Field notes from the ClockSplit workshop floor. Short, evergreen guides on half-hour billing, invoicing from FreshBooks / Wave / QuickBooks without spreadsheet math, billable vs. non-billable time, and the case for simple tools over bloated ones.
Round-up vs. round-down. Why agencies invented the 0.5-hour billing increment, how it actually changes your annual revenue, and the one rule that keeps clients from feeling nickel-and-dimed.
The "open my time tracker, then alt-tab to a spreadsheet, then alt-tab to my invoice tool" pipeline is the worst hour of every freelancer's week. Here's how to shorten it to about ninety seconds.
Email is not design. Slack is not design. Revision rounds three through seven are sometimes not design. A decision framework for what goes on the invoice and what belongs in your overhead.
Project codes, approval flows, capacity planners, three layers of tags. Most time trackers are built for agencies of fifty. Here's why a freelance designer is better served by something that does exactly one thing.
Hotel Wi-Fi. Trains. Coffee-shop captive portals. The moment your tracker depends on a live connection is the moment a billable hour goes missing. A short guide to working offline without losing a session.
Half-hour blocks. One click from tracked time to FreshBooks / Wave / QuickBooks invoice lines. Free forever, no card.
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