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Time blocking works great until about 10:40 on a Tuesday. Then a "quick call" eats your deep-work block, three tasks slide to nowhere, and your calendar turns into a museum of good intentions. 🫠AI fixes the part that usually kills time blocking: rebuilding the plan after
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GTD works. The upkeep is what kills it. David Allen's Getting Things Done method has been around since 2001, and the core idea still holds: get every open loop out of your head and into a system you trust. The trouble is the admin. Processing the inbox, writing
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You already have ChatGPT open in a tab. It's been open since March. So the obvious question is whether it can just run your to-do list too, and save you from installing yet another app with a pastel logo. Short answer: partly. ChatGPT is very good at
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I once rescheduled "renew passport" eleven times. Eleven. That's the problem with most to-do tools. They store what you're avoiding. They don't help you start it. AI can. There's no magic willpower dust involved. The things that make people
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It's 11:40 p.m. You're lying in bed and your brain has decided now is the perfect time to remind you about the dentist, the invoice, the birthday gift, the weird noise the car makes, and that email you "read" on Tuesday. None
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Most people "have" an AI personal assistant the way most people "have" a gym membership. It exists. It's paid for. It gets used twice a month to ask something like "write a polite email saying no." That's a waste. A
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There's a task on my list right now that says "website." Just that. One word, sitting there since June, judging me every time I open the app. It's not a task. It's a haunted thought 🙃 I've been writing about this
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I have a haunted folder called "Notes 2025." Four hundred and something entries. Meeting notes, scribble, a line that just says "ask Priya re: the task." I have no idea what the thing was. Priya doesn't either. The answer: to turn notes into tasks
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My to-do list had 62 items on a random day last month. Sixty-two. I'd captured beautifully. I'd tagged, labelled, colour-coded like a champion. And I still sat there at 9:14am with my coffee going cold, doing absolutely nothing, because I had no
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I have started a weekly review maybe forty times. I have finished one about nine. The pattern was always the same. Sunday evening, cup of tea, good intentions, a checklist I copied off a productivity blog that had thirty-one steps in it (well). Step one: "gather all loose