kill your apps (updated)
" If your app pushes you to organize, tag, decorate, backlink, or curate, it is working against you."
"The problem isn’t just that there are too many apps. The problem is the identity crisis of modern software. Email clients try to be task managers; chat apps try to be file storage; note-taking apps try to be operating systems.
Apps act like warlords. They fight for your “time in app” and attention, often locking you into their ecosystem by offering a broad suite of [sometimes — mediocre] features, while physically limiting interoperability with other tools.
As a result, your attention is forcefully diverted. Instead of shipping what matters, you spend your cognitive energy inventing workflows that are limited by the app’s or service’s logic. You become a locked-in manager of your tools rather than a creator of your products."