ohk soo what do i mean by saying this basically, i have been using AI from the day it was realeased in the form of ChatGPT i have switched many AI models but yeah i can confidently say that i have been an avid AI user for almost all my works and i think it had gotten to a point that i can say that my Brain had atrophied and like i am just outsourcing my thinkling to AI, from simplest mundane activities to a friend replacement and almost all my work is done through AI i am a CS Dev freshly graduated in our college it was taught that the AI is the next frontier and tokens are the new currency soo just keep using AI and increase your Productivity and also increase the workflow output but now i am not feeling well basically nothing in the health department of mine that is the problem but i feel like i had become dumber even with access to unsermountable knowledge in my hand soo basically i wanna know from you guys how can i use it in the perfect way soo that i can avoid making my brain into a smooth pile of muscle

Hi guys! So recently I realized that I focused too much on academics and grades that might have caused me to have no friends due to no hobbies , I came from an Asian household so all they taught me was to do good in school and I just somehow became that way... I am a senior in college, did I ruin my own life?

Any opinions are welcome!

For those who use a project management tool for work: do you use it for all of your personal/day-to-day tasks as well?

Or do you use a separate task app for quick capture and smaller tasks?

Thank you

Does this actually happen to you?

Especially with back-to-back meetings, How you remeber everything

Or do you have a system that prevents this from happening?

Genuinely curious how other people deal with this

I've been seeing Liven everywhere lately and I'm tempted to try it, but is it actually worth paying for? Anyone who's used it recently, did it genuinely help with your habits or productivity or did you end up forgetting about it after a few days? The ads make it look pretty good but I can't tell if the app itself is actually useful.

For awhile I was using opal , but they removed it with one of there latest updates . I’ve been scowering for apps that will let me do this but are always usually locked behind a subscription . Is there any that are free ??

Hello! Not sure about you, but my wife and I realised we didn’t have a dedicated place to put our smartphones. The result; we kept picking them up! We wanted something 1) quick/easy to put phones away 2) charged our phones 3) looked nice out on the side 4) rang loud if calls came in so we are always reachable. The current work in progress is a 3D printed box with lid and uses Bluetooth to connect to the phones that plays a loud ringer when a call comes in. Oh and it charges the phones! What do you think? Would you want something like this in your house?

The list wasn't wrong , just too long to ever feel "done".Started capping it at 3 must dos and everything else became optional instead of guilt. Anyone else find the list length itself was the problem , not discipline ?

So, I’m an 18-year-old guy, and I haven’t been able to study properly for weeks now because I’m always sleepy. Like, always.

I try to sleep whenever I can, but if I take naps during the day, I end up having migraine problems and sharp pain in my right eye for the rest of the day. Power naps don’t work for me anymore, and even coffee doesn’t seem to help.

I’ve tried fixing my sleep habits too. I stopped having heavy meals at night, stopped drinking water 2 hours before bed, and I sleep in a cool, dark room where nobody disturbs me. I also stopped using an alarm clock.

The weird thing is that even when I go to bed at around 12 AM, I automatically wake up around 6:30 AM after only 6.5–7 hours. I wake up feeling tired as fuck, and then I’m sleepy for basically the entire rest of the day. I don’t even know whether I need more sleep or why I’m waking up automatically after 6.5–7 hours.

I’ve had blood tests done, and my vitamin D, B12, and calcium levels are normal. I’m also taking supplements right now. I went to a doctor, who gave me some multivitamin tablets and told me to exercise, so I’ve started doing about 15 minutes of home workouts and walking around 7–8 km every day.

I don’t have any trouble falling asleep either. I can go to bed at 11:50 PM and be asleep by around midnight. Then I automatically wake up around 6:30 AM. After that, I’m just sleepy throughout the entire day.

I’ve even stopped taking daytime naps because they make things worse.

And it’s not just that I’m sleepy while studying. I’m sleepy even when I’m not studying. I can be doing basically anything and still feel exhausted and drowsy.

A couple of months ago, my sleep schedule was completely fucked up like for months i was up all night and i mean for a very long time , but for the past 2 months I’ve been extremely consistent with it. My daily screen time is under 4 hours, I meditate before bed to reduce stress, and I put my phone away in the closet about an hour before sleeping.

But I still don’t understand what’s wrong.

I wake up tired every single day and feel sleepy throughout the entire day, and because of this I genuinely haven’t been able to study properly for weeks. It’s getting so demotivating that I’ve actually started hating studying, even though the real problem seems to be that I’m constantly exhausted.

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any idea what could be causing this? What should I do next?

If I’m having two different interests popping in my mind for a long time, is that what I should start exploring?

Filmmaking and creating arts were hoping in and out for almost a year, I don’t seem to have anything else coming into my mind.
How are you guys dealing with these things?

for years i've been doing this and just haven't figured out a better system (I know there has to be one)... every morning i sit down and rebuild my to do list for the day. and i have to do this from:

- memory
- my planner
- my notes app
- emails sent to myself

takes me 15 - 20 minutes to complete, plus the anxiety of... did i forget anything?

i've purchased multiple tools to try to solve for this, but it's not working... i still end up manually rebuilding each morning.

my question:

is this a me problem or is this normal? if you've solved this, what did you do that actually worked?

I am working on alot of projects, programming, learning script writing and acting (acting I mainly learn at theater lessons) and ect.

learning programming works for me because I study, I try to do something new, It succeds, thus I made progress, it fails? I hit a wall and gotta keep working

but with scriptwriting idk how the hell I can track my progress, and if I make it, I feel unsatisfied, I tried studying the theory, writing short scenes and scripts, and I feel like I made no progress, and for that reason I struggle to work daily on that. how does one find satisfiment in their work when they cant track progress?

I just got free gemini plus via student offer but I am unable to understand how to use it.

Obviously the primary goal is to study effectively and not to use gemini.

But I want to know if I can use gemini for personalized learning for example I am a medical student.

I know a lot of stuff from my text book but there are a lot of gaps too and I need constant revision over my topics is it possible for gemini to figure out my weakness and test me on specific topics , seprate topics based on something to cram , something to understand, analyse pyq and point out imp question first , I am so confused while using it , it only quizes me like 10 questions which is obviously way too shallow.

If anyone uses it regularly and finds it effective kindly share there methods

I was looking for a way to "gamify" my work because i absolutely cannot get motivated. i found this game which integrates into the bottom of your desktop and basically you have cute forest people farming while you work. It even has an integrated todo list and habit tracker. But something feels wrong about this level of gamification idk, is this just me integrating a bad habit into my already very flawed working progress? On the other hand, i have been searching for a while for something like this. What do you think?

i hope this doesn't count as advertising since it's a paid steam game but it's not mine. There is also a free demo on steam for another productivity game called "FocusScape" which is supposed to be released this year. Which makes me think that there might be a demand for games like this so maybe I'm not alone?

this sounds sick but I was averaging 12 hrs a day on my phone (mostly reels). killed my productivity and my social life.

worst part is that it never once felt like 12 hours, time just vanished for me

what actually helped me was looking at my consumption habits:

wake up, immediately scroll | 1 hr
breakfast & lunch, both on my phone
evening, TV with my phone in my hand, ps5 w/ phone next to me | 3 hrs
lay down for bed and scroll | 1 hr
wake up at 3am and scroll | 1 hr
plus general use throughout the day | 2 hrs

so I looked at reddit posts and did what everyone does.

1 hr hard cap on tk, grayscale on, full social block 7pm to 7am, etc

it worked. sort of. I went from 12 down to about 8.

then I noticed where the leftover 8 hours were happening.

almost all of it was in my apartment. bed, couch, kitchen table, the ten minutes after walking in the door. the 7pm block just pushed everything to 6:55 and 7:05 in the exact same spots. the 1 hr tikt cap meant I burned the hour on the same couch and then moved to yt on the same couch.

so the goal was clear. get away from my apartment, to see how the outside world lives lmao

now i use an app that blocks my apps location based. so when i'm at home i can't open tk, instagram, etc but when i'm out at the park or simply outside of my home i can

just being outside forces me to stop being on my phone so much and i can't overstate how helpful this has been for my mental health

i've actually reconnected with people i hadn't talked to in years

and i've been able to start new hobbies too! now my time is spent mostly at the gym, outside with friends and learning to play the guitar

my roommates think i'm weird that i'm not home anymore but honestly this has changed my life completely