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2025 Productivity Update
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Jan 2026
The author shares their simple and efficient digital tools and habits for work in 2025, focusing on minimalism and reliability. They avoid phone productivity apps and daily news, preferring plain text files and a small notebook for organization. Their system is not perfect but works well and values openness and control over complexity.
11 Jan 2026
I don't use an external monitor - I prefer to focus on one manageable screen with one app in full screen mode. I tend to find the addition of a monitor to my desk complicates things and encourages the worst of my peripheral-hoarding-excesses.