Trip-It App a lifesaver

I thought myself crazy to be planning 3 trips at once!
I have TripIt, but evidently didn’t utilize it to the extent you have. Time to look at it again. Thanks for the reminder.

I absolutely agree with every point you have posted here, Carol. Tripit's organizational skills far, far surpass mine and as tech challenged as I am, I really appreciate the ease of use. I also love the ability to share my travel plans with my family members and house sitters when I leave home. 7 trips....WOW I'm impressed and good on you! That's awesome!

I've used various tools for organizing my trips, including TripIt. While I agree TripIt is a good tool, I have been using Wanderlog more recently, and I think it is better. It does just about everything TripIt does, but it has some nice advantages.

I'm not going to give a commercial for Wanderlog (I'm just a regular user; I don't work for them or have any personal interest in them). I'm just going to suggest you check it out. I think if you like TripIt, you'll love Wanderlog.

I'm planning two big trips (Europe & SE Asia) for this summer. Lots of details. Thanks for the reminder about Tripit!

Now I know why I gave up on TripIt. It forces the use of known names of where one will be staying, so I can’t load the name of an airbnb. Not too much of a problem really, but a bit of an irritation. (Does paying for PRO enable more precise entries?)
Inputting info is not a love of mine so it needs to be what I want and not what the program wants! Oh well, will keep at it for this trip and see if I can improve my skills.
As for Wanderlog, it forces a subscription so I’m sure that’s why I haven’t looked at it.

Will take any hints about TripIt if you think they will help me!!

Could somebody explain why Trip-it needs my date of birth?

I really like trip it too, very easy to use and the sharing option is useful. It’s annoying that they limit the number of documents you can add to each trip. The free version only allows 3, and even the paid version seems only to allow 25. If it allowed more, it would be far more valuable as a primary travel tool - as it is I find it a bit peripheral as I need to store the docs separately. I do like to open it to see how many days left before I’m leaving :)

I still find it too limiting for certain trips...particularly with airbnbs. I get text notifications from airlines and trains about delays anyway.
I keep all details in a folder on email but I don't have 7 in the works. I easily manage 3 via the email system.Having done that for years, I can also bring up past hotel or airbnb stays. Yes, my system requires more clicks, but ai have developed it for my needs rather than the feeling of having to adapt my wants to a cookie cutter framework. But I have always been a bit of an out of the box player.

Ethel
Please tell me more about the documents that you are loading on trip it. I do have the pro version and have enjoyed using it for a few years now but I think there is more to it than what I have been utilizing. I am not very tech savvy. What documents are you referring to? I have basically been using it for my hotel stays, train trips, and I do add some activities such as museum tics, etc.
So....what am I missing out on to get the most out of this app?
Thanks

Do you pay for the pro version or do you get the benefits described in this thread with the free version?

TripIt was very helpful when I started using it in 2018 after attending a free RS technology class. I quickly upgraded to the pro version. A few years ago it was very helpful when our grandsons were taking a trip to Cape Canaveral with their dad and my husband. The boys started calling me “The Wizard” because I would text them gate changes, etc. from TripIt notifications before they were announced at the airport.

But I feel that the airline notifications are no longer lagging. I had a messy day of flying last December, and I was receiving info from the airline and then later from TripIt. I decided to terminate my pro version since that was the best feature for my use.

I feel like I’ve gone backwards in technology for planning now! I really like the Post-It calendars I’ve described elsewhere on the forum, and when everything’s no longer in flux, I do a final update on my 1-page spreadsheet where I can view everything at a glance with color-coding telling me any remaining tickets to purchase.

I still use TripIt, but during the last two trips, I realized I never looked at it during the trip because the 1-page spreadsheet was sufficient for me.

I do screenshot photo saves on all reservations, any correspondence, tickets, potential favorite restaurants, specific photos I might want to capture, etc. and place those in iCloud folders for each city. I view the iCloud folder of the next city when I’m on the train heading there. The correspondence saved was vital for receiving some refunds in 2020. (Those who refunded my money were hotels that I used in 2022 in gratitude.)

I also have used TripIt for years and upgraded to the Pro version. It makes my travel life so much easier. I just finished planning a trip to France and TripIt has all our reservations for flights, hotels, rental cars and dining reservations. And we just learned due to a recently diagnosed illness that we have to cancel this trip. Again, TripIt makes life easier. With my laptop and TripIt , I am canceling this trip and thinking ahead to where the next trip may take us when we are healthy again.

Karen, I was just referring to the option to add a document to the items you have added, eg a pdf or screenshot of the confirmation of reservation to the hotel stay you have added, or pdfs of tickets to a tour or event, or a file with information about a walk or attraction in a place you are going.
Suki, sorry to hear about you trip, hopefully all is well soon.

@SJS, Wanderlog doesn't force a subscription. The subscription model is for a pro user. The main features you get with pro are the ability to save attachments and to access your plans when you're not online.

Thanks Lane. When I signed in today it came up immediately with the subscription. I’ll look at it again tomorrow.

I looked at using it once, but my google docs, printed out work great for me. Why change?

A big thank you to all who responded with the various ways that they organize trips using technology. This provides a lot of different ideas/opportunities for everyone. I'm in the "it works for me, so I'm not switching camp" so I will be sticking with trip-it.

Carol now retired: Did you upgrade to the Pro version?

Yes, I do use the pro version.

Tripit is brilliant - I've been using it since 2010 used it for 56 trips and travelled a total of 357,965km using it! (Yes the stats are cool).

I've never upgraded to pro - never found the need - don't need to know if the flight is late as my airline app will tell me that. I've never uploaded separate documents to it either. - its basically automated as it collects all reservations and puts them in the right trip. The only thing I have to do manually is cruises.

I use Evernote for everything else and I pay for that - tripit is definitely the most useful free app I've ever used.

The trip starts when I start planning.
I'm a technology guy, that's my work, and I love it when a super-helpful app shows up.
But travel is my vacation, and I love planning everything manually. I don't want to short-circuit the fun of imagining all the possibilities, researching, planning and continually revising the itinerary.
Since tech is my work, my experience is that everything works differently than expected, especially when you depend on it to work properly - I'd manually check flights anyway because I don't trust apps.
Also, paper is my backup. We've been rescued by misunderstandings (sometimes it's whether breakfast is included, other times its dates or whether we reserved a family room) in reservations and payments more than once (especially in Eastern Europe) by having it printed.

I tried it, but my DuckDuckGo privacy and tracking app showed over 20,000 tracking requests from TripIt in 48 hours. That was wildly greater than any other app I've ever used. I'm not a techie, and if there's one out there who could explain this, I'd love to learn.

My employer started using Concur for us to submit expense claims and included with that was a free TripIt Pro subscription that we could sign up for. I was able to switch my personal account over pretty easily and then cancel the one I had been paying for (and felt was worth it).

I found this post as I was searching how to digitally create and have handy my itinerary.

I had discovered Google Travel about 2 months ago, and found that it had created a Trip for me based off of reservations that were associated with my gmail account. I thought it was great having all of the infomation listed out in order like that. So of course, Google killed it.

Can anyone tell me if Trip-It or Wanderlog will do the same thing for me, even though the information is in old emails, or will I have to manually build the itinerary over again?

Trip it can build off of old emails. You would just have to forward them to TripIt.

Thank you, Carol!

Do you need the pro version to get the real time updates?