| Context: 3x startup founder/CEO, focusing more on impact than constant work - Things (♥) and Reminders for todos (the latter for location based reminders or when I need to use Siri to set them), to put reminders so they are captured - Notes end up in Dropbox Paper (for work), Mac Notes (for home, sharable within, iMessage users), Notion for specific projects - Polymail for inbox zero, on iOS and Desktop (I'm biased, but Superhuman never stuck for me and Gmail isn't as effective, feels distracting and unintentionally designed) - Fantastical for calendar (home, work, although I'd like to break these up more so that I can share them by project/team) - Openphone for throwaway cell phone for orders, 2fa, etc. - Arc for web browser - 1Password both for work and private passwords - News Feed Eradicator to remove/limit feed distractions on my laptop, Screen Time on iOS - Turned off all notifications except calendar on Apple Watch - Slack for work chat, but intentionally been spending less time here for more deep work time. Conversations seem to get more efficient if forced to happen on SMS and phone calls. - Just bought a Remarkable, which I intend to finally use to replace carrying around paper journals for notes and journaling - Google Suite (surprised by this, but I no longer need the MS Office Suite any more) - Google Meet (some people make me use Zoom, but GMeet has gotten much better, no software downloads or updates, it just works and the quality is far better than it was when they launched) - Like @ggwp99, I also plan my week either Sunday evenings or Monday mornings (I intentionally ignore email Monday mornings since people seem to volley their problems, which may not be correlated with my priorities) - Start every day by asking the question, "what one thing would make a massive impact on my day or week or month," and start there. It's usually the thing I don't want to do. - Workout classes 5-6 times a week, 7:30am, pick your poison... F45, Barry's whatever motivates you to leave soaked in sweat. I fought this for years since I didn't care about the superficial reasons for working out. Now I find that I am 100% energy at 9am, flushed with endorphins, and I feel better with 6 hours of sleep than I did with 9. |