I used the same productivity tool for 3 years. Then I realized I was not doing the work.

For 3 years I used one productivity tool for everything. Tags, folders, structures, systems. I knew every shortcut. Then one day I opened it and realized I hadn't actually done anything in it for weeks. I'd only been organizing, moving things around, building systems that never got used. I switched to a plain text file, and more work is getting done now.

The tool wasn't bad. I was using it to feel productive instead of being productive.

So for those who've dropped a tool they depended on: was it actually the tool's fault or was it the way you were using it? And the harder question: what tool are you using right now mostly to feel organized not to actually do anything?