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I've always been a productivity nerd.
My mom's friend called me "Rushmore" in high school because I was the president of every club. Racing between school and my job and all these extracurriculars I needed for college had me searching for better ways to fit it all in.
Every year I'd choose a new planner and every year I'd question why it wasn't working. Our house was near an epic suburban mall, filled with stores like Franklin Covey and Successories (if you know, you know.) I would stop in on weekends, eyeing the newest planners, believing that A NEW LAYOUT would solve all my problems and actually keep me organized for once.
At this point, I feel like I've tried every system out there. Happy Planner. Todoist. Trello. Asana. Those sad floppy planners you'd get at Office Depot. The promotional wallet calendars I got in the mail. The cute artsy Slingshot notebooks the record store sold.
None of them worked.
Until I found Sunsama.
Sunsama taught me that I was DOING TOO MANY THINGS and more importantly, trying to shove too much into my days. No wonder I was so exhausted all the time. I ended every day with 5 more tasks in my queue.
It sucks to feel like your life is a to do list. It sucks more to feel like you're always behind on it.
What Sunsama gave me was a real sense of how much I could realistically do.
You load in your tasks and the app will auto-estimate them for you. And then it will tell you YOU'RE DOING TOO MUCH TODAY.
And it invites you to spread the work out a bit, which I find really helpful.
My workflow now is that I do my big quarterly project planning in Notion and then I sync it with Sunsama (this is built in) and pull in those tasks week by week.
Sunsama's also got a calendar view so I can quickly see if I have a lot of meetings and actually won't get much else done.
The result is that Sunsama has trained me to make my days right sized which means I don't live by the to do list anymore and I don't leave a pile of unfinished work at the end of every week.
"Not having enough time" and "not knowing what to prioritize" are two major complaints I hear from you. That's why I reached out to Sunsama to form this partnership. Because their tool really has helped me. And I think you'll find it really useful too.
What I didn't understand, as an ambitious highschooler, that I get now is that it's not about the layout of the planner or the way you make your list. It's about getting better at estimating how long tasks take so you can right size your days. That's exactly what Sunsama empowers me to do.
Give Sunsama a try for ONE MONTH FREE and see if it changes how you spend your time.
P.S. I made a video on my Sunsama set up and how I use it with Notion and Zapier
