“What tools do you use in your daily life to enhance health, finance, and productivity? #LifeTechStack #ProductRecommendations”
Enhancing Health:
- FitBit for tracking sleep, steps, and exercise time
Improving Finance:
- Managing finances with 5-6 bank accounts and brokerage apps
Boosting Productivity:
- Utilizing RescueTime for productivity tracking
- Staying focused with StayFocusd site blocker
Health – just consistently do my exercise
Finance – my banking apps
Productivity – usual work stuff (Jira, Google workspace, calendar…) and a physical notebook
I try to avoid overthinking this because at one point you start spending too much time in productivity apps and then become less productive.
If you have a goal to cycle for 40 minutes a day in the morning, you do not need an app for that. (In my opinion)
Productivity – ToDoist
This is my main one that has been a game changer. I have access via my phone and my pc. I put all of my tasks in there and it helps me structure my day. Also, every time I get a thought or idea I put it in the “inbox” section of ToDoist, and then review it later. It either becomes a task, a journal entry, or just deleted. Have a brilliant idea for my business while taking a dump? Goes in todoist inbox on phone, reviewed later at PC, and if it’s worthwhile I’ll create a task in my business project section and assign it to a day when I have bandwidth.
I use a lot of excel spreadsheets for everything else (finance, gym, etc.)
Um, Loom or similar, because nothing matters except talking to customers, and having those conversations lead to something.
Gsuite.
Any information sharing websites. Social media or other, to stay up on info outside of my core verticals.
eBay, because we all have vices.
Bank of America, because everyone has bills.
The day Excel stops working is the day my life comes to a screeching halt.
I’ve tried so many to do list apps and nothing beats pen and paper for me when it comes to productivity.
Health – Autosleep & Apple Watch default apps
Finance – Revolut, Trade Republic, Binance
Productivity – GSuite, Trello, Notion, Airtable
my tech tech stack makes my life stack better since I am no longer wasting valuable time on bro stacks.
I have a sleep disorder that makes my sleep not align at all with daylight/nighttime. My “Tuesday” might start at 11pm local time.
So, I have 7 dice in a row, 2 blue for workdays, a red-day-off die, 3 red-work-die, 1 red day off die. The current “day” im on is pushed upwards.
I use VSC and Chatgpt.
I have a mercury bank account. Factor for my food.
productivity – Notion, Google Tasks, Trello, Focusme (really good app/site blocker), Lock me out (EXCELLENT mobile app/site blocker that you can’t bypass – only on Android unfortunately)
Motion, absolute game changer. I use this for both life and work.
Waking up app by Sam Harris. Meditation is key and also enjoy the talks that I leave on during work sessions.
Interesting question. Never thought about it like that.
Health – to manage my weight I use a kitchen and bathroom scale, Cronometer calorie tracking app and also monitor blood glucose and blood pressure. I track steps with my iPhone – I gave up on anything more complicated than that. Coffee for alertness, Ritalin (prescribed) for when I need to really focus.
Productivity – I could be more disciplined here. I use Evernote and Obsidian. I wish there was one platform that combined both. I keep a personal journal first thing in the morning to get my brain in gear. I then have what I call my ‘action journal’ that only contains deeds done and deed to do. No thoughts – just actions.
Centering – I have a memento mori ring to remind me time is finite and not to waste it. I also have a ring engraved with ‘hoc opus est’ (‘is it necessary?’) on my dominant hand so I ask that question of everything I allow into my life. I also have a jar of beads I set up in sept 2022 with 520 beads – 1 for each week for the next 10 years – and throw one away each week to remind myself that time is fleeting and I must not waste it.
Amazon, LinkedIn, and a few online accounts for career and finance. I don’t like any of them – I NEED them.
Whoop for sleep and fitness
Kubera for assets and net worth tracking
Google notes (formerly KeepNotes) for notes and memos