On December 31, did you resolve to stop letting the daily grind of self-employment pile up? But now it's February and you're already feeling a bit overwhelmed? Don't panic 🙂
At Anytime we love to make your life easier, and if we can help you keep your resolutions, we'd love to.
Discover below our selection of time-saving digital tools, tested and approved by Anytimers themselves!
Tools for efficient organization
Calendly
With Calendly, you can forget endless email exchanges to find appointment dates that suit everyone 😣 . You fill in the time slots you have available and simply send the link to your diary to your contact, all he has to do is choose what suits him best and it's done!
Our opinion: At Anytime we particularly appreciate this tool, as it allows us to let our customers choose the times that suit them best, for their telephone appointments with our services.
Notion
Notion is an all-in-one collaborative platform that lets you centralize all your freelance work, so you don't have to cumulate several tools. Imagine a place where you can store as well as create, all in an ergonomic and intuitive way! Texts, tables, folders, schedules, visuals, links... With Notion, you only have to open a single browser window 🧘 , which saves you an incredible amount of time.
Our verdict: It's an everyday tool at Anytime, and we use it both as a team and individually, to manage all our projects in all our departments. The foundation of foundations.
Amberscript
Do you also think it's great to send voice notes instead of written messages? Well, imagine if there was a tool that allowed you to transcribe all your audio documents into text format 🔥 ? Yes, with Amberscript a whole new world opens up to you - don't thank us, it's a gift!
Our verdict: For us, it's the perfect tool for creating subtitles for our videos, for example, but it can be used for so much more!
CM Sign
Have you heard of the electronic signature? If not, here's a tool that will revolutionize your contract management! CM Sign puts an end to illegible scans of handwritten signatures! You upload the contract you want signed into the tool, fill in the required fields, and the platform takes care of sending it to the recipient - and even sending out reminders!
Our verdict: It's a must-have for our teams. Our customers can sign the documents we send them from the device they prefer 📲, quickly, securely and with legal validity.
Business development tools
Feedly
You've probably already heard of Google Alerts? That's great, but if you want to take your monitoring one step further, we recommend Feedly! All you have to do is choose the themes and media you're interested in, and you'll receive a selection of articles, newsletters or social network content that correspond to them, directly sourced by their super-powerful artificial intelligence!
Our verdict: A brilliant monitoring tool that keeps us connected to the latest news in our sector, but also to anything else we want to keep an eye on 😏 .
Toggl
Have you ever thought that you're probably spending too much time on a customer assignment? Thanks to Toggl, that's over! This tool helps you make sure your business is profitable 🤑 . It calculates how much time you're spending on each project, so you can understand how much time you're really devoting to each customer.
Our verdict: We don't use this tool at Anytime, but it comes highly recommended by our independent customers. And since we place a great deal of trust in our customers, we're happy to share the solutions that can save you precious time :).
Whyse
You signed up for the flexibility of independence, not for the life of a hermit! Would you like to discuss the challenges you face with people who are going through the same thing as you? Would you like to discover new practices in your industry? Whyse is a networking platform that connects pros in the same industry or trade as you, in just a few clicks 💬 !
Our verdict: At Anytime, we're committed to continuous improvement. Thanks to the Whyse platform, we meet pros who inspire us and help us do better for you. (And what's more, it's covid-free!)
Tools for making beautiful things
Canva
If you haven't heard of it, it's definitely the one you should try out right after reading this article. Canva is an online graphic design software that lets you bring your inner Picasso to life 🧑🎨. Business cards, presentations, posters, visuals for your social networks, logos, flyers and even videos, this tool lets you create everything you need in just a few clicks, thanks to hundreds of templates that you can customize to suit your identity.
Our verdict: At Anytime we're lucky enough to have a talented designer, but in an emergency we can assure you that he's the best troubleshooter on the market!
Thank youApp
Even if emojis are increasingly replacing words, mastery of the language of Molière is still a valuable asset. If you're lacking in this area, we've got the perfect tool for you: MerciApp. It's a spelling and grammar checker with a twist: it also analyzes the context and style of your sentences, and makes suggestions to help you shine in front of your interlocutors.
Our verdict: It's in the details that the devil hides 😈 a little proofreading before clicking [Send] never hurt.
TinyPNG
So you've decided to create a website to showcase your expertise and services? Wonderful! But a word of advice: be careful with the images! Before integrating them into the pages of your site, we recommend that you reduce their weight with TinyPNG. Why would we do that? Because images that are too heavy will slow down your site's loading speed, which in turn will lead to a drop in its SEO ranking!
Our advice: Don't hesitate to apply this logic to your emails too. The heavier the image, the more likely it is to send your message to your recipient's spam folder. Think prospecting 😉 .
Tools for easier management
Anytime by Orange Bank
Of course! The pro account for all professionals, big or small, as a complement or 100%. Anytime is the online account that already supports over 100,000 entrepreneurs ❤️, thanks to its simple application, available advisors and pricing with no hidden fees.
Our opinion: Want to try it out? We're offering you 30 days free of charge to make up your own mind.
Climb
Ever heard of tax optimization and felt like you'd fallen into a vortex 🕳? Thanks to Climb, whatever your objective with your money, you'll easily find the solution to optimize it. Whether you want to make it grow, prepare for your retirement as a self-employed person, reduce your taxes or build a real estate portfolio, you'll find a simulation for every question you ask!
Our verdict: Top of the range for novices. The little plus? A library of over 2,500 articles to keep you informed on all your money matters.
Caravel
As a self-employed person, do you often wonder what you'll be eating when you retire? 
Thanks to CaravelIf you're interested in our complementary retirement products, you're in good hands! With their simulator, you no longer need to get out the calculator to understand what your savings could bring you when the time comes. Super practical, super simple.
Our opinion: Prevention is better than cure!
Easyblue
As an independent contractor, you're a modern-day adventurer 😅 ! And to prepare for your journey, you need to identify the risks and difficulties you may encounter to better anticipate them. Damage to third parties, inexcusable fault, moral prejudice... Easyblue enables you to map out the insurable risks of your business, free of charge, and offers you liability insurance that matches your needs.
Our opinion: No unnecessary options, just choose what's right for you: professional liability, business premises insurance, cyber insurance, hardware damage insurance, etc.
Indy
Looking for a tool to bring your accounting into the 21st century 🚀 ? Indy is new-generation accounting software that will save you an incredible amount of time, automate your day-to-day entries, guide you step-by-step through all your declarations (2035, 2033, 2065, VAT, social declaration, etc.) and analyze your figures to give you a clearer picture of how your business is evolving.
Our verdict: Thanks to our Anytime x Indy partnership, you can connect your account directly to the software for automatic data transmission, plus benefit from a 4-month free trial.
Mansa
A customer assignment that's taking too long? Invoices overdue? Are you starting to run out of cash? Mansa is the financing solution that lets you get back on your feet when the belt starts to tighten 💸 . Cash advance up to 20,000 euros or pay your bills in instalments, thanks to their online simulation tool, you'll know if you qualify in 30 seconds.
Our opinion: 10 minutes to find out if your request is eligible and 48 hours to transfer the funds to your Anytime account - it's hard to beat that, isn't it?
Tools for safety
It's one of the great challenges of the digitalized world we live in: online security! Whether you want to protect your own data or that of your customers, we strongly recommend that you read on.
VPN Avast SecureLine
Are you a mobile worker who regularly connects to public wifi networks? Station, train, coworking space? In reality, these are 1001 opportunities for hackers to steal your data! Protect yourself with an Avast SecureLine VPN, which masks your IP address, prevents prying eyes from spying on what you're doing on the web and secures the public wifi networks you connect to.
Our verdict: Public wifi networks are real open doors for hackers, at Anytime we use a VPN all the time, for our security and that of our customers. 🔐
KeePass
If you write down your passwords in a little notebook that never leaves your side, or even on a Word page, a word of advice: change that habit right away. With KeePass, you'll store all your passwords in a very, very strong safe, and all you have to do is remember just one. How about that? Bonus: it's free and open source!
Our verdict: A must-have according to our Safety Manager. 🤓
Virustotal
This is the tool we should all be recommending to our parents, those people who open and click on every attachment they receive 😭. On a more serious note, VirusTotal is a super-easy-to-use tool that scans all kinds of links and attachments for viruses in a matter of seconds.
Our advice: Save it in your favorites bar! It's also available as an extension for your search engine.
And for all those who still enjoy leafing through a good book, or who will never be without their paper shopping list, we recommend the notebooks from Editions23h59.
Our favorite: the Carnet du Temps! 200 pages of methods and tools to help you get organized and achieve your goals. The little plus? It's a beautiful object that can also be used to decorate your coffee table 🤫.