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Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?

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Post by gashmol »

sandreas wrote: post #17

I wrote a tool based on my own custom markdown format / file structure. The file is always called `project.md` and part of the project as well as my personal invoice generator git repository, which is basically a parser + pdf generator. The md file contains customer information, todos and time tracking. Based on this format I can generate an invoice with a detailed table of every task including the time required. And…

How do you handle deadlines and setbacks?

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?

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Post by sandreas »

gashmol wrote: post #21
sandreas wrote: post #17

I wrote a tool based on my own custom markdown format / file structure. The file is always called `project.md` and part of the project as well as my personal invoice generator git repository, which is basically a parser + pdf generator. The md file contains customer information, todos and time tracking. Based on this format I can generate an invoice with a detailed table of every task including the time required. And…

How do you handle deadlines and setbacks?

For deadlines i use a week based paper calendar and setback can be handled by negative time entries, like:

  01.15-00.00 refund for issue 6789 (75mins)
It's not ideal but it barely happens.

Another minor issue is that my parser currently does not support overnight shifts like

  2022-11-15
  - 23.45-01.18 another task
These have to be divided into 2 separate ones:

  2022-11-15
  - 23.45-23.59 another task
  
  2022-11-16
  - 00.00-01.18 another task

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?

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Post by _shantaram »

I just have a long text file with notes of all different things in it which I grep through as necessary for todos etc. But for time tracking I didn't really like what was available so I (shameless plug) built etu[0]. It's free and open source and I quite enjoy it.

[0] https://github.com/xyzshantaram/etu

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?

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Post by runjake »

etcd wrote: post #4
sandwichsphinx wrote: post #2

The only tool I truly find magically despite how boring it sounds is chatGPT, I can tell it everything as a living dev log, I tell it time date when I do things and why and so on just documentating my progress, listing todos and reminders as I go but now I can "talk" back forth on the administrative things like reminding me where I was, recap here, it's just great for managing boring things like I never been able to…

Does ChatGPT have storage options now? Seems like you would need that unless you paste the output into a doc and reupload it.

Yeah, it now saves your chat history.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7260999-how-do-i-export-...

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

sandwichsphinx wrote: post #2

The only tool I truly find magically despite how boring it sounds is chatGPT, I can tell it everything as a living dev log, I tell it time date when I do things and why and so on just documentating my progress, listing todos and reminders as I go but now I can "talk" back forth on the administrative things like reminding me where I was, recap here, it's just great for managing boring things like I never been able to…

What happens when you reach the context window and it never longer knows about older messages?
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