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Today we take a look at software and web apps to help you manage your freelance projects. An essential tool for any freelancer who wants to stay organised, keep the client up to date and keep records of milestones, deadlines and project files...

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Web-based Applications

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Basecamp - I personally use this for organising all my projects, I dont have clients any more but I use it to organise tasks with my employees, on internal projects, who are situated around the world; it works like a charm!

From their website : "Basecamp takes a fresh, novel approach to project collaboration. Projects don't fail from a lack of charts, graphs, stats, or reports, they fail from a lack of clear communication. Basecamp solves this problem by providing tools tailored to improve the communication between people working together on a project."

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Active Collab - Plan your projects and track their progress... activeCollab lets you assign tasks to people, define what is urgent. See what your team is doing and what they need to do, discuss stuff that you are working on and more

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Go Plan - Manage multiple projects with ease using Goplan's intuitive user interface. Track project progress through task management, calendaring, note sharing and issue tracking. Additionally, real-time in-browser chat lets you converse with team members

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Copper - Project management software designed to help creative teams manage clients, projects, tasks, files, budgets, and events

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Wrike - Wrike is a leader in on-demand Online Project Management. Wrike helps to save time for marketing agencies, software development teams, event organizers, publishers, financial services firms, process engineering companies and many others

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Nozbe - Nozbe is a web-based task manager and to-do list gtd software that will help your personal productivity - project management and time tracking. Nozbe's gtd software is available in your web browser and on your mobile phone and Apple iPhone

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Redmine - Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database

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ActionThis - ActionThis delivers task management for teams. ActionThis helps teams and small businesses define goals, assign and track tasks, and improve their overall execution. The service combines project management with collaboration and business intelligence to deliver teams and small businesses greater value from their existing software investments

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Achievo - Achievo is a flexible web-based resource management tool for business environments. Achievo's resource management capabilities will enable organisations to support their business processes in a simple, but effective manner

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Zoho Projects - Online Project Management Software , Easy Web Based Planning and Tracking Tool

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Project 2 Manage - Project2Manage is a free hosted project management solution that virtually anyone can use. Project2Manage is a great tool to keep you organized. It has a ton of features that allow you to create, manage and complete projects in your day to day activities as well as your professional life

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DevShop - Devshop is a hosted project management application specifically designed for planning software projects. Not planning weddings, or building roads - just software

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Desktop Software

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Open Workbench - Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project

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dot Project (open source) - dotProject is a web-based project management application, designed to provide project layout and control functions.

dotProject aims to provide the project manager with a tool to manage tasks, schedules, communication and sharing. But beware, dotProject will not be all things to all project managers - you may find that other FOSS tools are more appropriate to your particular requirements. You will need to do some investigation and testing to find the product that best suits your requirements

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Task Juggler - TaskJuggler is project management software for serious project managers. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management

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Source: TutorialBlog.org

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Max Cyr
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