Time / Project management - How do You do it?

I'm not sure how you're managing other aspects of what you do, but you might benefit from thinking larger than ''project management." Chances are, if you go strictly into project management apps/techniques you may find yourself needing apps for other aspects of what you do (i.e. managing your clients) and then you'll need to get another app. Then you have to deal with integration issues and possibly higher monthly costs. The list goes on.

Assuming you're SMB/freelancing i'd suggest checking out some kind of integrated solution. Basically, for little to nothing per month, you could manage contacts, possible leads, projects, to-dos, timesheets, product lists, email newsletters, and other helpful tools in one place. If you find an even more state-of-the-art app, you can even integrate billing features. So, you'd be able to manage clients/leads, do projects for them, deal with support issues/communication, and bill them from the same place. Basically an all in one business package type thing.

I know that if you go with Google apps you might be able to find a combination of tools that does this. They have a ton of apps and a lot of them integrate quite nicely. Another software that does something similar is WORKetc. It combines CRM, projects, and billing into one centralized web based app.

Under that alone you would be able to manage all leads, contacts, projects, to-dos, calendars, invoices, product lists, support issues, expenses, etc. There's quite a few benefits that come from consolidating into one integrated app, like being able to handle the whole customer lifecycle in one application as well as workflow improvements.