After all that wondering about confessional stuff last night, today I am moved to post about something a little less personal – but actually, no word of a lie, close to my heart in its own way. I am here to tell you about Freshbooks.

Freshbooks is a Toronto company, offering an incredibly useful service to people like me. For a couple of years (why, why didn't anyone tell me it could be so much easier) I used to do all my time tracking and invoicing using a painful system of silly Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on my hard drive. The pain of using Microsoft office tools was made worse by the inefficiency of my system, not to mention the total lack of style. I hope you can understand why a non-designer like me never did bother to make my Word invoice template look pretty.

But that all changed about six weeks ago, when I discovered Freshbooks.

The first thing I did was to create an invoice for work I had already done – it took about 2 minutes, I emailed it away to the client, it looked marvelous, and I was hooked.

The next week, I decided to try out their Timesheet function. How glorious! It does everything I was doing in Excel, only it does it way better. You enter your client, you enter the project, you enter the task. You enter your hours. Then later, you generate an invoice based on those hours. Of course!