PTPL 057: A Productivity System Under Stress—5 Insights While Traveling

PLUS Alternatives to Adobe products, and finding creativity by embracing your limitations

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This week — 

• How leaning into your limitations can produce extraordinary results

• The best Alternatives-to-Adobe list I’ve ever seen

• How my productivity system is standing up to working away from home while on holiday

Welcome! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week taster of the unusual, the helpful, and the delightfully mundane, as well as the next instalment of my quest to future proof and simplify my digital-analog workflow.

Inspired Productivity

Limitations can boost creativity

I’ve been following Chris Silverman’s daily art on Mastodon for a few months now. It boggles my mind that not only does he create interesting, imaginative images on a daily basis, he does it solely in the Apple Notes app on his old iPhone (no Apple Pencil).

Having everything handed to you on a platter can be a creativity killer, simp…