Since the end of 2008, I’ve kept a fairly regular habit of jotting down my trip mileage, odometer, price and other fill-up numbers[1. Date, station, odometer, price, gallons, and partial fuelup (yes/no).] whenever I fueled my 2003 Toyota Corolla at a gas station. When I get the chance, I’d open my spreadsheet file and add the new fill-ups.
When Matt Haughey started Fuelly, I postponed importing my data and switching from sheer laziness. After revisiting the site a couple days ago, I saw that I already had all the information I needed from my spreadsheet. After renaming the columns and changing a few fields to use boolean logic[2. Partial_fuelup and missed_fuelup from yes/no to 1/0.], my CSV import went through smoothly.
Why I dig Fuelly:
- Fuelly displays my data with elegant charts and graphs, which is more than my spreadsheet.
- With my smartphone, using Fuelly’s mobile site is gorgeous and allows me to enter new data easily, saving the step of writing it down for later.
- If I choose to leave, I can export my fuel-up data to a CSV text file.
Right when I was about to publish this post, Fuelly wouldn’t show any car details. After a quick email to inform the Fuelly team (of what I’m sure they already knew), Paul Bausch replied within minutes that the problem was fixed. Awesome. After a friendly interaction with Paul, and having watched a few episodes of Portlandia, Oregon is starting to look really nice. 🙂
My Fuelly username: btvillarin / Sign up at fuelly.com
All Narfed Up 
In case you missed our new design, here’s your car in the new template:
http://new.fuelly.com/driver/btvillarin/corolla
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Matt: I did miss your new design. It looks gorgeous! I can’t wait until you officially release it. Thanks for stopping by, and keep up the great work. 🙂
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