Aug 16, 2017
The Complete Digital Nomad Toolbox
Being a freelancer is tough. Being a freelancer while traveling around the world is even harder.
Finding the right software for a specific task can make the traveling developer’s life that much easier. However, testing these softwares to find the perfect match can be frustrating and take up a lot of valuable time. I’ve created a list of the best resources I regularly use to make my life as a Travel Developer that much easier.
MANAGEMENT
Customer Relationship Management — Insightly
Project Management — Trello(personal), Asana(team), Zenhub(developers)
Calendar — Fantastical 2
Proposals — Prospero, Proppy, Proposify, Sketch (design your own)
Automate Tasks — IFTTT, Zapier
FileStorage — Dropbox, Google Drive
Team Communication — Slack
Task Management — Wunderlist
Email — Mixmax
DEVELOPMENT
File Compression — CompressNow
Site Speed — Pingdom, Google PageSpeed
Coding Questions — Stack Overflow
Hiring Other Freelancers — Upwork
Source Control — Github, SourceTree
Time Tracking — Toggl
FINANCE
Online Payments — Stripe
Accounting — Wave, Quickbooks
Expenses — Expensify
Invoicing — Bonsai, Wave, Quickbooks, And.co
Contracts/Legal — Bonsai
DESIGN
Design — Sketch
Prototyping — Invision
Icons — NounProject
Colors — Coolors
Free Pictures — Freepik, Unsplash
Fonts — Google Fonts, Dafont
Logo (other outsourced designs) — 99designs
The key to success as a freelance entrepreneur is cultivating the love and passion you put into your area of expertise(design, development, etc.), and applying that detailed, hard work into every aspect of your business.
To find out more about how I work as a Digital Nomad you can start my course for free at TravelDeveloper.com.
Call To Action
If you want to learn how to become a digital nomad and escape the rat race, check out my free guide called: “Digital Nomad Guide to Working Anywhere in the World (2017 Edition)”.
Originally published at news.traveldeveloper.com on May 16, 2016.
