Its for memorizing things. I used it to help pass my Network+ but I wouldn't consider it a daily productivity app unless you're studying for something

100% the right answer. Way more productive than apple’s Calendar

"Google Keep"

Same. I have 1 page in my iPhone and it’s a large Reminders widget with a couple apps like my bank, notes, obsidian, and journal.

All other apps are kept tucked away in the app drawer to prevent distraction. If I want it, I have to go looking for it.

The reminders app is easily my most used app on my phone and watch and ipad. It’s like a futuristic version for sticky notes. You can include pictures and geolocations and sort into lists. Very underrated app

100% anki is decades ahead of any other useful app I’ve ever come across

so it is flashcard app that uses an evidence-based learning called spaced repetition that allows you to maximize the amount of info you can remember while putting in as little time as possible. If you are familiar with the forgetting curve theory it schedules cards to reappear just before you’re likely to forget them, so this does mean it is an app meant to be used daily. There is an r/anki reddit that is helpful to get started. It is very popular among medical students and language learners. Personally it is a lifesaver for me when studying for the mcat.

How do I sync my work outlook with my google or iPhone calendar pls?

This is going to sound weird but; Spotify is probably one of the best productive apps I’ve ever used. Without music, a lot of the work I do wouldn’t have the same “drive“.

if you’re curious, i’ve made a table on google sheets that compares all the popular planners side by side. AI planners really do help once you find one that clicks. Sunsama’s my current fav but everyone’s preferred style is usually pretty different. happy to DM the link or it’s in my profile if you want to check it out.

Can't go wrong with notes app, but there's some really simple ones that have a couple more features that I really like.

Peaknote for example lets me record a voice note, gives me a to-do list and then creates a follow up email, messages, scripts or whatever i need from it.

Once you make yourself a good Notion template - its pretty hard to beat.

Basic programming/scripting skills. They apply across a quite frankly ridiculously vast range of computer interfaces (including many which don't seem at all customizable at first), and allow for the kind of quick improvement of presentation and functionality that rapidly boosts productivity in any task involving reviewing, analyzing, filtering, or translating information/data.

Simply knowing how to script (not even program!) often let me consistently complete daily white-collar workloads in anything from a quarter to a fortieth of the average time taken by others. If you can script a little in Excel, Powershell, and/or Javascript and whatever any major business platform uses, you'll be amazed at how many things you can completely or substantially automate. This in turn can free up enormous chunks of that oh-so-precious resource, free time.

My most useful tool has been pen and paper. I am serious.

Check out super productivity, it's an open source application that is criminally underrated

Todoist

Kind of an anti answer but I have deleted apps off my phone to improve productivity. There's no productive reason to have Instagram, Facebook, reddit apps on your phone and arguably no productive reason to have several productivity apps on the phone. I think the most productive people are on their phones less. Phones are distraction devices. The only productivity app you might use on a phone would be some sort of notepad. So to give a better answer to your question, I've started using a private channel in telegram as a notepad. Every week I take things from this notepad and convert them into to dos on my calendar and then delete the messages. So it's actually replaced an actual notepad app so again, kind of an anti answer. Sorry

Structured. INSANE how productive my day has become. Use Trello and Google Docs to plan out dreams and goals, and break those down into yearly, quarterly, monthly, and weekly plans. Make a daily outline of my day in my notes then use Structured to time block it and I’m simultaneously more productive and have more free time.

I suggest this app, it's ad free and has a lot of modern features. Plus it's simple :D

Notepad

Write down the shit I have to do then click the check mark

it might be Notepad++ (there are several notepad apps for Linux folks I've used.)

Focus blocks! I have ADHD so it’s very hard to stay on a single task for long. Instead, i dedicate a chunk of time (say 45 minutes) and force myself to focus on completing certain tasks. Afterwards, I can take a short break before my next focus block. I keep track of them in an app called Timelines, to be able to look back on how I spend my time.

Tool - Todoist with Google calendar

Habit - Plan your day out the night before realistically. You are much more likely to get it done.

I came here to say the same thing. Pomodoro technique is great for chunks of focus

I have a time log where I note down what I did every 30 mins. I've been maintaining it for a year so I usually know what's realistic for me by now. I have ADHD so time blindness is a real issue which is why I started keeping the log in the first place.

You can use the calendar integration feature in Todoist to integrate Google calendar and Todoist tasks. I have two-way sync enabled so moving around tasks in GCal moves them on Todoist automatically. And adding tasks to Todoist with a specific label/project puts on them my GCal directly.

There are a few different ways to do the integration. What works for me is to have a project X where I put all my tasks that need to show on my GCal. (I don't use the projects feature as intended on Todoist so dumping everything in one project works for me). And any other tasks that I don't want to show on my calendar (eg habits, daily 5 mins stuff, non-important things) go in project Y.

Tool: Caffeine

Habit: Drinking coffee

Todoist!! YASSSSSS I’m glad I’m not the only one using it 😂

I was into this all-in-one things a few years ago, but I changed my mind… I now have 4 apps that I use and every one of those does 1 thing and it does it perfectly well:

• Todoist - task management
• Google Calendar - schedule/time blocking
• Asana - project management
• Apple Notes - notes, thoughts, long-term planning

This turned out to be perfect for me

Notion

It is a great platform for your requirements. It is a one-stop workplace for all your knowledge/information management and in quite capable ways. You get to literally create your own custom system the way you like and use the app for anything from notetaking to project management. It also has a great community and YouTube audience (tutorials and templates that other people have created that you can use for free).

The app is free for personal use.

Given its utility, it will be more convenient to set up your Notion system on a PC because of how complicated you can get things to be. Once created, you can use it on your phone and everything is synced.

Todoist and/or TickTick work well

Haha. That is definitely not an app I would recommend for managing your life.

I fell into a trap where I was constantly looking for new productivity apps instead of actually getting things done. Watch out for that.

In the end I just settled for the stock apps like Notes, Reminders and Calendar for personal use and OneNote for college.

A simple notepad app on my phone to keep goals and short term tasks at hand.

Scheduled task and goal sit downs with myself and nothing else.

I’ve been using Evernote for years to create daily todo lists and a running list of higher action items. However, I’ve moved my todo lists over to to Todoist after getting an Echo dot and found it to be more helpful. This might seem complicated but I use Todoists’s various integrations with services like Slack and Alexa to dump everything I can think of as a Todoist task. Then I use the weekly planner to spread out my stuff into projects and the next seven days.

Then it’s easier for me to limit my tasks using the 321 rule and get stuff done.

Note: 321 rule is where you set up 6 things on your todo list; 1 big item, 2 medium somewhat urgent items and 3 simple, non-urgent tasks.

I’m like you with the post-its. You might want to try Trello. You can move the ‘cards’ (your post-its) into columns too. I label my columns To Do, Doing, Done. I guess you can label yours ‘today’, ‘this week’ and ‘this month’.

I use Forest to block off distractions on my phone and my computer :)

I use Amazing Marvin because it's most things in one app. Let's me plan my schedule and projects, let's me set it up according to which system I want to use (priority matrix, GTD, etc.) by selecting my preferred strategies, let's me time my tasks, and also has a pomodoro timer built in. I like to use the split view with my daily notes on half the page. For a while I was using it in conjunction with a bullet journal, but I've slowly been getting into the habit of just using the notes section in Marvin and I'm finding it more effective for myself.

It's a game changer, my friend. Check it out, particularly if you're like me and dislike have to use a bunch of different apps just to achieve a productivity system that works for you.

I’m a Todoist fan too and have been using it for several years. It’s very versatile but won’t meet all your needs when it comes to productivity. It’s a task app, and it does that very well

For me it’s Trello. Because everything is on it now. But it could have been Notion or another one. Tip: find an app and stick to it. Don’t switch. Switching costs a lot of time. The essential is to deliver. Not to plan.

Amazing Marvin

Apple Reminders. It‘s just super convenient to add items to your to-do-list from your watch or your Homepods.

(I guess Google + WearOS + Nest would be the same killer combo.)

Thing 3 for tasks. Strikes a perfect balance between simplicity and usefulness.

Notion for writing and journaling.

Mindmeister for mindmaps, big picture thinking and things like that.

Notion for planning and literally organizing my life
Zapier for automations that save me time
Cutback for video editing to get rid of grunt work
Arc Browser to save me time juggling tabs while internet browsing
ChatGPT for helping me think about concepts that are difficult to understand and save me time racking through tons of information

Idk if all of these count but that's the stack I can think of rn

There are two for me: Forest - it's a beautiful app blocking tool, I use it every day and Saner - it gives me a daily schedule using info from my emails, todos, calendar

Trello

Raycast on the mac really transformed how I use the mac. It is like spotlight, but 100x better. It replaced lots of other small apps I had and is the first place I go for quick AI questions.

It's hard to explain everything it can do, but I mostly use it for: -

- Creating a hyperkey from the capslock (CTRL+OPTION+CMD+SHIFT) for making a whole new set of keyboard shortcuts

- Shortcuts to open and focus my most used apps. e.g. Hyper+W for webstorm, Hyper+B for browser, Hyper+E for file explorer

- Quick AI questions, just press CMD+Space - type your query then press tab

- Clipboard memory

- Snippets

- Focus mode to block apps and websites

There is so much more functionality I haven't got to yet. It's one of the few apps I'm more than willing to pay for.

The Jolt screentime app - Its an all in one productivity, daily scheduling app and i absolutely love it.
Google calendar - For organizing everything.

OmniFocus, apple calendar, DEVONthink, obsidian, and Zotero. I don’t know what’d I’d do without this combo! All of them sync across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so I have everything with me all the time no matter what I’m doing.

Edited to add Drafts for random small notes that will later get filed in obsidian

It's the best app for centralized management of free floating text based information imo

I have tried a bunch of these too incuding raindro. Deemerge has been the only one that quietly fits into my day without adding extra steps

Drafts on my Mac, iPad, and iPhone. For around 15 years now. Any random thing I want to remember goes in there.

I've used this app multiple times a day for at least 12 years.

Notion

Alfred, Things 3, Keyboard Maestro.