r/ProductivityHQ

Hey everyone,

I’m giving away 100 free lifetime codes for my new app, Simple Copy.

I built this app to stop the hassle of digging through notes apps for links, templates, or canned text. It’s a lightweight snippet manager that lets you save what you reuse often and copy it instantly with a single tap.

Key Features:

1. Real-Life Uses: Save standard email responses, client FAQs, social media hashtags, shipping addresses, or terminal commands.

2. One-Tap Copy: Pin your most-frequented text blocks for instant clipboard access.

3. 100% Privacy: No accounts, no ads, and no cloud sync. Everything is stored locally on your device.

How to get your code:

Just send me a DM and tell me if you are on Android or iOS. = )

App Store Link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-copy/id6744842391

I built Purgd as a lightweight iOS app for people who need to get thoughts, tasks, and mental clutter out of their head quickly.

To-do lists overwhelmed me.

It’s designed around low-friction capture: open it, dump what’s on your mind, and start turning the chaos into something manageable.

It’s not trying to be a huge productivity system. It’s more of a fast reset button for your brain.

I’d love feedback from anyone who struggles with task capture, context switching, or keeping track of what they meant to do.

Purgd — Purge your brain. Keep what matters.

Disclosure: I built TuringShot, so this is a developer self-promo post. I am posting it here because the productivity gain came from changing the workflow, not switching recorders.

My old screen recording workflow had a hidden second job:

1. Record the tutorial or product demo.

2. Open the editor.

3. Add zooms where the UI was too small.

4. Add boxes or highlights where the viewer might get lost.

5. Fix fast cursor movement.

6. Rewatch the whole thing to catch the moments that were unclear.

That cleanup felt normal until I realized the real bottleneck was earlier. The screen was not clear while I was recording, so editing became damage control.

So I built TuringShot, a live screen-effects layer for macOS. It is not a recorder. It sits on top of the recorder or meeting tool you already use - OBS, ScreenFlow, QuickTime, Zoom, Meet, Loom - and makes the explanation visible during the take.

What it can do live:

- Live / Snap Zoom that follows the cursor

- Focus Highlight that dims everything else

- Magnifier Lens for small UI and text

- Pointer Trail so fast mouse moves are easier to follow

- Screen Drawing for quick boxes and arrows

- On-Screen Text Memo for live notes

- Key Display so viewers can see shortcuts

Current version: TuringShot 1.5.10 (Build 42). The latest update stabilizes Focus Highlight after monitor resolution or scaling changes.

The productivity lesson for me: the useful product was not "screen zoom." It was removing a repeated editing step from every tutorial, demo, and walkthrough.

Site / demo: turingshot.site

Small launch code if you want to try the premium effects: TURINGSHOT199. It makes the yearly plan $1.99 for the first year instead of $2.99. New subscribers only, 500 redemptions, expires Dec 23, 2026.

Question for this sub: for screen-based work, do you prefer making things clear live while recording, or fixing clarity later in the edit?

For a while I couldn't sit still and study without music, but music itself became distracting (kept catching myself listening to lyrics instead of working lol).

Someone recommended trying ambient background noise instead, turns out coffee shop sounds work way better for me than white noise. Something about having a little "life" in the background without actual music keeps my brain engaged just enough without pulling focus away.

Combined it with the pomodoro method (25 min work / 5 min break) and honestly got more done in 2 hours than I usually do in a full afternoon.

Made a 2-hour version for myself to loop while studying, sharing in case it helps anyone else who struggles with focus: [link]

Anyone else use ambient sound instead of music when studying? Curious what works for others.

Hey everyone,
I’m a student building Fasti, an iPhone app that turns messy class/work schedules into a calendar.
The idea: instead of manually copying your timetable, work shifts, syllabus dates, or schedule screenshots into Calendar, you can import them and Fasti builds a clean weekly schedule.

I’m mainly looking for feedback from students and part-time workers who deal with:

class timetables
labs/tutorials
work shifts
syllabi/deadlines
commute timing
pay/shift planning

I’m not looking for fake reviews — I’m looking for honest feedback on whether the app is actually useful.

What I’d love testers to try:

Import a real class/work schedule screenshot or PDF
Check if the events are extracted correctly
Tell me what feels confusing, broken, or missing
Tell me if this is something you’d keep using

iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/fasti-class-schedule-planner/id6775917727

Android beta: https://getfasti.com/android-beta

Brutal feedback is welcome.

Hey everyone

Like a lot of people here, I’ve always struggled with receipt tracking. Personal expenses, freelance work, small business costs — it all ends up as a messy pile of paper receipts and half-filled spreadsheets. Manually entering everything is slow, boring, and easy to mess up.

What I really wanted was something simple:
scan a receipt → extract the data → send it straight to Google Sheets.
No heavy accounting software. No complicated setup.

I couldn’t find exactly that, so I decided to build it.

After wasting way too many hours manually logging receipts (and realizing how many expenses I was missing), I built ReceiptSync an AI-powered app that automates the whole process.

How it works:

• Snap a photo of any receipt
• AI-powered OCR extracts line items, merchant, date, tax, totals, and category
• Duplicate receipts are automatically detected
• Data syncs instantly to Google Sheets
• Total time: ~3 seconds

What makes it different:

• Smart search using natural language (e.g. “show my Uber expenses from last month”)
• Line-item extraction, not just totals
• Duplicate detection to avoid double logging
• Interactive insights for spending patterns and trends
• Built specifically for Google Sheets export

I’ve been testing it for the past month with a small group, and the feedback has been amazing people are saving 5–10 hours per month just on expense tracking.

If this sounds useful, here’s the app:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/receiptsync-receipt-tracker/id6756007251

Honest question for this sub: do your notes actually stay useful, or do they just accumulate? Mine pile up over years and I basically never go back to the old ones, even though I keep meaning to.

The idea I've been sitting on: something that resurfaces old notes for me instead of relying on willpower to revisit them: a short daily read built from my own notes, a few older ones brought back around a theme, plus it flags notes that clearly connect but that I never linked. Runs locally, works with any markdown.

It's not built: just an idea and a rough landing page at this point. Before I sink real time into it I'd rather know if it solves a problem other people actually have.

https://againpage.com

What do you currently do to keep old notes from rotting? Anything work, or is this just my problem?

Hey everyone, I have built an app called Utter that turns your Voice into To-Dos, Notes & Journal entries. And for To-Dos, it turns what you said into an actual task you can check off, not just another note.

Most voice-to-text apps just dump a wall of text and you still have to sort it later. Mine turns speech into an organized note, journal, or to-do right away.

If you’re interested, you can download the app on android play store : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utter.app

It is a database built around your project, not the other way around.

Built for the work that does not fit neatly into one clean task list.

Client work has contacts, companies, budgets, invoices, files, notes, follow-ups and all the small details around the actual tasks.

Instead of rebuilding the same project across spreadsheets, CRM tools and task apps, each project in PrimeTask can have its own database.

You can add custom fields, link contacts, companies and tasks, use rollups, and view the same project from different angles without splitting the work across separate tools.

Link something once, and it stays connected everywhere it should.

Because PrimeTask is local-first, every project database is stored as plain JSON files.

Offline by default. Sync when you want it. Your data stays yours.

What would you use project databases for first?

Links:

• Get notified at launch
• Project Database docs
• Roadmap
• Releases

Hello! Just made my first app and wanted to get some opinions on it. The idea is super simple. A widget counting down the time remaining in the day. A subtle visual reminder that our time is a valuable resource and should be used wisely.

With no upkeep or check ins, it’s the productivity tool that you’ll never burn out of. A customizable widget that stays on your home or lock screen, helping you make the most out of the 24 we’re given each day. Don’t take you day for granted ya know.

Check out this website if you’re interested in joining our email list:
Email List
(Lmk if you want to be added to the TestFlight)

We’re gearing up for launch in the next couple of days and would love to gauge interest/hear feedback.

There is a pro upgrade in which you can countdown the week, month, and year as well. One time purchase, I know we’re all so burnt out of subscriptions. You can customize the font and weight of the text to fit your aesthetic. Pro version also gives you access to the daily lines. Generate a list of saying that might motivate you, and it’ll randomly choose a different to display every day. Short slogans written on your most productive days that might help pull you out of a not so productive one.

Update 2.0 is in the works with a retro style widget option and more customizable aesthetics.

As a freelancer myself, it sometimes feels like my day floats by. I’ve really enjoyed having the test version installed the past few days. It’s so non invasive but a nice reminder that’s there when I need it.