Productivity

I’ve been trying to figure out which productivity app actually fits my workflow. Both WHPH (Work Hard Play Hard) and Super Productivity keep coming up, so I thought it was worth comparing them properly. WHPH (Work Hard Play Hard) WHPH is a general-purpose productivity app. It does several things: tracks your tasks, monitors which apps you use and for how long, helps you build habits, and gives you a basic sense of where your time goes. The sync between desktop and mobile happens over your local network – no cloud, no account, just devices talking to each other. ...

I’ve been reading Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain, and it’s one of those books that makes you immediately want to reorganise your entire digital life. The central idea is straightforward enough: your brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Everything else – notes, articles, voice memos, half-finished projects – should live somewhere external that you can trust and search. The framework he proposes is called CODE: Capture, Organise, Distill, Express. It’s simple, and that’s the point. Most people I know (myself included) are terrible at the first two steps. We capture everything – screenshots, highlights, random thoughts – and then we never look at it again because there’s no system for getting it out. ...

I’ve tried vision boards before. Like most people, I made a nice collage, pinned it somewhere visible, and then promptly forgot it existed. The problem wasn’t the board — it was that I never actually sat down and thought about what I wanted. I just pasted random pictures of beaches and sports cars and called it a day. This time I wanted to do it properly. Not the Pinterest aesthetic kind, but the kind where you actually force yourself to decide what matters across different areas of your life. So I built a markdown template instead. It’s simpler, it lives in my notes, and it forces structure onto the chaos. ...

Software development is a complex and collaborative process that requires effective teamwork and communication. However, many software teams struggle with productivity issues and fail to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget. In this post, I will discuss why team productivity is more important than individual productivity, and how you can improve your software team’s performance by applying some proven strategies and best practices. The Importance of Team Productivity According to Boehm, the COCOMO cost estimation model shows that the capability of the team has the greatest impact on software production. This means that the quality and efficiency of the software product depend largely on how well the team works together. Davis agrees with this conclusion and states that “optimising the productivity of all individuals does not necessarily result in optimising the productivity of the team”. In other words, having a team of highly skilled and productive individuals does not guarantee a successful software project. There are other factors that affect team productivity, such as communication, coordination, collaboration, motivation, and trust. ...