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Poll: What do you use to plan big translation projects?
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Catharine Cellier-Smart
Catharine Cellier-Smart  Identity Verified
Reunion
Local time: 15:01
French to English
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Calendar application Feb 25, 2014

When projects start piling up on top of each other, or if I'm worried I'll forget a deadline or the start date/time of a project I enter it into the Calendar application of my desktop computer (a Mac).

It's useful because I can set all sorts of alarms if needs be, and it also allows me to see if projects are going to overlap or not, and I can decide whether this will be problem.

Bonus feature: In the case of a project where exceptionally I might have to work evenings o... See more
When projects start piling up on top of each other, or if I'm worried I'll forget a deadline or the start date/time of a project I enter it into the Calendar application of my desktop computer (a Mac).

It's useful because I can set all sorts of alarms if needs be, and it also allows me to see if projects are going to overlap or not, and I can decide whether this will be problem.

Bonus feature: In the case of a project where exceptionally I might have to work evenings or weekends I can also set the visibility of the project so it appears on my husband's desktop Calendar application to let him know I won't necessarily be available for social events etc. (more effective than if I tell him verbally in which case it would go in one ear and out the other!).

I also have an Excel calendar but I use it to log projects completed, not for planning upcoming work. ▲ Collapse
 
Damien Poussier
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France
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Member (2012)
English to French
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Time traking Feb 25, 2014

Tim Drayton wrote:
I do use a paper diary to keep a log of the time that I work on each project so that I can work out what my hourly earnings were and whether I met my earnings target, but not for details of things such as the client or deadline.

I use time tracking software for that, and it's much better than doing it by hand. Give Paymo a try, it's easy to use and convenient (and free), you won't regret it.
 
Reed James
Reed James
Chile
Local time: 07:01
Member (2005)
Spanish to English
Ditto Feb 26, 2014

[quote]bohy wrote:

Sandrine Zérouali wrote:
Now I've moved to TO3000, I enter each new job info as soon as I receive it, and TO3000 updates automatically its schedule view, which I can check now and then, so that I don't have to maintain any kind of hand-written notes...
For my accounting, I export data to an Excel file, that's enough.


Me too. Excellent software. You can download it for free here: http://bit.ly/w0imCD
 
Little Woods
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Vietnam
English to Vietnamese
I use the reminder in my phone but may learn some from you all Feb 26, 2014

I don't have such big project usually but when I have, I focus all my time of the day on it.

I have my daily quota for the project based on the volume and my capacity and only rest for the day when I reach it. If I still have time, I can work pass my quota.

I also plan my time so that I can have a day or two to read over my translation, I often have to change things or pick out typing errors when I reread it.
 
Mary Jane Smith
Mary Jane Smith
Estonia
Everything is constantly synchronized Feb 28, 2014

Hi

I think integration is one quality to look for, whether it is accounting, CRM or some other solution. Who has time to re-type the same data in different places, saving time=saving money.

Mary Jane
 
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