Have you ever got your wires crossed and missed a meeting or forgotten to take down notes. Fear not, we have got a list of four great design tools that can help you manage your workflow. From project management, time tracking and online calendar scheduling, these four apps should have you covered.
Calendly
Calendly is an online scheduling automation platform that eliminates back-and-forth emails to arrange a meeting time. Simply send a link to a client which allows them to view your availability, allowing them to pick a day and time from your calendar. Calendly can be integrated into apps such as Zoom, Notion and Slack to help boost your productivity even further. In other words, it makes scheduling simple and efficient and saves you time.
Harvest
Harvest is an online time tracking tool used by over 70,000 business worldwide. It allows you to track your time across projects, generate reports and create automatic invoices for faster payments. You can set hourly or fixed budgets for each project, receiving alerts when budgets are reached. Harvest integrates seamlessly with over 50 of the most popular apps such as Asana, Slack, QuickBooks and Google Calendar.
Notion
Notion is a web-based productivity app that gives you all the tools you need in an all-in-one workspace. Trusted by teams of 100–1000+ by companies such as Figma, Pixar, Nike and Amazon, it enables you consolidate your tools and get organised. Manage projects with out any chaos, create notes and keep all your companies design assets all in one place. Notion offers a wide range of plans to suit individuals to enterprises.
Asana
Asana is a web and mobile work management platform built for helping teams organise, track and manage their work. It allows businesses to use one single platform to automate workflows to get more done in less time. With features for project management, goals & reporting and workflows & automation it allows teams to work together and scale effortlessly. To make work life even easier Asana integrates with apps such as GoogleDrive, Vimeo, Dropbox and the Adobe Creative Cloud.
Summary
Whether you are an agency, studio or freelancer, this is just a small section of design tools available that should help you manage your workflow. We will be looking at further selection of design tools at a later date. We are a graphic design studio based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire that specialises in graphic design. Please feel free to get in touch via our contact page.
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