Productivity and focus

Handcrafted Notes | Why Messy Human Ones Beat Generated Ones

Screenshots of raw, typo-laced Markdown are being posted as a badge of honour. What is actually true in that, what is posturing, and how to set up a desk where nothing writes for you.

Low-Stimulation Computing | Dump Everything, Then Do One Card

Task managers ask you to sort a thought before you have finished having it. Separating capture from organising, a board with one card in Doing, and what to do on the days none of it works.

Pay Once Software | How to Cut the Subscription Stack

Digital Brutalism | Stop Decorating Your Notes and Start Writing

Setting up the workspace became the work. The case for the plain page, what it costs, and an honest account of where our own app sits.

Work Offline on Purpose | Two Hours Nobody Can Interrupt

Pulling the plug is the cheapest focus tool there is, and most of us cannot use it because our notes and tasks live in a browser tab.

Notes App Without AI | Write Without a Robot Reading Over You

Why people are switching to notes apps with no assistant at all: the cost of the suggestions, what writing is for, and what a quiet app looks like.