8/2/22 - Edwin Abl user interview
by Parker · 40 things on Twos
- Due diligence for VCs
- CMO in the past
- Solopreneur
- Massive fan of productivity apps
- Last 6 months been on a journey to minimize the number of productivity apps
- What are you mainly using them for?
- More simple, kept Evernote for everything, 2008
- Notion may be better, doesn't want to migrate it over
- Have you heard of Building a Second Brain
- Journal apps, Memento
- Came across Twos on Medium
- Likes it, voice to thing, voice to text
- Evernote for everything, but likes recording a note quickly, Evernote
- Helpful for jotting things on the go
- Doesn't like tasks in Evernote, doesn't like the UI, doesn't work well
- Saving articles, long form
- Been using Twos for short form, action oriented, journal, reminders
- Action oriented tasks
- Look into repeating reminders
- Problem with productivity apps solve the problem, procrastination, psychological issue
- Building a second brain
- We keep trying them
- Firm commitment to Evernote
- Easy to use Twos
- Doesn't use Evernote for action oriented things
- Companion to Evernote
- Sunsama, used for a few months, creating too much, doesn't need so many apps
- Couple clients, Asana, Trello, classic too much
- Overcomplicated, using apps to feel better, getting on with it
- 2 hours organizing
- Sunsama, paying a year ago, minimize them, work done, classic case of what he was
- Paid for our upgrades, onboarding was fun and engaging
- Free trial with a lot of apps, canceled within 30 days
- Never longer than a few months
- If you don't solve the root cause, you aren't being productive
- Quite liking, wanted things unlocked quicker
- Doesn't want to put in credit card for another subscription
- Investing in SaaS, we should build this into a B2B
- If he came across, we should put money into this and turn it into a B2B SaaS, executing and getting things down rather than the bloat
- There isn't a quick, Slack use in small teams, spread that way