TripIt

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How are you keeping everyone on top of where they're supposed to be and what's happening? Like, have you organized it in a Google Doc? Are you using an app like TripIt? What's it called? TripIt or one of those kind of apps where you can share with people?

So really, we have done all the planning and we have done all the coordinating of the times and everything.

And we created the itinerary, which shows where you should be at any given time.

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My other one is to get the pro plan for TripIt and have it sync with your inbox.

And you can add a circle in there.

And so my husband automatically has access to all my itineraries.

Ooh, big deal.

Yeah, it's like totally worth it.

I'm all about the TripIt Pro.

And if you're a shop that uses Concur, it can automatically sync with your Concur as well as your inbox to keep everything up to date.

Google Maps works really well in Japan.

If you're using an app like Wanderlog or TripIt, those are great too.

Those are planning tools that can really help you avoid bouncing back and forth across the city because you've arranged your stops according to popularity rather than location.

So for that day one, keep things in a cluster and keep things kind of loose.

It's also readily available to cancel or modify OpenTable reservations, again, all through conversational WhatsApp messages.

This is like the TripIt app on steroids.

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That's what I like.

I use a, an app called TripIt just so that all my stuff is in there and it's easy to access.

But lately, what I've been doing is also writing, doing my own little itinerary, printing it out, so I've got a hard copy as well, because I have been stuck where my phone wouldn't open.

I couldn't, I couldn't turn my phone on, so I had no way of getting to the TripIt.

So that, that is something that I do now.

I, I print that out.

I also think that there's...

There are lots of apps that you can use when you're traveling that do help.

She knows like if I'm going on long flights, what kind of food that I like to eat on the plane.

She knows like, oh, if I'm going internationally, what kind of restrictions are there? And then putting it all together in TripIt, which is the app that I use to keep track of everything.

Same thing, like she kind of helps with booking stuff with my girlfriend.

So if we want to go for dinner somewhere, we'll tell her like, hey, we're looking for a nice sushi restaurant or something around this time or a nice Italian.

You can thank me later.

In terms of organizing the itinerary, TripIt is the other half of the equation.

I use the regular free version and I've had it since, get ready, 2009.

You can either have TripIt linked to your inbox so that when a flight, hotel, or rental car confirmation comes in, it shows up in TripIt on its own, or if you want a little more control like I do, you can forward your confirmations to plansattripit.com.

The first email you forward for a given trip sets up the framework automatically, but you can always log in and edit it or merge trips together if you want to.

You can also add other people as travelers once the trip is set up in TripIt, so if they get confirmations to their inboxes, they can forward the emails as well.

Think of it this way, the Google Sheet is my plan for what we're doing, but the TripIt is where the confirmation details live in chronological order so that if I'm standing at the rental car counter and I need a confirmation number, I'm not digging through my email.

It's also a great way to see if you have weird gaps, like if you're missing a hotel night or you arrange your rental car pickup for the wrong day.