99+ Comprehensive Digital Nomad Tools for a Location Independent Lifestyle

Living Life as a Worldschooling Digital Nomad Family

We need a variety of digital nomad tools as well as entrepreneurial resources to help us fulfill our desire to be location-independent and live life to the fullest. As we slowly hop across time zones and around coworking spaces, these are the things you’ll see and hear us talking about or find on the many browser tabs Colin has open!

(While we write blog posts, deliver location-independent jobs, and develop other profitable online income opportunities that help improve our financial independence!).

In short, a digital nomad toolkit that helps keep us happy, healthy, and sane (!)

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Where is your focus today? What type of support do you need?

Choose a category/sub-category to see the digital nomad tools, productivity apps and entrepreneurial resources we regularly use to live location independently

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‘Parenting’ Tools and Resources for Digital Nomads

Leaving the security and routines of a home, car and local infrastructure; e.g. well-stocked grocery stores, requires adapting and being flexible in how you function as a family on a day to day basis. The following apps, services and tools have all taken on more importance in our pursuit and enjoyment of location independence. If you want to live your life to the fullest, we highly recommend you give some of these services a try.

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‘Passports’ Tools and Resources for Digital Nomads

It is often said that ‘moving house’ is one of the most stressful periods in our lives. So how do you overcome such stresses when ‘moving house’ becomes a way of life!? The following digital nomad tools, products, services and apps all help us enjoy the journey rather than the destination. Once again, we highly recommend you give some of these services a try.

Online Travel Agents

Hotel and flight booking sites such as booking dot com, Expedia and Skyscanner can help you find nearly all the major services you’d require when planning accommodation and travel around the world. Meaning they can save you the hassle and time of trawling through an endless list of websites to find the right room, flight, things to do, cruise, car etc.

But not everyone knows Booking Holdings and the Expedia Group are the parent company for a vast number of other well known online travel agents; such as Agoda, Kayak, Travelocity, Hotels dot com and many more. Or that Skyscanner is now owned by one of China’s biggest online travel companies.

Consequently, we find the real difference in the following services is rarely price. It’s often more about convenience, ease of use or more often than not, good old familiarity and personal preference.

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‘Productivity’ Tools and Resources for Digital Nomads

For example, online tools for entrepreneurs that can save you dozens of hours per week, automate key and/or routine tasks, and save you thousands of dollars on contractors or staff.

A quick side note!

Whilst we have chosen entrepreneurship and self-employment as our preferred route to earn remote income, remember you can still live a location-independent life doing remote work for a full or part-time employer. The co-working spaces we frequent are often a mix of local entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers. (If you are looking to work remotely, click the link for an excellent guide from our friend Mike over at Hobo With A Laptop).

Email Marketing and Automation

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools

Search engine optimization (SEO) is key to making friends with the search engines and growing your organic traffic. In addition to a bunch of SEO related Chrome extensions, we use the following SEO tools and services on a regular basis.

Social Media Tools

Social media has the ability to completely suck your time and energy. The following social media automation tools have all played a part in helping us use social media more efficiently and effectively. You can usually expect a free entry-level option, or trial period, which allows you to get going and become comfortable with a particular platform.

However, as soon as you get some traction and know social media is giving you a return on investment, we recommend upgrading depending on the channel and need.

Website & Landing Page Tools

Being seen and heard is a vital aspect of any marketing initiative. All the following apps, products or services play a role in the way we show up in the online world.

Together with SEO affiliate marketing, partnerships and sales are a core focus of our long-term strategy to generate recurring and/or scaleable online income streams from anywhere in the world. As we evolve as parents and people, as well as online entrepreneurs, the following services help us to find new income stream opportunities and to get paid regardless of our location or residential status.

Living location independently invariably requires changing time zones and currencies on a regular basis. In the same way, having location independent income requires knowing how to receive payments regardless of where you are in the world. In other words, when it comes to getting paid from different countries you will need an easy way to open one or more foreign bank accounts. Both Payoneer and TransferWise have helped us do that.

Our comprehensive list of digital nomad tools and resources would not be complete without some references to project management, productivity and how we manage our time.

Time is the only properly defined limited resource applicable to us all. This makes it your most valuable resource and although you can’t manage time, you can manage how you use it. While we are working, we use all the following tools and services on the mathematical basis that if you can save ’10 minutes a day’, you effectively earn yourself a week a year! How valuable is that!

If you’d like some deeper insights about how we use any of the above digital nomad tools or entrepreneurial resources, please feel free to reach out to us. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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