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# The tools I stopped using
- URL: https://astrix-vellum.adrianoamalfi.com/the-tools-i-stopped-using/
- Published: 2026-07-22T13:53:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-22T14:09:39.000Z
- Description: A short and slightly embarrassing inventory of software I was sure I needed.
- Author: Caleb Yoon
- Tags: Tools

Every one of these was, at the time, going to change how I worked. None of them lasted a year. The pattern is not that they were bad — most were very good — but that they solved a problem I had invented in order to have something to solve.

1. The second note-taking app, bought to organise the notes from the first
2. The task manager with the excellent keyboard shortcuts and no tasks in it
3. The design tool I learned instead of finishing the design

What survived: a text editor, a notebook, and a calendar. Eleven years, no upgrades.