Is there one app that does everything well?
Xenith comes closest for personal life management, combining life tracking, focus sessions, habit tracking, journaling, and goal setting. For teams, Notion combined with a task tool like Linear covers most ground. No single app is perfect for every use case, but all-in-one tools reduce the context-switching cost of maintaining multiple systems.
Should I use a free or paid productivity app?
Paid apps tend to have better reliability, active development, and no ad-based incentives to misalign with your productivity goals. That said, many of the best tools have generous free tiers. The cost of a good app is trivial compared to the output cost of using a bad one or switching every six months.
Originally published on Xenith.
