The benefits of changing to a new tool

If you’ve followed this blog very long, you know that I like to try out different tools. I often change what I use for my tasks, planning, email, all kinds of things. I enjoy learning new technology and have fun trying out different tools.

However, there are two other big advantages to changing tools from time to time.

Enjoy the new stuff, but bring along things that worked before

No two tools are the same. When you switch to a different tool, you’ll likely gain and lose a few features. When possible, though, you can often bring along ideas from one tool to the next, making for the best of both.

For example, when I moved from the Full Focus Planner to Notion for my daily and weekly planning (and later to Roam Research), I brought along quite a few lessons and implemented them in Notion and then Roam. I got the benefits of the newer systems, but brought along lessons and ideas from the older systems.

Get the clutter out of the corners

Part of the pain of moving to a new tool is cleaning out some of the cruft, whether that’s old tasks you never got around to, or junk from six years ago in your Evernote. Either way, moving to a new system is a great time to clean that stuff up and give…