Weve coveredIf This, Then That(IFTTT) quite a bit.

If youre unfamiliar with it,get your feet wet with this guide.

Use email tocall your phone when you lose it.

you’re able to, of course, create a special vacation folder and label those emails accordingly.

For even easier access,use this IFTTT recipeto automatically send those labeled emails to Evernote.

This is useful because you dont have to enter to your email to check your itineraries when youre traveling.

you might easily access them offline via Evernote.

This way, you dont have to bounce between accounts.

Everything is one place.

Lets say you dont have Evernote, though, and you use Dropbox or Drive instead.

Its worth pointing out that thepreviously mentioned app TripItis great for organizing all of your travel planning, too.

Even better,this IFTTT recipewill automatically activate your smart home devices as soon as your vacation starts.

it’s possible for you to adjust the Action Channel to work with any number of smart home devices.

And when you return home, you could use IFTTT to schedule those same devices to shut off.

You could also tweak the Action Channel to send a text instead.

There are photo sharing apps, like Google Photos, that can organize your photos into albums, too.

But this does it automatically so theres less to sort through when you get back.

Withthis recipe, you get a text notification when you get emails from specified addresses.

Set it up to receive emails from contacts of your choosingsay, your family members or specific VIP clients.

It sends you an email when you get a missed call.

Better yet, tweak the recipe to only get emails aboutmissed calls from specific phone numbers.

Maybe you just want to keep track of your spending so your vacation doesnt drain your bank account.

Tweak the trigger to adjust the recipe to work with Android.

Here are versions of the same recipe forDropboxandEvernote.

Set up a few recipes before your trip, then enjoy your time off.

Photo byRoberto Faccenda