The Setting I Missed That Broke Everything Silently

The Setting I Missed That Broke Everything Silently

Zapier’s been my longest-running on-and-off-again relationship next to Gmail filters. I’m not kidding—I’ve rebuilt the same automation (or a slightly more confusing version of it) probably eight times this year. So when yet another multi-step Zap just died in the dark last week—no errors, no alerts—I finally did what I should’ve done six months ago:…

How to set SMART goals with productivity tools without going nuts

How to set SMART goals with productivity tools without going nuts

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…

Evernote vs Notion pricing when you actually use them every day

Evernote vs Notion pricing when you actually use them every day

So here’s what happened. I had one Evernote window open on one screen, Notion on the other, and I was mid-transfer of a content archive (about 200 article stubs and scratchpad notes). Somewhere between paste #98 and #99, Evernote went offline and Notion decided to reorder everything by last-edited date. And that’s exactly when I…