Productivity

This section is about the things that eat up most of our time: email, calendar, documents, paperwork, learning something new or preparing content. It's where AI promises the most ("automate your life in 10 minutes") and where it's easiest to end up wasting the time you wanted to save. Here I share what works for me and what doesn't, with minutes saved actually measured, not impressions.

The test: knowledge, admin or creative tasks that one person speeds up with AI without building any system. If it means connecting programs or leaving a workflow running on its own, it's in Automation and agents; if a business's money or customers are what matter, in Business with AI.

Part of it is personal work: how I use tools like NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook since July 2026) to learn and prepare for meetings, how I organise documents, and what I leave to an assistant and what I don't. Another part is for small businesses: quotes, invoices and paperwork, where a small company notices the savings, as long as it doesn't remove human review where it's needed.

Content creation with AI belongs here too, mostly images for now: what comes out usable, what screams AI from a mile away and what you can legally use in a business. The underlying idea: AI doesn't make you productive on its own, but placed well in your day-to-day it takes away work that adds nothing.