Articles tagged: Productivity
ZARA HENLEY · REVIEW
Lunatask Review for ADHD: The All-in-One App That Knows Your Tasks and Your Mood
Lunatask puts tasks, habits, a mood tracker and a journal in one encrypted app, and most of it is free. Here is what that combination does well for neurodivergent brains, where it can overwhelm, and how to get 20% off Premium.
ZARA HENLEY · REVIEW
Hey Pocket Review for ADHD: One Button Fixes Capture. The App Has One Rough Edge.
Hey Pocket clips to the back of your phone and records with a single press, which solves the forgetting-to-start problem better than any app. The software is good too, with one bug worth knowing about before you rely on it.
ZARA HENLEY · REVIEW
FLOWN Review: The Body Doubling Tool That Treats Burnout as Part of the Problem
Most focus tools assume the hard part is starting. FLOWN builds recovery into the day itself. A 30-day trial review, including who it is wrong for.
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ZARA HENLEY · COMPARISON
FLOWN vs Focusmate: The Real Difference Is Not Price, It Is What Happens Between Sessions
Both pair you with other people to get things done. FLOWN builds recovery into the day. Focusmate gets out of your way. After using both, here is which brain fits which format.
ZARA HENLEY · COMPARISON
Tiimo vs Sunsama: These Solve Two Different ADHD Problems, Not the Same One
Roundups list these as competing daily planners. They are not really competing. One helps you feel time passing. The other stops you promising more than a day can hold. Most people need one, not both, and it depends which failure is actually yours.
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Best AI Note-Takers for ADHD: I Tested a Physical Recorder, a No-Bot App, and Two Transcribers
Hey Pocket clips to your phone. Granola captures without a bot. Otter sends a robot to your meetings. Each solves a different ADHD problem. Here is how to pick the right one.
ZARA HENLEY · COMPARISON
Structured vs Sunsama: One Removes Decisions, the Other Asks You to Make Them Every Morning
Structured gives you a blank timeline and gets out of the way. Sunsama walks you through a planning ritual every single day. The one that sounds more supportive is not automatically the one that works.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
Is Miro Worth It If You Work Alone? 30 Days of Using a Team Tool Solo
Miro has 90 million users and is built for teams. After 30 days using it as a solo professional, the parts that work alone are not the parts the marketing leads with.
MARCUS WEBB · COMPARISON
Merlin vs ChatGPT: Do You Actually Need an AI Browser Extension?
Merlin brings AI to any browser tab. ChatGPT is already a tab. A Reality Check on whether an extension that wraps AI tools is solving a problem worth solving.
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Wispr Flow vs Apple Dictation: Is Context-Aware AI Dictation Worth $15 a Month?
Apple Dictation is free, built in, and does exactly what it says. Wispr Flow costs $15 a month and does something genuinely different. The question is whether that difference is worth the subscription.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
What Privacy Actually Costs: Proton's Suite After 90 Days of Professional Use
Proton bundles encrypted mail, VPN, storage and passwords for the price of one competitor's password manager. The maths works. The gap in the encryption promise is the part worth knowing first.
ZARA HENLEY · ROUNDUP
Best Visual Timers for ADHD Adults: Why the Physical One Beats the App
Your phone has a timer. It also has everything else. Physical visual timers work because they show you time without offering you an escape from it.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
Is Perplexity Pro Still Worth $20 a Month? A Reality Check After the Quiet Throttling
Perplexity Pro was the easy AI subscription recommendation. Then the limits quietly changed. What Pro actually gets you in 2026, what happened in May, and who should still pay.
NICO STRAND · GUIDE
I Built Karpathy's AI Second Brain With Obsidian and Claude Code: Here's Exactly How
Andrej Karpathy says your second brain should be written by an LLM, not by you. A non-developer's real attempt at building the LLM Wiki pattern, including where it got weird.
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Best Body Doubling Apps for ADHD: Focusmate vs Flow Club vs FLOWN, Honestly Compared
Body doubling is the ADHD strategy that feels like cheating. I tested the three biggest platforms to find out which format fits which brain, and what the free options are actually worth.
ZARA HENLEY · ROUNDUP
The Best Planner Apps for Inattentive ADHD: What Survived 30 Days With My Brain
Most planner recommendations assume hyperactive-type ADHD. Inattentive brains need different things. Here's what actually stuck after testing the popular options.
ZARA HENLEY · COMPARISON
Tiimo vs Structured for ADHD: I Used Both for 30 Days and They Are Not the Same App
Tiimo and Structured look like twins in screenshots. After 30 days with each, the differences matter a lot for ADHD brains. Here's which one fits which brain.
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Grammarly vs ChatGPT for Professional Writing: You Are Probably Paying for the Wrong One
One is an editor, one is a writer, and most professionals subscribe to both while needing one. A 60-day comparison of what each tool actually does to your writing.
NICO STRAND · GUIDE
How to Build Your First Automation Without Coding: A Real Example That Saves Me an Hour a Week
A genuine beginner's walkthrough of building a useful automation with no code: what tool to use, the actual steps, where it breaks, and what it really costs.
MARCUS WEBB · GUIDE
Which AI Model Should You Actually Use? A Working Professional's Guide
GPT, Claude, Gemini, reasoning models, mini models. A practical framework for choosing the right AI model for each task, without the benchmark obsession.