Productivity Tools

There’s something hilariously cruel about relying on a tag system—only to find the app stopped respecting the tag rules you built into your workflows last week. I’ve had this happen in Notion, ClickUp, and Todoist. For context, I’m a solo freelancer jumping between design projects, Stripe dispute workflows (ugh), and drafting long documents like this…

If you use computers for work and your work involves more than two tabs and one app, then keyboard shortcuts are less of a convenience and more like survival tools. I used to scoff at shortcut guides — like, am I really gonna remember Cmd+Opt+Shift+W just to close three tabs? But once I started tracking…

Working as a freelancer means you’re always the project manager, tech support, client success rep, and payroll department — all before your 10am coffee. I’ve used Asana for years to keep things semi-sane, but there are so many weird little things that happen when you push it just a little further than it wants to…