Six apps dropped in three years. The pattern was never the apps.

Every few months a new one felt like the fix. Each became the same problem: set it up, admire it, stop using it for the work. The common thread was never the software. I stopped switching and started finishing.

None of the apps were bad. I was avoiding the work and calling it optimization.

So for those who've cycled through tools: was it ever actually the tool's fault? And what are you setting up right now, hoping it'll finally make you do the thing?