Productivity

Habit apps or a plain-text ledger? A first-hand comparison of what each one actually records about stalled projects — and which one restarts them.

How to use ChatGPT to change your life: the failure-log loop that let a non-coder ship real software. Format, steps, and the limits, explained.

Notion vs Obsidian vs a plain text ledger. A comparison of the best system to track goals and tasks — judged on one thing: does stalled work start moving again?

How to quit a project without guilt using a 30-day discard review: the weekly checklist, the keep/discard line, and why most surfaced items get dropped.

Index notes by symptom, not topic. A practical method for organizing notes so you can find them at the moment you need them, with a before/after index table.

You don’t lack discipline — you lack a cap on starts. A backup scan surfaced 41 abandoned tasks. Here is the 2-item rule that fixed it, step by step.

The two-task rule caps started work at two items per project. Why a work in progress limit beats any to-do list, with the exact intake question to use.

Why your notes app never gets reopened, and how to take notes that you actually use: index every note by the symptom you feel, not by its topic.

How to build a personal knowledge system that actually gets searched: index every note by the symptom you had, not the topic it belongs to. With before/after examples.

A beginner’s system for how to be productive when learning a new skill: ship something real, log every failure, and turn the log into a reusable checklist.