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I Ranked Every Productivity Tool From Worst to Best

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Over the last 15 years, I have tested dozens and dozens and dozens of productivity apps, productivity tools, productivity hardware. Some of it has been genuinely life-changing, but others have uh been interesting to try out for a few days, but then I find that the effort to maintain them is not really worth the value that they add. And so, in this video, I'm going to be tier ranking 22 different productivity tools. All of these are tools that I still use to this day, but the point of

the ranking is to show which ones are nice to haves and which ones are actually needlemoving for my own personal productivity. Now, in case we haven't met, hello, my name is Ali. I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller Feelgood Productivity. And since 2017 here on this YouTube channel, I've been documenting my journey from broke medical student to working as a doctor to then becoming a sevenfigure entrepreneur and author. All along the way, I've been testing all of these different productivity

apps and desk setups and tools. And so, if you too would like to be more productive or move towards your goals, I hope that you'll find something in this video that is helpful for your journey. First up, we have a lovely tool called Readwise that I've been using since like 2019 or something. Read Wise is a tool that connects to your Kindle account and it pulls in all of the things you've ever highlighted on your Kindle. So, I've got like thousands if not tens of thousands

of highlights. What it does is that it resurfaces the highlights like five a day or 10 a day. It emails you or you can use it on the app. And so, it's a good way of revisiting stuff that you've learned. Unfortunately, I would put Read Wise strongly in the F tier in terms of uh stuff that's actually needlemoving for your productivity. It is very easy to set up and you do start seeing value from day one, especially if you're like me and you highlight things on

Kindle a lot. But if we think about like what productivity actually is, it's sort of like you have a goal that you're trying to get to. There is a plan that you are then following to get to the goal and then there is a system that you are then following to stick to the plan. This is the GPS method that I've often talked about. And so I would define being productive as like moving towards the goals that you care about. And so we are more productive

if we are moving more towards the goals that we care about, but if we are doing it faster and ideally more efficiently as well. And I would define efficiently as reducing the amount of energy that it takes to move towards a particular goal. So for example, if you are enjoying something a lot, then you're going to be more energy efficient in moving towards it because you're not having to like battle against yourself. In the early days of my personal development journey, Read Wise was very helpful

because I was sort of revisiting the ideas that I was learning from productivity books and personal development books and business books. But at this stage in my life, it's very much a nice to have. I still use it every day. I still pay for it. It's awesome. But, you know, if I was stuck on a desert island, it would be very low on my priority list of tools that are currently indispensable to me. Next up, we have Spotify or whatever kind of music app you want.

Now, this doesn't seem like a productivity tool, but I got so much value out of this when I was at university because I created a study with me playlist, which I then made public and has now been downloaded like tens of thousands of times by people around the world. In my study with me playlist, I have music from like TV shows and movies and video games. And especially back when I was preparing for my medical school exams at Cambridge University, this really helped make studying a

lot more fun. And one of the principles of feel-good productivity is that uh if you can make the work more enjoyable, as we talked about, it makes you more efficient, makes you more productive, makes you more creative, makes you less stressed, and gives you more energy to give to the other important areas of your life. So if you have tasks that you have to do that are particularly boring or you struggle to get into flow, I really recommend having background music as a thing. I still

use my study with me playlist to this day, but unfortunately this goes in the D tier because again it is just not that needlem moving. It's a minor improvement in enjoyment. It's a minor improvement in focus, but to be honest, you can get the same kind of effect by just being in a silent room or like playing a YouTube video in the background, like a instrumental type thing in the background. So, this does not go on my desert island list. Next up, we have Slack and

other similar instant messaging tools like Microsoft Teams. And I think those are the main two ones. Now, Slack is one of those weird ones where if you are working within the context of a team and you are a manager within a team specifically, this is absolutely S tier because you literally use Slack every single day to coordinate the work that your team is doing. In my case, I am more of a maker than a manager. And so, for me, Slack is squarely in the F tier.

The less time I spend on Slack, the more progress I personally make towards my goals. Because if I think about for me the goals that I care about are making more videos, improving our curriculum for our lifestyle business academy, working on the product for Superfocus, our productivity app. Very few of those require me to be on Slack coordinating with my team. I'm in a privileged position because I have a team and a lovely general manager Angus and we've got like team leads and department heads and

stuff and so they are the ones living on Slack and coordinating their teams. That allows me to be above the clouds to focus on the stuff that I particularly enjoy and get energy out of which tends not to be sending messages on Slack. Next up, we come to a tool like Opal. This is stuff that blocks apps on your phone or on your computer. At various points in my life, tools like this have been sort of a tier. I've had periods in my life where I

end up staying up until like 1 2 a.m. scrolling Twitter, scrolling Reddit, like whatever. So, having an automatic app blocker on my phone that like when it hits 10 p.m. automatically blocks off access to Twitter, Reddit, you know, the usual suspects. For certain periods of my life, that was absolutely game-changing. But ever since having a baby, I actually haven't struggled so much with late nights because I know that I'm going to be woken up every single morning fairly early. So, an app blocking thing like Opel

has for me dropped into the F tier because I just don't really need it anymore, but I still have it installed. Next up, we have something like Zapier. These are tools that automate aspects of your workflow. Now, if you are a normal person and an individual, you probably have no need at all for automation tools like Zapio, but especially if you run a business, these become insanely helpful as a way of automating repetitive processes. For certain members of my team, tools like Zapier are absolutely S

tier. For example, for our operations team, we've got hundreds of zaps that save thousands of hours of human time every month. But for me personally, there's not a single zap that I actually use to make progress towards the goals that I personally care about. So therefore, tools like Zapier or Make or NA10 just, you know, they fall into the F tier for me personally, but of course, your mileage may vary. Next up, we have tools like Obsidian. Now, Obsidian is a fairly popular tool in the

sort of nerd AI community. And you've got all sorts of people connecting Obsidian up to their different AI agents and building second brains and all that stuff. If I really think about how much has having all my files on Obsidian actually helped move me towards goals that I personally care about, I would say a little bit, but not very much at all. In fact, later on in this video, I'm going to talk about my AI agents like Hermes and OpenClaw. These days, these agents are now

so good that I actually haven't needed to open up my Obsidian Markdown files because I can just communicate with the files using my AI agents. That's what puts Obsidian squarely in the D tier for me. It's definitely a nice to have. I still have it installed. It's nice to see the thing where you like click on the thing and you see all your notes connected to each other, but in terms of real world impact, uh it's not been massively helpful for me. It's sort of the

same thing with something like Apple Notes. A lot of people use Apple Notes to run their life, but as we're going to talk about later in this video, I think there are far better note-taking tools and project management tools other than Apple Notes. I use Apple Notes for like random shopping list or like throwaway notes if I need to just like write something or copy and paste something, but again, it's just not something that really corresponds to the goals that I personally care about. Right, so

that was the tools in the D and F tier list. Again, I still use all of these tools in various different ways. They're just not the ones that if I was stranded on a desert island and still had to make progress towards my goals, uh they would be low on the priority list of tools for me to bring along. Now, speaking of productivity tools, I would love to tell you a little bit about Lovable, who are very kindly sponsoring this video. Lovable is a software creation

tool that me and my team have been using for like 2 years now, and it basically lets you build real websites and real apps just by describing what you want in normal English. The main thing we use it for in our team is prototyping. And we've been using it a lot to build our own productivity app, Superf Focus, mostly as a way of translating the vision of this productivity app that's in my head, into a clickable prototype that our designer and developer can then take and

run with. And this has saved countless of hours, weeks of meeting time where I would have previously had to draw on a whiteboard or like on a Figma file or a Photoshop file. But now I literally just go back and forth with Lovable until the prototype of the feature is exactly as I'm imagining it. And then I'm able to send that feature over to our designer and developer and then they can build it into the app properly. We've been using this for the marketing side. We've

been using it for the onboarding. We've been using it for the product itself. And what's great is that even the non-coders on our team are able to go through Superfocus and then use Lovable to suggest what tweaks they would make to the product, some of which we've even built into the app. And these days with Lovable, they've got so many new features that it doesn't even have to stop at a prototype. There are loads of people out there that are using Lovable to build actual real

world software. You can connect it to a database. You can add things like customer login. And you can even take payments just by describing what you're selling and it will put the whole thing live for you. And so all in one place, you can go from just an idea to something that real people around the world are actually paying for. All of which previously would have required so much setup and so much work and so much coding. And now you can do it all easily with

Lovable. Over 40 million projects have been built on Loveable so far. And some of these are real businesses making real money alongside big companies like Zenesk using it every day, too. So if you've got an idea that you've been sitting on because building the thing felt too complicated, then you should definitely check out Lovable. There will be a link down below. Thank you, Lovable, for sponsoring the video. And let's get back to it. Now, let's move on to the B and C tier stuff. This tool

is the icon for Superhuman Mail, uh, which is the email app that I've been using since 2019. I use Gmail for my personal email and we use Google Workspace for our work emails. And superhuman as a sort of email client sort of sits on top of Gmail. And so, it's just like a nicer interface for interacting with Gmail compared to uh just using gmail.com. Now, this general category of email I would put into Ctier. Reading and replying to emails does not move me towards any of

the goals that I care about. However, we do have sponsors on these videos. I do have to talk to my uh book agent and book editors. These guys often communicate via email. Our accountants communicate via email. Our lawyers communicate via email. And so, email is a necessary evil in my life. But using an app like Superhuman genuinely does make it a lot less painful. And so, that's why it goes in C tier. Next up, we have a tool like Whisper Flow. Now, Whisper Flow, you you've

probably seen their ads. I've featured in some of their ads cuz they've been pumping ad spend into the ads that I did for them. It's a cool utility that basically is a very quick, very accurate dictation software that you can use on a computer, on your Mac or whatever. This for me is now how mostly I talk to AI because I'm able to just hit the dictation key and Whisper Flow is able to transcribe everything that I say. So, this does make me marginally more productive,

but I'm going to put it into C tier because having been using it for the last few months and also using our own app, Voice Path, for the last 2 years, yes, it's very nice to be able to dictate stuff rather than type stuff. But to be honest, a lot of the AI tools these days have voice dictation built in, which is very good. And even if they didn't, if I think of the personal productivity gain that I personally get from speaking rather than typing. It's

a difference between typing at 156 words per minute and speaking at about 180 words per minute, which is not massively significant. But if I think of whisper flow for my team, I have some team members who type at 40 words per minute, but they speak at 160 words per minute. So in that case, they get a 4x increase in their productivity by speaking rather than typing. So for those team members, a tool like Whisper Flow is absolutely indispensable. But for me, I still use it every

single day. I still pay for it, but it goes in C tier because again, if I had to boil it down to just a handful of tools that really move me towards my particular goals. It's still important, but it's like lower down on the priority list. Next up, we come to to-do lists. So this is the icon for to-do list, which is a very good to-do list. Uh there is also things three. I've sort of been on and off both of these tools over the years

uh before we then built Super Focus, which is now the one that I use for my to-do list. And I would put to-do lists in general squarely into B tier. To-do lists are important. It's important to be able to keep track of the tasks you need to do. But the problem with to-do lists is that they're infinitely long. So you can just keep on adding tasks to your plate. And my issue with to-do lists in general is that they don't force you to prioritize. One of

the key principles of productivity is that it's not about trying to do more stuff. It's about trying to do less stuff but better. This is what most people are like when it comes to their productivity. they've got way too many goals and they're scattered in all of these different directions. But one fun diagram from Greg Mchuan's book, Essentialism, is that this is what it looks like if you focus on a small number of things, like the small number of things that are truly essential, and just

fixate on those things. And then taking a principle from Oliver Bergman's book, 4,000 Weeks, a lot of people are scared to just focus on a tiny number of things because they're worried about dropping balls. But one of the things that you come to learn as a human being at at some point in your life is that it's physically impossible to try and do everything and certainly impossible to try and do everything all at once. So, the people that are the most productive and actually make it

towards their goals tend to be the ones who are okay with dropping balls in other aspects of their life that are less important. I'm saying all this because the to-do list kind of encourages this approach here where because you can add an infinite number of projects and an infinite number of tasks and you want to put things down on your list to remember them and you have this long list of things that you need to do. They don't force you to prioritize. They don't encourage you

to triage. So, they're still important, right? because you know filing your taxes and like you know paying the bills and not going to jail is important but how much does it really move you towards the goals that you care about in my case these days not very much but if someone isn't using super focus then to-d doist is the one that I would most recommend either that or Apple reminders if you are in the Apple ecosystem next up we have one of our apps voice pal

now voice pal is a ghost writer in your pocket the idea is that you just hit record on your phone and then as you're walking around you can just like dictate anything you want to your phone I've been using voice pal for a lot of the aspects of content creation for the last like 2 years since we launched the app And what's nice about it is it means that I can like outline my YouTube videos or my courses or things like that while I'm on a

walk and getting some steps. What voice pal does is that it transcribes everything you say and then it asks you follow-up questions if you want to elaborate on your thoughts. Now, it's a fairly similar function to Whisper Flow. I use Whisper Flow mostly when I'm on my computer or if I'm on my phone and like doing quick messages back and forth to Claude or Chbt or my homies agent, but Voice Pal lets you record up to 90 minutes. And so, if I'm having a conversation with

one of my team members in person, then I'll just hit record on Voice Pal because it'll just record the whole thing. or if I'm going around and I I I want to do a whole like unloading a load of stuff, getting it out of my mind for one of our courses or for a piece of content or whatever, then I will use Voice Pal for that rather than Whisper Flow. So, I'd put Voice Pal in B tier for me personally because for me personally, the goals

that I care about involve doing quite a lot of this sort of deep creative work where I'm getting stuff out of my head and onto the proverbial page so that I can make videos about it or make courses about it or I'm working on my next book. And so, I do a lot of that stuff through walking and talking rather than through sitting on a computer and typing. By the way, one interesting thing that we found out when preparing this video is that I've watched a

lot of these tier list videos, but I've never actually known like why where did the tier list come from? Like why does it start with S? And why is there no E in any of these tier lists? Now, the S at the top of the list apparently is the Japanese for shoe, which means excellence. Uh especially in fighting games. And the reason they get rid of E is because E could be misconstrued with excellent and it's like at the bottom of the list. So that's why

it goes S, A, B, C, D, F. I just thought that was kind of interesting. All right, so we've talked about the B and C tier. Let's now move on to the A tier, the heavy hitters that I use multiple times a day. Now we get to the suite of tools, which is AI agents. Now, this is the icon for the Hermes agent, which is my personal favorite one these days. I've dabbled with a lot of them since the start of the year. I started out

with Open Claw initially, and then I just found that open claw required so much setup and so much like friction and dealing with it that I was spending more time kind of troubleshooting my OpenClaw setup than I was actually doing the work that I cared about. But then when I discovered Heromy's agent about probably six months ago, I've been using it pretty much every day since then. It's sort of like a nicer version of OpenClaw that requires less tinkering. So my Hermes agent via Telegram is

one of my most used apps of all time and I would put that in a tier in terms of helping me personally get to my goals. The more like userfriendly version of this is something like Grockbot, which I've also been experimenting with. Openai have just come out with Dots. Meta has just come out with Muse. There's another agent called Instinct. All of these kind of do the same general thing, which is that it gives you either an individual or a team of AI agents that can

do work on your behalf. For me, I put them into a tier because these days, I do so much of my work by talking to the AI agents. But basically, I have my own virtual private server which has a load of different files for each of my projects that I'm working on in work and in life. And anytime I have a new idea for something in business or in life, I'll just open up Telegram and I'll talk to my Homies agent about the stuff. In fact,

let me show you what this looks like. For example, for my work homies, I've got stuff for our lifestyle business academy curriculum. I've got stuff that helps me identify bottlenecks. I've got stuff for growth for a lifestyle business academy. We're in the process of moving into a new office here in Hong Kong. So, I've got like a conversation about the office back and forth. Every day, I get a snapshot of our student wins. So, the agent automatically mines stuff in our Slack channel and in the

calls that we have with our students and it flags to me where there are interesting wins that our students are having in terms of like landing new clients or making loads of money or getting over a mindset hurdle. And that means that I can sort of send a message to them congratulating them which is awesome. I have a project content director, YouTube, finances, socials, super focus, lifestyle business academy. Yeah, as you can see there's a lot of stuff over here, but you can see like pretty

much every day I'm talking to kind of the top five to 10 kind of topic conversations that I've got here with my homies agent. And then I've got a similar setup for life as well. So, health, my baby girl, personal development, home operations, Izzy, my wife, I've got a chat that helps me coordinate events with friends. So, yeah, increasingly, especially when I'm on the go, talking to my homies agent, which has access to its own computer, its own file system, and is able to make these

changes to these files. And generally, I'll use Whisper Flow to talk to my homies agent, although it's got pretty good like transcription built in. That's been absolutely game-changing for my own personal productivity because in terms of the goals that I care about, yes, a huge chunk of that is moving forward these like big content projects like my videos or my courses or my book, but quite a large chunk of it as well is coming up with ideas for things in the business that I can then

introduce to the team and then the team can action those things. Back in the day, before AI agents took over the world, I would have all these sort of elaborate like, okay, capture something through a voice note on my Apple Watch and then it sends it to Draft and then it send it to Notion via Zap or whatever. And now it's just so much easier with these AI agents like Homies and Grogbot and OpenClaw to be able to capture those ideas, ask it to stress test

my thinking, asking it to interview me. If there's a particularly long answer I want to give, I'll just record it in VoicePal and send it to the agent. If it's a shorter answer, I'll just record it in Whisper Flow and send it to the agent. And so I find myself like going between these three different tools quite a lot. My Hermes agent on Telegram, Voice Pal for like longer things that I want to send it, and then Whisper Flow for like short dictation-y type bits. If

I look on VoicePal, you can see I've dictated 603,79 words to VoicePal over time. And that has saved me 7 days and 19 hours and 45 minutes of time so far. If I look on Whisper Flow, so far I've dictated 170,490 words on Whisper Flow. Mostly that's like small things here and there. Probably most of them are words that I've sent directly to my Homies agent on my Grockbot or my Claude code agent whenever I'm working on various different things in the business and in life.

Next up, we come to our favorite AI tools like Chad Gypt and Claude and Perplexity. All of these I would put squarely in the A tier. These models, well, especially Chad and Claude, are the ones that power the various different agents that I work with. So, my Homies agent is powered by Chad GPT6 Astra these days. When I do stuff with Claude code in the terminal or on my computer, that is powered by Opus 5.5 these days. And I just go with whatever frontier model makes

the most sense. There is a danger of overusing the AI tools and I've definitely been in phases where I've sort of outsourced a lot of my thinking to them and then kind of realized that you do lose a little well at least me as a human I do feel like some of the content loses a little bit of something if it's overly outsourced to AI. So now I mostly use the AI agents rather than to use them to make things I use them to stress test

my own thinking about things that I'm working on in the business and in life. They're also really good at automating away quite a lot of the boring grunt work. Having talked about the A tier tools, let's now move on to the S tier. This is the stuff that I literally cannot live without. It is indispensable to my productivity and I think you'll be surprised as to the simplicity of a bunch of these different tools that are in the S tier. The first one is a physical

journal that goes in the S tier. I've been using physical handwritten journals for most of my life. I don't really have like a daily journaling practice. It's been on and off over the years. Sometimes I do it every single day, sometimes I do it like once a week, sometimes I do it once in a blue moon. But the great thing about journaling is that journaling can give you clarity. So you know how we had this whole like GPS thing, goal, plan, and system. Productivity is about

moving towards the goals that you care about in a way that's enjoyable and efficient. What journaling does is that it helps you figure out what to actually work on. It helps give you clarity on what goals are actually important to you. back when I was working as a doctor and I was feeling a little bit like I'm not really sure if medicine is the thing I want to be doing or do I want to double down on this YouTube thing or do I want to like

sell courses on the internet. I spent days just journaling about it and that was what helped me get the clarity to realize that the thing that I enjoyed most about medicine was actually teaching medical students rather than doing the doctoring and running through various journaling prompts with my physical journal in real life helped me figure out what kind of business I want to build and was one of the catalysts that encouraged me to leave medicine for good. So, if you don't have a journaling practice, and

if you're interested, I actually have a completely free list of journaling prompts that I've been collecting for the last like 10 years that'll be linked down below if you want to check it out. The next tool in S tier is actually a stopwatch. Now, I'm using the icon of a stopwatch there, but what I mean by this is time tracking. Time tracking is insanely helpful as a productivity tool. There are apps that do it, so you can use an app like Toggle. Uh there are Pomodoro

timers. I think uh Hank Green has created one called Focus Friend. There's one I used to use at university called Forest. And we've actually built time tracking into Super Focus, our own productivity app. But the great thing about time tracking is when you are sitting down to work on a task, especially if it's a big meaty deep worky type task, there is a huge amount of value in just hitting start on a timer or a stopwatch. So that you can time yourself in terms of how

much time you're spending focusing on the thing. For me personally, I find that my focus increases about 2x if I just have a timer in the background that's timing me in terms of how much time I've actually spent on this thing. And this is often the one piece of advice I give to people who are struggling with focus. It's like pick the thing that you want to do and then then just time how many minutes you're actually spending focusing on it. Almost everyone I've given that

advice to has found that it's drastically improved the quality of focus just knowing how much time is actually going into something. Next up on the S tier list, we have Google Calendar. The S tier is productivity tools that I cannot live without. And my Google calendar is one of those because of the single most useful productivity technique in existence, which is time blocking where every day and every week you are blocking on your calendar when you want to be doing certain things. So in my case,

for example, I know that Mondays are days where I'm working on the curriculum for our lifestyle business academy. I know that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are content days. I know that Thursday is a day where I'm working on the product stuff and the growth stuff for Superf Focus, our productivity app. Being able to time block all of those things in Google Calendar is absolutely life-changing because I'm able to construct my ideal ordinary week and I'm able to make sure that the things that I care about are

getting the time that they deserve. Now, just like I use Gmail as like the actual email thing, but Superhuman is the client above it. I use Google Calendar as my actual calendar, but then the client above it that I use is also Superf Focus, our new productivity app. The problem with Google Calendar itself is that yeah, it's it's good as a calendar and it's it's amazing and it's robust and it's free, which is awesome, but it doesn't know what your goals are or what your tasks

are. So what we tried to do with Superfocus is figure out like, okay, instead of using like a zillion different productivity apps and trying to string them all together using like MCPS and APIs and all that kind of stuff and then having to spend hours and hours maintaining all of those different MCP and API connections, trust me, I've tried, is how can we take the core functionality of the indispensable productivity app and how can we mash those into one very simple tool that helps you make

progress towards the goals that you care about, make a plan for the goals that you care about, and then have a daily system of execution towards the goals that you care about. For example, on Super Focus, we have a calendar view. And so, it's a view of your Google calendar, so you can see exactly where your time is going. It's got its own task manager built into it. But crucially, it's not just tasks like a to-do list. It also forces you to articulate your goals, and

your most important goals are always at the top of your to-do list. And then it color codes your calendar based on those goals. So, you can see, are you actually spending time on the goals that you care about? And there is an AI code that's powered by the Frontier models that's able to interview you and ask you questions about what are the goals that you care about. And then it helps you turn those goals into specific plans that can then go on your calendar. As we

talked about, Superf Focus also has a focus timer built into it. So you just put something on your calendar and when you're working on it, you hit start focus. What that does is that it gives you your focus timer as we talked about, but it also gives you background music, so you don't need Spotify or something in the background. And it also optionally allows you to block distracting apps while you are focusing. Personally, I don't use the distraction app blocking feature, but loads of our users

do and they absolutely love it. Super Focus also has Whisper Flow built into it where you can talk to the coach using your voice rather than just typing out. It's got a very basic notes feature built in where for the goals that you care about, you can write a few brief notes to remind you of what the next actions are for those things. And it's even got an integration with Slack where if you're focusing on something, it changes your username on Slack. So, it signals to

your team that you are currently in deep focus and not to disturb you unless it's absolutely necessary. Now, I'm going to be honest, something like Superfocus, it's not the best inclass at any of these things. Its calendar features are just slightly less good than Google Calendar. Its note-taking features are slightly less good than Obsidian. Its task management features are slightly less good than what you've got in to-d doist or things or these things that just do task management really well. But really what we tried to

do with Superfocus is to simplify a lot of the things on this board to simplify a lot of these like amazing productivity tools that I've been using for like 10 plus years and figure out, okay, what are the absolute essential features of those and how can we turn them into one very simple tool that can help someone make progress towards their goals in a way that's enjoyable and efficient but without having to maintain all of these like elaborate systems. Notion is still on the S tier.

I've been using Notion every single day for mostly for my work stuff since like 2019. And really the value of notion, why it's so much better than a task manager is because we use notion for project management in order to make progress for the projects and goals in our business. We do use the goal plan system method, but we've just built it into notion for our company. We define what our annual goals are and what our quarterly goals are. That's the goal bit. We then turn

those into plans and divvy them up into projects and tasks for our team members. That's the plan bit. And then we've got a system of daily and weekly execution in terms of our meetings rhythm and in terms of our scorecards and metrics and all of those things. And that is the system aspect of it. And me and my team increasingly find notion AI very helpful as well to be able to query the entire notion workspace. So if I think of the apps that I use the

most, it's super focus plus notion when I'm on a computer. And it's mostly my homies agent on Telegram when I'm on the go. And roughly the split I've got is that I've got Superfocus for the things that I personally need to do like my own work goals, my own life goals, my own calendar, my own time tracking. But anytime a goal that I've got interfaces with a team, that is when I still have it as a goal in Superfocus. For example, my YouTube channel or like

a lifestyle business academy. But in Superfocus, I only track the things that I personally need to do. Whereas on notion, we track the things that everyone across the team needs to do. And that is why notion is absolutely indispensable to my life and like literally everyone on my team as the ultimate productivity tool. Now, if you enjoyed this video and you would like to learn about how to actually use these tools to help you make progress towards the goals that particularly matter to you, there will

be a video right over here where I explain the actual tactics rather than the tools themselves. So, thank you so much for watching and I will see you

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