The onslaught of the tools, skills, and open claw porn right now is absurd.
Here’s the thing.
You have more than enough time.
You have more than enough skills.
You have more than enough tools.
You have more than enough goals.
You have more than enough agents.
You have more than enough insight.
You have more than enough agency.
You have more than enough intuition.
You have more than enough expertise.
You have more than enough confidence.
You don’t have enough focus to succeed.
I’m making a conscious decision to focus on as few tools as possible.
My current bag.
Current setup in Notion.
I’m leveraging Tiago Forte’s PARA framework with the addition of a daily Journal plus a Tasks database.
Tasks may or may not be tied to a specific project.
I expect to do the majority of my “knowledge work” in Notion moving forward. I don’t use Notion Agent at the moment, but a massive upgrade is coming next week.
Most people I know haven’t leveraged the Agent feature in a serious way.
Myself included.
It’s felt more like a toy than a serious collaborator.
This was hilarious.
I gave it a simple task.
I want to go viral. Make no mistakes.
Millions of views are inevitable.
Jokes aside,
Something more useful is coming soon.
I value minimalism. Simplicity.
Obsidian is all the rage right now because of how everyone is leveraging Claude Code to organize and automate everything. I was tempted to give it another shot. So tempted, in fact, that I spent 2 hours yesterday getting the setup “just right” with the goal of avoiding the permanent underclass.
Then I scrapped all of it. Realized I fell into the shiny object trap, again.
Obsidian is incredible.
I’m stoked that Kepano and the crew are having this moment.
The CLI is dope.
There’s only one problem.
I can’t get rid of Notion, and that’s ok.
Once you start collaborating with other people, you have two options.
I’m still searching for my life’s work, but no matter what it is, I am certain it will be collaborative. There’s an obsession with the solopreneur ideal and the first single-person billion-dollar company.
I’m not interested.
The future belongs to small teams, not superheroes.
Fin
I’m curious,
What’s your stack?
How many tools are you living with day to day?
Let me know in the comments below.
— Daniel
I've built my entire OS in Notion and I couldn't be happier tbh. Everything I do, except design of course, runs through Notion, from contracts, to meetings, to billing, project management, docs, client feedback... And with all of that context + Notion AI (uncapped access to Claude with my plan) the efficiencies are beyond this world. And I'm confident I can still get so much more out of it. I can't wait for the official release of their agents. Although from what I've seen so far I don't think it's that different from what I already have with my contexts + skills setup.
A good reminder that productivity isn’t about adding more tools