Neil Shah

The problem

Your day doesn't come pre-sorted into "tasks," "habits," and "expenses." You just have things to keep track of pick up dry cleaning, go to the gym, the $40 you spent on it. But every app you'd use to manage that assumes otherwise. So you end up with three apps open at once: a to-do list, a habit tracker, and a budgeting app each holding a third of your day, none of them talking to each other.

That fragmentation isn't a minor inconvenience. It means:

• Duplicate entry. A recurring bill lives in your budgeting app and, separately, as a reminder in your to-do list, because neither app understands it's the same thing viewed two ways.

• Context switching. Checking "what do I need to do, keep up, and not overspend on today" means opening three apps and mentally stitching the answer together yourself.

• The wrong tool for gray-area items. A gym habit you're paying a monthly fee for isn't a task, a habit, or an expense on its own it's all three, and most apps force you to pick one.

I bounce between Claude Code, Cursor, Zed and a couple others depending on the project. The tool-switching itself doesn't bother me, it's losing track of stuff, like solving something in one and then not being able to find it again once I'm back in another.

Curious what actually annoys people who do this daily. Context loss? Different keybindings? Something else entirely?