## Introduction Whether a sole trader or an employee, we all need to organize our thoughts into coherent actions and projects. As a freelancer, you might discover that you can’t focus entirely on your core skills. You must sell your services and expedite current orders, but also develop future business, do marketing, administration, accounting, tax returns, raise finance and more. To stay on top of a multitude of issues and responsibilities, you may therefore have to learn additional techniques to manage the full range of operations. This site aims to discuss ways to analyse your decisions, set goals and run projects to make it all happen, while remaining objective. ![[summary-mjl-tek.png]] ## Management We look at how to manage your projects with the [[Getting Things Done management framework]]. We explain ways to distinguish which activities are urgent and important using the [[Eisenhower Matrix - A simple decision making tool]]. We encourage cycles of continuous learning and improvement applying the [[Plan Do Check Assess method]]. ## Software We discuss #obsidian for note taking, journalling, and graph view, databases in #Notion and #Access, project and task planning in #Trello, #Todoist and #Ayoa, and [[Software to use in the Getting Things Done process]]. ## Systems We discuss how to analyse your operations to determine the processes and actors in line with [[The Principles of Systems Analysis and Design]], which we model in several UML [[Systems Case Studies]]. ## Our experience We have [[Technical Experience as Analyst and Project Manager]] developing Microsoft Access databases in purchasing and project management. We ran a small business offering [[Digitization and Media Services]], slides and negatives, glass plates, photos and documents, DVD duplication, and video editing. As a freelancer, we provided technical and media translation, transcription, subtitling, [[Website Localization and Translation]]. We are now delighted to be in education, supporting learners with special needs. ## Contact Get in touch using the [[Contact details for mjl-tek]] by email, on Reddit, Facebook or Instagram. ![[tek-logo.jpg|200]] For more information see [[Key themes]]