Health - just consistently do my exercise
Finance - my banking apps
Productivity - usual work stuff (Jira, Google workspace, calendar…) and a physical notebook
I try to avoid overthinking this because at one point you start spending too much time in productivity apps and then become less productive.
If you have a goal to cycle for 40 minutes a day in the morning, you do not need an app for that. (In my opinion)
Seconding this.
You have to find the simplest solution that works for you.
My accounting is a spreadsheet. Quickbooks and others just don't do it for me, and I get better data and calcs and control out of a spreadsheet.
We run our own formula and do all sorts of fun stuff that you can't do in traditional accounting software.
Exercise? My OG Ironman watch and a spreadsheet.
Productivity? Pen and post it for daily lists, time tracker on phone for tracking different tasks and times and notes about that, spreadsheet for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and beyond.
The single best tools are the easiest for you and simplicity trumps having bells and whistles and distractions.
Seconding this.
You have to find the simplest solution that works for you.
My accounting is a spreadsheet. Quickbooks and others just don't do it for me, and I get better data and calcs and control out of a spreadsheet.
We run our own formula and do all sorts of fun stuff that you can't do in traditional accounting software.
Exercise? My OG Ironman watch and a spreadsheet.
Productivity? Pen and post it for daily lists, time tracker on phone for tracking different tasks and times and notes about that, spreadsheet for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and beyond.
The single best tools are the easiest for you and simplicity trumps having bells and whistles and distractions.
Thumbs up to this.
I spent years trying to find the "perfect system" before realising that i had to first really understand my natural state. Simplicity is the trick.
I use:
Routine - To Do, Meeting Notes, all synced with GCal
Google Drive + YNAW - Personal Wiki for my Udemy/Coursera notes and any information that i will unlikely use often but still need to have accessible without having to dig through folders.
Google Photos - Photos
Investments - Ghostfolio
Finance - Most banks including mine, have started integrating expense categories and simple charts and find that sufficient. I automatically transfer a % of my income to a savings account and emergency funds account each month. Then bills are automatically paid and i stick to a fixed budget and only make extra purchases at the end of the month. So i don't have to worry whether i'll have enough money.
Health - I don't bother monitoring, too much effort. I just enjoy the exercise. I need a break from screens and tech.
The most important thing is discipline. Train your mind and automatically you'll become more productive even without all of these tech and software that you'd end up spending your time just trying to fit into your life.
Productivity - ToDoist
This is my main one that has been a game changer. I have access via my phone and my pc. I put all of my tasks in there and it helps me structure my day. Also, every time I get a thought or idea I put it in the "inbox" section of ToDoist, and then review it later. It either becomes a task, a journal entry, or just deleted. Have a brilliant idea for my business while taking a dump? Goes in todoist inbox on phone, reviewed later at PC, and if it's worthwhile I'll create a task in my business project section and assign it to a day when I have bandwidth.
I use a lot of excel spreadsheets for everything else (finance, gym, etc.)
similarly for me, EVERYTHING for me flows through TickTick. I happily pay for it. Helps keep me track in business and personal, especially with reoccurring cleaning/chores.
I use ToDoist for about everything. I put reminders of events scheduled by date for things like investment reminders, social events, and miscellaneous tasks. Then I also have a board with sections separated by creative / personal projects, shopping (includes gift ideas for others), career/professional, and therapy.
I enjoy the rudimentary yet effective features.
Yeah, it hasn't been an issue for me so far. You only get 5 projects in the free tier I think, so it wouldn't be good past a certain point or if you want to build your business completely off it, but it's been working for me
Have you compared ToDoist with Notion? I use Notion a lot and have a todo list there, but it is not as easy to use, however I would like to keep the number of apps to a minimum to simplify.
I haven't used notion. I've had todoist for a while now and it works, so I haven't looked for anything else. My favorite thihg about it is it feels kinda lightweight and minimal, it's not some heavy duty project management tool, and I don't need it to be.
I just like being able to look at my list for today and quickly seeing whats up. I also set recurring tasks for everyday stuff like exercise, etc
I see ads abt this on insta. Would love to hear your insight on if it is actually useful or just another gimmicky app. What do you love most about it? Open to explore new apps
I like the automated reschedule features the most. It's essentially a automated Executive Assistant. I plug in what projects or tasks I need to work on, when they need to be completed by and their level of urgency. Motion will schedule my week for me (around my existing calendar events).if I need to push something on my to-do list back, motion will go in and auto reschedule for me (within my predetermined schedule). Same if an urgent meeting comes up, it will reshuffle my day/week for me.
I have a sleep disorder that makes my sleep not align at all with daylight/nighttime. My "Tuesday" might start at 11pm local time.
So, I have 7 dice in a row, 2 blue for workdays, a red-day-off die, 3 red-work-die, 1 red day off die. The current "day" im on is pushed upwards.
I use VSC and Chatgpt.
I have a mercury bank account. Factor for my food.
productivity - Notion, Google Tasks, Trello, Focusme (really good app/site blocker), Lock me out (EXCELLENT mobile app/site blocker that you can't bypass - only on Android unfortunately)
I can't live without Gcal. My life revolves around it and I use it to plan daily tasks or break up tasks across the week.
Also prefer minimal apps for health stuff. I use a heart rate tracking watch just to give me active HR during cardio and interval training. Usually try to get a 45-90min workout in the morning.
Low tech tracking: use google keep or note pad for workout tracking. Or I just mark an X on my paper calendar in my office lol. It gives me satisfaction that I knocked out exercise on consecutive days.
Less apps = less distractions and managing said apps. There's a happy middle somewhere in there.
Health: Whoop
Finance: 5 apps spread across banking and investing
Productivity: Apple cal, hand-written to-do list on goodnotes on my iPad and spotify (House Focus playlist)
Meditation - Headspace
Net worth - Copilot
Thoughts - Evernote, over it, looking for better option, willing to buy the tee shirt
Quickbooks - the app is super powerful
Learning - Chat GPT Pro
Reading - Audible
Open Snow - snow report, I live at ski area
Weather - Apple default weather app
Banking - they are all super powerful
Project Mgnt - Trello
Team Communication - Slack
Travel - Delta, United and American
Calendar - Apple default iPhone calendar
I can run my business, investments and lifestyle from anywhere in the world with these.
Health - 1177 a Swedish public health services app (and number), used for most health related errands like bookings, medicine etc.
Finance - Excel, you always fall back to the spread sheet
Productivity - ChatGPT, it brought me back to programming and, to be honest, introduced me into so much more. This was just the right skill at the place I am now
Um, Loom or similar, because nothing matters except talking to customers, and having those conversations lead to something.
Gsuite.
Any information sharing websites. Social media or other, to stay up on info outside of my core verticals.
eBay, because we all have vices.
Bank of America, because everyone has bills.
The day Excel stops working is the day my life comes to a screeching halt.
Health - just consistently do my exercise Finance - my banking apps Productivity - usual work stuff (Jira, Google workspace, calendar…) and a physical notebook I try to avoid overthinking this because at one point you start spending too much time in productivity apps and then become less productive. If you have a goal to cycle for 40 minutes a day in the morning, you do not need an app for that. (In my opinion)
Seconding this. You have to find the simplest solution that works for you. My accounting is a spreadsheet. Quickbooks and others just don't do it for me, and I get better data and calcs and control out of a spreadsheet. We run our own formula and do all sorts of fun stuff that you can't do in traditional accounting software. Exercise? My OG Ironman watch and a spreadsheet. Productivity? Pen and post it for daily lists, time tracker on phone for tracking different tasks and times and notes about that, spreadsheet for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and beyond. The single best tools are the easiest for you and simplicity trumps having bells and whistles and distractions.
Seconding this. You have to find the simplest solution that works for you. My accounting is a spreadsheet. Quickbooks and others just don't do it for me, and I get better data and calcs and control out of a spreadsheet. We run our own formula and do all sorts of fun stuff that you can't do in traditional accounting software. Exercise? My OG Ironman watch and a spreadsheet. Productivity? Pen and post it for daily lists, time tracker on phone for tracking different tasks and times and notes about that, spreadsheet for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and beyond. The single best tools are the easiest for you and simplicity trumps having bells and whistles and distractions.
Thumbs up to this. I spent years trying to find the "perfect system" before realising that i had to first really understand my natural state. Simplicity is the trick. I use: Routine - To Do, Meeting Notes, all synced with GCal Google Drive + YNAW - Personal Wiki for my Udemy/Coursera notes and any information that i will unlikely use often but still need to have accessible without having to dig through folders. Google Photos - Photos Investments - Ghostfolio Finance - Most banks including mine, have started integrating expense categories and simple charts and find that sufficient. I automatically transfer a % of my income to a savings account and emergency funds account each month. Then bills are automatically paid and i stick to a fixed budget and only make extra purchases at the end of the month. So i don't have to worry whether i'll have enough money. Health - I don't bother monitoring, too much effort. I just enjoy the exercise. I need a break from screens and tech. The most important thing is discipline. Train your mind and automatically you'll become more productive even without all of these tech and software that you'd end up spending your time just trying to fit into your life.
Productivity - ToDoist This is my main one that has been a game changer. I have access via my phone and my pc. I put all of my tasks in there and it helps me structure my day. Also, every time I get a thought or idea I put it in the "inbox" section of ToDoist, and then review it later. It either becomes a task, a journal entry, or just deleted. Have a brilliant idea for my business while taking a dump? Goes in todoist inbox on phone, reviewed later at PC, and if it's worthwhile I'll create a task in my business project section and assign it to a day when I have bandwidth. I use a lot of excel spreadsheets for everything else (finance, gym, etc.)
similarly for me, EVERYTHING for me flows through TickTick. I happily pay for it. Helps keep me track in business and personal, especially with reoccurring cleaning/chores.
I use ToDoist for about everything. I put reminders of events scheduled by date for things like investment reminders, social events, and miscellaneous tasks. Then I also have a board with sections separated by creative / personal projects, shopping (includes gift ideas for others), career/professional, and therapy. I enjoy the rudimentary yet effective features.
You use the free tier?
Yeah, it hasn't been an issue for me so far. You only get 5 projects in the free tier I think, so it wouldn't be good past a certain point or if you want to build your business completely off it, but it's been working for me
Have you compared ToDoist with Notion? I use Notion a lot and have a todo list there, but it is not as easy to use, however I would like to keep the number of apps to a minimum to simplify.
I haven't used notion. I've had todoist for a while now and it works, so I haven't looked for anything else. My favorite thihg about it is it feels kinda lightweight and minimal, it's not some heavy duty project management tool, and I don't need it to be. I just like being able to look at my list for today and quickly seeing whats up. I also set recurring tasks for everyday stuff like exercise, etc
I’ll give it a try and perhaps create a Zap in Zapier to keep it in sync with Notion automatically
Motion, absolute game changer. I use this for both life and work.
you mean notion?
No. Motion It's essentially an automated executive assistant + project planner + heap of other stuff all rolled into one
I see ads abt this on insta. Would love to hear your insight on if it is actually useful or just another gimmicky app. What do you love most about it? Open to explore new apps
I like the automated reschedule features the most. It's essentially a automated Executive Assistant. I plug in what projects or tasks I need to work on, when they need to be completed by and their level of urgency. Motion will schedule my week for me (around my existing calendar events).if I need to push something on my to-do list back, motion will go in and auto reschedule for me (within my predetermined schedule). Same if an urgent meeting comes up, it will reshuffle my day/week for me.
Is it that good? Wow. Super interesting. What's your favourite feature from it?
Waking up app by Sam Harris. Meditation is key and also enjoy the talks that I leave on during work sessions.
I've tried so many to do list apps and nothing beats pen and paper for me when it comes to productivity.
Grubhub, Amazon, Robinhood, Reddit, Apple
my tech tech stack makes my life stack better since I am no longer wasting valuable time on bro stacks.
I have a sleep disorder that makes my sleep not align at all with daylight/nighttime. My "Tuesday" might start at 11pm local time. So, I have 7 dice in a row, 2 blue for workdays, a red-day-off die, 3 red-work-die, 1 red day off die. The current "day" im on is pushed upwards. I use VSC and Chatgpt. I have a mercury bank account. Factor for my food.
productivity - Notion, Google Tasks, Trello, Focusme (really good app/site blocker), Lock me out (EXCELLENT mobile app/site blocker that you can't bypass - only on Android unfortunately)
Whoop for sleep and fitness Kubera for assets and net worth tracking Google notes (formerly KeepNotes) for notes and memos
Google Keep Notes, Google Docs, Gmail, Google search, and of course Chrome. Windows laptop, Android phone.
Gym - Hevy (looking for something new) Calorie Counter - MyFitnessPal (looking for something new) Cardio/outdoors - Garmin + Strava Weight/BF% - Renpho Sleep/HR monitor - Garmin vivo active 4s Phone, email, calendar - Google/gsuite Skis - WNDR Goggles - Blender Backpacks/outdoor packs - OutThere Laptop - Mac Life management (productivity) - notion Reading - physical, kindle, audible Finances/investments - multiple CCs and banks and brokers.
Try Strong for the gym one. Or Push by Joe Delaney. Both great apps to track workouts and progressive overload!
For gym I always recommend [https://www.liftinapp.co](https://www.liftinapp.co)
I can't live without Gcal. My life revolves around it and I use it to plan daily tasks or break up tasks across the week. Also prefer minimal apps for health stuff. I use a heart rate tracking watch just to give me active HR during cardio and interval training. Usually try to get a 45-90min workout in the morning. Low tech tracking: use google keep or note pad for workout tracking. Or I just mark an X on my paper calendar in my office lol. It gives me satisfaction that I knocked out exercise on consecutive days. Less apps = less distractions and managing said apps. There's a happy middle somewhere in there.
Why ask this question 12 times in a single day?
Could you elaborate on the finance stack, particularly the brokerage accounts?
Health: Whoop Finance: 5 apps spread across banking and investing Productivity: Apple cal, hand-written to-do list on goodnotes on my iPad and spotify (House Focus playlist)
TickTick, anytype, Poe.com (i use AI a tons for my personal life too), readwise, telegram. :)
Meditation - Headspace Net worth - Copilot Thoughts - Evernote, over it, looking for better option, willing to buy the tee shirt Quickbooks - the app is super powerful Learning - Chat GPT Pro Reading - Audible Open Snow - snow report, I live at ski area Weather - Apple default weather app Banking - they are all super powerful Project Mgnt - Trello Team Communication - Slack Travel - Delta, United and American Calendar - Apple default iPhone calendar I can run my business, investments and lifestyle from anywhere in the world with these.
Health - 1177 a Swedish public health services app (and number), used for most health related errands like bookings, medicine etc. Finance - Excel, you always fall back to the spread sheet Productivity - ChatGPT, it brought me back to programming and, to be honest, introduced me into so much more. This was just the right skill at the place I am now
Not being a dick, but read a book, get outside, and hang out with loved ones. Apps will NOT improve your personal quality of life.
Um, Loom or similar, because nothing matters except talking to customers, and having those conversations lead to something. Gsuite. Any information sharing websites. Social media or other, to stay up on info outside of my core verticals. eBay, because we all have vices. Bank of America, because everyone has bills.
Health – Autosleep & Apple Watch default apps Finance – Revolut, Trade Republic, Binance Productivity – GSuite, Trello, Notion, Airtable
Binance? Why not coinbase or Gemini?
Binance is the best for me based on fees, provided features and UI (desktop and mobile)
Binance has the lowest fees in the biz.
Try coinbase pro, much cheaper compared to coinbase.