Tools

The cost of switching

Four apps is not four times the features. It is a toll you pay every time you check, and it is the reason good systems get abandoned by organised people.

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One place, and why it should be boring

The tool that survives is rarely the best one. It is the one you already open for another reason.

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Notifications are a decision somebody else made

Every alert on your phone was switched on by a stranger with an interest in your attention. Almost none of them were switched on by you.

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When to leave a tool, and how to do it without losing the year

Moving is expensive and sometimes right. The mistake is moving everything — the second system usually fails for the same reason the first did.

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Why you stop opening the tool you chose

The problem is almost never the app. It is the distance between where you are and where the app is.

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