5 Tips to Make The Rest of Your Summer Rock

Up your game & enjoy the rest of summer!

Subscribe to email lists for events around you, download apps like Meetup to have unique experiences, buy tickets last minute on apps like Gametime, utilize apps that make planning trips easy

Keep track of all your summer events with Edison Mail’s Assistant
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Welcome one and all to the dog days of summer.

Running from July 12th to August 20th, these are the long, hot days when everyone is officially on break, outdoor events are plentiful, and the AC is everybody’s best friend. Now is the time to find special events in your town and enjoy. While mid-year events are seemingly never-ending, finding the best ones to your liking can require some effort, and keeping track of your busy calendar can demand even more.

To make managing your schedule a bit less hectic, here is a list of tips to find events, and stay on top of them.

1. Sometimes Subscribing is Good

While email subscriptions can be a menace (one that Edison Mail can manage with its easy unsubscribe button), when used responsibly they are helpful to keep up with things you love like summer events. Time Out regularly sends out emails about events happening in your city, along with special Time Out-specific events.

These can include concerts, special museum shows, or even a Time Out-sponsored food festival! If you’re in The San Francisco Bay Area, another great website to subscribe to is DoTheBay. Email alerts come to a couple of times a week to let you know about exciting events (e.g. concerts, movie screenings, comedy shows, exclusive events, etc.) happening that weekend in the vicinity.

2. Meetup and Have Some Fun

For those who want to spend their summer days taking part in activities off the beaten path, apps like Meetup help you to plan and attend interesting events. Want to learn how to make sushi rolls? Interested in some fun hikes? How about some soccer? The options are all there at your fingertips, so you don’t spend these beautiful days cooped up in your house.

3. Wait Until the Last Minute

Planning ahead can be difficult, and sometimes events sneak up on you. For those who struggle to remember their commitments (or just like to be spontaneous), there are apps and websites ready to make sure you have a great summer. Gametime is one of these apps; they sell last-minute tickets to sporting events and concerts at discounted rates (proving that sometimes procrastination pays off). There’s also the website cheaptickets.com, which shows you discounted tickets to events in your area that you can snag last minute before hitting the town.

4. Want to Fly Away?

There’s something about summer that just makes you want to get away from it all. Whether by air or car, there are plenty of ways to easily plan a vacation. Websites such as roadtrippers.com help you plan a road trip full of memorable pit stops and sights. On top of that, they even have a handy app you can download to help you along the way!

In terms of flights, while it’s tempting to just buy tickets for the first flights you find, it’s always nicer to save some money. For those looking to save some bucks, there are apps like Hopper that help you track flights until prices drop, and websites like Dollar Flight Club that send affordable flights to dozens of fun destinations.

5. Keeping Track of it All

Now, having all these events at your ready is great, but keeping track of them, whether they’re flights or tickets can be a bit of a hassle. That’s why Edison Mail offers features to handle it all.

The Entertainment Assistant is a central place to easily find all your tickets to events you have coming up. With a single tap, view at a glance upcoming events and reservations so you never forget about them. With just one tap on any ticket, you’ll get the option to forward the event to one of your friends, get directions there, or even call a rideshare. Additionally, the app’s Travel Assistant has all your vacation plans in a single place — whether they’re flights, hotel rooms, car rentals, cruises, or trains.

But if even tapping through multiple tabs is too much effort, the new Smart Search feature is here to help. This new feature lists all of the day’s important details at a glance — this includes 48 hours of travel plans and the details for any events you have coming down the pipeline. Smart Search was designed so that it wasn’t something that would be a clunky additional add-on, instead, it’s designed to fit seamlessly into what you already do.

To view all that you have coming down the pipeline, just simply tap the Search Bar like you normally would, and Edison Mail will show you all the reservations, tickets, and travel plans you have coming soon. That way you can spend less time trying to find your events, and more time enjoying them.