Articles tagged: Productivity

Proton

MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW

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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

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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.

Perplexity

MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW

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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

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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.

FocusmatevsFlow ClubvsFLOWN+1

ZARA HENLEY · COMPARISON

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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

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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.

TiimovsStructured

ZARA HENLEY · COMPARISON

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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.

GrammarlyvsChatGPT

MARCUS WEBB · COMPARISON

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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

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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

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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.