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<body><div>Hey Pete,<br></div>
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<div>I've been freelancing full time for about a year now, and the two tools below have been invaluable to me:</div>
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<div>For time tracking and managing hours on a project, I recommend Harvest: <a href="https://www.getharvest.com/">https://www.getharvest.com/</a><br></div>
<div>For balancing your books, I recommend Wave: <a href="https://www.waveapps.com/">https://www.waveapps.com/</a><br></div>
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<div>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.<br></div>
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<div>Best,<br></div>
<div>Brian</div>
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<div>On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed wrote:<br></div>
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<div>Check out the free app for iOS named <i>workStudy 6+. </i>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. <br></div>
<div>You can export to apps on your phone, or pay to export to excel, where you would add your hourly or overhead rates.<br></div>
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<div><div>-g<br></div>
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<div>Sent from mobile... Pls excuse brevity and typo's (including this one).<br></div>
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<div>On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Glen Smith via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div>
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<div>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.<br></div>
<div>Glen<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:01 PM Charles J. Lord, PE via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote defang_data-gmailquote="yes" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I use Standard Time (<a href="http://www.stdtime.com">http://www.stdtime.com</a>) and have for over 15 years. It's not perfect but has a lot of good features for me.<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div>On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Carl Nobile via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote defang_data-gmailquote="yes" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:47 PM Pete Soper <<a href="mailto:pete@soper.us">pete@soper.us</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote defang_data-gmailquote="yes" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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?<br></div>
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<div> -Pete<br></div>
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<div>On 08/23/2018 02:42 PM, Carl Nobile
wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I did it in google docs.<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:41 PM Pete Soper <<a href="mailto:pete@soper.us">pete@soper.us</a>>
wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote defang_data-gmailquote="yes" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Which spreadsheet?
Available on all your computers, your phone, your shaving
mirror?<br></div>
<div> -Pete<br></div>
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<div>On
08/23/2018 02:38 PM, Carl Nobile wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Well, I guess it depends on how much
business one has. <br></div>
<div>When I was doing freelance work I just used a
spreadsheet and made my own invoices.<br></div>
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<div>~Carl<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:36 PM Pete
Soper via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>>
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<blockquote defang_data-gmailquote="yes" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div>Guys
and Gals,<br></div>
<div> I find myself realizing if I don't line up and
start using some <br></div>
<div> simple tools real soon my accountant is going to tell
me to go jump in a <br></div>
<div> lake this winter.<br></div>
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<div> What do you use to track your time, generate and
manage estimates, <br></div>
<div> contracts, invoices, capture expense records, track
work time attributed <br></div>
<div> to specific projects, travel mileage, etc? Whatever
you send me I'll <br></div>
<div> compile into a page off the "RESOURCES" web site menu
if the guru <br></div>
<div> managing the TriEmbed site doesn't insist on doing it.<br></div>
<div> Notice "reply" will just to go me: this list
doesn't follow the <br></div>
<div> relatively recent "reply becomes replay-all" trend. If
you do that I <br></div>
<div> promise to feed back, while with "reply all" or "reply
to list" I'll <br></div>
<div> consider myself off the hook as far as specific
attribution in a summary <br></div>
<div> back to the list (which I'll do independent of the
above resources thing).<br></div>
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<div> Best Regards,<br></div>
<div> Pete ("back in the harness") Soper<br></div>
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