4 Oct 2010

TripIt.com -- you want this

Thanks to Nicole and Chris for turning me on to Tripit.com.

I'm knee deep in planning a trip with about a dozen flights, a couple of cars and happily just one hotel -- and this TripIt.com thing is slick as hell.

It's very simple to use, you forward the mail you got from your airline to some email address and it peels out all the info into a highly useful and detailed time line. (Two separate bookings in my case and it was able to knit them together perfectly.) It adds information you didn't tell it about your flights.

You can add to it by hand and it connects the dots. I told it I was flying to Syracuse but staying in a hotel in Kingston, ON that evening so it dropped a driving map in between and predicted what my hotel check in time would be from that (and offered if I wanted to rent a car, which I kind of do need).

And it lets you share all this with your peeps so they can know all your flight info and etc.

I've seen a lot of attempts at solving this in past but nothing that ever came close. It's just very very simple to use and yet provides a lot of useful info.