Eleganttraveller

We're enthusiastic travellers and since 1985 have been logging our travels on a computer so have built up a considerable record. A few years ago, I discovered passportstamp.com and since then, have carefully recorded our travel enjoying seeing the number of countries visited rack up and reflecting on our good fortune to be able to do so. The information stored is fairly basic - in/out dates and a few notes about actual places visited - I keep a blog for all the gory details

In the last few months, the site has become really unreliable and I feared losing all that data, so I copied and pasted it. I think the time has come to find an alternative.

Your suggestions would be welcome, please! It could be an ios app, but I'd really prefer something which would snyc with my pc too, and following this recent experience, I'd consider a backup facility important as well.

First time user, so my apologies if this subject has been done to death already - I searched the forums but these things move so quickly that what's hot this week may have been replaced with something better by next.

Thanks!

PainCorp

It won't load right now, so I can't see exactly what it does, but have you seen flightdiary.net?

Eleganttraveller

No, I haven't, PainCorp.....I'll take a look.

Thank you!

DYKWIA

www.openflights.org
www.ba97.com

Two more alternatives to have a look at. The latter is developed and hosted by somebody from Flyertalk.

Eleganttraveller

Thanks DYKWIA. I like the look of both. Though neither does everything I'm looking for, both offer aome interesting potential.
Very helpful - thank you.

pricesquire

PainCorp: do you prefer Flight Diary over Flight Memory?

PainCorp

FlightDiary seems to have a better UI, so I use that. I'm going to look at OpenFlights and BA97 though.

pricesquire

What's UI stand for?

PainCorp

User Interface.

pricesquire

Doh. My bad.

I'd switch from Flight Memory if it weren't such a pain to retype years of flying into a new interface.

Also, OP: passportstamp.com isn't working.

Eleganttraveller

Pricesquire, passportstamp has been intermittent for a while and I suspect/fear that it's lost and gone forever now. Thankfully, I copied all my data the last time I was there "just in case"...how pleased I am that I did.

Quite agree about the pain to retype all of that into another program. At times, I think that writing it all down in a little book would be a great idea ;-) (but then I'd lose the book!!)

cb2

Pricesquire, I also use Flight Diary. Check whether you can simply export a text file with what you have got in Flight Memory database at the moment and then put it into Flight Diary Sometimes the transfer between those sites is as simple as that.

pricesquire

Something tells me that is easier said than done

I'll look into it though! Thanks for the tip.

zkzkz

Requirement #1 for me is that there be an easy way to export the data.

Tripit has an API which openflights uses the extract the data. But I don't really trust concur to maintain full access in the future. I should try to extact the raw data myself and keep an archive

SANspotter

You can import data into flightdiary from flightmemory via OpenFlights. It's been a while since I did it, but OpenFlights will extract the data from flightmemory, and then you can import that data into flightdiary.

http://flightdiary.net/about/import