Hello everyone and welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, my name is Francesco D'Alessio and welcome back to another video
so in today's video guys, what we're going to be doing is talking a little bit about my favorite software of
2018 so far I get to look at a lot of software in my sort of daily routine
Especially reviewing these apps and resources as well as doing freelance work and I wanted to round up some of the ones as we've hit
Midpoint in the year the ones that are sort of exciting me to some extent
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I'm going to time spam this video so you can go below and skip ahead to send an app or topic that I'm talking about
I want to start with Finance because I think this is a
Sort of strange area to some extent so I'm going to be talking about sort of the freelancing finance applications
And obviously this might be applicable to your country so you can download them below if they're relevant to your software's in your countries
So the first application I wanted to mention was an application could waive invoices
It's part of the summon could waive apps and I was quite impressed by the application this year so far
Obviously I've decided to move to another software
So it's easier for my accountants to be able to process stuff
But the software itself actually helped me get started by creating invoices as well as tallying transactions and things like that
now wave is basically a free resource which is quite cool and
It's really good
If you're getting started with freelancing
I highly recommend it for that and it will allow you to essentially create invoices for
Clients or even just projects that you've got on you can send them directly to the client and you can even collect payment through
To which I didn't actually do but apparently you worked very very well and increased you likelihood of pay them
Now the other resource I wanted to mention was zero. I recently moved to zero still learning it
But it's an application that is definitely going to take my accountancy to the next level. It has this thing called reconciliation
which allows you to link up with your bank to sort of connect the two accounts, so
wave and zero have both been some really interesting finance applications that have been on my radar for this year now moving away to
Calendar applications. I've got two out of calendar applications on my mind. The first is calendars five by wheedle
this is meant to be turning into calendar six this year or next year and
They sort of been taking a long time to do this, but I can imagine they'll be out very soon
calendars
500s is one of the best experiences of calendar that I've ever had
For an experience that allows you to just simply weave in stuff. It's a very exciting application
I really like the view options. Not much is changing the year
But I just think it's a really stable application the second application that is quite excited me
This year is time page by moleskin time page by Moscone is a really beautiful application
There's definitely deserving a lot of attention especially because it's designed so well
But it also provides you with this layer of function hidden behind gestures. I really like this application
I definitely think it's a so far a winner of the calendar application space in
2018 it's dishes shame. It's not coming to Mac or Android - oh now learning applications learning applications
obviously
I like to read I like to try and take in stuff from other people
And learn best like anime routine and to applications are sort of poured a lot of attention in the last six months
Audible I'd be basically doubled by dos inaudible. Oh, I'm reading a lot more on there
maybe two books a month, but I really like the structure of the
Application it works really? Well. I
Particularly, like the fact that that even if you are looking at a really expensive book like a 40-pound book you can still get it
For one credit, which is really nice. So this sort of
Process of getting audiobooks is fantastic
And it's one of the things that I thoroughly enjoy. The next application is Castro 3, although it's not directly a learning application
It's a podcasting app. It's available for iOS. It is the most gorgeous
Podcasting app ever and one it particularly liked about it is the inbox function
I've talked about that before but it's very impressive and it's something that is definitely on my radar and something I use on a regular
Basis it specifically like The Wall Street Journal tech news briefing some of the passive income stuff. I've been listening to routinely smart passive income
And also a couple of other podcasts in the tech space like the verge
I've tried a few of the ones they listen to below so that you guys can go away and
Maybe if I subscribe as well, so don't be new to the work ones
I don't know a lot of you guys been waiting around for this one
So to do is obviously is an application that I'm very impressed with in
2018 I think it's not really changed a great deal
If I'm honest with the features and functions, but I think they've just been working on stability
The application is gorgeous works really really well, and I'm not had a problem with it in five years
So it's an application I'm using for task management a lot, and I'm very impressed now
The application are probably most impressed with is notion. You guys know that you guys have heard this channel
Notion is an all in the work space
But the the exciting thing about it is I think our last week after I saw David Pierce who all be interviewing
very soon in August
Sort of explore it I was like, whoa, this could be huge David Pierce uses it in a whole different way
It was great to see that but I think it definitely it's becoming this all-in-one workspace
I'm seeing people use it for like recipes week plans or like everything and anything
Everything's going into notions. So it's quite exciting to see how that pans out. So the next application is Trello Trello is
Awesome. I've been using it for my video calendar last year and specifically using a lot with clients in terms of like working with them
On different projects and I've personally found it really easy to use
I think it's still really relatable and
I'm only just touching on some of the power-ups that available in there
So it's something that continually explan spam expands and grows out as you learn more about the application. Oh
Podcasting so for those who don't know I studied a podcast in 2018 so far
I have tools that they use if you have not listened to it, you can go on iTunes and subscribe today
We're about to start series 3 and over that period of time I've sort of slowly
Evolved in learning what you need to build a podcasting app
Not build a podcast me and build your podcasting experience. And of course, I've sort of hit this point worm-like
I'm doing it on a regular basis
But I need to improve dramatically so until then the applications that have really helped me is zoom
Zoom is a video conferencing tool a software that can be installed on Mac Windows
I believe it's available through web, but I'll double check on that and have it in description below
I find zoom really easy to use and I quite like the one-to-one recording function so that I can do the one-to-one callings and
Get the best interview
I can the other tool I'm using is fire site fires aren't podcasting hosting which is really easy to use
Like I find it a great way to do it
Alice does most of the uploading which is a huge task for her, but she's fantastic at it. Fantastic annex
Oh, she knows then
It does work very well in terms of the application especially delivery of it looks a lot better than what we had before so
final two applications that I've been very excited about this year is
Formula one application for those who know I'm a big Ferrari fan
So formula one is something I like to keep updated on. And so I use map the form of one application
I'm on the pro subscription
It's like it to pound a month, but it's definitely worth the investment in lap times driver information
Being able to see this live feed of all of the different practice races. I love it
It's so if I kept one person's dream, I think in like half an hour time. It's like FP one of Austria, Austria
so I'm really excited for that and notably but this application works really well and
Seems to do everything you need it to so I highly recommend them and the phone application is Newton now
This might be a little bit biased because I am currently working with Newton, but I find the application
So reliable the last year or so
Obviously sort of upping my dosage on my freelancing work
I've sort of needed their really reliable application
In being able to send emails and one of the biggest stress points that I have. Is that for example
Let's say it like four o'clock in the day
I'm like, I don't
necessarily want to
Stay up and do work later. Although I do do some planning at 9 p.m. Which does help me
But I want to share joke some emails to roll out the next morning because I know certain time zones fall out
So we tend to use Newton for that and it just works really well
So I schedule the emails and then when I wake up at least had maybe a couple of replies
Which is nice too when I go on my email because I have got the ball moving and everything seems to be going there
So I quite like that function, especially when you're working with US and Asian companies. It's a highly recommend Newton
Anyone guys there just a few of the software's
I've probably got loads more and of course, we'll have our best apps of the year
Which you guys will be voting for so stay tuned for that
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