The Productivity Stack
You’re probably using email for multiple purposes far beyond what it was designed for:
- You use email to send messages
- You use email as a to-do list
- You use email to keep track of notes and ideas
- You use email to manage complex projects and areas of your life
These are extremely different use cases, and using one platform for all of them ensures it fails at all of them. To perform each of them effectively, you have to break apart each of the four essential activities of modern work – Email, Task Management, Notetaking, and Project Management – and use the right tool for each of those jobs.
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