Why I stopped juggling Notion and Jira (and what I use now)

I've been building software for about 4 years now. And for most of that time, my workflow looked like this: Jira for task tracking Notion for docs, wikis, meeting notes Slack for everything else Three tabs minimum, always open. Context switching all day. The problem nobody talks about Everyone debates Jira vs Linear or Notion vs Obsidian. But the real productivity killer isn't which tool you pick — it's having too many of them. I'd create a task in Jira, write the spec in Notion, then paste the link back into the Jira ticket. When someone asked "where's the doc for X?" the answer was always "let me find it." Half my day was just navigating between tabs. And syncing? Forget about it. Notion docs would get stale because nobody remembered to update them after the sprint changed. Jira tickets referenced Notion pages that no longer existed. What I tried first I went through the usual suspects: Linear — great for tasks, but still needed something for docs ClickUp — tried to do everything, fe