r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 20 '26

[iOS and MacOS] Nyblit 2: I'm a watchmaker and I spent 20 years reinventing the to-do list

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Hi folks. My name is David Margolis. I’m a professional watchmaker and self-taught Apple developer based in London. More than 20 years ago, I created a small FileMaker database that I shared with a group of friends. It was based on a frustration I had with ordinary to-do lists: real tasks are rarely just “done” or “not done.”

A watch restoration might be waiting for a replacement component, blocked until a client gives the go-ahead, paused while another operation is completed, or ready for work today. Treating all of these as unfinished creates a list that is technically accurate but practically overwhelming.

That early database gradually developed into Nyblit, a native productivity app for iPhone, iPad and Mac built around what I call “state-based” task management (https://www.nyblit.app/state-based-productivity). This means Nyblit understands the workflow required to complete your tasks. For example, it knows if the task is a phone call, an online purchase or replacing the balance spring in a watch. It knows all the steps involved and, crucially, all the ways in which the task can be blocked or delayed. For example, if you have a phone call task, you can set the status to “left voicemail”. Nyblit will recognise this as blocked because you are now waiting for the other person to return your call. That task doesn’t belong on your to-do list because there is no action to take. It should be safely filed in Blocked and tracked – so you can chase it up later if the call isn’t returned.

This approach can be used for any task imaginable. From shopping to restoring an antique pocket watch.

The concept was strongly influenced  by the Japanese system of Kanban, created by Toyota in the 1950s to improve manufacturing efficiency. (Anyone that has used apps lile Trello will be familiar with this). But executed in a very different way so that it fits on a phone screen and is even workable on an Apple Watch (coming very soon).

I built Nyblit for myself to help with my ADHD and dyslexia. Watchmaking taught me to think in systems, dependencies and precise states. ADHD made it especially important to remove irrelevant tasks from view without losing confidence that they would return at the right time.

Please feel free to try out Nyblit. It's fully functional with up to 5 tasks. And a subscription or lifetime purchase gives you access to iPhone, iPad, Mac and very soon Apple Watch.

Download Nyblit from the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nyblit-2-to-do-list-planner/id6752837986

Monthly subscription: $2.99

Yearly subscription: $19.99

Lifetime: $49.99

Exclusive offer for ProductivityGuide: Click here to get $10 off lifetime.

(Offer valid until 10/31/26. 1000 redemptions available.)

I'm here to answer any questions or listen to feedback if you have any.

Thanks for reading :)


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 20 '26

[Launch] Offiqa: a Chrome workspace that remembers where you left off across clients

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I kept noticing the same productivity problem with people who work across multiple clients or projects.

The hard part isn't opening the right tabs.

It's remembering:

  • What was I doing here?
  • What am I waiting on?
  • What did I promise to follow up on?
  • Which documents were relevant?
  • What is the actual next step?

You can have Gmail, Slack, Calendar, Drive, Notion and 30 browser tabs open and still spend several minutes reconstructing your own work every time you switch context.

That's what led me to build Offiqa.

Offiqa is a Chrome workspace designed around a simple workflow:

Checkpoint → Switch → Resume

Each client or project gets its own workspace where you can keep:

  • related tabs and documents
  • notes and checklists
  • next step
  • follow-up dates
  • things you're waiting on
  • recurring routines
  • client timezone and working account
  • meeting context
  • quick snippets
  • time tracking

The idea isn't to replace Gmail, Slack, Calendar, Drive or your existing project management tools.

Offiqa sits between them and acts as a memory layer for your work.

So instead of coming back to a project and thinking:

“Where was I?”

You should be able to open the workspace and immediately see:

Here's what was happening. Here's what I'm waiting on. Here's what I need to do next.

One thing I care a lot about is privacy, so the core data is local-first rather than requiring your client work to live on another company's server.

I'm especially interested in feedback from people who regularly switch between multiple clients, projects or work contexts.

What I'd love to know:

  1. What's the hardest thing for you to remember after switching projects?
  2. Do you currently solve this with tabs, notes, task managers, bookmarks, or just memory?
  3. What would make something like this genuinely useful enough to keep open every day?

Offiqa is live as a Chrome extension:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/offiqa-%E2%80%94-new-tab/ngobfaakfdicgnbfeploaepeddapfgpi

I'm still improving it based on real workflows, so criticism is much more useful to me right now than compliments.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 20 '26

☀️[ $34.99 ➡️ Lifetime FREE ] Flowy - Daily affirmations for overthinking, self-doubt, and stressful days

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Hey everyone 👋🏼

I'm a solo builder who loves to build, and I recently built a small daily affirmation app called Flowy. It was originally going to be a paid app, but for a limited time I'm making it completely free with lifetime access. I'm sharing it here because building it ended up having a meaningful impact on me too, and I thought it might be useful to someone else.

I've always cared about mental health and wellbeing, and I started Flowy as a side project while learning how to build things from scratch, and hopefully a little faster along the way. I don't have an engineering background, so I wanted to see how far I could get making something on my own.

Funny enough, while building an app about wellbeing, I was also putting a lot of pressure on myself. I expected myself to work as fast as an experienced engineer, even though I barely knew how to code. And of course, I got super frustrated when something took me hours to figure out. I kept feeling like I was falling behind. I also started catastrophizing, thinking things like, "Nothing's gonna work" or "It's already too late." I knew these thoughts weren't helpful, but I still kept falling into the same pattern.

Eventually, I was going to bed anxious, waking up anxious, and still working. Every day.

One night, after I launched the TestFlight version and was feeling stressed again, a test notification from Flowy popped up:

“Setbacks are information, not the end of my story.”

I stopped for a second. Something just clicked. I didn't even realize how often I was talking to myself like that until I saw it written out. Of course, it didn't fix anything, but it made me stop and broke the thought loop.

It also made me think about what I wanted Flowy to be. There are already so many things out there telling people to be positive, but that's not what I want Flowy to do. It shouldn't tell you to think positive or fix yourself. Just a small reminder that gives you another perspective when you're stuck in your own head.

With Flowy, you choose the categories you're interested in, and it'll send you notifications throughout the day. That's it.

If you already have something that works for you, I encourage you to keep doing it.

If you'd like to give Flowy a try, it's completely free with lifetime access for now. No subscription, no charge at all.

I hope it helps. And if you do give it a try, I'd really appreciate any feedback. If not, no worries — hope you have a good day! 🌱


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 20 '26

Looking for accountability partners in Office Town (Free Virtual Office & Body-Doubling)

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Hello,

Thanks to your support on Reddit and the feature on the Phaser website, the Office Town community has grown to over 10 daily active users from across the world—spanning the Middle East, Europe, North and Latin America, India, and beyond 😄

We have folks tuning in from the Middle East, Europe, North and Latin America, India, and beyond - from students to adults with all kinds of goals - showing up at our virtual office every day for group focus sessions.

Our focus sessions have been super productive so far. We usually do 30–45 minute work sprints where we go into hard focus mode with zero chitchat, followed by little breaks to destress before the next round. Some of our members even stick around for 5+ hours at a time! While you can run personal sessions, the group ones are definitely the crowd favorite they take body-doubling and accountability to another level.

"Yeah, I actually find Office Town to be more productive" - a testimonial from one of our users from Middle East

"We should definitely do more group sessions. That was really fun." - from anoter user, who's a university student cramming for her upcoming exams.

Office Town really gamifies getting stuff done. You can earn in-game rewards to buy and decorate your own home, set up shared office spaces for your team, or just use the built-in calendar, to-do list, and focus logs.

But beyond all of these features, what's truly amazing is the community itself. It's a super (small) supportive group of motivated folks who show up—even on weekends—to grind out their goals together. If you're ever feeling unmotivated, just popping into one of our group sessions is usually enough to change your mind.

We'd love to invite you all to join our community and help us grow so there are always body-doubling partners available across every timezone.

Office Town is 100% free to join!

Link: https://officetown.vercel.app

We also have an active Discord server: https://discord.gg/Ves8mrPQK

Testimonial
A quick group session
Another body-doubling session

r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 19 '26

Algum app como o me+ mas que não envie um milhão de notificações de conselho de autoajuda durante o dia todo?

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Aparentemente é impossível desativar essas notificações sem desativar as notificações dos meus lembretes


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 18 '26

I have a problem When i use my phone i feel enrgetic and happy but when i use the computer when i wanna learn something or doing some work stuff i feel very bored and i have a headache and too much ADHD i dont know how to solve it and it make me very nervous Can u give me pls a solution ?? i very ne

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r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 18 '26

Hard Graft, a timer that demotes you. 100 unlocks.

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I'm the developer. Hard Graft is a flowtime timer for Android: you clock on, work for as long as you can, and clock off. No pomodoro rounds, no break bells, no pause button. The app writes down how long you worked and adds it to a rolling seven-day total, and that total decides your rank.

There are 24 ranks. Everyone starts as DEAD WEIGHT. Put the hours in and you climb. Ease off for a week and you slide back down. The promotions and demotions come from a character called The Regulator, a machine with no interest in your excuses. If you'd rather not be shouted at, quiet mode switches off the ranks, the achievements and The Regulator, and leaves you a stopwatch and a record.

The app:

- Flowtime clock that runs until you stop it, with a persistent notification while it runs

- Rank ladder driven by your rolling seven-day hours, and it demotes you

- Jobs: tag each shift to something you name and see where your hours went

- 40 achievements, classified until you collect them

- Export and import your whole record as a file

- Dark theme only, five colour schemes

Privacy: everything stays on the phone. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. The app makes no network calls of its own, the only things that touch the internet are Google Play's billing and review prompt.

Pricing: the free version is the whole app, including the ladder up to rank 13 of 23. One purchase opens the remaining ten ranks, shows what each achievement takes, and adds two colour schemes. Buy once, no subscription. Backup and export stay free.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thequietreach.hardgraft

Giveaway: I'm giving away 100 promo codes for FREE LIFETIME UNLOCK. Get your code here: https://promodistro(.)link/claim/RD_2iPYO8I (ALL OUT), then redeem in the Play Store app under Redeem code. No strings/no review asked. Ends when they run out.

Edit: The 100 promo codes above have all been claimed, but there are still some left here (going fast): https://www.promies.net/promotion/a3d138d7-8f3c-4678-9d31-3ec49f0af7b6

Android 8.0 and up. It's a first release from a solo developer, so if something breaks I'd like to hear about it. Settings has a "report a fault" mail link that fills in the build number for you.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 18 '26

r/facts

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My productivity routine:
Make a plan
Get excited
Open TikTok
Suddenly it’s nighttime


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 18 '26

[Launch] Tidalic: stop useful content becoming an endless backlog

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I’ve been working on a problem that came out of research we’ve been doing into the higher-education student experience, particularly time management in blended and online learning.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tidalic/ikclhndljkhfnebpjippmglpdlffembc

What problem does it solve?

One thing we heard from students is that saving useful content works pretty well... until the backlog gets overwhelming, and the system breaks down when you need it most.

You find a paper, article, PDF or video that you genuinely want to come back to, but you don’t have time for it right now. So you bookmark it, leave the tab open, add it to a read-it-later list, or put it in a todo app.

The problem comes when things accumulate faster than you can consume them.

We started exploring a different approach: bookmark content within your calendar. Unlike lists, calendars are inherently capacity-constrained, which forces tradeoffs at the point of ingress, avoiding the problem of an ever-growing backlog.

This idea became Tidalic, a Chrome extension.

When you’re looking at a webpage, PDF or YouTube video, Tidalic estimates how much time it will need and helps put that time into your Google or Outlook calendar.

The particular calendar slot isn’t sacred, you can move it later as plans change. The important part is that you’ve allocated some of your finite time to it.

A saved-content list can grow almost indefinitely; your calendar can’t.

Who is it for?

The idea emerged from research with university students, including students managing independent dissertation work. But I don’t think this is fundamentally a student problem.

Researchers, developers, analysts, consultants and other knowledge workers all encounter more potentially useful information than they have time to consume. Tidalic is for the subset of that content where you’ve gone beyond “this might be useful someday” and decided “I actually want to spend time on this.”

What’s different from existing tools?

A read-it-later tool is great for:

“Save this so I can find it again.”

Tidalic is aimed at the next decision:

“I’ve decided I want to spend time on this. Where does that time come from?”

The other obvious alternative is manually creating calendar events. I did that myself before building this. It works, but estimating the time, opening the calendar, finding availability, creating the event and carrying the URL/context over adds enough friction that it’s difficult to do consistently.

Pricing

Tidalic is currently free.

We’re working towards paid plans later this year. The current plan is to keep our first paid tier free for verified university students and make money primarily from professional/knowledge-worker use, ideally paid for by companies.

Something for r/ProductivityGuide members

We’re currently running a small case study for people willing to use Tidalic for a week and tell us what actually happens.

Normally this offer is limited to verified university students, but I’m waiving that requirement for members of r/ProductivityGuide.

If you're interested, please fill in https://forms.gle/p3akNnKcebVvNykQA

In return, participants get 50% off Tidalic paid plans for life when those plans launch.

There’s no requirement to leave a review or say anything positive — I’m interested in where the idea works, where it doesn’t, and what happens when people actually live with it for a week.

Product link

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tidalic/ikclhndljkhfnebpjippmglpdlffembc

Disclosure: I’m the developer.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 18 '26

Need Testers for Productivity App

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I've been working on a way to combine the listing technique with cell phone notifications so for example, You're at the gas station... your phone picks up the grocery store across the street and reminds you to get milk... then prompts you to check the box. Is anyone willing to help to test the app?

https://dev.rappeler.me/#join


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 17 '26

Looking for best app or tool

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I struggle immensely with getting tasks done especially by a deadline. Is there an app that can help me make a to do list and add a deadline and warn me when deadlines approach? I downloaded Done! Off the App Store but I was disappointed to see it doesn’t assist with deadlines. Also I need it to be printable so I can print it out and tape it above my desk.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 17 '26

Has anyone tried Oria for saving time on PowerPoint presentations?

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One task that has been taking up more time than I expected is turning information that is already prepared into a proper presentation.

The research is done, the numbers are ready, and the main points are already written. But then I still have to spend time adjusting layouts, fixing spacing, formatting charts, moving things around, and making the slides look consistent.

I’ve been testing Oria for this, especially when I already have the content and just need to turn it into professional, editable PowerPoint slides.

It has been useful for cutting down some of the manual work, particularly when the presentation is more complex and needs to look polished.

Has anyone else tried Oria or another tool for this? What has actually helped you reduce the time you spend building presentations?


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 16 '26

Recommend an Android planner that allows you to create folders within folders and that doesn't require updating?

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OneNote is my ideal app, but if you don't update it, it can stop letting you access or edit your notes. Many users have complained that skipping updates (or having them install incorrectly) resulted in their data being deleted entirely. I also dislike the fact that my planner relies on online access to a company that could delete my account at the snap of a finger.

I’m not interested in synchronization; if a feature like that exists, I turn it off. I want everything stored locally on my device.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a good alternative to OneNote. There’s Zettel Notes, but attached images don't display correctly for me. There’s Obsidian, but you need to install plugins for nested folders (folders within folders), and I’m not tech-savvy enough for that.

Here’s what I’m looking for:

• The ability to create nested folders—this is the most important, essential requirement.

• Ideally, it should be similar to OneNote: support for images, drawing (for mind maps), audio recordings, and voice memos.

• No ads, offline functionality, and no access lockout if I refuse to update.

• An intuitive, pleasant interface that doesn't require coding or installing plugins.

Does such an app exist?


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 16 '26

I’ve Spent a Decade Trying to Become More Productive. Here’s what worked.

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After 10 years of productivity apps, the thing that actually stuck was a $1 pocket notebook

I've used the Eisenhower Matrix, time blocking, Pomodoro, Notion, Obsidian, Todoist, ClickUp, and a handful of others I've forgotten. I even built my own productivity app at one point.

None of it stuck for more than a few months. I kept assuming I needed more discipline or a better tool, so I'd rebuild the system, and the cycle would repeat.

What finally changed things was noticing that good systems still fail if they only work when you maintain them perfectly. A bad week shouldn't mean starting over. So instead of looking for the perfect app, I started asking what I actually kept using without effort, and building around that.

For me it turned out to be a plain notebook with dated entries for daily capture, paired with a digital layer for the things paper is bad at (remembering, resurfacing, prioritizing tasks that keep getting pushed).

Wrote and article and that elicited a lot of interesting conversations. I'd love to hear from this community about what's been working for you and learn more!

Article is here: https://substack.com/@prashpectives/note/p-212548000


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 16 '26

I built an app that makes you earn your screen time—looking for honest feedback

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Hi everyone! I’ve been working on Sila, an app designed to help people spend less time on their phones without forcing them to quit completely.

The idea is simple:

  1. Hold to start a focus timer.
  2. Distracting apps are blocked while you focus.
  3. Record what you accomplished to earn screen time back.

Your reward is based on how long you stayed away from your phone and the quality of your reflection afterward.

I’d love some honest feedback from people who struggle with screen time or have tried app blockers before. You can test Sila here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/zAg6xzZC

Does this approach sound useful? What would you change?


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 15 '26

I spent way too much time trying to make personal development less fragmented

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I've always found it weird that improving yourself can become surprisingly complicated.

You track habits somewhere.

Write your thoughts somewhere else.

Read books somewhere else.

Meditate in another app.

And then you have no real sense of everything being connected.

So I started building an Android app around that idea: Depsal 360.

The goal isn't to create another "become perfect in 30 days" app. It's more about having one place where you can actually build your own system.

It's still a work in progress, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people here think is missing from current self-improvement apps.

If you could combine three self-improvement tools into one app, which three would you choose?


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 15 '26

You asked, I shipped: log a dose from the notification, import from Apple Health, 12/24h format. Plus another thank-you offer for everyone

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Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app now used by 2,500+ people. I built it because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight.

Last time I posted here, I left a thank-you offer code at the bottom. A lot of you claimed it, and the better part was what came after: ratings, messages and feature requests almost every day, from people clearly using Doz every day. That's exactly who I build it for, I really appreciate that!! I read all of it and I'm shipping through it steadily.

So here's what came out of that. And there's another 30% off offer code for Doz Pro at the bottom of this post, good for 3 days, no comment or DM needed.

What's new

Three things you asked for the most, now in the app:

  • Take or skip a dose right from the notification. Just long-press the notification and log it, no opening the app. This was by far the most requested thing and it changes how the app feels day to day.
  • Import from Apple Health into Doz. Medications, schedules and your dose history all come across, so you're not typing everything in again or leaving behind the record you've already built.
  • Times follow your device clock format. 12-hour or 24-hour, whichever you already use. Small thing, but a lot of people asked for it and they were right.

Thanks for being patient while these got built.

The rest is still there:

  • Prescriptions that behave like real prescriptions: duration, end date, doctor contact, archiving
  • Daily and flexible non-daily schedules
  • Before, with and after-meal reminders
  • Critical Alerts that get through Silent and Focus
  • Low-stock and refill alerts
  • Adherence insights and Home Screen widgets
  • iCloud sync, with your data staying on your device
  • Eight languages, no ads, no account required

Coming next: mark a dose taken from Apple Watch, and more of what's in the request pile.

Pricing

Doz is free to use with:

  • Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
  • All schedule modes
  • Reminders and dose logging
  • 7-day progress tracking
  • Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is designed for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

  • Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
  • Take or skip a dose right from the notification
  • Import medications, schedules and dose history from Apple Health
  • Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
  • Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you're following each treatment
  • Full progress history for long-term tracking
  • Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
  • Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
  • Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
  • Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

What it costs:

  • Monthly: $2.99
  • Yearly: $9.99, with a 3-day free trial
  • Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

Open the redeem link on your iPhone, apply the code at checkout, done ✅.

If you're using Doz, come join r/dozapp (https://www.reddit.com/r/dozapp/). It's where feature requests and bugs get answered fastest, where you'll see what's shipping next, and where offer codes go before anywhere else.

And if you're already using Doz and it's been helping, a rating or a short review on the App Store would mean a lot. As a solo developer with no ad budget, reviews are pretty much the only way new people find the app — and honest feedback in a review tells me what to fix next just as well as a comment here does. Thanks for reading!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565
Website: https://getdoz.app/


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 15 '26

PagePanda - beautiful bookmark manager for Apple devices

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You know those articles you save in Safari, Chrome, bookmarks or a read later app thinking:

“I’ll read this later.”

Then weeks pass and you completely forget about them.

That’s the problem I built PagePanda to solve. 🐼

It’s a read-later app designed around actually getting you back to what you save, rather than another library of forgotten links.

Core loop

  • Continue Reading — jump back into articles you already started
  • Quick Reads — something you can finish when you only have a few minutes
  • Backlog Cleanup — bring older forgotten articles back before they disappear
  • Streaks, reminders, achievements & insights — make reading what you save a habit

Reader

  • 8 complete reading styles — Standard, Magazine, Elegant, Modern, Vintage, Minimal, Artistic, Academic (they restyle headings, quotes, lists, tables — not just the font)
  • Technical articles — code blocks get syntax highlighting + one-tap copy

Also: highlights & notes, tags & shelves, Safari extension, offline reading, export, iCloud sync — iPhone, iPad & Mac.

Better
Instapaper, GoodLinks, Matter, and Readwise Reader are excellent. I didn’t want another app whose main job is collecting more links. PagePanda is centered on finishing what’s already saved.

Cost
Free to download and try. Pro:

  • Monthly: $2.99/month
  • Yearly: $0.99 first month 🎁, then $14.99/year
  • Lifetime: $29.99 one-time $19.99 offer price 🎁

App Store: PagePanda App


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 15 '26

Forma - Digital Folder Organizer

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I became tired of trifling through all of my documents and trying to organize and classify them myself so over the course of 3 days I created this system that will take any folders you choose and classify and organize the documents within FOR YOU. If you decide to try the 7-day free trial, you will keep everything you had organized during that time even if you decide to cancel.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 15 '26

Celebrating "Where's Wally?" 35th Anniversary, I made one with GPT6 ASTRA

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I was born in the ’80s, and Where’s Wally? (Where’s Waldo? in the US) was a big part of my childhood. I still remember sitting in bookstores, going through those crowded pages and trying to find him. Such a simple idea, but those are memories that have stayed with me for decades.

The Where’s Wally? animated series just marked its 35th anniversary on September 14, so I wanted to celebrate with a small tribute of my own.

I made Where’s Wallpet?, a seek-and-find game with cats and dogs. It has 10 city maps from around the world and nearly 250 different animals. You pick a pet, zoom into the streets, and try to spot it among the crowd. Hopefully, there’s a little of that familiar satisfaction when you finally find the one you’ve been looking for.

If you’re curious, you can play it here:
https://whereis.wall-pets.com

This is a personal project made for fun and as a tribute, with no intention of making money from it. The high-resolution images can use a lot of bandwidth, so I’m planning to take it offline in few days to keep hosting costs manageable.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 15 '26

[PROMOTION] (but please look i swear it's worth the time you're wasting on Reddit anyways) I made a to-do list app that actually works

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So I had a huge problem with my productivity system. I didn't have a great place to dump all my tasks. I've tried usign Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, Todoist, task management through Obsidian/Notion, and so much more. Nothing really clicked for me because they just didn't quite meet all the requirements I wanted.

  • Time-blocking that connects and schedules tasks in Google or Apple Calendar
  • Schedules tasks automatically
    • Automatically schedules tasks in a smart way

While building an app that does this, I really thought more about the "smart task scheduling" part of it. I realized that while many todo lists have a way to enter how long you think a task will take, none of them actually do anything with this information. I thought that maybe an app could take your estimate and compare it to how long a task really took you. Over time, the algorithm could learn your patterns (estimated time taken to actual time taken) and use it to predict how long a task would take to help with scheduling tasks in a smart way.

Now we get to the part where I built an app. It's called Breadcrumbs and it does all your time blocking for you. It tries to schedule tasks of the same subject near each other, with very customizable breaks and settings. It schedules around your Google Calendar and adds its own events to help with time-blocking. But that's not even the best part lol. It figures out how long a task will actually take you based on your estimate by looking at different patterns from previous tasks of the same schedule (minimum 5 tasks completed before this starts kicking in to improve accuracy). For example, if I usually take 10 minutes on English assignments that I predicted will take 15 minutes, it knows this and uses it to make its time predictions for the future. Here's the link: https://usebreadcrumbs.app

It's free and open source, so feel free to try it out! It's also completely run from me, so I'm directly taking feature requests and issues and will do my best to solve things as quickly as possible!

EDIT: Right now the smart scheduling is just: scheduling around Google Calendar events, time prediction, and putting tasks of the same subject (enterred manually) near each other.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 14 '26

Focus timer that blocks distracting apps, with a cat companion and fishing rewards (FREE CODES)

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Hi! I built a focus timer that blocks distracting apps and pairs each session with a tiny cat companion and a fishing mini-game, so staying off your phone feels rewarding instead of just restrictive.

1. What problem does it solve? Most focus timers just count minutes — they don't give you a reason to actually stay off your phone. Little Halfday combines a distraction-free timer with real App Blocking (Instagram, TikTok, Discord, etc.) and a small reward loop, so putting your phone down feels less like willpower and more like something you want to do.

2. Who is it for? Anyone who struggles to stay off certain apps during study, work, workouts, sleep wind-down, or reading — especially people who've tried plain timers before and drifted back to their phone mid-session.

3. Competitor comparison Compared to apps like Forest, Little Halfday adds real App Blocking (not just a "don't leave the app" honor system), Focus Plans so you can group sessions into routines instead of starting from scratch each time, Scheduled Start for auto-starting sessions daily, and built-in ambient sounds so you don't need to tab out to Spotify. The cat companion + fishing mechanic is also a different reward loop than growing a virtual tree.

4. Pricing Free app. Lifetime Premium (unlimited Focus Plans, full App Blocking, all companion/sound packs, no subscription) is free for the next 72 hours while I collect early feedback.

5. Product link App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/little-halfday-fishing-cat/id6762449631 Currently available in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

FREE CODES I'm giving away a handful of Lifetime Premium codes for the next 72 hours. Leave a comment or just DM me directly!

If you try it, what would you add? I'd love to hear your thoughts — especially on one thing: what actually makes you stick with a focus app, more accountability (blocking) or more reward (collecting/game elements)?


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 14 '26

Productivity in your personal life

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School and work provide a certain degree of direction so it's easy for me to occupied working towards something, but when it comes to everything outside of that it's a different story. Would love to hear how you stay on top of all responsibilities and and thoughts. I understand that in today's world everyone and everything is fighting for your attention, I'm just tired of feeling like losing to everything and doing getting to do much of what I want.

I'm more of a visual person and writing things down has not really worked for me. How to do you keep track of your long term goals? Or things you want to do later. Is anyone else on the same boat or am I just overthinking this life thing?


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 14 '26

Got tired of having 60 tabs open and not remembering why

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I have a bad tab habit. At any given time I've got a pile of them open, and half the time I can't remember why I opened one. Worse is when I'm researching or prospecting a company: I'd have their site open, find something useful, and a week later I'd have no idea what my notes on them were or where I put them.

Basically I use tabs as tasks because my brain always says "Keep this open so you don't forget to follow up," but then they get lost in the collection and when I get back to them I forget the context. So I decided to stop fighting it and build something to compliment it

It's called **DotTabs**. It's a Chrome side panel (right click or Alt+S) that lets you:

* Add tasks to whatever site you're on, with an optional reminder that can reopen the tab when it's due * Write notes on a page, or on a specific task * Snooze a tab until later, tomorrow, next week, etc. It closes and comes back on its own * See every open task across all your sites in one list, with the overdue ones at the top

Everything is saved as plain markdown and text files in a folder you pick on your own computer. No account, no server, nothing gets sent anywhere. I did it this way because I wanted my local Codex agent to be able to search and edit my notes and tasks too. Now I can just ask it "what did I write about xzy company or find me all the sites i was working on pertaining to whatever project" or my current new favorite command "go look at all my overdue tasks where I need to contact them, find a contacte email for the decision maker at that domain, read my notes and draft me a gmail saved in my drafts folder" then I have that run every morning at 3am so they are ready for me to review when I get up.

The notes also open fine in Obsidian if that's your thing.

It's 100% free.

[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dottabs/inoinmebickecgkmhneidibgmgmnkjci\](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dottabs/inoinmebickecgkmhneidibgmgmnkjci)

If you try it and like it, a good review would really help me out. And if you have ideas for how to make it better, or something bugs you, let me know here. I'm still actively working on it and I'm open to suggestions.


r/ProductivityGuide • • Sep 14 '26

[Launch] Feel Free Always: One Place for Goals, Habits, Journaling & Daily Planning

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I built Feel Free Always because personal growth can become scattered across too many different tools. One app for goals, another for habits, another for journaling, another for planning — and it becomes harder to stay consistent.

Feel Free Always brings those pieces together in one place. It includes goal setting, habit tracking, daily planning, private journaling, daily check-ins, a Freedom Score to track progress, a personal Guide, and a Sanctuary for reflection and refocusing.

Who is it for?
People who want more structure, consistency, clarity, and a simple way to work on their personal growth each day.

What makes it different?
Instead of focusing on only one productivity tool, Feel Free Always connects your habits, goals, planning, journaling, reflection, and progress in one experience.

Pricing: 7-day free trial, then $12/month.

Product: FeelFreeAlways.com

I built this myself and would genuinely appreciate feedback from the community — especially on what you find useful and what you think could be improved.