Productivity apps are such a crowded space, but you can still see real success stories in this category, especially if you can find the right niche.
How do you guys approach idea validation?
– Follow trends?
– Analyze keyword / search volume?
– Market a solution you have in mind and see if it gets any traction (before building)?
Curious how you guys organize your work. I personally lean on a very simple system, where I just have:
I have all the tasks in my project databases linked to Notion's native Tasks database, so I can also manage all tasks from a single page.
I'm a freelancer, so time tracking makes sense for keeping track of my client work and billing, but I also find it incredibly rewarding to set goals, track my daily focus time, and then at the end of each day and week to see that I actually did put in the effort (gives me peace of mind haha). I usually pace my time tracking with the Pomodoro method.
I'm curious if time tracking is something people do here, and for what reasons. What methods / apps are you using and what makes them good. Are there clear issues you are facing in your day-to-day workflows?
On the other side, I often hear from many people in my circles that they find time tracking frustrating, unrewarding, and stressful, which I totally get, but for me personally it is a genuine productivity hack.
I personally used to use Focus-To-Do app, which has a great time tracking workflow, before moving to Notion and building my own time tracking Chrome extension for it.
I'm a freelancer who needs to track time per tasks and projects for client billing. I've tried various browser extensions like Toggl and building an internal time tracking system in Notion.
They are solid but none of them really fit intuitively with my workflow (I end up too often not using them and half-guessing my hours haha)
I'm now building a time tracking tool for Notion (not promoting) that I wish was a native feature, so genuinely curious to hear from other users where it breaks for them currently and what could be improved.
What tools or systems do you guys use? What do you like about them, what is missing?