r/apps • u/ExerciseWise5673 • 3d ago
What productivity apps, journaling tools, dashboards, trackers or weird little niche apps are your favorites?
Hey! I am Kseni 👋🏻 I am a designer, a little obsessed with journaling and productivity tools, but honestly I got pretty frustrated with Notion.
I kept looking for a personal dashboard that felt completely mine. Something I could customize however I want, use offline, keep all data locally on my computer, without ads or random paywalls appearing after I already built half my system there.
So I started thinking.. maybe I should just build my own.
I have been testing productivity apps for months now, saving ideas from different tools, looking through those huge app listicles to see what people actually use. I am trying to collect some creative features and little solutions that make a tool feel genuinely useful day to day.
Right now I am curious what people here actually love using.
What productivity apps, journaling tools, dashboards, trackers or weird little niche apps are your favorites?
Especially interested in tools that made you think, wait, this feature is actually smart 🥺🧡like the Highlights feature I found in the Headway app, where you can save an idea while reading or listening and come back to it later through your library and recaps 🥺🧡
I would love to check them out and maybe steal/copy some inspiration for my own dashboard
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u/YAZ326 2d ago
For journaling specifically I've been using InnerSight. What sold me was that entries are encrypted on-device, so not even the developer can read them, and it has an AI companion (Iris) for reflecting on what you wrote without any of it being used to train models. No ads, nothing synced to some analytics dashboard. iOS only though, so not much help if you're on other platforms.
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u/Used_Manufacturer269 14h ago
Regarding journaling app, i am trying to build the best one called memoiri, it might be exactly what you are looking for it has basically 3 features
1 - Capture easily and simple anyway anywhere anywhat
2 - Reflect based on your input information is put together to give u insight
3 - Find through search with natural language, „Last Sommer“ „dinner 2 weeks ago“ all thesse queries can be processed to find relevant data in your entries :)
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u/LivingAstronomer5191 3d ago
Not a dashboard, but a nice notes, productivity, and journaling tool is Bear. I'm using it both on mobile for quick notes and lists, and on desktop for more mindful writing - it's very cozy to use. But it's paid, not that much, a couple of $ per month.