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What’s one small habit that helps you stay focused during your workday? I’m always refining my routine and love hearing what works for others.🧠 😍
Taking small walking breaks or stretching for sure. Even if it's 5 minutes, it helps so much!
Pomodoro technique
ALWAYS turn off my computer at 5:00pm - which means I get up at 6am... gotta have that ME time.
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I'll be honest — my last three posts flopped.
Took me a minute to see why. I'd been writing hot takes when I should've been writing what actually helps.
Here's a small automation I shipped last week that none of my "big" posts will beat for value:
A client kept losing meeting notes. Calls in Google Meet, transcripts in their inbox, action items nowhere. Standard SMB chaos.
The fix:
Google Meet transcript → n8n webhook → GPT extracts action items + owner → posts to their Slack channel + appends to a Notion database.
Now every meeting ends with a clean action list, automatically assigned. They stopped using the word "follow-up" in calls.
Not glamorous. Not contrarian. Just useful.
What's the smallest automation that made the biggest difference in YOUR work? Drop it below — I'm collecting ideas for clients. 👇
#n8n #Automation #Productivity
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A multi-feature productivity system shipped in 36 hours using Claude Code. Built on Node.js + SQLite with a plain HTML/JS frontend, deployed to Fly.io.
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Perpetual Goals — circle-grid tracker with three-state cycle (empty/done/missed), today highlighted, auto-extends on miss, AIM-link badge, optional repository for archived goals. Each goal links to a daily task description.
The Frog — single most important task of the day, locked once set, with a Future Frogs queue for upcoming priorities.
Weekly / Monthly / Long-Term tabs — each with a Suggest button that calls an AI engine grounded in the user's Chief Definite AIM, deadline, current balance, pace status, perpetual goals, recent insights, and prior suggestion history. Returns three ranked, AIM-aligned recommendations per call. Includes a Custom Prompt mode with auto-detected response shape.
Goal-creation form — name, daily task description, target days, plus an AIM-link toggle that weights AIM-aligned goals heavier in the suggestion engine.
Tech: Node.js, Express, node:sqlite, Claude API, OpenAI Whisper, Fly.io cron, plain HTML/CSS/JS (no framework, no build step).
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