I received the monthly Mozilla email and loved the bit on how someone might use Firefox throughout their day. Being inspired by this I decided to write a quick overview of how I’ve used Trunk Notes today…

07:50 AM – Getting organised

Once I’m up and showered I start my day by checking my Trunk Notes home page to see if there are any important tasks which need doing today or tomorrow. Important tasks are any line in a note starting with @action. On my home page {{@dueinnext 2, @action}} lists my tasks. Thankfully nothing for the next few days ) The next important item is my girlfriends’ cats birthday next week…

09:30 AM – Planning

My working day starts with a kick off meeting with the other guys in the software development team. Following from this will be a list of actions I plan to do today. These get written on a WorkPlanningMMYY page which I then refer to throughout the day. I sometimes refer to yesterdays page during the discussion.

10:25 AM - Research

One of my tasks today was to start adding IPv6 support to one of the key products being developed by the company I work for (what I’m doing when not working on Trunk Notes and Go Calc.) I made some notes on IPv6 in Trunk Notes for use when I start designing and coding the needed features.

1:00 PM – Checking iOS app sales

During my lunch break I usually check to see how many copies of Trunk Notes and Go Calc I sold yesterday. I store the password for the iTunes Connect system in an encrypted document alongside some other essential passwords such as my Amazon account details, and web server login.

6:20 PM – Shopping for this evenings meal

I can be a little disorganised when it comes to buying enough food for the week all in one go. Not fancying any of the left overs in my fridge I spent a few minutes looking through my list of recipes in Trunk Notes for some inspiration before going to the supermarket on the way home from work.

08:20 PM – Jotting down some ideas for this blog post

Just before watching yesterday’s Apprentice on the BBC iPlayer I typed up a few ideas for a new blog post using Trunk Notes on my iPad. I then synced to Dropbox so that the skeleton for this post would be on my computer ready to polish and post to appsonthemove.com.

How have you used Trunk Notes today?

I have just returned from a wonderful five days in Venice, Italy. I used Trunk Notes to help organise the trip before going and to jot down important information whilst I was there.

To help organise all my Venice related notes I tagged everything with ‘Venice’. From my HomePage tag cloud I could then quickly access any of the related pages.

Here are some of the notes I created before travelling:

• What I should pack, and a list of stuff todo (such as booking Euros, phoning bank to let them know I am going abroad)
• Created an Italian food dictionary. If you want decent food in Venice then stay away from the main tourist areas (especially those with a ‘tourist menu’) – however the menu is likely to be in Italian.
  
• Transferred some information from http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/venice-islands-tour.htm on touring the Lagoon islands
  
• Added PDFs of important travel documents such as my Expedia travel itinerary, car parking voucher, pre-purchased museum voucher and travel insurance. This is a new feature of Trunk Notes 2.5.0 which allows you to store PDFs in Trunk Notes. I added all of these documents by dragging them into the Trunk Notes iTunes Sharing window
  
• Created lots of other notes on recommended restaurants and places to visit

Trunk Notes wasn’t the only app I used when away. Some other useful apps included:

• mtrip Venice (offline maps and routing)
• CityMaps2Go (more offline maps and one of Verona which I spent a day visiting)
• TapVenice Eating – excellent restaurant recommendations with price guides, telephone numbers and maps. Only downside is that when switching to another app it doesn’t background properly and can use up the battery
• iCurrencyPad for currency conversion
• Michelin Europe – more restaurant recommendations
• Photosynth – excellent for creating panoramas for places such as the Arena in Verona (looks much better in the Photosynth app)