Ideas on productivity, habit building, skill development, and making progress that compounds.
For most personal use — tasks, habits, goals — yes: Notion is more tool than the job needs. It is the right choice if you enjoy building systems or your information is unusual. Five questions to tell which one you are.
Todoist, TickTick, Any.do, Notion, Asana, Linear, ClickUp and EvyOS all have official MCP connectors; Microsoft To Do, Things 3 and Google Tasks do not. What each one lets the AI read and change, and how to connect it.
A meeting notes template for small teams, built around the 2 things that matter after a meeting: what was decided and who is doing what by when. With an example and the rules for action items.
A shared task list fails for the same few reasons in every small team. Here is what a shared task list app has to get right, and 5 rules that keep one alive past the first month.
A stand-up meeting is 10 minutes to find out what is blocked, not a status report. How to run one for a small team, the daily stand-up questions worth asking, and when to skip it.
Todoist for teams is fast and familiar, and for some small businesses it is enough. Here is an honest look at where it fits, where teams outgrow it, and what the numbers look like at 8 people.
A fair comparison of goal tracker apps, including where a task manager is the better answer. What to look for, what to ignore, and how to test one in 10 minutes.
GTD, PARA, bullet journalling, time blocking. What each method actually covers, what it leaves out, and how to assemble a personal productivity system from the parts you need.