[TriEmbed] biz tools for freelance developers
Brian Carrigan
brian at bcarrigan.com
Fri Aug 24 07:21:39 CDT 2018
Hey Pete,
I've been freelancing full time for about a year now, and the two tools
below have been invaluable to me:
For time tracking and managing hours on a project, I recommend Harvest:
https://www.getharvest.com/For balancing your books, I recommend Wave: https://www.waveapps.com/
Harvest has plugins for every operating system to make time tracking
easy. My workflow is to do time tracking in Harvest, then create and
manage invoices in Wave. You can hook up Wave to your business bank
account too and attach receipts to all the line items that it sees in
your account. I've found that the two of them are quite inexpensive and
they have been enough for my 1 person company doing full-time
freelancing. For everything else (estimates and other documents), I use
Google Docs with a custom template, but Word would be fine here too.
Best,
Brian
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed wrote:
>
> Check out the free app for iOS named *workStudy 6+. *It has a button
> per activity that you customize with your own names and other fields
> (ex: location where you did the work). When you switch tasks, tap on
> the new activity.> You can export to apps on your phone, or pay to export to excel, where
> you would add your hourly or overhead rates.>
> -g
>
> Sent from mobile... Pls excuse brevity and typo's (including
> this one).>
> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Glen Smith via TriEmbed
> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:>> I wrote an (absolutely terrible code wise) program I called JobTimer
>> to track my time at work when I dealt with many projects in a day.
>> Think a chess timer but with 6 different timers. When you move from
>> one job to the next you have to push the radio button. Also included
>> a start and stop button so you can take a lunch. At the end of the
>> day, click the "append to data file" button and all the timers dump
>> into a text file.>>
>> Code ninjas could probably make the computer keep track of which job
>> you were working on by tracking window focus, but that is beyond me.>> Glen
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:01 PM Charles J. Lord, PE via TriEmbed
>> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:>>> I use Standard Time (http://www.stdtime.com) and have for over 15
>>> years. It's not perfect but has a lot of good features for me.>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Carl Nobile via TriEmbed
>>> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:>>>> I think you would need to use two sheets for that. However, you may
>>>> be able to auto-create the second one from data from the first.
>>>> I've never done this but may be possible.>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:47 PM Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:
>>>>> Does Google Docs spreadsheet feature have something that could
>>>>> automagically split sheets between a spreadsheet only I see and
>>>>> one a client could see and modify (e.g. for him/her to add a list
>>>>> of specific components), or does that have to be two spreadsheets
>>>>> with one shared with the client?>>>>>
>>>>> -Pete
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/23/2018 02:42 PM, Carl Nobile wrote:
>>>>>> I did it in google docs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:41 PM Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:>>>>>>> Which spreadsheet? Available on all your computers, your phone,
>>>>>>> your shaving mirror?>>>>>>> -Pete
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 08/23/2018 02:38 PM, Carl Nobile wrote:
>>>>>>>> Well, I guess it depends on how much business one has.
>>>>>>>> When I was doing freelance work I just used a spreadsheet and
>>>>>>>> made my own invoices.>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ~Carl
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:36 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed
>>>>>>>> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:>>>>>>>>> Guys and Gals,
>>>>>>>>> I find myself realizing if I don't line up and start
>>>>>>>>> using some>>>>>>>>> simple tools real soon my accountant is going to tell me to
>>>>>>>>> go jump in a>>>>>>>>> lake this winter.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What do you use to track your time, generate and manage
>>>>>>>>> estimates,>>>>>>>>> contracts, invoices, capture expense records, track work time
>>>>>>>>> attributed>>>>>>>>> to specific projects, travel mileage, etc? Whatever you send
>>>>>>>>> me I'll>>>>>>>>> compile into a page off the "RESOURCES" web site menu if the
>>>>>>>>> guru>>>>>>>>> managing the TriEmbed site doesn't insist on doing it.
>>>>>>>>> Notice "reply" will just to go me: this list doesn't
>>>>>>>>> follow the>>>>>>>>> relatively recent "reply becomes replay-all" trend. If you do
>>>>>>>>> that I>>>>>>>>> promise to feed back, while with "reply all" or "reply to
>>>>>>>>> list" I'll>>>>>>>>> consider myself off the hook as far as specific attribution
>>>>>>>>> in a summary>>>>>>>>> back to the list (which I'll do independent of the above
>>>>>>>>> resources thing).>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>>> Pete ("back in the harness") Soper
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> carl.nobile at gmail.com
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