The Digital Tools that Run My Life (2023)

Beth
7 min readSep 2, 2023

I run my life with digital tools. I do nearly everything online except for a few specific use-cases which I’ll discuss another day!

Currently I’m up to 16 apps. This number does not bother me at all as I don’t abide by the implicit standard of the all-in-one app, my system just has to work and this one does!

So, this is what my organic system looks like in my 4th year of being around this digital tool/productivity space.

If you want to watch a youtube video about this, I published on here. If you want a summary, read on!

It’s hard to know in what order to discuss all of this as it’s so interconnected to my real life, but I’ll do my best. The best way I’ve found to explain this with a solar system, inspired by this tweet by Fis Fraga.

As of 17th aug 2023

The Core

Notion

Paid

So the centre is Notion. Notion is where so many parts of my human experience converge, and where so many other apps converge.

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