4 Tools for Organizing Yourself As a Freelancer

Organising your schedule and plans for the week ahead can be fairly manic as a full-time freelancer, especially if you are brand new to the scene.

As a newbie, you might have limited direction, maybe a few recommendations from friends or now ex-colleagues who have been able to make it through the world of freelancing.

There is a host of resources already flying around the freelance space, as go-to solutions for getting organized, but we put together these four tools to help you get off the ground when it comes to getting yourself prepared for the day ahead.

Asana: For Tasks & Activities

One of the leading project management tools, Asana, has a host of features that can be helpful for organising yourself across the busy work day. Using the feature known as “boards” can be a great way to visually organise your upcoming and current workload.

The Asana board layout provides freelancer with the ability to add tasks, craft ideas and even their plot all their future work, all on neatly organised boards.

Wave Invoices: Get Paid

Sending and receiving invoices can make or break your cashflow. Making sure you tally your incoming money, expenses and create new invoices is fundamental to managing your one-person shop.

Using Wave Invoices helps to do all of that, a free resource that provides a hub for all your finance, perfect for newbies to accounting.

Toggl: Track Client Time

Noting down how much time you spend with clients? If yes, that’s a great practice to implement, but very manual.

Starting with Toggl will help to plot all of those hours spent with clients, on admin and in-meetings pitching. Time tracking is becoming increasingly popular with those looking to maximise their time as they go about the day.

Evernote: Notes, notes, notes!

You may have heard of Evernote a few times. As one of the leading tools for clipping ideas, research, notes and much more across your day, it remains as a successful tool for freelancers to organise themselves.

Many freelancers praise Evernote as one of the tools they start their day with and end their day with. The host of features inside of Evernote provide users with a host of abilities they can use across their work days.

As you can imagine there are hundreds of tools that can be used and each to their own with the choice of resources. We hope this selection helped you get started in your efforts to keep on top of everything across the work day!

Looking for more freelancer friendly tools? Try Newton

Newton is one of the leading email apps on iOS, Mac, Android & Windows, providing powerful features like Read Receipts, Undo Send and even Tidy Inbox to reduce clutter, you’ll be at Inbox Zero in no time.

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