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TripIt is much easier than Dopplr
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.
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Inappropriate?Hello - we agree TripIt do a great job of handling your travel confirmations once you've booked. We also agree that entering stuff by hand is not great. Look! I'm doing it now! It's horrible!
Dopplr is about your future, and if you're trying to optimise your travel plans BEFORE you book stuff, we need to get the information from other places, including plain old human intervention.
We try to make that as painless as possible in the UI, so if you have any specific ideas or criticism about that, that would be great.
BUT!
We're working on a bunch of ways to get your information into Dopplr easily.
First up we've got some great ways to get the information into Dopplr from your calendaring software - like Google Calendar and Apple iCal.
(http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/02/27/new...
You can also use SMS to create trips (http://www.dopplr.com/main/faq#05-02), and we're working on a few new interesting things that we think will make it a lot easier to enter your trips in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!
I’m confident we're working on it!
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Inappropriate?well now that matt's explained the dopplr philosophy it seems clear that they aren't too intent on getting the flight data in automatically. how hard could this be?
regardless, what i've done could be of help to others. i've taken advantage of dopplr's ability to subscribe to internet calendars (ics) and tripit's ability to publish your reservation to the same to link the two. i then forward my reservations (air only for now as far as i've seen) to tripit and dopplr picks up that data and adds it to my calendar.
i'm still experimenting with that to see how i can get it to work better but the dopplr UI is surely more interesting to use. i just want to limit the number of tools i use to get things done.
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