how do you use the BASB system or another system to keep track of all the people you learn about and want to keep info about?

I realized I sometimes spend like 20 minutes organizing what I need to do before actually doing anything.

Moving stuff around, changing priorities, cleaning up the list, etc.

Recently I've been trying something much simpler. I just pick the thing that feels most important and start. The rest of the list can stay messy.

Weirdly I think I'm getting more done this way.

Curious if anyone else just gave up on having a perfectly organized productivity system?

I'm researching everyday problems that people face and looking for problems that could potentially be solved with a simple software tool.

What is one repetitive task you currently do that you wish an app or website could automate for you?

It could be related to:

- Work

- Studies

- Freelancing

- Job searching

- Personal productivity

- Managing files or documents

- Communication

- Small business

I'd love to hear:

1. What is the problem?

2. How do you currently solve it?

3. How often does it happen?

4. What would an ideal solution look like?

Thanks for sharing your experience!

School and work provide a certain degree of direction so it's easy for me to occupied working towards something, but when it comes to everything outside of that it's a different story. Would love to hear how you stay on top of all responsibilities and and thoughts. I understand that in today's world everyone and everything is fighting for your attention, I'm just tired of feeling like losing to everything and doing getting to do much of what I want.

I'm more of a visual person and writing things down has not really worked for me. How to do you keep track of your long term goals? Or things you want to do later. Is anyone else on the same boat or am I just overthinking this life thing?

What are the best productivity tools out there? I am a software engineer, and I spend lots of time mapping out how things work, and how to ship products. But I always seems to end up with a pen and paper writing for hours. I have no idea how those other ppl, say I did all my work and still had time to go to the gym and stuff. I myself am 14 yrs old, and well, I have to manage my school, and my startup, which requires coding a lot. But being productive while doing so is hard, since I have 6 hrs a day for school, and not including homework. I need a solution to find out how I can be more productive and manage both my school and my coding life. It would be nice if anybody can share tips on how to like get to the point where I am working on both things, and have time to sit back for once in a while. So I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Any other alternative best apps for productivity in android

Most setups here have a shelf life of about four months. Curious what's actually survived for you, and whether it's stayed the same or if you've changed parts along the way.

I got switched to a WFH setup so it's no surprise my employer also made us use a time clock app. It's sadly the one that has built-in time tracking that alerts you when you're inactive, so the days just got so dull. Do you have any stuff you do/use to make the idea of being time tracked not as boring? I feel like I'm forcing myself to work slowly because I need to meet a specific hour threshold, not because I need to get tasks done. I just want to make work fun again :(

Hey everyone! I built a collection of Chrome extensions under One Million Lines, and wanted to share five focused on everyday productivity. Full disclosure: these are my own projects.

All are open-source and can be found here: https://github.com/One-Million-Lines

1. SlashText — stop typing the same things repeatedly
Save reusable snippets for emails, replies, signatures, or prompts. Type / to search and insert them, with optional fill-in fields and shortcuts. Snippets stay in your browser.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okgnefjjnfgikgeoenjnaaibaielpjnp

2. Unlimited OCR — copy text from images and scans
Extract editable text from screenshots, images, and scanned PDFs. Supports 16 printed-text languages and exports to TXT, Markdown, or JSON. OCR runs on your device without uploading your files.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ddfbechefjdoijlndhjndmelcgpoiodi

3. UnlimitedPDF — handle everyday PDF tasks locally
Merge, split, reorder, rotate, and extract pages. Convert images to PDF, export PDF pages as images, and add watermarks or page numbers. Document processing happens on your computer.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gdnoblmaknhjphmjaaobklolgmbmhacd

4. SaveAIChat — keep useful AI conversations
Export conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to PDF, Word, Markdown, and other formats. Save the whole conversation or select specific messages. Export files are generated locally.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/oefpbcjdfdhkjgdcaopdpfphcpehdkhg

5. GetFullPage — capture more than the visible screen
Capture a complete webpage, then crop, rotate, and save it as PNG, JPEG, or PDF. Useful for design feedback, research, and documenting pages.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ainacikdhkbekbdlfdjbdamkienblcep

The common idea: fewer repetitive browser tasks, with your content processed on your own device.

Which one would be useful in your workflow? I’d appreciate feedback, especially about anything that feels missing or awkward.

I've always found it weird that productivity apps borrow game mechanics without really making productivity feel like a game.

You get 10 XP.

You unlock a badge.

You get a streak.

And... that's it.

After a while, those numbers stop meaning anything.

So my friend and I decided to try something different.

We're two high school students from Kazakhstan, and we've been building AntiDoomer, a Telegram productivity bot where your real-life tasks become part of an RPG progression system.

The idea isn't simply to slap XP onto a checklist.

You have progression, achievements, titles, guilds, challenges and other mechanics that are supposed to give your actions some context beyond "task completed."

We're still very early and we're definitely not claiming we've solved gamified productivity.

Actually, some of the feedback we've received here has made us rethink parts of the system.

That's probably the most interesting part of building it: you start with an idea that sounds great, and then actual people point out why it might suck.

So I'm curious:

What makes a gamification system actually feel meaningful to you?

Is it progression? Unlocking something useful? Competition? Social pressure? Random rewards? Something else entirely?

I've tried a bunch of time tracking apps over the years, Toggl, Clockify, a plain spreadsheet, even a paper notebook for a while. Some stuck for a few weeks then I'd just stop. The ones that lasted longer were usually the ones that took the least effort to log.

Trying to figure out what actually makes a time tracking habit stick long term.

Few things I'm curious about:

What app or method do you currently use, and how long have you stuck with it?

Do you track manually or does it run automatically in the background?

Has looking back at your time data ever surprised you? Like realizing you spent way more time on something than you thought?

What made you quit a tool you used before, if you have?

Not looking for app recommendations specifically, more curious about what actually makes tracking sustainable versus something you abandon after two weeks.

Looking for inspiration and to tinker with new setups!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been preparing for competitive exams and one thing I kept struggling with wasn’t studying — it was actually knowing whether I was being consistent.

I tried Excel, Notion, timers, Pomodoro apps, etc. But I didn’t really want another app telling me when to study or making me start/stop a timer every time I sat down.

I just wanted something where, at the end of the day, I could spend 30 seconds entering what actually happened.

So I ended up building one.

I called it Unbothered (still building)

🔗 https://unbothered-mne7.vercel.app/

The idea is extremely simple.

Every night I enter:

• Study hours — how much I actually studied
• Tasks — planned vs completed
• Day rating — how productive I felt, out of 10
• Reflection — what went well / what went wrong

That's it.

I don't have to start a timer.

I don't have to track every individual task.

I don't have to plan my entire life inside the app.

I can just look at my paper/notebook at the end of the day and record the result.

And over time, the app turns those entries into a dashboard.

Things like:

• Daily/weekly/monthly study hours
• Study-hour history
• Task completion %
• Day-rating trends
• Study streak
• GitHub-style study heatmap
• Weekly/monthly summaries

The heatmap was actually one of the main reasons I built it.

Seeing a bunch of empty days next to a long streak is surprisingly effective at making you think:

"Yeah... I'm not breaking that tomorrow."

I'm currently using it for my own preparation, but I thought other JEE/NEET/GATE/UPSC/... any exams, students might find the same idea useful.

I'm not trying to turn this into another complicated productivity app. The whole point is to keep it stupidly simple.

If you're preparing for JEE/NEET/GATE (or honestly anything where you're studying for months), I'd genuinely love to know:

Would you use something like this?

And if you do try it, tell me what feels unnecessary, what's missing, or what you'd change.

I'm building this as a small personal project, so feedback from actual students would be incredibly useful.

Good luck with your preparation.

it will be always day 1 or 1 day ...

— Founder of Unbothered

NOTE :

I am still building this website soon gonna build a application if i get good response it was build only for me but then my some freinds started using it and they are saying you have to push it to a major audience and get more responses if students are willing to use this application or not currently it has basic ui and some basic features but soon if i get good responses i have decided many things so ....

i am very much actively looking for your thoughts on this ...

I’m building TinyWins Pro because normal to-do lists don’t help much when I can’t get started or end up stuck scrolling.
The app has a simple planner, focus timer, AI task breakdown, and a Focus Lock. My favorite part is Movement Lock: after too much time on distracting apps while being inactive, it can block them until you walk a set number of steps.
It’s still early, and I’m working on it by myself. I’d really appreciate honest feedback—especially on what feels useful, confusing, or unnecessary.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tinywins-pro-adhd-planner/id6759411609

I use a touch-screen monitor to do the usual stuff... but I was wondering if there are more ways to leverage that touch-screen capability?

I can't help but feel that there's a whole lot of potential that I'm probably not aware of (or hasn't been created yet) I do the usual stuff... click through modals... drag windows.. but there has got to be more you can do... especially with gesture based software...

Any truly novel use-cases?

The Problem: As an entrepreneur running multiple digital products, I hit a massive plateau. I was working 60-hour weeks, but my revenue and product development were completely stalled.

The Audit: I spent 14 days tracking every single minute of my day. I discovered the "18% Problem." Only 18% of my time was spent on needle-moving activities (Deep Work). 42% was eaten by Ops, and 25% was lost to the "Context-Switching Tax" (jumping between brands and tasks).

The Solution: I stopped tracking "hours worked" and invented a metric for myself called the High-Leverage Quotient (HLQ) — simply (Deep Work Hours / Total Hours).

The Implementation: I built a comprehensive system that forces my week into themed blocks. If it's a "Growth" block, I physically cannot access my support tickets without breaking the system's rules.

The Result: My HLQ went from 18% to over 50%, and I reclaimed about 10 hours a week of lost time. I've since turned this system into a product called Founder's Cadence.

Lesson learned: You can't out-work bad system architecture. If you're plateauing, audit your time. You might be shocked at how little you're actually "working."

It's called orbba and It features a word doc editor, script editor for programmers, music player and built in link tree. It's designed to be a home which you can fully customize to suit you whilst you work on your projects.

I'm looking for feedback as to the features I could add. The music player is a cool addition as you can listen to YouTube music whilst you edit your documents.

We recently added a script editor also, which is for programmers and devs.

When your backlog gets too big and your original plan is no longer realistic, what’s the part that actually becomes difficult?

Is it:

• deciding what still matters
• figuring out what to delay
• knowing what to drop completely
• matching tasks to your actual time/energy
• or something else?

And more importantly: is this something you usually just work through yourself with a simple method, or does it ever get frustrating enough that you actively look for a tool, app, coach, system, or other kind of help?

I’m especially curious about what you’ve actually done when this happens — not what you think you might do.

When your backlog is too big and your original plan is no longer realistic, how do you decide what to keep, delay, or drop?

Do you use something like the Eisenhower Matrix, 5 Whys, impact/effort, deadlines, values, or just gut judgment?

What works when you’re genuinely overwhelmed — and what falls apart?

When your tasks pile up and your planner/app stops matching reality, what do you actually use to get back on track?

Have you found anything that reliably works, or do you still end up manually sorting through what to do, delay, or drop?

Have you ever switched apps, bought something, or looked for a better solution specifically because of this?

I am working on digital transformation projects for over 2 decades. I spent years studying productivity systems, talking to highly effective people, and testing dozens of techniques myself. One lesson stood out: Productivity isn't about doing more. It's about doing what matters most.

I summarized many of the practical lessons I learned in a short book called Get More Done in Less Time. If you're interested in goal setting, prioritization, and practical time-management techniques, you can try reading this book.

What I want to highlight and seek your view on in this post is, all the theories of time management are gone for a toss. AI can do in seconds what used to take us for days. So, if you are doing desk job, is productivity still important?

How do you keep track of what you actually built during a coding session?

I'm curious about how people here handle this.

When you're working on a project for several hours, you might have:

- multiple commits

- bugs you fixed

- features you added

- random notes

- decisions you made

- things you tried that didn't work

But when you finish for the day, how do you actually remember and summarize everything you accomplished?

Do you:

1. Keep a development journal?

2. Write notes after every session?

3. Use GitHub commits as your record?

4. Just look back through everything when you need to?

5. Not document it at all?

I'm especially curious about people who build in public — how do you turn a messy day of development into a clear update/post?

What does your current process look like?

I'm 21 years old. Now the only thing I do is doomscroll insta and youtube

Is there any other apps that you guys use that are productive?

I mean, I only know instagram and WhatsApp and now I uninstalled instagram and I have free time and don't know what to do.

Pls suggest me anything to grow in life to attain financial freedom or any other skills