A freelancer's day
For a freelancer juggling a few clients: the urgent client work goes in the morning, invoices and the proposal get the afternoon, and email gets one block.
Three clients today. Finish the café's logo revisions, they want them before lunch, two hours. Video call with the architects at 11:30, half an hour. Send this month's invoices, three of them. Chase last month's unpaid invoice. Write the proposal for the new project, due Friday, an hour. Answer emails in one go, half an hour. Send my expenses to the accountant. Update my portfolio site. Put together a sample for the new client if there's time.
Paste it into Dump in Brizemi, or say it in your own words. Change the times and things to fit you.
Today
Sample day
- Fixed time
- Must
- Could
A sample day. Brizemi builds yours around your own calendar, routines and the time of day.
How to use it
- 1
Copy the dump, or rewrite it with your own things.
- 2
Open Dump in Brizemi and paste; the things become cards. Sort them into Must, Could and Park.
- 3
Brizemi builds the day around your calendar, with breathing room in between. When the day slips, tap Rescue.
Tips for this day
- Turn on Focus for the logo revisions and pick 50-minute rounds with 10-minute breaks; two hours become two rounds. Rounds are free in the app.
- Give the proposal a due date of Friday; Brizemi makes room for it in your plans before then. The heads-up notices as it gets close are Pro.
- For the job most likely to slide, like chasing a payment, turn on Don't miss: a loud alarm goes off at the card's time. Up to three a day, Pro.
- With Write my plan to a calendar, your plan also shows up as a separate calendar in your calendar app (Pro), so you see your busy hours in one place when you book a client call.
Why this day is built this way
Freelance days fill up with two kinds of work: what a client expects today, and what nobody expects until it blows up, like invoices, proposals and expenses. This day gives the logo work due before lunch the two freshest hours of the morning. The call has a fixed time, with a little room before it, so you don't go straight from revisions into the call out of breath.
Invoices and chasing a payment are short jobs that get bigger the longer they wait, so they sit in Must at the start of the afternoon. The proposal has until Friday; it starts today and is capped at an hour. Email gets one block instead of being opened at every notification. The portfolio and the sample didn't fit today; they wait in Parked for a quieter day.
If you have this day often
If this is a day you have often: when it goes well, tap "Save this day as a template" in Close the day, and next time it sets up in one tap (Day templates, Pro).
A guide on this
Questions people ask
What if a client asks for something urgent mid-day?
Say the new job into Dump, then tap Rescue. Fixed calls stay where they are, Must things are reordered, and what doesn't fit gets parked.
Should I keep my invoices in Brizemi?
No. Brizemi isn't an invoicing or accounting app; it fits the job of sending invoices into your day. Short notes like an invoice number can go in the card's Note.
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Can't find your kind of day? Write to us and we'll add it: support@brizemi.com
When the day slips, rescue it in one tap
Brizemi turns what's on your mind into a realistic day and rebuilds the rest when the day falls apart. Rescue is always free.
