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What does a duffel bag mean to you? A sack of travel goodies that you'll take to back-pack all over Europe? A bag that hold all the junk you've accumulated over the years, and sitting in your garage?

At Duffel, duffel bag means all those, and much more. A "duffel" is essentially a place for you to store all your travel notes, research, information, ideas, and itineraries. Not only, it is a place where you can invite friends, so they can throw their travel plans in, mixed with yours. If you're not planning a trip, well, then "duffel" is where you accumulate interesting articles you found online or add recommendations that you heard from friends, so when you are ready to actually plan the trip, half your trip has already been planned.

If you're a reader of our blog, you probably noticed

button all over our posts. Before you skip the button, why don't you try clicking on it?

The button is to provide you an easy and simple (one-click!) way to add our activity, restaurant and hotel recommendations to your "duffel". And because your time is so precious, we even added notes to each recommendation, so you don't even need to type in notes to remember why you clipped this activity or hotel in the first place. If you are a travel nut who likes to research and collect travel ideas, or if you're someone who likes to keep stuff in Microsoft Excel, our "Add to Duffel" button is probably the best thing that has happened to you since our Clip-It bookmarker. Next time when you read our articles, look for

But what if you're a travel blogger or writer, and want to use our "Add to Duffel" button for your readers to easily clip notes? You're in luck, because we created something just for you. Why don't you look over here, and start empowering your readers to add your recommendations to their duffel!

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Tip: How to Post Driving Direction and Map to a Duffel

This is the first of the how-to / tips & tricks series. How-to series are created to educate users on how to maximize the potential of using Duffel. Hope you’ll find them helpful!

Problem: When I was planning my trip to Greece, I realized that I need walking & driving directions from point to point. How do I save this in my duffel? This post illustrates the utilization of Google Maps driving direction and its application to your trip planning process. The tutorial assumes that you print out your duffels using “print view” and carry them while traveling. Follow the procedure below and you’ll have a good-looking print view with driving directions.

1) Find driving / walking directions on maps.google.com. In this example, I’m plotting directions from SFO International Airport to San Francisco, Ca.

2) After the direction has been plotted, click the “Link” link on the top right of the map. Copy the HTML in “Past HTML to embed in website”.

3) Go to your duffel and add a Note. Paste the HTML in the Note body. (Optional) Since I like large maps, I changed the width to “600” (from “425”) and height to “600” as well (from “350”). You can also add any note you need to the beginning or the end of the HTML; I pasted the actual text of the driving direction.