A monthly subscription is something to be avoided in general, but sometimes the savings they offer far outweigh the cost. I still prefer a buy-it-once product, but when it comes to services, they basically must have an ongoing cost. While I hate that, it also means that I look for…

Productivity tips are everywhere, and sometimes the search for such meta-improvements can get in the way of actually getting your tasks done. I am as guilty of this as anybody, and I have found more tips and techniques that don’t work for me than…

Sometimes the simpler, the better. That is exactly the point of this new purchase. How can you get more done by only getting one thing done? The Tosny Times | Substack My thoughts and efforts on saving money, making money, playing with tech and trying to get better. Click to read The…tosny.substack.com So what did I buy? I will try to help you today, as I try to do in all my writing. Analogue Productivity Planner: To-Do List

Navigating the Digital Frontier to Shape Tomorrow’s Connected World The internet has become an indispensable part of our lives, revolutionizing the way we communicate, work, and access information. It is honestly hard to imagine a life before it, yet life still went on. As technology continues to advance at a…

Listening, reading, and finances. It is not often that new apps make it onto my home screen. Sometimes just giving them enough time to show what they have and flourish takes too long, but this is probably unfair on them. The Tosny Times | Substack My thoughts and efforts on saving money, making money, playing with tech and trying to get better. Click to read The…tosny.substack.com But I am glad to say that new apps in…

It seems that most of my time has been spent on just five sites since this time last year. That is how I would prefer things to be. It’s better to get the quality content you want instead of flicking around the internet going through FOMO. The Tosny Times | Substack My thoughts and efforts on saving money, making money, playing with tech and trying to get better. Click to read The…tosny.substack.com

Some apps and services often take multiple attempts to get into. This app is a perfect example of that for me, which is why facing a blank slate, an empty void, or a blank page is so hard. Structure and prompts are rife in garbage mobile games, but in things…

A good subscription can make a real difference. The Tosny Times | Substack My thoughts and efforts on saving money, making money, playing with tech and trying to get better. Click to read The…tosny.substack.com I kept learning about, trying out, and — most importantly — revisiting various subscriptions, services, and apps in 2023 that I wasn’t a subscriber to. So these are the 7 subscriptions that I subscribed to in 2023 that I didn’t have in…

This is based on the number of times opened during a day. One thing to consider is that I have the vast majority of my notifications silenced and only allow specific people to come through directly. I then check apps only as I feel it is needed. This means that…