Tools for freelance web designer / developers. Covers invoice management, GTD, project management and other resources.

1. Freelancers Toolkit
• Finances - Invoice management
• Getting things done - To do list management
• Project management
• Other resources

2. Finances - Invoice management
• Bamboo Invoice
• Canny Bill
• Fresh Books
• Less Accounting
• icomptroller.com - David Lavery

3. Bamboo Invoice Dashboard

4. 1. Create a client - enter the business details

5. 2. Create new invoice

6. 3. Create new invoice

7. Invoice summary

8. Financial Overview

9. Summary
Bamboo Canny Bill Freshbooks
Free - 3 clients Free - 3 clients
£4.99 - 20 $19.95 - 25
Price Free
£12.99 - 500 $29.95 - unlim.
£19.99 - unlim. $39.95 - unlim.
Manage clients, invoice, reporting
Create order forms to sell stuff
Sell domains and web hosting
Send marketing campaigns
Time Tracking

10. GTD - Getting Things Done
• GTD - Dave Allen
• 43 Folders
• iGTD (Free) & Things (Comercial) - (Both Mac only)
• http://getontracks.org/
• www.gtdify.com + Shuffle App on Android

11. GTD
You basically got 5 phases
which are:
•
Collect
•
Process
•
Organize
•
Review
•
Do!

12. My setup
www.gtdify.com

13. Other options
• Evernote
• Remember the milk
• Active In-Box

14. Basecamp Vs Collabtive
• Create projects / tasks / milestones / time tracking
• Create users, set permissions
• Assign tasks, collaborate with team or clients

16. Collabtive Basecamp
$24 - 15 projects
$49 - 35
Free
$99 - 100
$149 - unlim.
To do lists, milestones To do lists, milestones
Import projects from Basecamp Project templates
Time Tracking Time Tracking - Not on lowest plan
Contribute to the dev community 30 day free trial

17. Collaboration
• 37 Signals
• Google apps - Business email
• Google Docs / Sites / Calendar / Google Wave
• Source control
• Project Locker - Free: 5 users 500Mb
• Unfuddle - Free: 1 active project, 2 users, 200Mb
• Dreamhost - 1 click install of sub version repository

18. Other Resources
• Lifehacker.com
• 1 Day Later - Time tracking
• www.opensourcecms.com
• Top 20 Project Management tools -
http://garmahis.com/reviews/top-project-management-tools/
• lesseverything.com

19. To be continued...
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