| Páginas sobre el tema: < [1 2 3 4] > | Poll: What do you use to schedule your work? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 04:38
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Q. "What do you use to schedule your work?".
A. My brain.
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I line the documents up on my computer desktop. That suffices.
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Tom in London wrote:
Q. "What do you use to schedule your work?".
A. My brain.
| | | | Katrin Braams 
Alemania
Local time: 05:38
Miembro 2018
inglés al alemán
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I have a little whiteboard placed next to my desk on which I note deadlines and word count.
But this is only a backup, as I have all deadlines in my mind. I am a very forgetful person, but when it comes to deadlines I can really rely on my memory.
[Edited at 2022-04-07 02:13 GMT]
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| Paper planner | Apr 7, 2022 |
I've been using a very simple paper planner found at Tiger for some years now and it's perfect for me. They discontinued it last year (was very disappointed ) but luckily I found it again end 2021 and I bought 2, one for me and one for my daughter.
| | | | Niina Lahokoski
Finlandia
Local time: 06:38
Miembro 2008
inglés al finlandés
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| Thunderbird's calendar tasks | Apr 7, 2022 |
The task list appears in the email program sidebar. I convert each job email to a task and set the deadline. I can also check each job in the list as it's delivered. At the end of the month I add all jobs to a DIY database where I have tables, forms and queries set up for jobs, invoices, and clients.
[Edited at 2022-04-07 11:33 GMT]
| | | | | Folders in desktop | Apr 7, 2022 |
With name of client and deadline, once delivered I move them in another folder with the name of the month, once the month finished I invoice and send the folder to "documents".
[Edited at 2022-04-07 14:57 GMT]
| | | | | A paper planner | Apr 7, 2022 |
old style (like me)
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Chié_JP
Japón
Local time: 13:38
Miembro 2013
inglés al japonés
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| Trados project list and simple text file | Apr 7, 2022 |
Trados project list and simple text file (provided price and invoicing details are managed by agency)
| | | | Sara Massons
Francia
Local time: 05:38
Miembro 2016
inglés al francés
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| Google calendar + In box + Spreadsheet + Folders | Apr 7, 2022 |
Depending on what you mean by "planning":
- All my work comes with an email so I keep in my Inbox only those that are still to be done, once the work delivered, I store the email in a client folder.
- When I accept a job, I plan it in my Google calendar. I have one account dedicated to work + on for my family organization + one for personal organization, all have different colours so that I immediately know what is related to work and when I have other thinks to do which will reduce ... See more Depending on what you mean by "planning":
- All my work comes with an email so I keep in my Inbox only those that are still to be done, once the work delivered, I store the email in a client folder.
- When I accept a job, I plan it in my Google calendar. I have one account dedicated to work + on for my family organization + one for personal organization, all have different colours so that I immediately know what is related to work and when I have other thinks to do which will reduce my working time (e.g. if I have to drive one of my kids somewhere or if I have a meeting or work to do for one of the organizations with whom I volunteer). I plan every hour I think I will need for each project and I write the delivery date and time in the title of the event so that I know if I can move a planned time range to another day to fit a more urgent project in.
- I have a large spreadsheet which serves to track work done, time spent, money earned, taxes to pay and all that sort of things. I also use it to issue my invoices. In this spreadsheet, I have one line per project with all the info including order and delivery date, fees, etc...
- I have one folder per client, with a sub-folder for work and one for POs, invoices, contracts... in the Work sub-folder, I have a sub-folder per month and bellow a sub-folder by project with a project ID that I also have in my spreadsheet. All documents related to a project go in this folder so that I can find them any time.
I see from this topic that we all have really different ways of dealing with this, I find this diversity fascinating, it so much shows the diversity of our profession and of mankind! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Souleymane Ba
Canadá
Local time: 23:38
Miembro
inglés al fulah
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| Poll Discussion | Apr 8, 2022 |
Just a Word file to keep it simple.
| | | | jyuan_us
Estados Unidos
Local time: 23:38
Miembro 2005
inglés al chino
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| Never felt a need to schedule my work | Apr 8, 2022 |
My work is automatically scheduled when my client assigns a job to me. I just keep in mind the turnaround times of my assignments. In case I'm confused about the deadline of a job, I just conduct a keyword search in my email inbox. That effort is much less of a burden than using a tool to "schedule" my work.
[Edited at 2022-04-09 07:50 GMT]
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Ludovicap
Alemania
Local time: 05:38
alemán al italiano
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| Mesmource and Excel :) | Apr 9, 2022 |
Most of my projects arrive, at the moment, via the Memsource Cloud server (I have a linguistic account received by an agency), so it is quite easy to keep track of each project.
Almost all projects are to be delivered within few days, so it is not so difficult to forget them, and you can also see the delivery date and time on Memsource, this helps me to never forget about them.
Furthermore, I also use an Excel t... See more Most of my projects arrive, at the moment, via the Memsource Cloud server (I have a linguistic account received by an agency), so it is quite easy to keep track of each project.
Almost all projects are to be delivered within few days, so it is not so difficult to forget them, and you can also see the delivery date and time on Memsource, this helps me to never forget about them.
Furthermore, I also use an Excel table in which I insert some data regarding each project, such as project name, client name, number of words for translation or revision, amount to be paid for that single project and the delivery date.
This way, it's easier to have everything in one place (such as both the delivery date, the total earnings and the total amount of words of that specific month).
I tried using Protemos for some time, but I found its use a little bit complicated, so I decided to keep on entering my information into an Excel file. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brasil
Local time: 01:38
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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| Unbelievable | Apr 11, 2022 |
It's unbelievable, even scary, to realize that 30% of us still use paper agendas, when the electronic ones are 300% better and save some trees.
| | | | | A mix (and re unbelievable) | Apr 11, 2022 |
Imagine other humains thinking, living and working differently.
It's easy if you try.
Especially, professionals, with different needs and perceptions of what is best, or better, for them. Better is not universal.
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I use a combination of a project management/invoicing web app for freelance translators (Protemos), color labels (like working, todo, waiting, delivered) on my trusty email client combined with smart folders and a zero inbox policy... See more Imagine other humains thinking, living and working differently.
It's easy if you try.
Especially, professionals, with different needs and perceptions of what is best, or better, for them. Better is not universal.
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I use a combination of a project management/invoicing web app for freelance translators (Protemos), color labels (like working, todo, waiting, delivered) on my trusty email client combined with smart folders and a zero inbox policy (Thunderbird), a modern note taking/knowledge management software for time-blocking a la Cal Newport (Logseq) or just a paper note if I want to go analog, and yes, my brain (but that goes without saying)
[Edited at 2022-04-11 16:27 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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