Steven Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

When traveling on business, our lives become one giant haze of receipts from expenses and

business cards from well-meaning people who somehow believe that trading business cards

and then never talking to each other again is a successful networking strategy. It's not.

Fortunately, I just love receipts. No, no, I don't. I hate receipts. They're little scraps of paper

they get everywhere. The most important ones, of course, always get lost in the lining of my coat,

where they show up a year later, right after the statute of limitations expires on expense reimbursements. And don't even get me started on business cards.

They're just like receipts, but with sharp corners, and they give you paper cuts if they don't

like you. Oh, life is hard. Life may be hard, but today's sponsor GoToMeeting makes meetings easy. Fortunately,

life doesn't have to be hard. In the episode How to Prepare for Travel, I discussed using

Ziploc bags to keep my receipts and business cards organized. And that was my method of choice

for many years. Then late last year, my life changed. I bought an iPhone.

I'd been a BlackBerry user for 12 years, and I tried an Android for several weeks, but neither of

those made a particular difference in my work life. But the iPhone was different. I discovered apps

that worked, nice, were easy to use and truly made me more productive. Some of those

apps changed my approach to travel. So here are five ways that your smartphone can make

organizing all those little receipts and business cards much easier. Tip number one, scan your

receipts. Jotnott Scanner Pro is a simple app that uses the smartphone's camera to take pictures,

but there's a clever twist.

It lets you collect the pictures into documents.

Now, every time you take a trip, you can create a document just for that trip.

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