Make it work for you: best time management tools

Everyone knows how it may be difficult to organize your work time, especially working from home or with a free schedule. Thank God, there are various tools for help, so let`s review the best together.

1. Beesy.pro Time tracker — free app to clearly track time and payments, available for Linux, MacOs and Windows. As the employer you can see all the stages of the performer’s work with the activity log and screenshots from his monitor. As the freelancer you will become less distracted and more concentrated on the project making. If a dispute happens, you have the data and screenshots from the Time Tracker. That is significant proof to solve the problem!

   
   
   

2. Rescue Time — a personal analytics service that shows you how you spend your time. It consists of two parts - a program that monitors your computer activity and an online service that collects this information, processes it and gives you the statistics. You can track activity in programs, websites and applications, find the downtime and the most loaded work hours.

3. Remember The Milk — the best free app for those who work with many different devices. You don`t have to write to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. Set the task from your phone and then open it on your work computer. Mark the progress and time spent, set individual task reminders and subtasks. Easy-peasy! 

   
   
   

4. Focus Booster — one of the best apps working with Pomodoro Technique (work in time blocks, usually 25 minutes work and 5 minutes break). It`s developed to increase your focus and remove tension you might have with time pressures.

5. Toggl — the simplest time tracker to help you get things done. Just push a button to start your timer and the program will analyze your data and activity, so you get the big picture of where your hours are going. Export your report into any needed format and use Toggl on any device. You can start tracking in your browser and stop the timer on your phone, add a team with 5+ members and create an unlimited number of projects.

   
   
   

6. Evernote — helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects, and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. You can manage deadlines, set meetings with clients from any device – even offline. A ‘note’ may be just text or text with formatting and some files — images, documents, and audio. Сreating a note, you can enter tags in the special field and set a hierarchy to make further search simplier.

7. Trello — one of the most popular work management tools. It allows you to create projects, tasks, have centralized conversations with your team and schedule the deadlines. Suits the best if you follow the kanban method. Its main advantages are a simple interface (tasks are divided into categories and status) and the ability to integrate with other popular tools for online work. The program is suitable for both personal and business purposes.

   
   
   

8. Harvest — one of the best time tracking apps for teams and individuals. It helps you schedule your projects and track the time with expenses on completion. Integrate with more than 100 other apps. It`s perfect for individual freelancers who need to track time and invoice clients, as well as big teams performing multiple projects from different clients.  

9. Todoist — gives you the confidence that everything’s organized and accounted for, so you can make progress on the important things. It allows to easily organize and prioritize tasks, place them in projects, sort by filters, assign tags, edit and export. Also, you can map out your projects and goals step by step with sections and sub-tasks, highlight important with color-coded priority levels and free up mental space by delegating tasks to people in your shared projects.

   
   
   

10. 7 Minute Life — challenges you to spend just 1% of your day in planning: seven minutes in the morning and seven in the evening. What differs it from other time management tools is motivation. The app is created to help you to check off more efficiently, so you might have time left for things that give your life meaning. It also contains worksheets for organizing everything from life and financial goals to daily progress reports.

11.  Wunderlist  — the easiest way to get stuff done. You can tick off all your personal and professional to-dos while planning a holiday, shopping list or multiple work projects. Get reminders and notifications, group lists in folders, set deadlines, tags and add notes.