My Top 5 Productivity Apps That Survived Years of Testing
Channel: Tiago Forte
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[0:00] I've tested hundreds of productivity
[0:02] apps [music] over the past decade.
[0:03] Today, I'm sharing the only five that
[0:06] survived. The ones I literally use every
[0:09] single day [music] without fail. But,
[0:11] here's the twist. One of these, the most
[0:14] recent one, completely changed [music]
[0:16] how I interact with all the others.
[0:18] You'll see me using it through all the
[0:20] other [music] apps. I wonder if you can
[0:21] guess what it is. Let's count down from
[0:23] five to one. Starting at number five
[0:26] [music] with email. I know what you're
[0:27] thinking, email is broken. But, what if
[0:30] you could reach inbox zero in minutes
[0:32] instead of endless hours? That's why I
[0:35] use Superhuman. It turned email for me
[0:38] from really my biggest source of anxiety
[0:41] into something I, believe it or not,
[0:43] actually look forward to. So, for every
[0:46] email, there's really only three options
[0:48] that I'm considering. Either I archive
[0:51] it, I capture it as a task, or I capture
[0:54] it as a note. There is one more option
[0:56] for what to do with your emails, which
[0:58] is to actually reply to them.
[1:00] >> [laughter]
[1:01] >> I do sometimes reply to emails. So, I
[1:04] might get caught up on