Business travel can be exhausting, not to mention lonely. Keeping track of all your expenses, to-do lists and ideas, while still keeping in touch with your loved ones, can be overwhelming.
Luckily, there’s an app for that, or rather, several apps for that.
Take a look at these time-saving technologies that make business travel simple:
1 Expensify
By this time, you know that cramming receipts into the back pocket of your wallet and writing down mileage reports on scraps of paper doesn’t really work. Streamline your process with this app that lets you take pictures of your receipts, import transactions from your credit card bill and track your time for invoicing. Business Insider named Expensify their best business travel app and it already has 2.5 million users. Perhaps best of all, you can download it for free.
2 Citymapper
Heading to a new city and not sure how to get around? Hailed as the ultimate transport app, Citymapper helps you get from A to B in a cinch. No matter where you want to go, Citymapper calculates suggested routes based on different modes of transport. It also includes journey time and costs. Don’t set out without it.
3 Whatsapp
What did we do before this indispensible app? Stay connected to family and friends while away on business, with pictures, videos, group chats and make voice and video calls, for free – anywhere in the world. You just need a WiFI connection and the world suddenly becomes much more inter-connected.
4 Trainline
If you’re travelling by train, it’s hard to beat the Trainline for sheer convenience. You can buy tickets via the app, and also check live train times, which is always handy for improving your journey planning. Long gone are the days of a mad panicked rush to the gates as you watch your train pull away.
5 Evernote
Whether you’re on the move or not, Evernote is a busy mind’s best friend. Allowing you to take and store notes, documents, web clippings and even voice memos, this is the app that organises your thought system and becomes your digital filing cabinet. This is the Marmite of business travel apps; either you love it or you just don’t get it. Either way, it has 34 million users worldwide, so it’s got to be worth a try.
If you’re an IOS user, you may have seen that Notes, Apple’s native app, has just got even better. You can now doodle, add images, checklists and still record voice notes. Great if you’re more of a visual note taker.
