Travel Tips: How to Keep Your Plan?

What should we do when we start traveling? It's a difficult problem for us. There are some good apps remember a lot of things for us, and keep them on cloud online, our phone and computers.

  Evernote:

Evernote is an application integrated with desktop computers, smartphones and web. It has the useful clipper, then you can keep all useful information on the same application, and rearrange when you plan your next trip. Also you can use this on your travel. You can keep photos with your notes and opinions.

(This is not a cloud storage. If you need to keep big files, this is not the right application. Or, you need to pay for the extra storage such as Dropbox.)

  OneNote:

This application is similar with Evernote. You can keep your ideas in one notebook on your devices. If you have your Microsoft Account, you can keep and manage on it online too. You can keep your photos on SkyDrive, and also put on your OneNote from your phone. SkyDrive has 7GB storage for each user. (You can use with Microsoft Account online. If you are a Windows user, it's including with Microsoft Office. For Android and iOS users, you can download this from the apps store. For Mac OSX users, Microsoft still doesn't release the apps, but you can use on SkyDrive.)

  Google Apps:

You can keep all your need on your Google Drive. You can share some folders with your friends, and keep your photos and videos also. You can also plan with Google Docs. Google Drive has a 5GB storage for each user, you can keep everything on it. (In China, Google Apps is not a good way for your travel because it withdrew from China in 2010, and still sometimes connection problems happen.)

  iCloud:

If you use iTunes, you have this account. You can use iCloud Calendar, Reminder, and Notebook to keep your information. Especially for Mac & iPhone users, it's useful.

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Here are something:

Calendar:    

Without Evernote, they have calendars on the account. You can manage your schedule on your vacation on the calendar apps.

Task List/To-Do:     

You can make a check list on these applications. You can plan what you should do for the "X" day. You can create a document for this.

Storage:   

You can keep your files for your plan. For Evernote, you need to care the monthly limit. iCloud doesn't have a storage without iWork and iPhoto users and iPhone users.

Search:   
Evernote has remarkable search functions. Even the letters are handwriting, it can pick the letters from the images. You can search letters from your documents on Google Drive.

Email:    
Without Evernote, they also have email accounts. You can collect the information from your friends in the world, and keep them with a tag or a folder for your travel.

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Many people in the world use these "multipurpose" applications. Therefore, they are standard. They may not have the useful tools for sharing, but, personally, you can use wherever you travel.

If you only want to share your information, you can use SNS such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram. However, I'm sure travel plan is always based on your interests. Especially, you are a backpacker, you need your way to keep your plan.

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What people feel on the way of the travel? Many of them feel, "I'm small." That's true. How our daily task impact to the world? However, all the small things make the huge history like Newton's Apple. Don't forget about it.

"All The Small Things" (2000) by Blink-182

When we travel, the plan is always too much. Don't squeeze a lot into your day, but keep a few interests for the plan is the best. If you don't want to miss the highlights, please check some tours for the highlights. It may reduce your mess and time to plan.