Productivity Tools

The tech stack I use for my personal life:

• Google Keep: to-do lists, shared grocery lists and quick capture fleeting notes.
• Obsidian: this is where I store private journal entries, daily habit tracking, health logs, book reviews and travel recommendations. In a separate vault on my work laptop, I keep work notes. It basically serves as my second brain. I love it because it's based on local markdown files (so yay for privacy and long-term managing of your files) and the way it works actually forces your note-taking to be simple. My goal is to migrate fully from Notion to Obsidian somewhere this year after I have managed a nicely working syncing set-up between my phone and laptop.
• Notion: this is where I organize things in databases. Notion used to be my go-to tool for everything (I organized my entire master thesis in Notion for example!), but since I'm no longer a student and cannot use Notion like I used to for work, I don't use it as much anymore.
• YNAB: for envelope-based budgeting. The best method for me. I don't sync it with my bank, but enter the transaction records on my phone.

Note that this post is still being worked on.