#86: My 5 thoughts about productivity in 2022 - by Tuấn Mon

As someone who has been trying to optimize personal productivity for years, I felt that I've reached a point where I'm much less obsessed over "how productive I am today". I guess there have been a few changes in my mindset toward productivity, and there's no better time to reflect on it during this time of the year. Some of these are unshakeable beliefs I've had since the start of god-knows-when. Some I've picked up along the way, but not necessarily in 2022. 1. Specialized tools > all-in-one tools If I have a specific problem, I'd want a tool specifically designed for it. It's much more efficient and mindless. I can understand the hype with Notion: an extremely well-built note-taking software. But I cannot imagine myself spending hours learning all the formulas and shit in order to create a habit/budget/time tracker out of this app (a great trend of the past 2 years), which at the end of the day is so hard to use on my phone, so slow to open, and so troublesome to maintain. I wrote a

As someone who has been trying to optimize personal productivity for years, I felt that I've reached a point where I'm much less obsessed over "how productive I am today". I guess there have been a few changes in my mindset toward productivity, and there's no better time to reflect on it during this time of the year. Some of these are unshakeable beliefs I've had since the start of god-knows-when. Some I've picked up along the way, but not necessarily in 2022. 1. Specialized tools > all-in-one tools If I have a specific problem, I'd want a tool specifically designed for it. It's much more effi