Alternative to TripIt = TripWaffle

[aspro2]

Bit of a humblebrag, but we recently anonymised an assortment of real world emails we've processed and forwarded them off to tripit...

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I was planning to add a comment tonight about one of those very emails! I was very impressed that a to-and-fro email thread about a booking, but lacking any simple clear summary, was successfully processed into an event in Tripwaffle. I sent it through as a test of how well the interpretative-AI element works on such loose conversation, and was duly impressed.

 

[tripwaffle]

Thanks for the offline feature, and everything else! I took a WiFi-less flight yesterday to test the system and I noticed that offline times are displayed in UTC without a time zone indicator. I don’t mind too much but others might find it confusing.

Good catch- as you've seen, offline mode is pretty minimal at present, but will improve with each app release. I'll make sure timezone resolution makes it into the next release.

 

[tripwaffle]

1. What's the logic on how the system detects the inbound and outbound part of a trip?
I have my location set to BNE and my imported FR24 history has detected and populated trips pretty well back to mid-2018. However, prior to tat date I lived in another city and the system is matching the inbound sector of a trip with the outbound sector of a subsequent trip.

Problem is that there isn't a built-in way to retroactively switch home airports mid-history, so I'm afraid the cleanest path at this point is what you're doing in the reorganiser. That said, if there's any mass changes to just your trips we can apply at our end, please just shout.

3. In the reorganiser, can the drop down menu from the search field be expanded to show more than 12 results please?

Easy fix- now bumped to 50.

 

[RooFlyer]

Editing and cleaning up trips imported from myFR24 - extra trips generated- down memory lane!

I’m back to 2011 so far. I’m amazed at the domestic - International and international - International connections I took back then ( as in, tight) . Wouldn’t dream of them today with the delays we experience now.

Ever since I’ve had iPhones, about 2009, I’ve entered my flights and hotels in the same systematic way into the calendar so editing them in TW has been pretty easy. Before then I don’t know. I did a big reconstruction of my early flights/ trips for myFR24 by requesting copies of my Int’l arriving cards via freedom of information and also used my passport stamps to reconstruct trips. A lot of domestic trips missing, going back to ~1970s.

 

[tripwaffle]

Editing and cleaning up trips imported from myFR24 - extra trips generated- down memory lane!

I’m back to 2011 so far. I’m amazed at the domestic - International and international - International connections I took back then ( as in, tight) . Wouldn’t dream of them today with the delays we experience now.

Ever since I’ve had iPhones, about 2009, I’ve entered my flights and hotels in the same systematic way into the calendar so editing them in TW has been pretty easy. Before then I don’t know. I did a big reconstruction of my early flights/ trips for myFR24 by requesting copies of my Int’l arriving cards via freedom of information and also used my passport stamps to reconstruct trips. A lot of domestic trips missing, going back to ~1970s.

That's amazing- I regale my kids with stories of when air travel actually felt glamorous (except maybe the smoking sections).
As a defence-force brat I logged a few interstate trips on Hercules C-130s too ... might need to add that aircraft type to TW now I think of it

 

[VPS]

So the response from tripit

Thank you so much for your question on exporting travel history. We currently do not offer customer driven travel data export capability. We have passed your suggestion on to the appropriate team for review.

 

[tripwaffle]

So the response from tripit

Thank you so much for your question on exporting travel history. We currently do not offer customer driven travel data export capability. We have passed your suggestion on to the appropriate team for review.

Bizarre. Feel free to send them this screenshot from 2 days ago...

 

[SeaWolf]

Thank you so much for your question on exporting travel history. We currently do not offer customer driven travel data export capability. We have passed your suggestion on to the appropriate team for review.

Just got the same response myself. They might have figured out that some people are looking at competing products and want to "trap" our data.

 

[tripwaffle]

Just got the same response myself. They might have figured out that some people are looking at competing products and want to "trap" our data.

Interesting business strategy, I'm sure that will work out great for them.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Interesting business strategy, I'm sure that will work out great for them.

Are you suggesting that not updating anything for a decade wasn't enough? Which is what led me to investigate, discover Tripwaffle and start this thread

 

[SeaWolf]

Interesting business strategy, I'm sure that will work out great for them.

I have seen one other service make use of the TripIt API to pull past trip data from it. Don't know how feasible that is though or if there's charges attached to its use.

 

[tripwaffle]

I have seen one other service make use of the TripIt API to pull past trip data from it. Don't know how feasible that is though or if there's charges attached to its use.

I've seen this mob: tripexporter dot com (no idea if they're trustworthy!)
but they seem to have API access, likely from getting in before TripIt shuttered operations:

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