🗓️ Productivity

These are the tools I use to get things done: 

• Morgen (calendar and time-blocking app – use the discount code martine10 for a 10% discount

• Tana (quick capture and note-taking)

• Todoist (task manager)

• Brick (physical focus tool)

• Forest app (gamified focus tool and mobile phone blocker)

• Focus Friend (another gamified focus tool and mobile phone blocker)

• Pomofocus (web-based Pomodoro timer)

• Spark (personal and business email – I use Outlook for work)

• Arc (web browser)

💼 Business (Including Training Delivery)

These are the tools I use to run my business (some of these will be covered below in content creation):

• Butter (for online calls and training delivery, use this link for a free trial and 30% off your first 3 months)

• Zoom (also for online calls)

• Mentimeter (for polls and interaction at in-person training)

• Wave (invoicing)

• BreezeDoc (contract signing)

• Starling (business bank account)

• Hayes Creatives spreadsheets (templates for Google Sheets; I use them for personal and business finances)

• Kit (email newsletter)

🧠 Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

My PKM toolkit encompasses everything I use to consume content (for learning purposes). Here are the tools: 

• Kindle Paperwhite 2024 Signature Edition (ebooks)

• Shortform (book summaries)

• Audible (for audiobooks)

• Readwise Reader (read it later app)

• Readwise (for collecting and sharing highlights and annotations – use my link to get a month extra for free)

• Snipd (podcast app: get a month of premium free using my link)

• Tana (notes and tracking reading)

✍️ Content Creation (Including Doodles)

If you’re interested in content creation, this is my current toolkit:

• Squarespace (website)

• iPad Pro (11 inch) and Apple Pencil Pro (for doodles)

• Procreate app (for doodles)

• Tana (content management, organisation, and idea capture)

• Notion (resource sharing)

• Grammarly (proofreading)

• ChatGPT Plus (my assistant)

🪴 Wellbeing

• Hevy app (weightlifting routines and tracking)

• Runna (running plans when training, use code: RUNNA1JFFCWC for 2 weeks free)

• Strava (overall activity tracking)

• Hello Fresh (meal boxes, use my link for a free box)

• Breathwrk (guided breathwork)

• Domestika (creative learning)

• Apple Watch 10 Series 42mm (health tracking)

By the Way…

Some of the links I have shared in this post are affiliate links, which means I get a small commission if you purchase anything via my link (it often means I have secured a discount for you as part of the deal, too). Please be assured that I only share affiliate links for tools I have used and recommended.

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Last updated: 11 October 2025