Mac project/task manager with "price" column for freelance illustrator?

So far it sounds like a job for Excel or Access, except for the calendar and address book synching.

For under $100 I would probably just make spreadsheets and update my calendar and address book separately.

Probably not the answer you were looking for though so maybe someone knows of another option.

@fireside took my answer, but I would add that if you don’t have Excel /Access (which you might not on a Mac), there may be other solutions. Does OpenOffice (free) run on a Mac? Or is there a reasonable similar Mac solution (MaxCel? Maccess?)

Thanks for fast answers!
I have Numbers app, which is something like Excel and maybe easier to use (i have used excel couple of times and somehow just didn’t understand it). I’ll have see if I can do this with it.

Do you think it’s possible, with this excel-like-software, to have different views on data: to view projects organized by date, or by todo/to invoice/invoiced/paid, or by client?

Somehow i would like to have software that I don’t have create system myself (i’m not very good at these coding-like things). But i will definately try this excel-approach.

Excel-like software, I would hope, should at least allow you to sort and filter on various criteria, And the short answer for Excel is ‘yes’.

Welcome to fluther! Janabas and welcome to a fellow frelance illustrator!

Here is a Link to a website that has templates for Numbers.

Maybe you can even find something that will work for you.

Look along the right side down a bit there is a category section.

good luck

@Grisson Yes, OpenOffice now runs on OS X (natively). It’s not bad, either, for the record.

@Bri_L: Thank’s for link. I still need to understand the whole system of Numbers and then start to study those functions.

@ben: Yes, OO runs on OSX and i’m sure it’s not bad. Numbers seems to be more understandable for a novice like me, though.

Thanks again for your good advice. I promised to try the excel-way, but when I realized that Bento, which was closest to my dream app, is a database application I started to search for simple database solutions. After a little googling I found Zoho Creator and saw the light.

It took only a couple of hours of drag-and-dropping to build an “application” that fits for me almost perfectly (it still need some tweaking). No need to touch the code (it seems to be possible to do that also).

Now I have a simple and pretty interface to view and add jobs. I can also set up different views for different needs.

I’m still kind of testing it and when I feel it’s good enough I’ll publish it for other people to too.

So: solution found, thanks to kind answeres.