Workflows, note-taking, time management and automation — practical systems that survive a busy week, and an honest account of the ones that do not.
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No password managers, no ad blockers, nothing you have already installed. Ten categories of extension that remove a repeated action, the four categories that quietly create work, and a rule for telling them apart before you install.
ToolNest Editorial4 min read
Most note apps optimise for capture. Very few help you find the thought again six months later. Here is what separates them.
ToolNest Editorial4 min read
A practical method for finding what to automate, choosing where to build it, and knowing when automation costs more than the task did.
ToolNest Editorial4 min read
The version in the productivity books assigns every hour and collapses the first time something unexpected happens. A much looser version — two or three blocks a day and slack for everything else — is the one people are still running months later.
ToolNest Editorial3 min read
Publishing weekly is a queueing problem, not a writing problem. Five stages, two checkpoints, one buffer — and the reason a three-week pipeline ships more than a one-week sprint.
ToolNest Editorial4 min read
Going async is usually described as fewer meetings. In practice it is a writing problem, a decision-making problem, and only incidentally a calendar problem.
ToolNest Editorial4 min read
