He’ll pay extra attention to how he’s spending his time. Klein also considers usage frequency when exploring a new tool.
Taking these two data points into account, he’ll decide whether to keep or cancel the subscription. Then he’ll add a quick description about why he purchased the subscription. To manage subscription fatigue, he will make a table of all his active subscriptions and list how many days in a month he uses each tool.
Rahul Chowdhury, productivity expert, recommends looking at your subscription usage. “If a tool lacks integrations or connections to other tools, whether it be something as simple as Slack or to a full platform like Zapier or If This Then That, then I won't even look at it.”
“Otherwise, I’ll be in an endless spiral of managing and maintenance and no actual work will be done,” Klein said. He needs his tools to work together, so integration and automation options are the first things he looks for. Klein prioritizes integrations when evaluating productivity apps, as well as privacy policies and feature sets. Basically, it’s what all of us strive for when accumulating productivity tools.Ī coherent system means being strategic about your productivity subscriptions. Eventually he progressed from wanting a basic task management system to attempting to build a second brain: productivity expert Tiago Forte’s term for taking all the thoughts and experiences in your brain and organizing them in a coherent system using digital tools. Some were powerful but looked terrible others looked great but didn’t allow for customization. His stack has been through many iterations, mainly because he kept landing on tools that felt lacking.
“Most kids were worried about what girl they liked in middle school, and I was like, 'Damn, my task manager is causing me so many problems,'” he said. Klein, a creative and real estate agent, has dabbled in productivity for over a decade: since he was 10, to be exact.
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