You can't carry a whole office with you when you live on the road. For that reason, you need to optimize your use of technology. Siri on your iPhone can help, for with just a touch of a button and your voice, Siri can quickly:

• Create a message or email quickly. Creating a message or email via Siri saves a ton of time - especially if you are not the world's best  iPhone speed-typist.  And, it is a great way to, for example, quickly respond to someone while waiting in traffic, or in line, or while walking down the street (watch the sidewalk, though!). To create a message or email, simply:
  • Press and hold the "home" button to contact Siri
  • Say something like: "Siri, create a message (or email) to Joe"
  • Answer Siri's questions (like which email to use for Joe, and the subject)
  • Dictate your message or email
  • Press send, or click on the message/email Siri presents to edit the message/email further
• Add appointments. Manually adding iPhone appointments is a major pain, as you must: open the iPhone calendar app, add a title, add the attendee(s), and add the date (with a total of four different inputs for day, hour, minute and AM/PM!). It is far easier to ask Siri to create a meeting by:
  • Pressing and holding the "home" button to contact Siri
  • Telling Siri to, for example:  "Create a meeting called lunch with Joe at 12 PM Friday"
  • Answering Siri's questions, such as: "which Joe" and "which email address"
  • Changing the details, if you need to, by saying, for example: "change title", "change time", and "add Mary"
• Check the weather. There are two ways to check the weather:
  1. Pressing and holding the "home" button and just saying "weather". This will quickly display a screen of the temperature and the week's highs and lows of the town you are in. However - you won't get the hourly details. For that, you must click on the day's line, which will take you to the weather app. This will display the weather of the last town you have set up (such as your home town) - which could be interesting, but not useful if you are traveling.
  2. Pressing and holding the "home" button and just saying "Google the weather in (the town I am in)". This will get you to Google's weather display, which provides the temperature, the weekly highs and lows AND hourly weather.
• Provide turn-by-turn traveling directions. This has saved me. I have never been a great navigator, and, let's face it, reading a map while driving is near impossible, and incredibly dangerous. I have been on the road for almost 2 years now, and Siri has successfully navigated me through thousands of miles throughout the United States. Directions are easy to get. Simply:
  • Press and hold the "home" button to contact Siri
  • Say something like “Give me directions to the nearest coffee shop”, or “Give me directions to Minneapolis” or “Give me directions to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC"
  • If Siri can find the location, you will see an overview. Siri will then start giving you directions.
  • To stop the navigation, press and hold the "home" button and say "pause navigation"
• Most importantly: dictate notes. You can pick up your iPhone and dictate draft content for a blog, a business proposal, or even the first paragraphs of that book that will make you famous. Your dictation will then be turned to text. The text results won't be perfect - but it is amazing how close the text is to your words. In fact, most of the travel posts on this site were started via dictation, immediately after (and even during) my travels. You can dictate a note by:
  • Pressing and holding the "home" button and saying something like: "create a note called New York"
  • Clicking on the note that Siri displays
  • Dictating your thoughts
  • Note that you have a variety of commands you can use while dictating. For example, "new paragraph", "period" and "question mark". See more dictation commands  at: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5449

And - on top of all of that, when you are feeling lonely in the hotel room, you can always ask Siri questions like "are you human", "how many people does it take to screw in a light bulb", and "knock knock", and get some immediate entertainment.