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# Wednesday, September 19, 2007

I am in Love with TripIt

image I can't say this enough, Tripit is going to change my world. Tripit is basically a travel organizing/planning site that you forward all those pesky emails that you get when booking air, hotel or car rental. It parses them and extracts relevant meta data. This is a productivity site for managing travel, the least fun part of actually traveling.

I am the designated family travel planner and spend hours and hours a year doing this stuff online. I just took 12 emails for 4 different trips coming up in the next 6 months and Tripit parsed them all and created amazing web pages for each one. This includes, hotel, cars, flights for 3 people with multiple destinations and non round-trip flights.

These guys are geniuses.

Just when I think the net can't do anything substantially new for me, something like this comes a long and I just go WOW.

Prior to tripit I (mostly) manually copied and pasted this stuff into Outlook, and then sent my wife meeting requests so she would have the info on her calendar. What a giant waste of time. No more...

Not to mention they integrate with sites like SeatGuru.com so you can get a good seat on your flight.

If this is the future, I love it.

 

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:56:05 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I just signed up for TripIt a few days ago and hadn't had a chance to check it out yet. Glad to hear that it looks so good. I have a few family trips coming up in the next few months that I'll point it at. Back in the day, I used to use an app for my Newton (yes) called Gulliver that helped manage travel very similarly to the way that TripIt does. I LOVED it, and have been looking for something as good ever since...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:01:32 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Jeffrey - see also TripHub.com

Note: I am VP Marketing for TripHub.

John
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:52:55 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
where's your rss feed?
abdu
Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:49:13 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
on ur blog page, there is no link on the bottom ot go to next or previous page, what the heck? fix it.
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