Everyone talks about automating the FANCY stuff, but the thing that actually gave me hours back was automating my weekly metrics screenshot for investors. Ten minutes every Monday, gone forever, took me a year to bother setting it up.
Not looking for tool promos, more curious about the task itself. What was your "why did I do this manually for so long" moment?
Okay, small confession. For the last few months I've been "busy" all day but somehow shipping almost nothing. Tabs open everywhere, jumping between Slack, notes, half-written docs and by 6pm I couldn't tell you what I actually finished.
Last week I stripped everything back to three things: one notes app, a timer, and physically closing Slack for 90 min blocks. First time in ages I actually felt like I made progress instead of just looking productive.
But I know I'm probably still doing this wrong. :)
So I'm curious what's the one habit or tool that genuinely keeps YOU focused?
