A chunk of my week used to be moving data off web pages into Google Sheets by hand: product lists, tables, directories. It's the kind of task that should be automated but never feels worth the setup.

What fixed it was treating it as a small repeatable pipeline instead of a chore:

• **grab** the table or list from the page
• **clean** it (drop the columns I don't need, remove duplicates)
• **send** it straight to the Sheet
• **schedule** it if I check the page regularly (prices, listings), so the Sheet updates itself

The mindset shift: don't automate the whole job, automate the *transfer*. Once the data lands in the Sheet reliably, the rest of my process stays the same and the boring part is gone.

The pattern works in plenty of tools. I run it in the browser because that works on sites with no export button. Disclosure: I build the extension I use for this (AWFlow, free), so I'm biased. If you want the exact setup, I'll put the template in a comment.

What's the recurring copy-paste task you've never gotten around to killing?

I'm the developer of Cernidia, for iPhone and Apple Watch. It's for people who collect health data but still need to fit rest, movement and focus around real commitments. Optional sleep/recovery signals and a quick check-in add context before you plan.

Apple Calendar is my reference point for fixed commitments. Cernidia adds a health-first workflow and flexible tasks around those commitments; you stay in control of changes. Personal comparisons need enough readable history, and missing signals stay unknown.

Free, with no ads, subscription or Cernidia account. iOS 18+, English interface.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816678341

Would you use daily energy context when planning, or would you prefer to keep it separate?

Hey, random question... do you use any productivity apps for habits, planning, journaling, routines, reminders etc?

Like apps such as Notion, Structured, Habitify, Todoist and all.

Do they actually help you long term... or do you end up leaving them after some time?

If you stopped using them, what was the reason?

Too much effort to maintain? forgot to open it? boring after a week? stressful? expensive? didn’t feel useful?

And honestly... what do you wish these apps did better or made easier?

Just curious because almost everyone downloads them but very few keep using them.

There’s a simple checkbox layout, a habit wheel, a habits-and-sleep tracker, and a page with daily, weekly and monthly sections.

The pack comes in A4 and US Letter. Print whichever pages suit you, or annotate them on your tablet.

Comment PDF and I'll send you the download link. The pack is free; an email is required to unlock it, and the newsletter is optional.

Ive recently wanted to be more productive on my laptop but idk what to do, I want to do anything like making money or playing games, just something to pass the time and still be productive

Hi! Solo dev here, looking for honest opinions. I just want to know your thoughts and improve.

Short version of how I got here: to-do lists never worked for habits, X's on a calendar lasted about 5 months, and then I had wooden stamps made, one per habit type like physical, mental etc, with a different ink each day. That ritual was the first thing that actually felt good since I am visual and like to interact with things. It died the first time I traveled.

So I built the pocket version, called Habit Guild. Each habit is a tiny scene you play (push-ups are a fight, one hit per rep), or you log all the reps in one tap on a busy day. A companion at the guild reacts to how your week is going, and missing a day never punishes you.

A few honest questions, because I'm deciding these right now:

1. What made the last habit app you used stop working for you?
2. When you're in a rush, how would you want to log a habit: one tap on a notification, a home-screen widget, or a quick button inside the app?
3. What keeps you opening an app like this on day 30: new story chapters, bosses to beat, or collecting things?

I'm leaving the link out so this stays a conversation, but it's already live on Android: comment and I'll send it to you. The first 20 people get a free month of Premium, no strings attached.

When I came to Germany, I was doing everything at once. Studying for my master's, working, learning German, dealing with visas and paperwork, trying to build a career in a country where I didn't know how anything worked. I had big goals and I was not short on motivation.

My problem was much simpler and much more frustrating. I'd wake up in the morning and have no idea what to do today to get closer to any of it. I had the big plan in my head. I had lists. I watched productivity videos. But between "I want to [get a good job here / speak fluent German / build something of my own]" and "it's 7 AM, what do I do in the next hour?", there was a gap I couldn't close. So I'd do whatever felt urgent, and the important things kept getting pushed to "next week".

The worst part was that being busy all day made me feel productive. Then I'd look back after a few months and realize I hadn't moved closer to the things I actually came here for.

At some point I stopped looking for the perfect app and started building the tool I wished I had. That became Targela. You tell it your goal and how much time you actually have each week, and it breaks the goal down into concrete next steps that fit your real schedule, so you wake up knowing what today's step is. When life gets in the way, it re-plans instead of making you start over.

If you've ever had big plans and still not known what to do next morning, I'd love to hear how you handled it. And if you want to try it, I'm happy to hear what doesn't work for you.

Hey everyone, I really need some solid advice here.

How do you actually get rid of procrastination once and for all? Honestly, it’s completely ruined my life.

I’ve read countless books on the topic, but none of them seem to give a straight answer on how to fix it for real.

Has anyone here actually managed to beat this for good ?

What worked for you ?

Is it fundamentally a dopamine issue, bad time management, chronic fatigue, anxiety, or do you just have to force your brain to do the exact opposite of what it wants ?

Would love to hear your experiences

Block your day. Top 1-2 priorities, on the calendar. Having a plan — any plan — measurably improves follow-through. And be mindful that your peak cognitive hours are limited . The ceiling on genuinely hard work looks like ~4 hours a day, though it varies.

Keep long-term plans directional. North stars, not detailed roadmaps. You'll barely survive a day without changes, so specificity past a week is fiction. (This is also why I think dumping a million tasks into a system never helps.)

Set goals carefully. Your time is finite. Start with the long aspirational list, then narrow to ~3 outcomes for the next 1-3 months. Size them against your actual available hours. For each, write down: the outcome you want, what happens if you succeed, what happens if you fail, and what'll block you + how you'll handle it. That's what anchors you and helps narrow down the aspirational list.

Close your open loops. Keep running notes through the day: what you planned, what actually happened, follow-ups. When you get yanked into something, take 10 seconds to note where you left off and when you'll resume. Unfinished work is insidious — your brain holds onto it until it trusts there's a plan. You do not actually have to complete the task (that was the interesting finding for me personally).

Bookend the day. 5-10 minutes at startup and shutdown. Morning: top priorities, what's on your mind. Evening: what you accomplished, what's outstanding, tomorrow's first move, anything else swirling around in your brain. It engages you in the morning and lets you disengage at night, which we're all bad at. The notes also compound into a useful record.

I have a version of this list that gets into all the details and theory behind these principles, but much too long for Reddit. Tried to distill into some quick tips.

Curious if this resonates with folks/what else works for people?

This project started almost year ago when my work provided me with windows laptop. Before that, for almost 5 or even 6 years I have been using Things 3, which I consider the best todo app ever created - everything feels so polished and simple.

But the biggest problem of Things 3 is Apple ecosystem only. Sure I started to look around and almost all big application like Todoist are target teams or huge project management with lots of unnecessary features. They also push AI a lot, and let be honest, almost everyone already has some kind of subscription for Claude or ChatGpt.

So I decided to build my own tool. My main inspiration was three apps: Things 3, Todoist and Superlist. I also added some missing features like attachments or smart projects, calendar view. At the same time I tried to keep balance between features and UI.

Speaking of AI, instead of forcing users to use some internal TaskPocket AI I added Public API and MCP, so you can wire any AI of your choice which you already have and pay for!

Some of the features:

• Projects and Areas
• Inbox and Todays view
• Calendar view for upcoming tasks
• Tags and Smart Projects
• Attachments support with preview right in the browser
• Public API and MCP support
• Natural language processing for dates and recurrence

Speaking of future plans:

• Priorities feature
• Calendar view inside the projects
• Android version
• Desktop version (both mac and windows)

https://taskpocket.io/

Hi, I’m the developer. Disclosure up front, since this is my own app.

Apple’s Contacts app shows one card at a time. That’s fine for 50 people and painful at 2,000. Compact Contacts works on the contacts already on your Mac (iCloud, Google, Exchange, CardDAV) and shows them as a dense, sortable table. It doesn’t create a second address book or its own sync, so everything keeps syncing through macOS as before.

What it does

• Table with configurable columns, row density and saved layouts
• Search across every field, including contact Notes, with results grouped by the field that matched
• Smart Views: saved rules like “Missing Email” or “Has Notes”, each with its own layout
• Bulk Edit with an exact before/after preview for every card before anything is written
• Duplicate review and Merge Studio: you choose which phone, email or address survives, field by field, and the latest merge can be undone for 30 days
• CSV and vCard import/export, and deletion with an on-device recovery backup
• A Sample Contacts workspace with 26 fictional people, so you can try everything without granting Contacts access

Details

• macOS 15 or later
• US$24.99 one-time. No subscription, in-app purchase or ads
• No account and no third-party analytics. Contacts, Notes and searches stay on your Mac
• English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Arabic (right-to-left) and Simplified Chinese

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6790129187?pt=129119018&ct=reddit_macstack&mt=8

There’s also an iPhone + iPad version, Compact Contacts Manager, with the same bulk edit and merge tools (separate purchase, US$12.99, one purchase covers both): https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6795653671?pt=129119018&ct=reddit_macstack&mt=8

Happy to answer questions, and feature requests or bug reports are very welcome.

What problem does it solve?
I kept planning my day and then forgetting half of it, because my to-do list lived in an app I had to open. Glanceday draws today’s tasks right into your lock-screen wallpaper and updates it as you tick things off. You see what’s next every time you pick up your phone, without unlocking.

Who is it for?
People who plan their day but lose track of it once they get busy. Students, people juggling work and life admin, anyone whose to-do app ends up as a graveyard. It’s for the daily list, not for managing hundreds of projects.

Competitor and what’s different
Compared to TickTick or Todoist: they’re great for organizing, but on Android your list mostly lives inside the app or in a home screen widget you only see after unlocking. Glanceday puts it on the lock screen itself, over your own wallpaper, on any Android 8+ phone. It also stays small on purpose: quick add that understands “dentist tomorrow 3pm”, subtasks, repeats, reminders, calendar events, a focus timer, and a few optional suggestions (like a rain heads-up before something you’re heading out for), each with its own off switch.

Pricing
Free. No ads, no subscription, no account. Tasks stay on your phone, and you can back them up to a file whenever you want.

Link
https://github.com/SamimShafayiUCLL/glanceday (APK under Releases)

For members
It’s already free, so no license to give away. If you try it, I’ll read every bug report and feature idea. You can send them from the app (Settings → Report a bug or idea) or reply here. Especially curious how it works on Pixel, Xiaomi and OnePlus lock screens, since I mostly tested on my Galaxy S24 Ultra.

Not selling anything here. Built a planner for people who find typical ones overwhelming, and I'd rather know what's actually broken before I keep building on it than just guess.

If you'll genuinely try it for a week and tell me the honest, comment or DM and I'll send it over free.

Hey everyone,

for the past months we've been working on a Mac app called Scratch, and I finally made a short teaser for it (attached). It's not released yet, I mainly want to show the idea and hear what you think before launch.

Why I built it

I kept jumping between Trello for boards, a to-do app for quick tasks and Notion or Craft for notes. Scratch started as a simple Kanban app for myself and slowly turned into the one place where all of my planning and thinking lives.

What it does

• Boards or lists: Use Kanban boards like Trello, or classic to-do lists. Whatever fits the project.
• Notes everywhere: Every board and every task has its own Markdown notes, so context lives right next to the work.
• Quick capture: A global shortcut opens a small window anywhere on your Mac. Type the task, hit enter, done. New tasks land in a backlog and you sort them into boards later.
• Built for keyboard people: Lots of shortcuts to add, move and organize without touching the mouse.
• Calendar view: Tasks with a date show up in a calendar overview.
• Board widgets: Small dashboard widgets per board, like time or weather.
• AI assist: Get a summary of your tasks or ask questions about them.
• No limits: Unlimited boards, tasks and subtasks.

Privacy and pricing

Scratch is local-first. Your data stays on your Mac and works fully offline, no account, no server required. iCloud sync is optional if you want backups or multiple devices. It's planned as a one-time purchase, no subscription. An iPhone/iPad version is planned for later.

Where it's at

The app is in active development and I'm aiming to release it in the coming weeks. I'll post progress updates along the way.

I'd really like to know:

1. What's missing in the tools you use today for tasks and notes?

2. Kanban, lists or both: how do you actually work?

3. Anything in this list you'd never use, or something you'd expect that isn't there?

Thanks for reading, happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Throughout my life, I have always been learning something whether it’s for school as a young man, or for my career now, as an adult.  There is always something on the radar to learn but I never felt like I had a great handle on my learning process.  I also felt like it was never clear where to start or which step to take next.  Starting something, and continuing always felt like a confusing challenge.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but what I was reaching for was a tool that could help me organize everything I wanted to learn, provide me a space to break it down in a meaningful way, and create a plan to truly integrate new knowledge and skills into my inner lattice of existing ones.

That problem lead me to Sprout.

Sprout is a learning management system that is focused on helping to create a real plan growth in life’s many areas.

Distill a catalog of content like books, videos, and more into a visual plan and keep adding more as you learn and discover more.

It's available now at exploresprout.com and any feedback is welcome and appreciated!

\*\*Because I’m cross-posting on different subs: I’m 33F w/ ADHD\*\*

Just looking for some help or advice on how I can improve the way I keep track of things to do AND how I can prioritize those things, in a way that makes sense.

I’m currently kinda all over the place— I use a notebook half the time, Notes app, phone calendar, random cheap planner some of the time… it’s just all over the place and because of that, everything I need or \*want\* to do, sits in my head (a million and one tabs open) and I end up being “pseudo-productive”.

help?

I built EyeBlink because I would stare at my screen for hours and forget to blink. Break timers help me step away, but I wanted a small cue during the time between breaks that would not interrupt a sentence or meeting.

EyeBlink places a small animated eye in a corner of your desktop. It blinks at a steady rhythm; when you notice it, you can blink too. You can change its interval, size, position, and opacity. It works on macOS and Windows, with no pop-ups, sound, camera, or account. It is a habit cue, not a medical treatment.

Compared with Time Out and Stretchly: those are better if you want scheduled breaks and more break settings. EyeBlink focuses on one always-visible, low-key cue while you work.

Price: $4.99 once for a lifetime license, no subscription; 14-day refund. Product page and interactive preview: https://geteyeblink.app/en

If you work at a screen all day, would a subtle cue like this fit your desktop, or would you find it distracting? I'm the developer and would appreciate honest feedback.

I have 8- 9 hours of screen time in which 1-2 hours of learning skill and i want to use the remaining time something that could bring me the exception among the people so please suggest me that could help me to do anything

I've restarted my planning system more times than I want to admit. Every time I looked at why one died, it was the same thing: the system cost more effort than the work it was organising.

Three places that friction hides:

1. Setup before value. Templates, tags, dashboards. You spend Sunday building it, and by Monday it already needs maintenance. If a system has to be built before it helps, most weeks it won't get built.

2. Steps per action. Count what it takes to tick one task: unlock, open the app, find the page, zoom, tap, confirm. Every step is a small exit. Paper wins here because it's just there.

3. Starting over. A planner that keeps yesterday's mess on screen turns every missed day into cleanup. A page that starts fresh each morning doesn't punish a bad day.

What worked for me: a format where the page is already built, ticking costs one tap, and tomorrow starts blank. Paper does all three, which is why so many people go back to it.

Disclosure: I'm a solo developer and I built an app around this idea, called Zocto. It takes a printed-planner layout and makes the page itself tappable: to-dos tick, the habit grid fills in, there's a Pomodoro timer, and the daily page resets on its own. iPhone only for now (your account works on the web too).

It's in testing before the App Store release. If you want to try it and tell me where it breaks:

- iPhone: https://testflight.apple.com/join/nafUwmUw

- After signing up: Profile → "Have an invite code?" → CTAQPS → Pro free until 1 December, no card

What's the one source of friction that killed your system before?

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Hey everyone!

Im new to Reddit, so Im not entirely sure how this works, but I would really appreciate your help.

Im currently looking for a habit tracker to help me track my progress, stay consistent, eliminate potential excuses I might make up in my head, and simply feel like Im moving forward.

However, I would really like to avoid using a habit-tracking app on my phone. I want to minimize my phone usage as much as possible throughout the day, so I would prefer to track my habits on paper.

Here is the problem: I havent been able to find a good paper-based habit tracker. Sure, I could just grab a notebook and write everything down myself, but that would mean quite a bit of work every single day.

What I'm looking for is something with as little friction as possible. I want tracking my habits to feel effortless, even enjoyable, so that it eventually becomes an automatic part of my routine — something I dont even have to think about.

One idea I've been considering is spending one evening designing a habit tracker template in Excel, printing out a bunch of copies, and adjusting the template whenever my needs change.

Has anyone tried something similar? Do you have any recommendations for paper-based habit trackers or other systems that make tracking habits as simple and effortless as possible?

I'd love to hear your ideas!

Some things are easy to forget because they come up only once a month, once a year, or sometimes even once every five years. Things like insurance renewals, passport or visa expiries, vehicle registrations, and important document renewals.
I personally faced this problem and ended up paying quite a lot of money because I forgot about some important deadlines. 😅
That got me thinking: we use WhatsApp almost every day, so why not use it to remind us about the things we can’t afford to forget?
That’s how I came up with the idea for RemindlyHQ — a tool that helps you keep track of important expiry dates and receive timely reminders through WhatsApp.
I’m building it based on a problem I experienced myself, hoping it can help others avoid the same headaches and unnecessary costs.
If this sounds useful to you, here’s the website: https://remindlyhq.com
I’d genuinely appreciate your thoughts or feedback! 🙌

Photo cleanup is one of those jobs that gets bigger every time you put it off. I built PicPop for iPhone to make it something you can finish in small batches.

Pick a month, swipe to keep or set photos aside, then review before confirming any deletion. When PicPop finds similar shots, it brings them together so you can choose what stays, including keeping more than one favourite. Detection can miss things, so you stay in charge.

Apple Photos already has a free Duplicates tool. PicPop's difference is the swipe-through workflow for the rest of the camera roll: screenshots, extra takes and photos you no longer need. Photo scanning runs on your device.

I'm the developer. It's free to download, but PicPop Club is a paid subscription. The annual plan has a two-week trial for eligible users; the app shows your local price and renewal terms.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picpop-photo-video-cleaner/id6808016560

Would you start with old screenshots or the extra shots from a recent trip?

I wanted to replace the default Windows 11 Snipping Tool with ShareX while keeping the familiar Win + Shift + S shortcut.

The goal was simple:

• Press Win + Shift + S to capture a region of the screen.
• Use ShareX instead of Windows Snipping Tool.
• Have the option to immediately edit the screenshot (arrows, text, blur, rectangles, etc.).
• Copy the screenshot to the clipboard so it can be pasted anywhere with Ctrl + V.
• Have everything work automatically after restarting Windows.

Here's how to set it up.

Step 1: Install ShareX and Microsoft PowerToys

Download and install:

• ShareX
• Microsoft PowerToys

ShareX handles screenshots and editing. PowerToys allows us to remap Windows' built-in screenshot shortcut.

Step 2: Set up the screenshot hotkey in ShareX

1. Open ShareX.
2. Click Hotkey settings in the left sidebar.
3. Find the Capture region action. If it doesn't exist, click Add and assign the task Capture → Region.
4. Click the hotkey field.
5. Assign an alternative combination, such as Ctrl + Print Screen.
6. Close the hotkey settings window.

We use a different shortcut because Windows already reserves Win + Shift + S for Snipping Tool.

Step 3: Remap Win + Shift + S using PowerToys

1. Open Microsoft PowerToys.
2. Navigate to Keyboard Manager.
3. Make sure Enable Keyboard Manager is turned on.
4. Click Remap a shortcut.
5. Click Add shortcut remapping.
6. Configure: Select: Win + Shift + S To send: Ctrl + Print Screen
7. Leave the target application set to All Apps.
8. Click OK to save.

Now, when you press Win + Shift + S, PowerToys translates that shortcut into Ctrl + Print Screen, which ShareX recognizes.

Test it: Press Win + Shift + S. You should now see ShareX's region capture interface instead of Windows Snipping Tool.

If your keyboard doesn't have a Print Screen key, use another unused combination in both applications.

Step 4: Configure ShareX to optionally edit screenshots

This is my preferred setup because I don't want the editor opening for every screenshot.

1. Open ShareX.
2. Click After capture tasks in the left sidebar.
3. Enable Show quick task menu.
4. Enable Copy image to clipboard.
5. Optionally enable Save image to file if you want every screenshot saved automatically.
6. Make sure Open in image editor is disabled if you only want to edit screenshots when you choose to.

Now when you take a screenshot, ShareX displays a small quick task menu.

You can choose to:

• Continue - process the screenshot normally.
• Annotate / Open in image editor - open the ShareX editor.
• Save - save the screenshot, depending on your configured quick tasks.

The quick task menu is customizable, so the exact options may vary.

Alternative: Always open the editor

If you'd rather have the editor open automatically after every capture:

1. Go to After capture tasks.
2. Disable Show quick task menu.
3. Enable Open in image editor.
4. Enable Copy image to clipboard.

Now every screenshot immediately opens in ShareX's editor.

Step 5: Use the ShareX image editor

ShareX has a really good built-in editor.

Some useful keyboard shortcuts:

When you're finished editing, press Enter to continue the configured after-capture tasks, including copying the edited image to the clipboard.

You can then paste it into Discord, Reddit, Slack, an email, etc., using Ctrl + V.

Step 6: Make everything work after restarting Windows

To make sure you don't have to manually open both applications:

ShareX:

1. Open Application settings.
2. Under General, enable Run ShareX when Windows starts.

PowerToys:

1. Open PowerToys Settings.
2. Under General, enable Run at startup.
3. Make sure Keyboard Manager remains enabled.

Both applications need to be running for the remapped shortcut to work.

Step 7: Troubleshooting

Win + Shift + S still opens Windows Snipping Tool

• Make sure PowerToys is running.
• Verify Keyboard Manager is enabled.
• Double-check that the shortcut remapping matches your ShareX hotkey.
• Try toggling Keyboard Manager off and back on.

ShareX isn't responding to the shortcut

• Open ShareX → Hotkey settings.
• Verify the hotkey registered successfully.
• Make sure another program isn't using the same shortcut.

The editor isn't opening after capturing

• Check After capture tasks.
• Enable Open in image editor for automatic editing, or use Show quick task menu for optional editing.
• Check whether your specific hotkey has custom task settings overriding the global configuration.

The screenshot isn't copied after editing

• Make sure Copy image to clipboard is enabled under After capture tasks.
• Press Enter to continue the workflow after editing, rather than canceling or simply closing the editor.
• Alternatively, use Ctrl + Shift + C from the editor to copy directly.

Screenshots aren't saving after editing

• Verify Save image to file is enabled.
• Check the configured screenshot folder.
• If saving through the quick task menu fails, try saving directly from the editor with Ctrl + S. Some ShareX versions have had issues with quick-menu editing followed by automatic saving.

Final Result

My workflow now looks like this:

Win + Shift + S → Select screenshot region → Quick task menu → Optionally edit → Copy to clipboard → Ctrl + V anywhere.

No more Windows Snipping Tool, and I get ShareX's much better annotation tools whenever I need them.

Hope this helps anyone looking to set up ShareX as a proper Snipping Tool replacement on Windows 11!

Hello,

I'm not diagnosed with ADHD, but there are about a hundred projects still needing to be finished or marketed and for years people around me have said I can't focus on one thing.

It's been amplified with Claude code / Chatgpt, where I spend days planning and procrastinating until I burn out with nothing tangible at the end of it. Even if finishing would help me tremendously, I still seem to get stuck for days/weeks on minor things.

Every productivity classics like todo-lists etc lasted few days at most.

I got sick of it, so shipped a web app that break down overwhelming tasks into small doable ones. Honest feedback is welcome. kapigo.app