Tripit: Don’t ever go to the wrong airport again
Up to now, I’ve been very focused on ways to actively improve specific areas of our lifes. Solutions to understand our behaviors, analyze them, get feedback and take actions. But what about passive ways?
Take for instance traveling. I’m really good at planning but I tend to suck at executing. To give a real-life example: It happened to me to buy a plane ticket months in advance, only to go to the wrong airport when the day of flying had arrived. To my defense, I had taken a similar flight with the same company earlier and only checked the schedule, not the location. What a stupid mistake…
An application like Tripit would have solved this issue. What it does is simply to go into your emails, look around for flights, hotels or events and put everything together.
As I’m writing this post, I’m preparing for a short trip to London to attend 2 conferences. I have everything ready, tickets, bookings and all but I feel just better knowing that I’ll know where to check for any information I’ll need during that travel. It’s really how apps should work, all automated. I would never consider entering data manually unless I absolutely had to (because there’s no booking process for an event for instance).
One might argue that this doesn’t fundamentally improve my organization skills and that it’s just a workaround. I’m fine with it :)
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