![]() ![]() I also track my current projects and related tasks-like sending questions to the client. For my accounting, I have repeated reminders-send invoices on the last day of the month, file VAT returns every two months and so on-as well as a list of my current invoices with their due date which allows me to see straight away if I have to chase payments. I use it in all aspects of my work and it replaced calendar apps for me. ![]() Now Tick Tick rules my life to the point that I am constantly backing it up in case the company suddenly has to file for bankruptcy and ends the service. I switched to Tick Tick recently, when I discovered that Wunderlist has been bought by Microsoft and is probably going to be discontinued soon. Originally, I used Wunderlist, which I discovered in some top 10 of productivity apps. It also happens that sticky notes and loose sheets of paper fly when there’s a draft or disappear in the land of hair ties and bottle caps when the cat finds them. The thing is, my writing is awful! So awful that, now that I almost never write anything with a pen anymore, I sometimes can’t decipher what I have written myself. When things are written on a list, I can forget about them temporarily and free brain space for other tasks. I use them regularly, some of them daily, and they do have a significant and positive impact on my productivity and on the quality of my translations. I will share with you a few tools which have my seal of approval. What’s the worst that could happen? If I don’t like it, I can keep my current tools. I now have a very different mindset: If so many of my colleagues praise a certain tool and say it revolutionized their work, it is worth trying-as long as it’s free or at least offers a free trial. However, some switch flipped in my mind when I gave Wunderlist a go last year (I have switched to Tick Tick since then). So why bother trying new tools? Why waste time? I wanted to stay in my comfort zone, thank you very much. Or maybe I didn’t even have a tool for a given task but was perfectly happy to do it manually (or in Excel). My point of view was that I had my tools for translation, review, time tracking and management, as well as tried and tested processes. I used to be very reluctant to try new tools for my business. ![]()
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