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I'd like to see Notes on Trips exposed more. When I look at a friend's planned trips for the next six months, they may have 3 or 4 cities listed, and almost always there is 1 Note for each, describing what the trip is for, made by the user taking the trip.

Figuring out why my friend is going to be in my town and three other towns takes an awful lot of clicking, then clicking back, then more clicking just to see a single sentence that is most often like "visiting family" or "attending the $foo Conference". I'm specifically asking about adding information to a dopplr.com/traveller/$username page. I like to quickly scan that page for friends (it's my main interface to the entire site, surfing friends' profile pages) and know why they're going to be in town in a single glance.

Certainly, it'd be easy to just surface those short descriptions (even just the first 200 characters would be enough) on a user's home page of Trips, no? Basically if the first Note is by the same author as the Trip, then show the first x characters on their main user page along with the Trip information.

If promoting the first Note up on a user's page is too much to ask, I notice that "Notes" are used like comments in similar systems and maybe what I'm asking for is instead a standalone "trip description" field that is separate from Notes that could be surfaced for easy scanning of where and when (this would add Why) my friends will be traveling.

There are 2 types of destination which Dopplr can't handle, but which it should.

1. states, countries or regions. If I am on a trip with multiple destinations (or unknown or secret destinations) within a country, state or region I should be able to simply say that I am going to (for instance) "Portugal" or to "California" for a period of time. I should not be required to enter specific destinations, if I don't want to do that.

2. destinations not in your atlas. Dopplr doesn't know about every place in the world, and it never can, so please let me enter my own destination. I should be able to say I am going "on holidays" or "to the farm" or just "offline, dammit!" - if I want to do that.

Thanks for a great service.

I've been planning out a 3-week trip at http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/david... , and the order of places is getting mixed up. (There's a combination of trains, planes and automobiles).

I don't think that hour-by-hour projections are necessary or productive, but it might be helpful to at least have an option to break down the day by morning, afternoon and evening. When I leave a hotel in one city in the morning, have a meeting in the afternoon, and then check into another hotel in the afternoon, this would at least cause the ordering of the stops on the profile to be correct. (I don't really want people to geolocate me, but I've already had associates note that I'm in town, and suggest we get together).

I'm a tripit.com user. I'd love you to be able to import the trips in Tripit to my Dopplr profile. Tripit and Dopplr do different things - and do them well. I reckon you should get together !

TripIt seems much easier to use. One simply forwards travel confirmations to tripit and the trip is created. "Busy Business Travelers" like myself aren't much inclined to enter a bunch of stuff by hand.

Given that you're both working in the new travel space, but doing different yet overlapping things, I think there's huge potential in hooking your two services together, and some obvious entry points -- particularly around reporting on a new trip. It would be great if, as part of forwarding something to TripIt via plans@tripit.com, it would just automagically show up as a trip I'm taking in Dopplr.

When viewing a friend's trips (particularly my spouse's) I'd like to be able to click "I'm going on this trip too" and have it automatically be added to my own trips. Would save duplicate work.