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When you’ve got 47 browser tabs open and your project notes are split between Notion, Google Docs, a single tweet draft, and that one PDF you always forget about — yeah, tagging starts to matter a lot. I’ve rebuilt my own tagging system three times this year already. Once because the automation broke (Integromat randomly…
If you ever tried to make your calendar sync with your to-dos and maybe even your meeting notes, and you thought, “Surely it’ll all just click”… yeah. Same here. Until my Google Calendar started duplicating GCal events from clicks in Notion, Todoist tasks randomly disappeared the second they were marked complete, and don’t even get…
Building a second brain sounds so clean in theory — just funnel all your thoughts, tasks, articles, and ideas into one magical space, then retrieve them instantly like your life has autocomplete. In practice, it feels more like maintaining a leaky boat full of sticky notes, half-finished Notion databases, recurring calendar block failures, and Zapier…