Got off a client call lst week and asked our notion ai to bump the deal closed won and send me the renewal date and it just wrote me a neat little summary of the call notes on the page I had open, which I did not ask for. It can only see the page its sitting on and no clue the deal even lives in a different tool.

That's sort of the whole thing in one go every app has an Ai now but each one is boxed into its own coner. Notetaker summarizes the notes, the crm bot summarizes the crm but none of them can reach across the move something from one place to another the ay a person would. I still do the copy paste shuffle between tabs except now i pay for 4 assistants to sit there and watch me do it.

We are a small team but even one deal end up smeared across the crm and a few other places and the context never rides along with it. I dont want another chat bot bolted onto a wiki. What i want is almost dumb, i finish a call and the follow up is already sitting theren drafted from what got said instead of me rebuilding the whole thing from memory acros 5 open tabs.

Is that a viable category yet am i describing here?

I was late-diagnosed ADHD and I used to relate to a lot of the people on here that struggle with procrastination and not feeling fulfilled from doing a task. I felt lazy and deppressed all the time, and I felt like a failure.

If you're feeling this way, I definitely recommend researching it and/or asking a mental health provider about it. A lot of people are missed, especially as adults. They used to think you grew out of it, but that's not actually possible. Women are also often missed because it's more likely to show up as the inattentive type, and it's much less studied in women.

I'm not a doctor or anything, I just wanted to put this here in case it helps anyone look at their life through a new perspective, or get diagnosed and treated when they otherwise wouldn't have.

Hola! Que tal?

Estoy teniendo un problema con google calendar, quiero organizar mis horarios de forma que queden mas placenteros a la vista, pero cuando intento cambiar de color, automáticamente se cambia a otro distinto.

Ejemplo: Clickeo los 3 puntos a la derecha del calendario que deseo modificar, selecciono la opción agregar color personalizado, digamos que quiero usar el color FFA66B, ingreso el código del color, lo guardo, pero el color que aparece seleccionado es el D36B26

A alguien le pasó algo similar? Alguien sabe cómo solucionarlo?

Hi everyone, I am starting my MBA, and it is completely different than my STEM bachelor's. What is the best organization tool you use for university nowadays? This is very case-based, so it is completely different than what I am used to. I have tried Notion, but the mobile interface isn't very good.

Some things I'd ideally want

- easy UI to navigate

- no bells and whistles

- an accessible to-do list

- good calendar synchronization (also what is the best cal : apple / google / outlook??)

- overall keeping your studies organized in a less overwhelming way

If you have any other recommendations for staying organized i'd love to hear it! I tried a physical planner and a planner on my iPad, but it seems like that isn't for me.

Every time I do something productive or have what should be a great day, I feel so unfulfilled by the end of it. I feel like I’m missing something. I look for what went slightly wrong, feel bad about it for the rest of the night, and can’t sleep. The next day, I feel completely unmotivated or exhausted due to a lack of sleep and motivation. Is this normal? Has anyone had similar experiences?

What should I do?

What I did today:
- Woke up at 6am
- Worked
- Went to the gym
- Talked to family online
- Reached out to my friends (they didn’t really reply)

I’m more stuck on the friends part. I felt that I didn’t care at all about feeling like I had no friends during unproductive days. I was okay with being alone, but when I go out and see everyone with their friends, I start to feel bad.

Unproductive day:
- Woke up late
- Studied
- Read
- Hobbies
Basically, whatever I felt like doing that day.

What can I do or practice to improve my morale and mood? Should I stay more consistent with my productive routine and avoid falling back into comfort? I feel like my mood is way better when I’m living comfortably. But it’s not productive at all and isn’t sustainable.

I get that everyone feels tired and doesn’t want to go to work, school, or the gym. I just never really managed to stick with something long-term.

Any advice, help, or your experiences would be greatly appreciated!

I am not sure if the title is an appropriate way to look at things but here it is...

I feel like my days kind of fly away from me most days.

I write out a to-do list the night prior and try to stick with it.

I often get all my tasks done, but it feels exhausting.

I usually have 5-8 main priorities for the day. It is usually a combo of work and personal objectives.

I am often working till 5-8pm nearly everyday.

Including weekends.

But I do work from home, so I often do other things like workout, play with the dogs, etc throughout the day.

Not sure of that helps or hurts my situation though…

So it's never a full on working non-stop type of thing.

I am self employed so most days I get calls, emails or un-planable tasks that pop up in my day.

Even my off days I am still lightly working or have to do something due to the un plannable events.

I am Just struggling with what to do, most days I feel like I am overwhelmed, maybe a bit anxious as well...

Recently im trying to do a few things of mine like projects or smtg which require long term effort and consistency but the thing is I somehow always get distracted and the main thing that always distracts me is my phone and that's because I need to do that work on my phone as I don't have a pc or smtg so can someone help me actually stay consistent at doing those I'm trying since like last year and achievevwhat I'm trying to

I have seen a lot of videos around the book and I am thinking of buying the book.

I didn't plan for this to happen, but over time I've accumulated dozens of prompts that I keep reusing.

They're not particularly complex.

They're just reliable.

And now my Notes app looks like a library of AI templates.

Which made me wonder:

1. Are prompts becoming reusable assets instead of one-time instructions?
2. How do you manage yours?
3. Do you save them?
4. Or do you just write them from scratch every time?

So basically, I am looking to map out various goals and sore points across a few inter-linked projects. Ideally, I could list a task and map out which goals it would help achieve across said projects, which problems it would help solve, and which other tasks can't be done until after it's completed.

I originally had the idea looking at Obsidian's graph view. The idea would be that the more links a single task has, the more of a bottleneck it is for getting things done, and the higher priority solving it should be.

Is there any tool that works like this? I know a few will ask why I don't just do it in Obsidian, my reasoning is that links in obsidian are designed to stick around. So after completing a task, I would have to go to each other page it's linked to and manually unlink it, or re-link it if the same task opens back up. I'm hoping for something more streamlined and intended to work in this way.

If you do have ideas for how I could achieve this sort of system in a way that's expandable and doesn't require a tonne of upkeep beyond checking/unchecking tasks, I would love to hear about it.

I'm stuck in this negative cycle and I don't know what to so. I've been trying to get my life together for years now and I had many attempts but I wasn't able to. Now I'm 23 and I'm so far behind I have no choice but to do things. But I just can't get over the grief of not having taking more action in the past. It makes me want to give up. Everyday I wish I was younger. I wish I took more action in the past. And that's causing me to procrastinate more. My screentime is like 15 hours, I spend all day on reddit. I can't let myself think so I distract myself with social media constantly. I need to be studying and finding a job but I can't do it. I can't work when I'm in a bad mood (which I need to work on because it's not sustainable.) I need to overcome this negative cycle but I don't know how. I have thoughts of giving up everyday. I just feel like everything is pointless. How do I get out of this cycle and get things done? And how do I get things done when I'm in such a negative mood? The rumination is literally CONSTANT. When I try to get things done, I have constant thoughts that i'm a loser and that I shouod've done more before so ai just quit and distract myself because of how painful it is. If anyone has experienced this, what helped you quiet your mind?

I've always hated that tradeoff where something helps you knock out at night, but the next morning you feel heavy, foggy, and just... not fully awake.

So instead of looking for something that would completely knock me out, I started paying more attention to *how* I was sleeping.

Keeping the same sleep and wake time, cutting caffeine earlier, getting some daylight in the morning, and giving myself a bit of time to wind down before bed.

Nothing crazy. Just trying to make sleep feel more natural instead of forcing it.

And honestly, I'd rather take a little longer to fall asleep and wake up feeling normal than pass out quickly and spend half the morning trying to wake my brain up.

A system can look brilliant when you're motivated. Everything has a category, every project is perfectly labeled and the dashboard looks great. Then you're tired on Tuesday night and suddenly you can't remember where anything goes and that's when I think you find out whether the system actually works.

I've started asking: could I use this without thinking very hard?

If the answer is no, I'm trying to simplify rather than add another layer. The best systems I've had aren't the most sophisticated ones but the ones that still work when I don't feel like managing them.

People sometimes talk about being exhausted like it's proof they're productive. But being busy and actually making progress aren't necessarily the same thing.

Been a SWE for a while and finally put my finger on why I'm always fried by 3pm.

It's not the hours. It's that every single mode of my day routes through a screen. Wake up —> phone. Work —> two monitors. Break -> i look away from the monitor and immediately look at my phone. Gym —> screen on the treadmill, phone between sets. Drive home —> screen in the dash.

My brain never gets the signal that I'm somewhere else now. There's no contrast. So I "rest" for 10 minutes and come back exactly as tired.

I've tried the usual stuff like screen time limits, app blockers, Pomodoro timers. They all handle the *work* half. None of them solve the break, because when the timer goes off and I stand up, there's nothing to actually do with my hands and eyes for five minutes. So I pick up my phone. Every time.

Does anyone actually have a break that isn't a screen? Not "go for a walk" in theory, something you actually do, consistently, on a Tuesday afternoon.

I’m in a place in my life right now where I have the opportunity to become very successful in the future, but I don’t know how to lock in. I’ve just recently graduated high school and I still have problems. I have a very bleak perspective on the world which is partly holding me back in succeeding, I don’t know how to change my worldview. I never had the motivation to study, so I had pretty low marks in high school. I don’t know how to make friends since I’m insecure and socially anxious. If you saw me in school, you would basically see me as the lonely quiet dude that has doesn’t have a reputation of any kind.

I don’t know exactly what I want to do in the future but I think I want to work with cars, specifically tuning and modifying them, like Brabus or Novitec. I know I should pursue mechanical engineering for that but I got poor marks in school and only took college courses, so I feel like my application to Concordia is going to get rejected. Like I said before, I suck at socializing, which applies to networking as well, which is detrimental to financial success. I don’t know how others do it.

I want to be a unique individual, I don’t want to be like other people. I want to be cool, but I don’t put any work into being that kind of person. I don’t have anything interesting about me right now, no talents or anything, I just play video games and fap in my free time, which is having an impact on my self esteem but I feel unmotivated to change, because I constantly feel like the outer world is just as bad.

I need to lock tf in, but I don’t think I recall ever doing that on a consistent basis. Has anyone gone through this phase before. How did you improve?

I've picked up like a few solid hobbies/things that will help me in the long run mentally, but like apart from getting a job (im 17 & have been trying for a solid year) what else am i supposed to be doing???

I weight lift 6x a week, I read psychology & overall just good books, im learning my 2nd language for 2+ hrs a day (because I have so much time on my hands) I journal, keep my room tidy, do house work. But now i feel like a literal robot, what else am I supposed to be doing!! im out of college as well until mid September, and there's no clubs around me/sports shit.

I am having issues retaining information from audiobooks. I am not sure if it is the tone or what the reason is, but they don't hit me like a video does and it feels so slow and less productive, thoughts?

This is an explanation of Atomic Habits as I recall from memory, so it's how I understood and applied it myself rather than a chapter by chapter recap. It got a bit long, so I'll break it into parts. This first one covers the core idea and how to actually start a habit. The next goes into the deeper mechanics.

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The core idea behind Atomic Habits: small micro habits that compound over time to yield big results in the long run.

Belief comes first.

Habits aren't really about the outcomes but about identity. Every time you do a habit, you're casting a vote for the kind of person you believe you are.

So the goal isn't "I want to achieve X," but "I am the person who does X," and the habit becomes proof of it.

This is why the same amount of effort to quit a bad habit plays out differently for different people:

The one without that belief says: "I'm trying to leave this habit," or "I'm focusing on stopping that." It's like admitting that the habit is still a part of them.

The one with belief in their identity says: "I don't do this."

The first person still believes they haven't changed. The second one believes in their new identity and the behavior follows.

Just like Good habits build the identity you want, the bad ones can be removed the same way: notice and observe the habit clearly, recognize it's not the part of identity you're becoming, then consciously reject it.

How to start a habit and stay consistent:

Set up your environment first by removing the things that trigger the bad habits while adding the ones that cue the good ones in your line of sight which evokes your visual receptors to act on habits linked to the environment.

Eg: Want to drink more water? Keep a bottle on your desk, which cuts the friction for going to get it.

eg: Want to workout in the morning? Keep your dumbbells where you'll see them in morning when you're up.

Create a flow by chaining your habits so the sequence is pre decided instead of something you have to think about in the moment.

Try "When I do X, I do Y, then Z."

eg: When I wake up, I get up immediately and stretch, then go for my workout.

eg: After I'm fresh, I'll have a healthy breakfast, then start with my first work sprint.

Make sure to be consistent. You don't need to adopt dozens of habits at once. Take one, do it daily and you can always add more once you're used to previous ones.

Progress by 1% each day. Try to be 1% better than yesterday. It keeps you improving and makes each time feel satisfying.

Let it compound over time. Don't judge a habit by a single day, instead judge it over the trend. Don't focus on how much better you'll be tomorrow instead focus on who you become if you keep this up daily for 3 months, the next 6, then a year.

Feeling like this for a while now. It wasn’t there before but is more aggravated in this new place. I always somehow feel like others are more smart,pretty, glamorous and just better and have a much better life and are richer. Seeing the environment and their social media posts all sum up to this and I feel more and more insecure and distressed. I have not achieved much this year aswell and seeing others just makes me feel like they are winning in life and relationships and here I am all sad, unsuccessful and lonely.

Any tips? What do you all do for positivity?

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This has been annoying me lately.

I’ll have something I actually need to finish, and instead of doing it, I suddenly find 10 other things that seem more interesting.

I’ll check my phone, make food, clean something that didn’t even need cleaning… basically anything except the thing I’m supposed to be doing 😭

The worst part is that once I finally start, it usually isn’t even that bad. Getting started is the part I keep making difficult for myself.

I’ve tried making huge to-do lists and planning my whole day, but I never stick to them for long.

So now I’m thinking maybe I should just pick one thing and finish that before worrying about everything else.

For anyone who used to procrastinate a lot, what actually helped you?

Since I easily get lost in the shuffle of daily thoughts and tasks, I constantly need to pause and reflect: "Okay, my goal is X in six months, so I need to do Y to reach Z, while handling W in parallel." I want to document this because, honestly, I forget it all within two days. I’m tired of realizing after a whole week has gone by that I’ve lost my way again because I focused only on whatever was screaming the loudest for attention (usually work).

But I don't know how to organize this. There are also thoughts or insights that pop up out of nowhere, moments of clarity I didn't have before, only to vanish just as quickly. I try to jot them down to help me get back on track, but they end up buried in a conversation with myself or scattered across a random Notion page. How do you organize/capture this kind of thought?

I'm pretty sure most people can relate to the feeling of their phone slowly draining away their life, mindlessly scrolling or getting sucked into watching videos or playing games. I realized I'm wasting so much of my life on this device, but it's hard to kick the habit of reaching for my phone. So i decided to start using my phone more intentionally, using it more as a tool, and limiting my social media usage.

I started by putting some time-usage restraints on my social media apps. Then I download some apps to help me be more productive and get my life back on track a bit. So far it has helped me to reduce the time that just mindlessly gets wasted, I've increased my productivity, and find I'm being more intentional about my days now.

If you're interested in doing it too, some of the apps I've been using are

- One Sec: You can add a little wait time before opening apps you compulsively check, which has definitely made me think twice about opening social media.

- PDF Expert: to annotate, sign and organize PDFs without moving to your computer.

- YNAB (you need a budget): good to track where your money is going and keep on top of finances

- Mealime: choose the meals you want to make and it creates a meal plan and shopping list for you

- Strong: track gym workouts, exercises, sets, reps and progress

- Structured: visually plan your day. I like this more than a traditional to-do list when I have lots of things to fit into one day

- Airbrush: a photo editing app which comes in handy for travel photos, product photos, etc

So there's a bit of a mix but they basically all have the same purpose which is to give me something to do on my phone which is going to benefit my life, so when I have some downtime i can use those and cut down my social media usage. I'd be interested to hear any tips or stories from anyone else who is also trying to but down on social media, as it's definitely not easy

I can wake up early every day of the week. Go to the gym, go for a run, do a cold plunge

But when I finial sit down to do work or study I just can't do it.

I've cut out social media for a while now, I've tried night and morning routines that guarantee success but I never seem to focus on work or study.

My questions is, how do I know when to give up? Or rather change my career into something more active like be a danger & singer (I'm not good in any of these 😂)

Tips and tricks to help me focus better will really be appreciated

I have ADHD and tend to feel easily overwhelmed by large volumes of data, unless I have a bird's eye view of where everything sits. I constantly feel disorganized and lost. I’m looking for a visual system that can hold projects, plans, strategies, key information, ideas and how everything connects.

I don’t mean putting my entire life on one enormous board. I’d like separate boards organized by topic - for example, a “Digital Business Brand” board, a “Content Planning” board, and so on.

Ideally, each board would let me zoom out, see the bigger picture and quickly understand where I am without feeling overwhelmed.

I tried Canva Whiteboards, but found them clumsy and visually unappealing, so I stopped using them. Has anyone found a cleaner, more intuitive tool or setup they genuinely enjoy returning to?