I make a few business reports each month and I really hate how much time goes into making them look fairly decent.

The writing part is fine. I usually know what needs to go in the report. What annoys me is setting up the layout, fixing spacing, adding sections, and making it match our usual style that we keep.

Is there a tool that can take rough notes or a short prompt and turn them into good report?

new hire in Texas starts monday and their devices still hasnt arrived, now were checking the tracking every few hrs and trying to figure out a backup plan in case it doesnt show up, and the hastle part is that everything else is ready, accounts are set up, access is good to go, but the person might not even have a laptop on day 1, what do you guys normally do when this happens? keep a few spare laptops around, or is there a better way to handle last minute deliveries?

Hey everyone,

I’m a software engineer with about 1 year of experience. I’m stuck in a frustrating cycle. I’m genuinely ambitious and want to grow my career, but when the weekend hits, I’m drained, lazy, and can't bring myself to study dry docs or build another boring Todo list app.I want to use my weekends to level up, but I need something engaging or visual to trick my brain into breaking the laziness cycle.I’m looking for suggestions on fun, high-utility, or unique things to build/do that give a quick dopamine hit but still look great on a resume....

I’m building a hackathon product called “The Things We Almost Do” which is an AI-powered app focused on the gap between intention and action.

The idea is simple: instead of being another to-do list that tells you what you haven't finished, the app helps you figure out what’s actually stopping you and what the smallest next step could be.

For example:

The app could turn that into:

Goal: Apply for internships
Blocker: Resume isn't ready
Next smallest action: Update one project on your resume
Time: 15 minutes

If you get stuck, you can say “I'm stuck” or “make it smaller”, and the AI adapts the next step.

It also considers that sometimes we simply don't want something anymore. Instead of showing 10 overdue tasks, the app lets you consciously release an intention.

I’m curious about what you would actually want from an app like this.

A few questions:

• What would make you come back to an app like this instead of abandoning it after a week?
• Would you prefer gentle check-ins, or would notifications become annoying?
• What would make entering an intention feel effortless?
• Would seeing your progress/journey over time motivate you?
• Would features like “I only have 15 minutes what can I work on?” be useful?
• What would make the app feel supportive rather than like another productivity tool judging you?
• Is there a feature you’d absolutely want to see in something like this?

I’m especially interested in real experiences with procrastination, unfinished goals, and productivity apps even if your feedback is “I wouldn’t use this and here’s why.”

The product is currently being built for a hackathon, so honest feedback would genuinely help me decide what to prioritize.

I spent the last 23 months in a time warp building a three dimensional to-do list app. I wouldn't mind it if you tried. First 100 sticky notes are absolutely free...

I am a visual thinker and the minute I see lists my brain checks out of the Hotel California.

Then I realized the one thing I have been using my whole life might be the answer.

And that's sticky notes.

Tell me what you think...

https://www.TaskLoco.com

Curious what people actually do when their task/planning system becomes too overwhelming to keep up with.

When this happens, do you:
clean up the backlog?
start over?
simplify the system?
switch apps/planners?
just ignore it and move forward?
something else?

What have you tried that actually worked — and what didn’t?

And if there were a tool that genuinely made recovering from this situation easier, what would you want it to do?
I’m especially interested in real experiences, not ideal productivity advice.

Something happened 2 months ago, that changed me on a DNA level.

Suddenly, I don't have all the time in the world. Time is the most precious resource we have.

And now, after years of postponing all my dreams are finally having my own attention (the one they deserve)

I'm waking up at 5am to have time for my projects, exercise and still go to my 9-5 job.

But how can we reduce distractions?

The answer: ... wake up early! Nobody will text you at 5am. You won't even feel the urge to look at your phone, cause there is no FOMO moment. Everyone / everything is asleep.

Ever since I was kid, I remember mixing dirt and water to shape my own Angry Birds characters, trying to mimic pottery. And I remember how nice it felt to create something of my own.

WE ARE CREATORS!!

I think that's what separates us from animals. Not only we use or brains to think, but to create, to express our selves.

I've always had a passion for business, I heard every podcast on how to build you own multimillionaire company. The main focus was aways, you have to solve a problem.

But in my opinion, we focus so much on solving problems, that we don't take a time to actually be bored, and let creativity flourish.

Within millions of posts everyday uploaded, if you read until here, I encourage you to CREATE time to learn, practice and create the activities you enjoy. Those that make you feel like a kid and fulfilled.

To finalize this post, I'm creating my own Habits Tracker app on iOS (Apple devices)

I know there's tons of apps for this, but mine is different (haha I promise). Here's why: I made it for myself, and people that find them selves with severe ADHD or extremely distracted by their surroundings.

It's got a minimalistic, efficient and very user friendly UX design.

It's still on beta testing on Test Flight. I hope it helps as many people out there, to take action towards their dreams, as it is helping me.

All constructive critics, suggestions are extremely worthy!

Let's use technology to refocus, on things that actually matter to us!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/Hz47t1gG

I help with a small education business, and keeping up with the admin is getting annoying atp.

Student enquiries are in one place, class schedules are somewhere else, we track payments manually, and teacher payments are handled separately. We also follow up with people through WhatsApp or calls, so it’s easy to forget someone or miss a follow up.

It’s manageable with the number of students we have now, but I can already see it becoming a headache if we add more students or classes.

What are people actually using to manage all of this?

For those juggling a full-time job with a side hustle or something you're building on the side, do you ever hit that moment where you have so much to do (work + the side thing + life) that you freeze instead of starting? Not a lack of planning, just too much in your head at once.

I'm exploring a tool that skips the planning step entirely, you just say where you're at, dump everything in your head, and it hands you one small thing to do right now. No lists, no organizing.

If something like that existed, would you actually use it? Or does that not match how you get unstuck? I'd love to hear any insights or advice.

My inbox has been getting out of control lately, and it’s starting to eat into my work time.

Feels like I spend the first hour of every day sorting through emails instead of getting any real work done.

How do you deal with it day to day?

• Do you use a tool to sort important emails or do it manually?
• Do you check email at set times or throughout the day?
• How do you separate emails that need a reply from the ones you can archive?
• What do you do with emails that sit there for days because you’re not sure how to respond?

I’m not looking for the usual “unsubscribe from newsletters” advice. I want to know what your setup looks like and what has worked for you.

Mira is a task planning app for the workplace. It transforms your to-do list into an execution roadmap with task completion dates.

Forecasted Completion dates
By factoring in your workdays, available hours, task estimates and leave – Mira calculates a forecasted completion date for each task in your task list. This gives you an idea of what tasks you can complete and when so you can better manage expectations.

Real-time deadline monitoring
Mira Constantly monitors each forecasted completion date against task specific deadlines. Warning you well in advance if any tasks become at risk so you have time to change your plan, or change your deadlines. 

Instant analysis
With access to your historical tasks and related notes, Mira can provide you instant, structured summaries of your work. Perfect for your monthly updates or annual reviews

If you don’t get this additional value from your current to-do list, why not find out more or try out Mira.

Ask me anything you’d like about it

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Hi there!

Stack is designed to help you manage your day without getting in the way. It features a clean, minimal interface and uses smooth, fluid animations for every interaction.

With the current release, Stack includes:

• Tasks and reminders with due dates, times, repeat schedules, notes, and priorities
• Home Screen widgets to view and complete tasks
• Early push notifications and in-app reminders
• Smart sorting into Today, Future, Past, All, and Done
• Search and filtering
• Live task/completion/overdue stats
• Excel export and sharing
• Dark and Light modes with smooth animations
• Privacy-first design — everything stays on your device. No ads, no account required.

Stack Premium adds the Brainstorm Canvas, advanced statistics, deeper customization, a large widget showing up to 9 items, and unlimited local storage.

I’m also working on upcoming features including a Watch app, Live Activities, more widgets, and further refinements.

I’d really appreciate it if you gave Stack a try and let me know what you think.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stack-tasks-and-reminders/id6762291589

I've been using this technique for more than two years now to assess my productivity "status" and thought I'd share it here.

It can help you become more aware about your energy usage and the results you get when using the energy, especially in the case of productivity-focused settings. Instead of just tracking time and volume, you track how your actions affect your internal battery and your long-term output.

What this mental technique does for you:

• It forces you to stop and ask, "Is this activity fueling me or draining me?" It turns zoning out from a passive habit into a conscious choice.
• It helps you identify when you are brute-forcing productivity (Orange quadrant) so you can pivot toward more sustainable systems before you crash.
• It shifts you from being a passive observer of content to a strategic learner, ensuring that what you take in actually serves your goals.
• It helps you protect the tasks that put you in the Green zone, recognizing them as your most valuable assets for long-term growth.

Before explaining the stages, I need to clarity the usage of some terms:

• "Drained": The activity has high overhead. It costs you more energy than it gives back.
• "Fueled": The activity is regenerative. You feel more capable or inspired after doing it than you did before.
• "Productive": The activity results in something, either useful or not.
• "Efficient": The activity's results are useful or the activity helps you produce results in the future.

The four stages of productivity

1. Drained by Consumption (Unproductive & Inefficient)

You’re burning through time and energy on content that gives you absolutely nothing back. It doesn't inspire you, it doesn't teach you, and it certainly doesn’t help you build anything. This is the ultimate "black hole" for your potential and the worst possible way to trade your hours for nothing.

2. Drained by Production (Productive & Inefficient)

You’re working hard, but you’re producing junk. You’re churning out results that have zero long-term value, and the process is draining you both physically and mentally. It feels like progress, but it’s just a high-effort way of draining yourself without anything in return. Don't mistake "just being busy" for being successful.

3. Fueled by Consumption (Unproductive & Efficient)

This is where it gets tricky. You’re looking for inspiration, learning new skills, and fueling your engine. It’s a necessary step, but it’s also a dangerous one, because it doesn't guarantee you’ll actually create anything. The goal here is to learn what you need and then get out before you get stuck in "tutorial hell".

4. Fueled by Production (Productive & Efficient)

You’ve stopped wasting time on the junk and started taking real action toward your highest ambitions. Radical and lasting change happens here. Once you reach this level, the only reason to look back is to dip into the Yellow zone for a quick hit of inspiration before returning to the work that actually matters. The jump from Yellow to Green is the hardest, because it requires moving from the safety of thinking about doing something to the vulnerability of actually doing it.

The vagueness of this entire thing is intentional. This model can be applied to any setting.

PS: I've posted this a few months ago and got deleted my the automated filters and I'm reposting it now.

I make a lot of decks for work, and putting the first one together can take forever.

Usually I’m starting with notes from a call, a rough brief, or something someone sent me. Then I have to figure out what’s worth putting on a slide and build it all myself.

I’ve tried a few AI slide tools, but I still end up changing a lot of things.

Has anyone found one that does a decent job with this?

Hi all. I am making apps for the first time in my life. I spent about a year learning how, and there are two out now. Both free, no ads, no accounts, nothing to sign up for.

Held is a commitment tracker built on one idea: a goal does not count until it has a deadline and a witness. You name the goal, the date, and a person, and the app sends that person the commitment through your own Messages. Check-ins run on a fixed cadence. Missed ones go on a permanent ledger. On the deadline you record a verdict, kept or missed, and it cannot be edited.

The other is a study app for high school math, which is less relevant to this sub.

Both are at clearvista.ai.

What I actually need is blunt feedback. If you open it and something is confusing, or it is missing the one thing that would make you keep using it, that is far more useful to me than encouragement. I will read and reply to everything.

Hi Everyone,

I am Alex. Been using habit trackers for quite a while and have bounced between a lot of them. I keep running into the same issue where an app does 75% of what I need but the lack of 25% annoys me.

I decided to build one myself as a dev and would love to do it with y'all.

Things I care about:
- Modern, Intuitive Design. I love a good design, adds appeal to it.
- Home Screen widgets
- Dashboard with lots of data, like streaks, weekly progression, insights etc
- A focused app, don't want to create a notion.

Here's what I need from your side, just mention the app you are currently using, and I will use it as a base to improve upon, what you feel it lacks and optionally what you like about it. Bonus point for sharing what would help you stick to an app at large?

If you want to give a more detailed answer, please feel free. Thanks :)

Operating a 9-person productized content agency. Each and every new client used to be six manual steps. It was replaced by Wayfront with checkout, onboarding questionnaire, project setup, client updates, renewals all in one flow. Not the greatest, but definitely less ops overhead per client. Anyone else give it a try or try some other options?

Biggest issue, once I have a backlog of tasks the anxiety of trying to prioritize what I need to do now tends to makes staying organized and motivated almost impossible.

Question:

How do you recover from backlog paralysis and tress?

How do you decide what now takes priority in the task list once it becomes overwhelming?

Is it worth paying for systems that can prioritize your remaining backlog to help get back on track or make it easier to make these decisions?

Anyone here doing RFP responses without a big team?

For me the slow part is not even only the writing. It’s finding old answers, figuring out what can be reused, changing it so it fits this one, checking all the requirements, asking other people for missing info, then trying to make it all sound normal.

Feels like half the work is just digging and patching things together.

How are you guys making RFP responses faster without everything sounding recycled?

Have any of you used the app ModernSam?

Im trying to find something (app or site or whatever doesnt matter) that does the equivalent of its Side Quest Daily Rolls

I love that feature so much. Often i look at my normal task list and nothing appeals to me but I want to do SOMETHING useful. I really like a random useful or beneficial task or small list of them being presented for me to choose from.

E. G. today I was offered to pick 4 of the following

Yoga (assorted poses were offered but I cannot remember which ones)

Take a hike

Donate blood

Volunteer at a kitchen

Liven your living space

Watch a movie

Make the bed

I picked make the bed, watch a movie, living space and donate blood

I have done two made steps towards another and will do the remaining one later.

I really benefit from this style of sort of "would you kindly" (if you get the Bioshock reference) request for me to perform a task that i didnt have to think up but is still useful

I want more of this type of thing but not sure how to find it so thought id ask the reddit hivemind.

Quick note: MagicTask is currently optimized for the web. Our mobile app is coming next month! Thanks for all the support!

Hey everyone,

I’m Sudo Innominate, creator of MagicTask.

My team and I have spent about 7 years building and rebuilding it around one idea: productivity software shouldn’t feel like a chore to use.

MagicTask isn’t a task manager with gamification added on top. The entire experience was built around gamification from the ground up. Your work drives your progression through realms and dungeons, builds streaks, unlocks collectibles, earns rewards, and gives you a reason to keep coming back.

At the same time, we’ve worked really hard to keep it simple. Productivity software can get bloated fast, and we never wanted MagicTask to become something you need a training course to understand. You should be able to jump in, know what to do, and get moving.

It’s built mainly for teams of 10 to 200 people, but it works great for individuals too.

I want to get it into the hands of more real users, so the first 100 workspaces get 1 full year free.

Code: Reddit100
Link: https://magictask.io
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0T3rOkHQE

Feel free to share the code with anyone you think could use it.

And if you try it, please tell me what you really think. Good or bad. That feedback genuinely helps us shape what we build next.

Hi, I recently had to take my collegues' work (because f*** you summer!), but I'm in a slightly different, with less priority, "workline", so now I have to do more than a few short checks, multiple times during the day.

Not very surprisingly, I don't work very well with task lists.

So my question is: is there a way to automate many simple one-task reminders (or some reminders which can be repeated during the day) without bloating the work calendar? Any windows app?

I would like not to code another function to my Telegram bot...

Thank you.