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Hey TripLittle fans, as you may have guessed from the title, we’re headed to our first conference, South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive! We’re out here in Sunny Austin, Texas for the next week to spread the word about TripLittle and give away some cool stuff.

Beginning tomorrow (and running through SXSW) we’re going to be holding our first Twitter contest. We’re givining away a free iPod Touch for your next trip! All you have to do is help us spread the word. You’ll see a banner on the TripLittle home page beginning tomorrow morning (3/12) with instructions, all you need to do is tweet the message below between 3/12 and 3/16 and we’ll pick a winner after the conference. We’re also giving away some cool stickers, buttons and shirts – look for us if you’re out in Austin this week.

As you may have noticed, we’ve been working really hard here at TripLittle the past few months to roll out some great features for planning, organizing, and sharing your travel info. We’re continuing that this weekend with the release of the downloadable (and printable) PDF Itinerary. This has been a long time in the making, and we’d love to hear what you think of it. You can access the PDF by clicking on the printer icon on the Itinerary page.

In addition to the new feature release a number of small bugs have been fixed, making TripLittle more stable and hopefully easier to use. We always want to hear your feedback, so please feel free to shoot us an email at support at TripLittle dot com!

Lastly, in March we’ll be heading to Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive festival to share TripLittle with the world. Not only will we be talking up the project as much as possible while attending the many panel talks, but we’ll also be doing some fun stuff for our users. More details on that later, but suffice it to say that you’ll want to be in on it.

–Jordan

Hey all you TripLittle fans, we wanted to let you know that we’ve released the shared Packing List feature – actually, we released it over a week ago, but I’m just now getting around to announcing it. We hope that you find it useful, we have! The Packing List lets you specify items that you need each day, or just for the whole trip (similar to the budget planner). You can just enter that you need 1 pair of pants a day and the system will figure out how many you need to pack (not that that’s difficult). But maybe you need 2 pairs of socks each day, or even 3 pair every 2 days (1.5 a day). You can enter this into the system and TripLittle will figure out what you need.

You may be wondering what I mean by “TripLittle will figure it out for you,” well you can print your Packing List and when you do so the PDF file will spell out exactly how many of each item you need to pack. It will also have a check boxes next to each item so that you can mark off what you’ve already taken care of.

Most exciting of all, however, may be that you can specify whether an item is “per-person” (everyone needs one or more of this item) or not. If an item is not per-person, then you can specify who’s carrying it (even if multiple people are carrying it)! When you specify who’s carrying an item, the printable PDF Packing List will have separate lists for things everyone needs and things each person on your trip needs to pack.

We think this is a great addition to the TripLittle line-up of features, but don’t take our word for it, try it yourself! Remember, its completely free, and you don’t even have to register.

Thanks for listening!

–Jordan
(Founder and lead developer)

The sky isn’t falling, you’re just planning a trip. ®

Hello TripLittle fans! We hope that your holidays have been (and continue to be) festive and your travels safe. There are a lot of families that take vacations this time of year; sometimes its to see relatives, and other times its purely to get away. In any case, TripLittle is here to help. With budgets tight and schedules packed, we can help make sure all of your plans go off without a hitch and stay within your spending comfort zone.

We took some time off here as well, but there’s still a lot of work to be done, and it continues even today at the beginning of the New Year. We’re working on a shared packing list which lets you plan out who’s carrying what items on your next trip. Check back in the next week or two to get a peek at it!

We’re also working on a print-friendly version of your trip itinerary which will list all of your activities – and all of the information required for them – in one concise and travel-ready document. You’ll even be able to download it as a PDF – perfect for emailing to friends or relatives that need to stay informed.

Let us know how you’re using TripLittle by sending us an email and we’ll send you a little something special. That’s it for now.

Thanks,

–Jordan
jordan at triplittle dott com

Hi there TripLittle fans (and those of you new to our world), this is the first post on the newly created TripLittle Blog. I (and others) will be posting from time to time on lots of different topics ranging from feature releases to general ramblings on travel. Feel free to leave a comment or sign up for a new user account. If you would like to post to the blog, send off an email to support aht TripLittle dott com with a couple sentences about why you want to post.

What we’re doing here

Now that that stuff is out of the way, let me tell you a little about TripLittle and why we think its a great idea. First of all, I hate to travel… let me clarify: I hate the actual act of traveling. I love it once I get where I’m going, but the planning, the organizing, the packing, and most of the time the actual moving of my person from one location to another is extremely stressful. What we’re hoping to do with TripLittle is reduce that stress a bit, and make this planning and organization fun.

In order to that, we’re creating tools for all of the pre-trip planning you have to do, including creating your budget, organizing your itinerary, creating a packing list, and tying it all together. Right now we have two of the pieces done, the budget and itinerary planners. You can go try them out yourself on the TripLittle home page.

No need to register

We don’t like long complicated forms or multi-step processes that make things more difficult; that’s why you can start to play around with TripLittle right now without any kind of registration form. Go ahead, you can create a new trip, plan out your budget, organize your itinerary, and even download all of the data without giving us any information. If you like what you see, you can save your trip information by creating a user account with nothing but an email address and password. Yeah, we know you may enter a bogus address, but that’s okay, it just means you won’t hear about our super-cool giveaways.

We’re working hard on more features, and we’ll let you know when they drop, but one of our philosophies is to release often, so go ahead and check back whenever you can and you’ll probably find something new.

That’s it for now, happy travels!

–Jordan
(Founder and lead developer)