A calmer brain, a better desk, books worth keeping.
I’m not a productivity guru. I’m someone who got overwhelmed by too many tools, too many books half-read, and a desk I didn’t want to sit at. Still Set is what I found when I stopped chasing systems and started noticing what actually worked.
No credentials. Just a lot of trial and error.
About Still Set
This is a publication run by someone who spent years in digital marketing, burnt out, and rebuilt their work life around three things: smarter tools, better books, and a calmer home.
No credentials. Just a lot of trial and error — and a habit of writing down what actually worked.
The Stack
Three things I’m using right now — one for thinking, one for reading, one for the space I work in. No fluff. Just what’s earning its place in my setup at the moment. I swap these out when something genuinely changes, not on a schedule.
My most-used tool right now, and the one I’d miss most. I reach for it less for writing than for thinking — I hand it a tangle of half-formed thoughts and get back something I can actually act on. I don’t earn anything if you try it. I’m naming it because it’s the truth of what I use.
Still reading this one, slowly. It’s not another time-management book handing you tricks to cram more into a day — it goes underneath that, and asks why we’re trying to in the first place. It’s already changed how I think about a full schedule. (More on how I’m reading it in the slow-reader piece.)
Honestly, the real change here was a decision, not a purchase. But if your desk has the same slow cable drift mine did, a simple tray under the desk is the one thing worth its space — it gave the cables that belonged there a home, and made the ones that didn’t obvious. (The fuller story is in the desk piece.)
Recent Writing
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Everything on My Desk at Seven in the Morning, and What Each Thing Had to Beat
It is a little after seven and I have not started work yet. The blinds are half open, the light is coming in flat and low across the desk, and there are other people in the flat already, in the same room, each doing their own thing. Before I moved anything I took a few…
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How to Decide What to Get Rid Of: I Put Four Things in a Box and Waited Two Weeks
On 14 August I took four things off my desk, put them in a box, and carried the box to the other side of the flat. Two rules. I was not allowed to throw anything away for fourteen days. And I was not allowed to pretend I didn’t know where the box was, so if…
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Productive Procrastination: 5 Things I Did to My Desk to Avoid One Piece of Work
There is a piece of work I put off for most of this year. I can date the whole thing by what happened to my desk. Productive procrastination is the version of avoidance that leaves evidence behind. You don’t scroll. You don’t nap. You do something genuinely useful, feel the small honest satisfaction of having…
The Desk Test
Two minutes, one question: would I go and get it? You’ll know what’s earning space on your desk — and what you’re allowed to let go.
Tools I actually use, not tools I review for clicks.
Tested workflows, honest takes, and the ones I dropped after week two.
What I’m reading and what made me stop and re-read a page.
No full summaries. Just the moments that shifted something.
Small changes that made me want to sit down and work.
Real items, real prices, still using after months.
Still Set
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