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That New Productivity App Is Not Going to Make You More Productive
And that’s ok, if you understand the real reason you like it.
Productivity nerds (like me) have a problem. It’s an obsessive rotation of apps and methods, all promising to organize my life and bring me the serene “mind like water” that David Allen appropriated from Bruce Lee.
The thing is, while many of us here on Medium spend a lot of time and words explaining how we’ve discovered/developed/mutilated something into a new system that we’re sure will double our productivity, the truth is that we’ll always be on the lookout for the next new thing.
We say the objective is productivity, but it’s really the chase that we enjoy.
I spent hundreds of dollars and days of time learning the ins and outs of Notion. I loved it. The sessions with the Notion Mastery group (founded by Marie Poulin) felt like the scenes from Fast & Furious where all the gearheads would get together to show off their engines. Look at how I nested those filters! Check out the relational database — it feeds into this formula and lets me keep track of how much broccoli I’m metabolizing!
And it would — until I stopped being interested in tracking broccoli, or Notion changed…
