Today’s links are for fellow optimization addicts who believe the right tool will finally make them productive (spoiler: it won’t, but the search is fun).
Weekly Table Foods
Meal planning that promises to make your food decisions for you. It’s the kind of service that appeals to people who spend more time planning to cook than actually cooking. Sometimes decision fatigue is real, even for dinner.
Paper Apps – Gladden Design
Physical paper products designed like digital interfaces. It’s analog productivity tools for digital natives who miss the tactile satisfaction of actual paper. The design aesthetic is genuinely clever.
WikiTok
Turning TikTok content into something resembling useful information. It’s the internet’s attempt to extract signal from noise, which feels both necessary and slightly absurd. The fact that this needs to exist says something about our information ecosystem.
Innerscene
Virtual skylight for wellness and productivity. It’s a digital window for people who don’t have actual windows, which is both sad and ingenious. Sometimes technology compensates for architecture’s failures.
Organization tools: proof that humans will systematize anything, including the process of systematizing things.