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The Best Productivity Apps for Cutting Out Busywork

The most useful productivity apps fall into clear categories: task managers like Todoist to offload tasks, text expanders like espanso to automate…

Task management: get it out of your head

The point of a task manager isn't to look organized.

Text expansion: stop typing the same things

If you type the same email replies, addresses, phone numbers, or canned responses repeatedly, a text expander pays for itself in days.

Document scanning: kill the paper pile

Your phone is a perfectly good scanner.

Focus and distraction blocking

Willpower is a bad strategy against an algorithm engineered to keep you scrolling.

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