How do others in similar situations manage tasks and maintain sanity? Which strategies and tools do you find effective?
Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
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Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
#2My full finances are stored in Notion 1, this is because I can access that anywhere, and I can use the built-in table functions to calculate my VAT and tax. When I started, I also used Notion as a CRM that I logged customer/prospect interactions with, but that faded out after a while.
Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
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#5But, you can have 1 or 2 people. or 5. You don't need to have 10 people, or 100 or 1000.
With 1 person you can get 150% more done if you structure it well. Why? That one person can specialize. If you wanna talk about this just find me on my blog :)
Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
#6For the finance and managing contractors, I use Kimai [0]. It can track your time, manage your customers, projects, your team, expenses and even generate your invoices. I only use it for tracking time, managing customers and projects and generating invoices. My full finances are stored in Notion 1, this is because I can access that anywhere, and I can use the built-in table functions to calculate my VAT and tax. When…
Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
#7For the finance and managing contractors, I use Kimai [0]. It can track your time, manage your customers, projects, your team, expenses and even generate your invoices. I only use it for tracking time, managing customers and projects and generating invoices. My full finances are stored in Notion 1, this is because I can access that anywhere, and I can use the built-in table functions to calculate my VAT and tax. When…
What kind of finance features does notion have ? It would be interesting to hear how notion can be used for finance ?
Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
#8For the finance and managing contractors, I use Kimai [0]. It can track your time, manage your customers, projects, your team, expenses and even generate your invoices. I only use it for tracking time, managing customers and projects and generating invoices. My full finances are stored in Notion 1, this is because I can access that anywhere, and I can use the built-in table functions to calculate my VAT and tax. When…
What kind of finance features does notion have ? It would be interesting to hear how notion can be used for finance ?
For example; the finances for each company should be submitted to the national tax department each quarter. I configured the Notion tables to group them by quarter of the year. For each of these quarters, it will automatically configure the income, outgoing and the result.
Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
#9If you want to stay a one-person company and keep your sanity, do less. Otherwise, figure out how to hire employees. But in this case, it's going to be a long journey still.
Re: Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
#10Sanity is overrated. When I am overwhelmed I cope best when I manage to work on the things that feel most important at the moment. It causes the least cognitive dissonance. Now, the difficult part is to make the things that feel most important roughly congruent with the things that are actually important- that's the art. The good news is that it doesn't have to perfect.