[TriLUG] Mildly OT: Self employment tools survey

[Mark Kempster]

For the project stuff, I've used openproj, but recently have moved
towards simpler time-tracking apps like klok and hamster. For $WORK I
track time for weekly time reporting with tasktop (the eclipse
version). At one point I went so far as to track personal-project
tasks and time in bugzilla and trac (which both integrate really well
with tasktop), but that was a bit much just for myself. I do use
tasktop to track time when working with one client's Jira
installation, but I plop the timers from tasktop into a klok task.

For the financial side of things, I just stick with gnucash.

klok: http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm
openproj: http://openproj.org/
hamster: http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
tasktop: http://tasktop.com/
gnucash: http://www.gnucash.org/

Mark

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Joseph Tate<dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked someone individually what they use, but wanted to throw this
> out for more wide discussion.
>
> So I know a few of you are self employed, run a small business, or at
> least do consulting work on the side.  What tools do you use?  What do
> you like about them/hate about them?
>
> I was recommended http://getharvest.com for time/project
> tracking/invoicing, and it seems simple enough to use, but it's not
> OSS or Free if you have more than 2 projects.  I also haven't tried
> exporting into something else for bookkeeping.
>
> I installed LedgerSMB (which is a fork of SQL-Ledger), but it's
> cryptic and obtuse for one not familiar with accounting lingo.  It
> also doesn't seem to be very efficient at tracking non-cash, and
> especially depreciable assets.  I haven't really tried to get my
> getharvest invoices into this system yet, so I don't know what
> integration looks like.
>
> What do you use for project tracking?  Invoicing?  Bookkeeping?
>
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