We use all available tools.
Pick the topic and apply that. Navigating, we do that. Planning, we do that. Selecting ports or marinas, we do that. We use Active Captain to see marinas available. We click on the links and go to their websites for additional information. We go to google and pull up restaurants, grocery stores, look at land distances. We go to local web sites to learn more of what we might want to see, trip advisor to see what people like and don't like. We use guidebooks. We use it all. We don't expect nor do we want one resource to do it all as that would so clutter that resource as to make it far less useful for it's basic function. It's really so easy to find information. Then we also resort to the tried and true of asking people.
Funny to see Uber mentioned as we've found it to be of very little use in our travels. Simply most places we go, most small towns especially, don't have it. Most of those areas without taxis definitely don't have Uber. In some areas the only transportation we found was Enterprise as anywhere that has auto repair seems to have them. Or, a couple of times, the more primitive version of Uber, simply finding someone there. We've paid dock hands to run us somewhere we wanted to go after they got off. We've done the same with the older local man who just likes to hang around the marina. Many liveaboards volunteer. We've never yet not been able to get where we needed to go. Once we spent the day out and about and were shocked at all the grocery shopping two of the girls with us had done that day. They had called and the manager of the grocery store came and picked them up then drove them back. Makes you wonder when all the grocery delivery services will hit the small towns. We have gotten Safeway deliveries when cruising.