Productivity Tools

After building and rebuilding recurring reminder systems in everything from Notion to Google Calendar to three different Zapier hacks, I ended up crawling back to Microsoft To Do again last week. The plan was simple: scheduled reminders for mundane stuff like checking the fridge for expired tofu on Fridays, or nagging myself about submitting insurance…

I used to think Toggl was delightfully straightforward. It basically asked, “Whatcha doing?” then timed it for you. Beautiful. No unnecessary fluff. Then I got clever, and everything fell apart. I wanted automation. I connected Toggl with Zapier to auto-start timers based on Google Calendar events. I used synced projects with Trello cards. I even…

If you’re freelancing and think ClickUp might be the answer to organizing your chaos, well… maybe 😂 It *can* be. But you’ll 100% break some things getting it to bend to your exact needs. I’ve done this enough times—accidentally deleted whole tasks, made views so filtered they return zero results, and yes, built that one…