
Why I stopped juggling Notion and Jira (and what I use now)
I've been building SaaS tools for about two years now and honestly the biggest productivity killer wasn't bad code or missing features. It was switching between apps. The setup that drove me crazy For the longest time my workflow looked like this: Jira for tickets, Notion for docs and wikis, Slack for... well everything else. Three tabs minimum open at all times, three different search bars, three sets of notifications. And look, these are great tools individually. I'm not here to trash them. But the constant context switching was killing my focus. I'd be writing a spec in Notion, need to reference a ticket in Jira, then someone pings me on Slack about that same ticket, and suddenly I've lost 15 minutes just navigating between windows. The breaking point The real moment was when I realized my team was duplicating info everywhere. We had the same feature described in a Notion doc AND a Jira epic AND a Slack thread. When something changed, maybe one of those got updated. Maybe. I spent a
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