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Ethan Jewett shared an idea in TripIt on August 20, 2009 16:17:

It should be possible to delete or disassociate one half on a round-trip airline itinerary

It should be possible to delete or disassociate one half on a round-trip airline itinerary. There are two use cases here that currently don't work well in tripit:

1. I change the return trip of my itinerary after I have already flown the outgoing segment. The airline (or at least Southwest) reissues an itinerary for only the second half of the trip. I am stuck either deleting the original full trip (and losing the outgoing flight) or having a double booking for the return flight in tripit (the original and the changed).

2. I booked overlapping round-trips and I want to separate the trips, or I booked a round trip that I am changing and using for two different trips.

Ethan Jewett started following the idea "tarpipe is great. But bit.ly connector need my API key support." in tarpipe.

Ethan Jewett shared an idea in Mint.com on March 01, 2009 00:34:

Exclude transactions based on tags (in transaction view)

Hi,

I really like the tagging feature. I use it primarily for reimbursement and for excluding these reimbursable transactions from the "trends" view.

Allow a search on all transactions that *don't* have a particular tag (in my case reimbursable). Adding boolean search connectors (NOT, AND, OR) or just having a special search term (not-tagged:Reimbursable) would provide this functionality.

My reasons: This would make it easier to tag transactions properly as they come in. It's easy enough to identify and tag transactions, but as far as I can tell there is no way to tell if a previous transaction has already been tagged without opening up the detail on that transaction, which ends up being a lot of work. It'd be nice if I could just get a list of all transactions that haven't been tagged reimbursable to see if there are any I've missed, therefore the feature suggestion :-)

Thanks!
Ethan

Ethan Jewett shared an idea in Dopplr on February 09, 2009 16:47:

Change to location display for start/end of trips

Hi Dopplr. I love the site, and my suggestion is just due to a tiny little annoyance rather than any really large problem.

Here's the deal: Currently, for any "day" or a trip you display the phrase "You are in Palo Alto today", for example. This makes sense if I'm in Palo Alto for the full day and I have time to meet up with people, etc. But usually on the first and last day of a trip, I'm traveling more than anything else. I'm not really in Palo Alto, but I'm not really in Chicago either.

Maybe for the first and last days of trips you could display "You are traveling to Palo Alto today". Or if you wanted to be extra verbose, "You are traveling from Chicago to Palo Alto today". I think either of those constructions gets at the actual situation better than the current one.

Anyhow, just a suggestion. You guys are doing a great job with this application. Based on my the uptake after I recommend it to friends, it has a really low barrier to entry and a really high utility :-)

Ethan

Ethan Jewett started following the idea "An API for manipulation of personal data" in Mint.com.

Ethan Jewett shared an idea in Mint.com on February 05, 2009 20:00:

Exclude custom tags and categories from budgets and cashflow

I'd like to able to exclude multiple custom tags and categories from all of my budgets and from my cash flow. I'm specifically concerned about reimbursable business expenses, which make the cash flow on the overview page pretty unrepresentative of my real cash flow at the moment (unless I'm missing something, which is certainly possible).

Fantastic site!

Ethan Jewett started following the idea "OpenID authentication" in Mint.com.

Ethan Jewett replied on February 05, 2009 19:47 to the problem "USAA credit card account errors" in Mint.com:

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for following up on this and for your emails. It looks to me like the problem is solved.

Ethan Jewett reported a problem in Mint.com on January 12, 2009 22:48:

USAA credit card account errors

USAA credit card import hasn't been working for me for well over a month. I reported the problem pretty quickly and Mint said that they had submitted a ticket to their service provider. I've checked in occasionally and received no response (though I did get a somewhat standoffish canned response when I tried using the issue reporting form a second time :).

I don't see any update on this issue on the Mint forums or on GetSatisfaction. Hopefully this is an easier place for Mint to provide updates on this issue.

Ethan Jewett marked one of Celia's replies in Dopplr as useful. Celia replied to the problem "Magical disappearing trips (from iCals)".

Ethan Jewett reported a problem in Dopplr on April 22, 2008 17:27:

Magical disappearing trips (from iCals)

Hi,

I may be missing something, but I had an imported iCal trip last weekend that I can no longer find. My journal says, regarding this trip, "We imported a trip (since deleted) from an external calendar."

This seems like a problem, especially given your super awesome carbon calculator working on the basis of old trips. (I noticed this while trying out the calculator.)

Suggested behavior for trips imported from iCals: Once the trip starts, disconnect it from the iCal so that when it goes into the past and disappears from the iCal, it doesn't disappear from Dopplr.

Thanks for the great site!

Ethan Jewett started following the idea "Roadtrip option in Dopplr" in Dopplr.

Ethan Jewett marked one of Matt Jones' replies in Dopplr as useful. Matt Jones replied to the idea "It'd be great to add a trip from someone else's itinerary.". Ethan Jewett and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Ethan Jewett reported a problem in Dopplr on April 12, 2008 13:39:

iCal import trips automatically delete and re-add occasionally

I have a calendar import set up from Tripit, which works great, except . . .

Occasionally the trips that have been imported from my iCal get deleted and re-added. This only appears to happen when the link has not been broken by editing the trip in Dopplr. This started happening last Saturday and happened again this Saturday.

I didn't make any changes to my Tripit feed, though I suppose they could have reset something on there side.

This isn't exactly a problem for me, but I assume it also causes my trips to show up again in all of my contact's activity feeds. Not good :-(

Thanks,
Ethan

Ethan Jewett started following the idea "It'd be great to add a trip from someone else's itinerary." in Dopplr.

Ethan Jewett started following the problem "Dopplr needs a geography lesson!" in Dopplr.

Ethan Jewett replied on February 28, 2008 03:41 to the idea "Addinging future-presence based on airline and hotel confirmation emails" in Dopplr:

I can vouch that the iCal import works great on the Tripit iCal feed. I'm pretty sure it's going to result in my using both sites quite a bit more. You guys really nailed that feature.