Productivity Tools

I keep trying to stick to SMART goals but every single tool adds some extra friction where there shouldn’t be any. I mean, setting a measurable goal shouldn’t involve four clicks in Notion and a side-scroll in Todoist just to find the custom date field 🙃. Here’s how I’ve actually made SMART goals stick—despite clunky…

Microsoft To Do *should* be one of those set-it-and-forget-it tools for work-life balance. But the moment you start layering automation on top—think reminders from Teams messages, recurring weekly tasks, or syncing with Google Calendar—it can go completely sideways. Notifications don’t come through. Tasks show up three days late. Or my personal favorite: reminders that randomly…

So I rebuilt my Notion weekly review template again. This time from scratch—because the version I’d set up back in 2022 had about four conditional filters I no longer understood, one broken template button that triggered nothing, and a relation to a Goals database I stopped updating about two summers ago. You know when you…