El Arco de Cabo San Lucas

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Do you find your­self scram­bling at the last minute when prepar­ing for your sum­mer vaca­tion? Are you search­ing for web­sites, dig­ging through your email inbox, wal­let, or hand­bag for notes and itin­er­aries at the eleventh hour? Do you write check­lists that even­tu­ally get lost? Do you worry that you might for­get impor­tant details — like remem­ber­ing your passport?

Best Travel Apps

If you need assis­tance orga­niz­ing and plan­ning, apps can help. There are sev­eral best-of-breed apps and web­sites for pur­chas­ing air­line tick­ets, book­ing accom­mo­da­tions, and mak­ing reser­va­tions for attrac­tions — but how do you orga­nize all that infor­ma­tion into one place? For exam­ple, how do you keep track of flight infor­ma­tion, hotel reser­va­tions, car rentals, weather fore­casts, meet­ings, and more? If this is your goal, the Life­Topix app for iPhone and iPad can help.

Some travel orga­ni­za­tion apps allow you to for­ward con­fir­ma­tions from air­lines, etc. to an email address and those apps com­pile your itin­er­ary. If you’re like me, you might pre­fer that the itin­er­ary is not com­piled auto­mat­i­cally because I don’t trust that it would be cre­ated accu­rately. I like to be able to locate the orig­i­nal itin­er­ary as a PDF file or email, and I also pre­fer to see my travel infor­ma­tion in con­text with every­thing else in my life. Our phi­los­o­phy is to allow you to access all these items (and cre­ate them your way) — all in one place with every­thing else you are man­ag­ing in your life.

Travel Strat­egy

Life­Topix brings together all travel-related infor­ma­tion under the Travel + Places topic. Trips, Vis­its, Places, as well as travel related Notes, Book­marks, and Ser­vices can be accessed from this topic. Since Places, Notes, Book­marks and Ser­vices are “touch­points” into the appro­pri­ate cat­e­gories under their native top­ics: Peo­ple + Ser­vices, Notes + Files, and Book­marks — these can be man­aged from either topic, based on the con­text you might be in at any given time. The slideshow below demon­strate the man­age­ment of this infor­ma­tion from mul­ti­ple top­ics as rel­e­vant to the infor­ma­tion being created.

When trav­el­ing, some things you might want to keep track of are listed below. Good news — Life­Topix has a fea­ture to cover all of these items — and all the infor­ma­tion is acces­si­ble through a Life­Topix Trip:

• Cal­en­dars — Life­Topix Trip Calendar
• Travel Agents, Pet Care, and Child Care — Life­Topix Ser­vice Providers & Travel Bookmarks
• Travel Check­lists — Life­Topix Checklists
• Places to Visit — Life­Topix Travel Bookmarks
• Trip Notes — Life­Topix Notes + Files (also includ­ing Ever­note, Drop­box, Google Docs)
• Shar­ing — Life­Topix Social Col­lab­o­ra­tion (Face­book, Twit­ter, Email, SMS)
• Itin­er­aries and Con­fir­ma­tion Num­bers — Life­Topix Notes + Files (also includ­ing Ever­note, Drop­box, Google Docs),
• Weather Fore­casts — Life­Topix Travel Bookmarks
• Meet­ing Infor­ma­tion — Life­Topix Notes + Files (also includ­ing Ever­note, Drop­box, Google Docs)
• Con­tacts — Life­Topix Peo­ple + Services
• Insur­ance Infor­ma­tion — Life­Topix Notes + Files (also includ­ing Ever­note, Drop­box, Google Docs), Life­Topix Health + Activity
• Auto Rentals & Trans­porta­tion — Life­Topix Ser­vice Providers
• Direc­tions — Life­Topix Near Me, Maps, and Travel Bookmarks
• Pho­tos & Video — Life­Topix Media & Travel Bookmarks

The Life­Topix Way — Now and Beyond

Today, with the Life­Topix app, you can com­pile your travel infor­ma­tion from file attach­ments and book­marks. You can also obtain those files directly from your desk­top using Life­Topix AirAc­cess™. AirAc­cess is a pow­er­ful and effi­cient desk­top client that allows you to con­nect wire­lessly from your Mac to Life­Topix run­ning on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. In LightArrow’s next major upgrade, 5.0, Life­Topix will directly extract those files and put them into the trip that you are plan­ning — allow­ing this process to get even easier.

View the fol­low­ing slideshow to see how we’ve used Life­Topix to plan an excit­ing vaca­tion to Cabo San Lucas.

You can find Life­Topix at the App Store.

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