Productivity tools should save you time.
So why do so many of them require 20 minutes of setup before they become useful?
The best productivity system might be the one you barely have to manage.
Yesterday I asked people why they stopped using productivity apps.
The most common answer wasn’t:
“The app was bad.”
It was:
“It became another thing I had to maintain.”
That’s a really interesting design problem.
Hot take:
Most productivity apps don’t fail because they’re missing features.
They fail because they slowly become another chore to maintain.
The less mental effort an app requires, the longer people keep using it.