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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.

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 !

Dopplr needs a way to note trips where you are traveling WITH other people such as friends, coworkers, and especially spouses. Right now, people can see if these same people are going to be at the same place at the same time - this isn't quite the same thing.

Dopplr needs to accept travel confirmation emails as a mechanism for setting my location then I will be able to use Dopplr fully. I travel a lot and don't the little spare time to update sites manually. Plus I forget :P

With the site of one of Dopplr's competition (which solves the same problem Dopplr is trying to solve) I simply forward my airline confirmation or hotel confirmation to an email address and the competitive site updates my itinerary with date and location.

Not only does that make it easier to update said competitive site, but the site also has a finer granularity of where I am staying and where I will be in an airport too (for airport cross-overs). Two people being in New York or Shanghai at the same time is academic if they are staying in opposite parts of town.

I'm even less unlikely to add this level of detail by hand but it can be extracted from the emails automatically.

Finally, setting GMail to auto-forward regular confirmation emails (I fly to LA on United most weeks) means my travel schedule is maintained at zero day-to-day involvement by me. It's head-and-shoulders above Dopplr in that regard.

Dopplr thinks everything happens at midnight GMT. One way of handling the time of update without having to manage all travel details as Tripit does would be to allow the flights to be associated with the trip. You'd need to check flight arrival information, but that is on the internet, assume I make the flight.

I could add my outbound and inbound flights and then Dopplr would be able to check when I've arrived in my stated location and tell Fire Eagle the right information. Rather than pretend that at midnight I instantly move 3500 miles west =)