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Issue #323  (Video Games Can Help Anxiety) 04/21/25

Tools & Apps

AISmartCube — A suite of work automation tools with a drag and drop UI and lots of ready-to-use templates to streamline your daily work.

Supercut — A web-based screen recording app for Mac (or a Chrome extension for Windows) for busy teams, to create professional branded videos and demos and share them publicly or privately.

Crispymail — An AI email assistant for Gmail that filters out low-priority emails, delivers daily summaries of every newsletter, and adapts with custom rules to automate responses and organize your inbox.

The Morning Paper for Tech — Want a byte-sized version of Hacker News that takes just a few minutes to read? Try TLDR's free daily newsletter. It covers the most interesting tech, startup, and programming stories in just 5 minutes. No sports and no politics.    sponsor  

nocal — A native AI calendar app for Google Calendar, for busy people, that adapts to your workflow, with features like rich offline note-taking, connected notes and events, natural language scheduling, to help you stay focused.

Expensify — An all-in-one expense management platform to track receipts, manage expenses, create invoices, and handle reimbursements, for individuals and teams, with integrations with 45+ apps.

Reor — An AI-powered desktop note-taking app for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with an Obsidian-like Markdown editor that automatically links related notes, answers questions on your notes, and provides semantic search.
 

Articles & Resources

New Research Backs Up What Gamers Have Thought for Years: Video Games Can Be an Antidote to Stress and Anxiety — A well-designed interactive article that discusses the benefits of 'cozy games', one of the earliest examples being a game from 1996.

How to Reduce Screen Time: The Ultimate Guide — A collection of 40 tips from someone who's gained experience both as a student and in the workforce to help find balance between being “chronically online” and quitting altogether.

Meet Your AI SuperAgent — Moxby isn’t just smart – it works. Each AI agent adapts to your role, executes real work, and even writes its own code to improve. From content to code, it gets the job done – fast.   sponsor  

Your Strengths Are Your Weaknesses — Piggy-backing on a quote from Steve Jobs, the author observes, "I’ve noticed something interesting about almost every engineer I’ve managed: their biggest strengths and their most frustrating weaknesses are often the exact same trait showing up in different contexts."

Advice for Time Management as a Manager — If you've recently switched from a more run-of-the-mill tech job to a management role, this is a great reminder about the difference in time management.

Fake Job Seekers are Flooding U.S. Companies that are Hiring for Remote Positions, Tech CEOs Say — Job seekers are using AI tools to generate fake photos, employment history, and interview answers. I hope this doesn't give any of my readers any bright ideas!

How to Identify and Eliminate the 3 Biggest Time Sucks in Your Day — Advice from a professional time coach who considers things like screen-time, drive-by meetings, just plain disorganization, and how to overcome the problems they incur.

Suggestions?

Have a suggestion for a productivity-related tool, article, or other resource? Send me a direct message via X or chat via Bluesky and I’ll consider including it in a future issue.

Stay productive!

Louis
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