Productivity Tools

I wanted to boost my focus — nothing fancy, just stop checking Gmail every 8 seconds and actually finish writing my blog drafts. So yeah, I turned to Pomodoro timers. The idea’s simple: work for 25 minutes, rest for 5. What could go wrong? Plenty. 😐 I’ve tried at least 12 Pomodoro apps — from…

I’ve been freelancing full-time for about four years now, and Asana has followed me for most of that ride—sometimes willingly, sometimes kicking and screaming. I’ve tested other options (hey ClickUp, hey Notion), but I keep circling back to Asana. Mostly because it doesn’t try to be “everything” but still somehow lands me in a complete…

So I started using Obsidian because everything else was either too bloated or too rigid. Notion turned into a second inbox I avoided. Evernote became this stale document graveyard. Obsidian felt like a clean slate. Or at least it did until I spent 45 minutes trying to figure out why a note from yesterday had…