Productivity monk

I have taken a few habits recently:

Inbox zero by bedtime. Unhandled mails go to TickTick.

Tasks default to next week. If they matter, they’ll wait.

One work task per day. If it drags, I commit or kill it.

Articles get bookmarked. Read later—or never. Doesn’t matter.

Tasks get automated. Or ignored.

Midnight is my hard stop. Usually...

Everything goes in TickTick.

No date = no task. No surprises.

Task and blog ideas are dumped into TickTick as notes, voice or text.

LLMs get a few hours. That’s it. And only for automation.

LinkedIn runs on auto-reply.

Same rules at home and work. One brain. Scripts everywhere.

I keep folders of tabs—Wednesday, Friday, Daily. I open them when it’s time. Not before.

I use browser userscripts to bend websites to my will. UX included.

Family runs on self-service. Automation takes care of the rest.

And a few things don’t change—only improve: Backups and monitoring for everything. Unit tests for all my scripts. And pipelines. Obviously.

This isn’t a system. It’s survival. Simplicity is the only thing that scales, especially with kids and ADHD.

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Gembloux, Belgium .