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The One Productivity App I Cannot Live Without
In today’s hyper-focused world, there is a specialized app for almost everything you can think of.
Want a task manager? Use Todoist!
Want a calendar app? Use Google or Apple Calendar!
Want a focus timer? Use Forest!
Want a habit tracker? Use Streaks or Habitify or Habitica!
I have tried all these apps for an extended amount of time. There is a reason why all these apps are so popular. They have amazing features!
However, I still moved away from them. Why though? Let’s talk about that.
I realized that to be at my most productive self, I need my productivity system to have these four features:
- Task Manager to track all my daily tasks and projects
- Calendar for my daily and weekly scheduling
- Focus Timer to eliminate distractions
- Habit Tracker to track healthy habits that I want to establish.
Now, of course I can go ahead and use the apps I mentioned above to achieve this. However, having tried that I realized, doing that doesn’t work for me.
Having four different apps for these four different features adds a lot of friction to my system. Every single time I need to take a quick glance at everything, I need to open and close four different apps which gets exhausting. That’s especially because I do check-in to these apps quite frequently every day.
It also means that I need to set up some integration between all four of these apps for the perfect system. For instance, when I am using my Focus Timer, I want to link each focused session to a task I am working on which lives on my Task Manager. Similarly, when scheduling in my calendar, I need to drag in tasks from my Task Manger. Setting up these integrations is complex, if not impossible for some of these apps.
All these lead to me spending too much time managing the apps and setting up my productivity system, rather than spend time doing the actual work.
The solution: Find an all in one app with all four features.