I think clickup. I was already using notion. It was just getting messy.
Over_Quantity3239 on
im selling templates online, and using another tool for email campaign or sending follow ups really made me tiring. now i have email automation inside my landing page, which is quite convenient
Sea_Satisfaction9215 on
For me it was **overcomplicated project management tools**. I tried running everything through fancy boards and workflows, but ended up spending more time updating tasks than actually doing the work.
jfranklynw on
Spreadsheets for everything. I had a phase where I tracked literally everything in Google Sheets – clients, tasks, finances, content calendars. Felt productive because I was “organised”, but I was spending more time maintaining the sheets than actually doing the work.
The painful realisation was that most of what I tracked didn’t matter. Client satisfaction, revenue, and shipping product – those are the only metrics that actually move the needle. Everything else was busywork disguised as progress.
Now I keep it stupidly simple: one doc for notes, my calendar, and the accounting software. That’s it. If a tool requires a tutorial to use effectively, it’s probably not solving a real problem.
alexseiji on
Microsoft Office, for work I just do everything in G suite and then either copy paste back into office or just upload my work into Office because working in G suite is significantly easier for me
DeviantHistorian on
Social media. I only use it once a week. Outside of Reddit and YouTube. I found Facebook and linkedin were just kind of BS and were worth checking about once a week. My customers are mostly 80. Plus-year-olds and it’s word of mouth and I have a lot of networks and Senior centers and other things. They have my business cards and magnets and it’s pretty much call me when it’s a crisis or they need something. Otherwise I don’t really market or promote it much. I could probably get more business if I dealt with social media and that but I hate Facebook and a lot of older people are only on that and I just find social media to be depressing and toxic so I would rather not spend my time messing around with that and focusing on things that make me money and enrich my life
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I think clickup. I was already using notion. It was just getting messy.
im selling templates online, and using another tool for email campaign or sending follow ups really made me tiring. now i have email automation inside my landing page, which is quite convenient
For me it was **overcomplicated project management tools**. I tried running everything through fancy boards and workflows, but ended up spending more time updating tasks than actually doing the work.
Spreadsheets for everything. I had a phase where I tracked literally everything in Google Sheets – clients, tasks, finances, content calendars. Felt productive because I was “organised”, but I was spending more time maintaining the sheets than actually doing the work.
The painful realisation was that most of what I tracked didn’t matter. Client satisfaction, revenue, and shipping product – those are the only metrics that actually move the needle. Everything else was busywork disguised as progress.
Now I keep it stupidly simple: one doc for notes, my calendar, and the accounting software. That’s it. If a tool requires a tutorial to use effectively, it’s probably not solving a real problem.
Microsoft Office, for work I just do everything in G suite and then either copy paste back into office or just upload my work into Office because working in G suite is significantly easier for me
Social media. I only use it once a week. Outside of Reddit and YouTube. I found Facebook and linkedin were just kind of BS and were worth checking about once a week. My customers are mostly 80. Plus-year-olds and it’s word of mouth and I have a lot of networks and Senior centers and other things. They have my business cards and magnets and it’s pretty much call me when it’s a crisis or they need something. Otherwise I don’t really market or promote it much. I could probably get more business if I dealt with social media and that but I hate Facebook and a lot of older people are only on that and I just find social media to be depressing and toxic so I would rather not spend my time messing around with that and focusing on things that make me money and enrich my life