Hey,

Most “productivity hacks” sound great until real life kicks in.

These are the few habits that actually survived my day-to-day — the stuff that stuck after testing every trick out there.

Here’s what’s inside:

Let’s dive in👇

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I’ve tried loads of “life hacks” that didn’t last a week — but these ones have actually survived daily use.

Nothing fancy, just small things that somehow keep me sane and productive.

I’m not great in the mornings. I don’t drink coffee, so the gym basically is my caffeine.

A quick workout, a sauna, sometimes a swim — and that’s me awake.

If I skip it, my brain doesn’t switch on until lunchtime.

Since I don’t drink coffee, I’m currently hooked on this Neutonic drink — it’s got caffeine but feels a bit healthier than a Monster.

It tricks my brain into thinking I’m making a “good choice.” Let’s go with that.

I like tracking stuff. Fitness, recovery, sleep — anything I can measure, I probably do.

Not because I’m obsessed, but because I genuinely find it interesting to see what’s working and what’s not.

If you can see it, you can tweak it.

Every so often I go a bit deeper — blood tests, glucose monitors, that kind of thing.

It’s weirdly fun figuring out how food, stress, or sleep actually change what’s going on in your body.

Feels like a game of “unlocking the cheat codes for energy.”

I use Missive for email, and the biggest hack there is snoozing.

If it’s not important today, I snooze it. It pops back up later when it’s actually relevant.

Keeps the inbox (sort of) under control — though “Inbox Zero” is still mostly a dream.

Another Missive thing — you can set up labels that trigger stuff automatically.

So if I tag an email “invoice,” it gets filed in the right place, or forwarded to the right person.

We even added some AI labels that sort things like brand deals and receipts for me. It’s like a tiny assistant that never complains.

This one’s a big one. Beeper puts all my chats in one place — Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Threads, everything.

No more signing in and out, checking ten different apps just to see who messaged me.

It just dumps everything into one inbox, and that’s it. Absolute game-changer.

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