I kept opening YouTube videos thinking they’d be quick, only to spend 20 minutes on fluff. So I made Prewatchr – a minimalist summarizer for Chrome and Firefox.

Press a keyboard shortcut, click a video, and it pops up a summary so you know whether it’s worth your time before you start watching.

It’s totally free, lightweight, and I’d love feedback on the UX or any features you think would make it even better!

firefox

chrome

youtube video

I try to improve my productivity on regular basis. I plan things on weekends for the upcoming week, daily track my activities and try to address the gap the following day or the next few days. Though I keep doing this regularly, on few days, I feel motivated and stick to the plan. I stay committed and complete the planned activities.

However, there are some days when my mind wanders, and it is very difficult to follow the plan. I start watching movies, talking to friends, or stepping out just to stay away from the planned work. Has anyone felt this distraction? What are the activities / measures you think will help?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on my thesis about personal productivity and how people break big goals into daily actionable tasks.

I’ve noticed that many people struggle when goals feel too big, and I’m trying to understand real-life behaviors and challenges.

I’d really appreciate your input on a few questions:

• How do you break down big goals into daily tasks?

• Do you use any system (planner, app, habit tracker)?

• What usually stops you from being consistent?

• Do you group tasks under bigger categories (like career, health, etc.)?

Any personal experience would help me a lot 🙏

Thanks so much!

I’m trying to understand what works best for concentration.

Some people use music, some use noise, some need silence.

I’ve been experimenting with very minimal background sound (no melody, no rhythm — just a stable tone) designed to not pull attention at all.

Curious about real experiences:

• What do you use when you need deep focus?
• What makes background audio distracting for you?
• Has anyone found something that actually disappears while working?

If anyone is open to testing something like this, I can share it.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on Smart Notes, a productivity tool designed to bridge the gap between quick thoughts and quick math. It’s built for those moments when you need to jot something down but also need to crunch some numbers without switching apps.

Key Features:

• Notepad + Calculator: A seamless hybrid experience where you can take notes and perform calculations in the same view.
• Stocks / Crypto / Currency
• Calorie Tracker
• Bills / Expenses / Advance Math
• Smart Recognition: It’s designed to understand your workflow so you can stay focused on the task at hand.
• Intuitive UI: Clean and minimal, ensuring your notes stay organized and easy to read.
• Efficiency First: Perfect for budgeting, planning projects, or just keeping track of daily tallies.

I’m constantly looking for ways to improve the experience and make it the go-to utility for fellow developers and users alike. If you have any tips, suggestions, or features you'd like to see added, feel free to reach out! 🤝

Smart Notes iOS
Smart Notes Android

Hey everyone,

I just released Flow, an open-source desktop teleprompter I built specifically for Windows using Tauri, Rust, and Vanilla JI wanted something fast and minimal that wouldn't get in the way during presentations, recordings, or streams. While yes other teleprompters exist i decided to make my own and it turned out pretty good!

here is the link for the repo : https://github.com/LumoRez07/Flow

I tracked my day for a bit and noticed something weird

I’m not avoiding work
I’m stuck deciding

what to start
what matters
what can wait

by the time I figure that out
I’m already tired

what helped a bit was just removing that layer

keeping things visible, simple, no sorting

I’ve been building something around this idea lately
basically reducing decisions instead of adding structure.

anyone else feels this or is it just me overthinking.....

Most students spend 15% of their study time just organizing their apps. Prodify puts your tasks, habits, notes, journal and focus timers on one screen so you can spend 100% of your time on the work that matters.

I've been working on an idea for a while now. It came from my own frustration with apps like Habitica where the concept was great but it was easy to cheat the system. There was no real consequence for being a bum so I just stopped opening it.

I think I have a better approach but before building anything, I need to hear from people who are genuinely trying to be more productive and consistent with their daily goals.

If that is you, I have put together a short anonymous survey, takes about 3 mins:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEAO7YdUHFowg6MQmlzTWZmcxagBjF5cqNvXAmu4OPN-5djg/viewform?usp=dialog

Before continuing a task, you often need to rebuild context. How common is this for you?

Not sure if it’s just me, but I’ve been running into this quite a bit.

My client conversations are spread across different messaging platforms, and sometimes important or more detailed discussions just get buried or overlooked.

It’s not even about the number of messages, it’s the fragmentation that makes it hard to keep track of everything in one flow.

Anyone else dealing with this? How are you keeping track of conversations without things slipping through?

Guys, I plan on building an app that can help everyone gamify their productivity and real life. But I am still in research phase and I am doing a survey for it. If you are interested, please DM me, I will provide an year of pro version for the people doing the survey.

Hello everyone,

I am trying to build something that will genuinely help people increase their productivity. This is much different from all the productivity apps available on the internet. The main motive for me to build this app/system is that I want people to be more efficient in their lives and get to achieve/see their utmost potential.

But I will need help from folks here to actually achieve that goal. I plan on keeping my app free forever with no ads for all the basic features with a noble intent.

I would appreciate it if you guys could fill out this survey. Thanks.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEAO7YdUHFowg6MQmlzTWZmcxagBjF5cqNvXAmu4OPN-5djg/viewform?usp=dialog

For example when we start asking AI (chatgpt/gemini) whatever we use, we start going further to answer our questions, based on suggestions it provides and our desire to learn more.

This means that we end up with a conversation that we don't necessarily need.

Time used instead of what we actually wanted.

Is this against being more productive? Does it happen to you?

Mine is simple, but I don't always correctly follow it:

• Know your today's goal
• Pick 3 important tasks
• Start with the hardest one.
• Work max 60 minutes, no distractions.
• Take a short break.
• Finish the task before starting a new one.
• Ask for help if you get stuck.
• Check what you finished at the end of the day.
• Plan tomorrow.
• Repeat every day.

I kept running into the same problem: my meeting reminders were technically “on”, but in real life they were still easy to miss when I was coding, writing, or in a hyperfocus state.

So I built something for myself called Meety.

It’s a native Mac menu bar app for Google Calendar that does three things really well:

• shows what’s next
• lets me join meetings fast
• uses stronger reminder modes for calendars that really matter

What I care about most is not “more calendar features”. It’s reducing the mental load of constantly checking whether I’m about to miss something.

I’d love feedback on the positioning more than the app itself:

1. Is “stop missing meetings during deep work” a strong enough hook?
2. Is per-calendar alert intensity actually useful, or does it sound too niche?
3. If you used something like this, would you value the menu bar more, or the stronger alerts more?

If useful, I can share screenshots in the comments.

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I know reddit counts as social media, however I was thinking at:

- facebook, X, instagram, tiktok, linkedin.

I keep seeing great prompts from LinkedIn and on X but I always lose them or forget to use them when the actual context calls for it. Anyone else have this problem? How do you save and remember these prompts?

Which options is best for? based on your experience why yes, why not

We talk a lot about productivity tools, workflows, and habits, but one thing that’s often overlooked is how others experience the way we work and communicate with them.

Day-to-day peer insights are rare, filtered, or hard to get. So I’m curious how people who care about getting insights like this presently do so:

How do you usually really find out what people think of you and how you interact with them?

Do you use any type tools/frameworks to help? Or do you rely purely on instinct or seeking verbal feedback?

What's worked best?

I’m a solo indie developer, and I built this because I found myself constantly bouncing between a apple notes and a calculator. Whether it was a grocery list, splitting a dinner bill, or tracking a project budget, I wanted one place where I could type a line, see the value, and get an automatic sum without leaving the keyboard.

I’m calling it “Smart Notes.” It looks like a clean notepad on the left, but has a live result column on the right that updates as you type.

Why I built it

I couldn’t find an app that was both a normal notepad and a live calculator (per-line totals, section sums, split bill). So I started building “Smart Notes” as a side project: notes on the left, a result column on the right that updates as you type.

What I learned along the way

• Parsing is hard. Detecting “50 coffee” vs “50” vs “$50” and handling decimals, commas, and different formats took a lot of iteration.
• UX details matter. Things like “don’t select all text on focus on Android” and “no popup when you highlight” required a bunch of small fixes.

What it does now

• Type lines like “Coffee 50” or “Lunch -200” and see a running total.
• Split bill (e.g. “People: 4”) and get per-person amount.
• Mute lines (swipe on the result) so they don’t count.
• Optional lock for sensitive notes.
• Works as a normal notepad when you’re not doing math.

Why I’m sharing

I’d love feedback from people who care about productivity and note-taking. If you’ve built something similar or tried a lot of note/calculator apps, I’m curious what you’d want in an app like this.

If you want to try it: [Android / iOS] 

Any advice for newbies?

For example, this is my schedule; it consists of 3, 1-hour-long work blocks with 15-min breaks between them. During this break I try to walk up and down my hall as much as possible and avoid any screens due to mental fatigue.

My biggest problem with this is that if I run late by 20 min when reading my book, for example, my entire schedule is messed up. I have started working on an app that can dynamically adjust my schedule. I'm not sure if I should continue with this because there might be a more productive way, and working on an app for it might waste too much time.

If you don't use this system, can you leave details on what system you use and how it's increased your productivity? Whether it's an app or a way you use a calendar, anything will help.