for
The Shortlist is a side-by-side comparison workspace for up to 3 events you're actively deciding between. Think of it as your "final round" — everything looks good on paper, but which three actually fit your season, your budget, and your calendar?
It's designed for planning, not archiving. When decisions are made, clear the Shortlist and start the next round.
Adding events
Click the bookmark icon (🔖) on any event to add it. You'll find that icon in three places:
Saved Events cards on your My Account page
Event detail panels when you're browsing
Season Ledger cards, from any event card's "+ Shortlist" button
Three-at-a-time is a hard cap. When you've added three, the bookmark on other events goes dormant until you remove one from the Shortlist. Cap yourself — comparing 3 well beats scanning 12 badly.
The timeline
The top panel plots your fixed-date events as solid colored bars across a single time window. Recurring markets (weekly farmers markets, monthly craft fairs) show as a hatched "runway" with a spine for each occurrence in that window.
Weekend shading runs behind the bars so you can see, at a glance, which weekends you're committing and which are still open.
The window auto-fits to your picks — one event in July gives you a ~2-week zoom; three events across the summer stretch you across all three months.
The numbers
Below the timeline, six curated fields line up per event:
Dates — same shape as the timeline; recurring events show their schedule prose
Booth fee — the entry-level 10×10 rate (or a starting point for tiered pricing). For recurring markets, this field can hold a per-market drop-in rate OR a season-long membership — the data doesn't distinguish. When you see "cadence varies · see ⓘ" on a recurring event, confirm the cadence with the organizer before budgeting
App fee — the application fee (usually one-time per event, per season)
Deadline — application deadline. "Passed" appears when it's behind you
Projected net — your own cost-scenario output, if you've built one. Click "+ Add scenario" to run the numbers on any event
True $/hr — projected net divided by the total hours you input in your scenario
Every number we show, we can defend. Every field we can't defend is missing, not guessed.
The summary
The bottom strip totals what makes sense to total: booth fees, app fees, projected net, and weekends occupied. Recurring events count once per event in the booth-fee total (we don't multiply — see the ⓘ next to Booth fee for why).
Sharing
Click Share link to copy a public URL. Anyone can view it — no sign-in needed. The shared view shows the timeline and the event names, but hides your booth-fee numbers, deadlines, and projected-net scenarios. Send it to a spouse, business partner, or mentor to talk through the picks without leaking your pricing data.
Share links are snapshots. If you edit your Shortlist later, the old link keeps showing what you had at share time.
What the Shortlist deliberately doesn't do
It doesn't save history. When you clear it, the picks are gone. Use the Season Ledger below to preserve the story of what you applied to.
It doesn't score events for you. The whole tool is designed to put the tradeoffs in front of you so you can decide.
It doesn't sync deadlines to a calendar. Use the bulk-export button on your Saved Events for that.