TripNote: A useful cloud-based trip diary system

Abstract

A trip diary system called TripNote built upon Evernote, which is a cloud based notes taken service, is introduced in this paper. It allows users to make detail trip diary with mobile devices easily. Users create and collect notes taken during travelling with Evernote APP installed on mobile devices, then make trip diaries based upon these taken notes with TripNote system. TripNote is built upon Apache web server where the trip diaries created are stored. Users may view, edit or delete these trip diaries as request. Users also can export these trip diaries in plain html document or epub format which is one of standard ebook formats. The purpose of exportation is for archiving or sharing with someone else. TripNote had been tested on many real cases; five of these were discussed in this paper. The result showed that TripNote is suitable for data collecting, processing, viewing and sharing at various kinds of trip activities. TripNote was proven to be a practical and useful trip diary system.