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I Stopped Using Notion, Linear, and Airtable. Now Everything Lives in Obsidian.

DEV Community·Robby Schlesinger·6 months ago
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How I built a Bases-powered personal OS that runs my whole business from one vault

For two years, I ran my business across six different tools.

Notion for projects. Linear for tasks. Airtable for customers. Google Sheets for revenue. Readwise for book notes. And a notes app for everything else that didn't fit anywhere.

Every week, I'd start Monday in five browser tabs, mentally reconstructing what was happening, what was late, and who I needed to follow up with. I wasn't running a business. I was doing triage.

The irony? I'm a solo founder. One person. I was spending more time managing tools than doing work.

The problem with "systems" built from multiple apps

Productivity tools are optimized for teams. Linear assumes you have engineers. Notion assumes you have an ops person who'll maintain the workspace.…

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