Notesnook gives you notebooks, tags, colors, favorites, and pinning to organize your notes, and you can use any combination of them. That flexibility is one of the reasons I like the app, but it can also feel overwhelming when you are starting out and suddenly have all these options in front of you. After using…

Journaling is one of those things that’s entirely for you. You’re not writing for an audience, not collaborating with anyone, and not trying to optimize a process. You’re just putting down what happened, how you felt about it, or whatever’s been sitting in your head that day. That’s why the app you use ends up…

Google Docs has been part of my workflow for over ten years, and for most of that time, I never touched the settings. I opened documents, typed in them, and shared the link when I was done. The tool did what I needed, and I didn’t think much about whether I was using it well….

I have spent the better part of two years testing productivity apps. Not casually, but properly — switching between note-taking tools, trying different task managers, breaking my own system and rebuilding it more times than I want to admit.  And the one question that kept coming up, both for me and from readers, was always…

Every January, millions of us make resolutions. And every February, most of them are forgotten. Research shows that about 80% of people give up on their resolutions within the first month. Strava studied 800 million activities and found that most people stop trying on January 19th, a day they call “Quitter’s Day.” From my experience…

“Be the person with embarrassing goals and impressive results, instead of one of the many people with impressive goals and embarrassing results.”— Stephen Guise, author of Mini Habits Sound familiar? We’ve all set goals like these. And most of us have watched them quietly disappear after a few weeks. Here’s what usually happens: You start…