TaskWhole for freelancers
Freelancing has one failure mode, and it is not bad work. It is a full month followed by an empty one, over and over, because the looking stopped while the doing was going well.
What goes wrong
- You only prospect when the pipeline is already empty, which is when you have least patience for it.
- Every outreach email is written from scratch, so every one takes twenty minutes.
- The thread you meant to follow up sits unanswered until it is too old to revive.
- No record of who you contacted, so you email the same person twice a year apart.
Tasks a freelancer keeps
How it fits the week
One person doing the work, the invoicing, the admin and the selling, in that order of urgency.
Make the small version of the task
Ten minutes is a task you will do. An hour is one you will postpone. Build the blueprint around what fits in the gap you actually have.
Keep the good lines where you can find them
Manual templates exist for exactly this: a message you copy by hand, kept next to the ones the app sends.
Follow up without the dread
A due date makes it a task rather than a decision. The hard part of chasing is deciding to; the app has already decided.
See what a month actually did
Reports count threads, replies and how much chasing each one took, over thirty days.
A sequence that fits
Every gap counted from the first message. Nothing sends on its own.
| Message | When | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| First contact | day 0 | Name the specific thing you saw. Ask one question they can answer in a sentence. |
| Second try | day 4 | Shorter than the first. Nothing new to say is fine. |
| Last one | day 12 | Leave the door open, then close the file. |
Questions
Is there a free plan?
Do I need a separate sending domain?
Can I use it for things that are not email?
Other use cases
Start with one task
The whole working product is free. Reports and the extension are $5 a month, and only if you want them.