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)
Great list. Wanted to tell you about my favorite, too…I started using the TV Everywhere app because I actually work at one of DISH Network’s call centers, and I wanted to familiarize myself with it in case I was ever speaking with a customer that had questions about it…I wanted to know what they were talking about. I planned to play with it for a day or two and then pretty much delete it…it’s become my all time favorite app though. I can kick back on my lunch break and catch up on my DVR, and I love to travel so it’s perfect for killing time between flights at the airport. Basically it will let me watch live or DVR’d shows off my home receiver anywhere I can get a 3G connection. Love it.