If you are working freelance, the chances of you having a secretary to organize your life are very slim. Thankfully, there are a variety of different human resources platforms and applications to take a lot of self-organization weight off your chest. BambooHR, Zoho People, and Workday are among the best-known task management apps. They are available and accessible on pretty much every device, anywhere in the world. As a business or even as a freelancer, keeping your clients and workforce up to date on their current tasks along with progress reports is of great importance. HR applications allow you to visit and review assignments and display how much time has been spent on a specific task. Moreover, they let you check the current progress of your work and give place to immediate feedback in the form of comments. Documents, images, and other types of content are easily uploaded and stored for second and third parties to view and download.

We are in a digital age where sending or receiving a handwritten letter or a document is a very rare occurrence. However, as a freelancer who travels the world, you will probably need one fixed point where you can have any of your physical mail received. This is what companies, such as Clevver, had in mind when they expanded the concept of a regular P.O. box into versatile virtual offices. These offices have real street addresses to which your letters and packages can be directed. You will be notified after their arrival, and then you can decide if you would like to have your post scanned, forwarded, stored, or more. If you wish to keep your private address separate from your home address, then a virtual office may come extra useful for you. You can keep your physical mailbox organized and managed digitally and prevent it from being flooded with irrelevant spam.

Gmail (or Google Mail) is arguably the safest and most efficient email provider. It automatically groups and organizes incoming emails into different folders, making everything more understandable to its user. Moreover, a Gmail account comes with various other useful tools: a calendar system that makes every business’ or private person’s life a whole lot easier and stress-free, for example. A Google Calendar is private, however, the owner can select certain people and give them access to view and edit the schedule. Appointments, deadlines, and tasks can be effortlessly added with the correct date, time, and location which other people can be invited to attend, and a reminder alarm may also be chosen. Google Docs is also a feature of the so-called G Suite. It is similar to other common tools like Microsoft Office, Excel, or PowerPoint, however, documents are stored in Google’s cloud storage and give the user the option to invite other users. One thing that makes the Google Docs feature stand out from the rest is that several users can simultaneously view and edit a document in real-time. These edits are then saved automatically.