u/HumanFutures

I'm looking for a productivity app that is very specific. On the basis that I essentially want it to do everything.

I want it to:

• Display unified calendar — I have multiple email addresses across more than one profile (Email, Outlook, Zoho etc.)

• Capture long‑term goals, placing more mundane/mechanical daily tasks in the context of how they represent progress towards these long‑term goals

• Allow journaling of completion/progress notes to be typed, handwritten by stylus on Surface Pro, or directly voice‑noted without import/export jitters

• Act as a document/article/URL repository, particularly for saving things for later

• Allow versioning so I don't worry about effing things up

• Works with phone for alarms, reminders etc OR can produce them itself

It needs to:

• Be free or as close to free as possible

• Have an aesthetically pleasing dashboard capturing progress, to‑dos, calendar, appointments etc cleanly

• Have a low‑friction set‑up that rather than distracts from productivity, and doesn't require a Bachelor's degree in Notion or Asana to use

• Work across Android (priority) & Windows (failing that, browser)

Any suggestions? Sell your own app, by all means — IF it satisfies the brief.

Which books, YouTube channels and podcasts would save your life?

Sounds like it to me.

PS: I've not worked out if this is a gatekept r/ yet, so no idea if this will post.

I can and will elucidate over time, but, in its minimal form:

- Street drug dealers are either sole traders or businesses in capitalist society. To survive, they require a stable level of demand from customers able to pay. Dying customers and a reduced customer base, and drugs which are stronger than expected but charged at the same cost as "weaker" variants are not a desired consequence for your average drug dealer

- Street drug use and associated costs (housing, policing, public space beautification, healthcare costs, unemployment cost, discouragement of CBD patronage by monied socially acceptable people) is a cost to government

It is therefore of benefit for the government to:

- use street level drug dealers as scapegoats

- use street drug users as antisocial, undesirable, othered 'cautionary tales'

- insert itself into the supply chain to control supply, strength, adulteration mode of action, and of course to profit

Some context which may support the theory (these are NOT studies but studies are welcomed)

- the US itself has parallel experience of the efficacy and consequences of zero-tolerance policy (Prohibition)

- the US has a wildly incoherent policy regarding diplomacy and trade with nations (particularly in the Americas) identified as being illicit drug producers

- the proliferation of xylazine, medetomidine etc immediately following the peak democratisation of narcan access

- closure of harm reduction initiatives and increasing criminalisation of personal drug usage

- socially marginalised communities are particularly vulnerable to drug usage (low income, BAME (see crack cocaine in urban US), LGBT+ (HIV/HepC etc & the gay community), neurodivergent (prone to self-medication), anti-natalists (not working, not taxpayers, not property owners, not renters, living with parents in houses which are amortised assets) – anyone coded by government as societal costs rather than contributors)

Discuss.