hy.am studios

General Tool Stack

We have a range of tools that we all use as a team, for each of them you will be onboarded on how to use them by Kate on your first day.

Google Suite

Our whole business runs off the Google Suite, you will learn to love it very quickly.

Gmail

Our emails are sent using Gmail.

Google Calendar

All our events are implemented in Google Calendar. You will be able to see all other team mates calendars too, so you can keep up to date with what everyone else is doing. You will also be able to book the meeting room through creating an event in Google Calendar.

Google Hangouts

We often use Google Hangouts to take calls - to use Hangouts, you just need to invite all stakeholders to the calendar invite and the link to Google Hangouts will be added automatically. Google Hangouts has handy functions, for example screensharing.

Google Apps

We also use Google’s other Apps, including Docs for all written documents and Sheets for all spreadsheets.

Google Drive

All our files are saved within Google Team Drives. Make sure you download the plugin to have easy access from your Finder. You will have access to a number of different folders and all project & internal work needs to be saved in there.

Harvest

This is where you track your time. For a detailed explanation please check out this page. The rule is, track all of your time! There are tasks for all client projects, as well as internal projects. We track our time for a number of reasons, mostly to keep track of resources and to see if we can squeeze in some fun side projects.

Trello

Trello is our project management tool where we track all internal and external projects. It is quite easy to use and ensures spot on communication for all tasks. There is also a Harvest power-up so you can track your time from Trello directly into Harvest.

Slack

Our beloved internal communication tool, get involved in the channels!

Conference Call

Occasionally you may need to organise a conference call instead of Google Hangouts. For the full guide, please check out the FAQs.

1password

Where we store all our logins, you will need to download the app and then Kate will give you access.

Questions? Please contact the author for this page:

Kate - Studio Manager

Updated on: 8th November, 2018