New Planner App, More Setups & AI Productivity

We’re excited to be working on some better ways to consume this routine newsletter. Each week, we’ll be refining this even further to help you find the best tools for work & life.

New Planner App: LifeAt

This week, we explore tool LifeAt as a daily planner app alternative to the likes of Akiflow, Sunsama and Motion. This take is exploring their focus workspaces features and their area to plan the week ahead and beyond.

Lindie Botes’s Productivity Tools

Polyglot and language coach Lindie uses a range of productivity tools. Here’s her perfect productivity setup that she speaks about in more detail.

Navigating Productivity AI

One of the most difficult topics in AI to navigate right now.

This is a huge buzzword thrown around in the space a lot and one that doesn’t really have much value for many people until it begins to affect their day-to-day work. Here’s some advice I wanted to share with you as some timelines recommendations for picking and choosing productivity-AI tools.

• The word “AI” can be thrown around a bit

• Take it with a pinch of salt and zoom out - thinking about “how will this impact my day?” — will it increase output and reduce input?

• These questions are important because if the input is more effort for the same output it produces, eg. you have to tinker with it a lot, then is it truly worth it, or even, are you using it in the correct manner?

• Just because a software mentions AI — it doesn’t mean it is fully designed as it says.

• A good example of this, the value of to-do list applications spouting out sub-tasks as part of a task prompt, this isn’t as valuable unless the task is unknown.

• A better use case of AI for task management is something like Structured, that allows you to prompt how your day looks like with a natural language prompt. This is more beneficial.

Mayday Calendar Shuts Down

There’s no coincidences in life. Mayday, a calendar app has been acquired and is shutting down on May 5th. This is a sad one.

Standard Notes Acquired

On the same note, Standard Notes has been acquired by bigger and larger Proton company that will take control of it. A good combination & partnership.