Alternative to TripIt = TripWaffle

[RooFlyer]

Key point of differentiation: tripit will only process booking emails from certain vendors. Tripwaffle will literally process any confirmation from any provider- think of the most obscure ferry operator or Alaskan dog sled tour... we'll import it into your itinerary.

Thank you. As it happens, I never or only very rarely use the import via email option for TripIt. The itineraries contain a whole lot more information than just the event being considered and I am reluctant to send it off to some company overseas, feeding some possible profitable sideline where they sell all the related information.

 

[Daver6]

Thank you. As it happens, I never or only very rarely use the import via email option for TripIt. The itineraries contain a whole lot more information than just the event being considered and I am reluctant to send it off to some company overseas, feeding some possible profitable sideline where they sell all the related information.

To be fair, websites cost money to run and developers need to eat (and drink wine). Totally understand your concern but when a website is "free" for the user, the owners need to at the very least recoup costs somehow.

Is it an alternative for TripIt ( per the OP) or Flighty? For instance does it handle hotel bookings, rail, concerts, other activities, with inputs for things like cost, confirmation, like TripIt? Does it produce a visual timeline so you can see possible overlapping or conflicting events of different types?

From playing around with the site a bit, yes it seems like a complete replacement for TripIt plus more. If certainly gives the timeline with a heap more generated information too.

 

[RooFlyer]

To be fair, websites cost money to run and developers need to eat (and drink wine). Totally understand your concern but when a website is "free" for the user, the owners need to at the very least recoup costs somehow.

As the saying goes, if something on the web is free then the user is the product.

If you look at the type of data aggregation that is possible on these types of sites, it leaves Qantas’s so-called big data in the shade

To be honest, I’m not all that hung up about privacy but if I can enter the data manually, I can at least preserve a tiny little bit more.

 

[kpc]

From playing around with the site a bit, yes it seems like a complete replacement for TripIt plus more. If certainly gives the timeline with a heap more generated information too.

Assuming Tripwaffle updates with flight delays, boarding gates etc, Tripwaffle at this stage is free cf to Tripit Pro which you have to subscribed to for a fee for this information.

 

[tripwaffle]

As the saying goes, if something on the web is free then the user is the product.

If you look at the type of data aggregation that is possible on these types of sites, it leaves Qantas’s so-called big data in the shade

To be honest, I’m not all that hung up about privacy but if I can enter the data manually, I can at least preserve a tiny little bit more.

It's a valid concern, given it's standard operating procedure by everyone from mobile carriers to reward programs to innocuous looking calculator apps.
Not something we do, nor ever plan to. Quite the opposite of our love-thy-user mantra.
All that said- it's possible to manually add events in tripwaffle, with a bare minimum of details.

 

[tripwaffle]

I think you need to differentiate between editor and (second) traveller. Eg, someone makes their assistant an editor, they wouldn't want their bosses stats showing as theirs.

Thinking through all the various scenarios of why users might want to share a trip, we've come up with this proposal for 5 different roles.
Feedback very welcome.