If you’ve spent more than five minutes looking for a project management tool, you’ve run into ClickUp. They market themselves as the “one app to replace them all,” promising to kill off your tabs for Jira, Asana, Notion, and Slack. It sounds like a dream, especially if you’re tired of paying for four different subscriptions … Read more
I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to “re-automate” my life using IFTTT. If you’ve been in the productivity space for a while, you know the name. It’s the elder statesman of the “no-code” world. But after a few years of straying toward more complex tools, coming back to IFTTT felt a bit like visiting … Read more
I’ve gone back and forth between different productivity setups over the years, but somehow I keep ending up on Google Workspace. Not because it’s the strongest in every category — it clearly isn’t — but because it quietly becomes the place where work actually happens. That said, the longer you use it, the more you … Read more
There was a phase where I was actively trying to reduce manual work—copying leads from forms, sending follow-ups, updating sheets. That’s when I started using Automate.io. At that time, it felt like one of those tools that quietly sat in the background and handled things without needing constant attention. You set up a few “bots,” … Read more
I’ve spent the last three years in a complicated relationship with Notion. It started with a single page for a grocery list and spiraled into a massive, interconnected workspace that theoretically manages my entire professional life. But if I’m being honest with you—colleague to colleague—there are days when I want to delete the whole thing … Read more
I’ve spent the last six years staring at a code editor for at least eight hours a day. For a long time, that editor was Sublime Text because it was fast. Then it was Atom because it was pretty (RIP). Now, like almost everyone else in the industry, my dock icon is that blue ribbon … Read more
I’ve spent a lot of time in the “automation rabbit hole.” You start with one simple goal—maybe getting a Slack notification when someone fills out a Typeform—and three hours later, you’re trying to map nested JSON data into a Google Sheet while questioning your life choices. Zapier is usually the first place people land when … Read more