Productivity
Follow Productivity weekly with ProProblems that at least three different people described in public discussions. Open one to see what they said, how it scores and what you could build.
90 opportunities
Dated notes and records are hard to explore on a timeline
For obsidian note-takers and writers
Writers struggle to spell and type accurately across languages
For multilingual writers and people who struggle with spelling
Busy adults lose focus managing work, home tasks, and transitions
For busy adults balancing work and personal responsibilities
People struggle to control Do Not Disturb reliably
For android and Mac users
Screenshot-based work is tedious to assemble, annotate, and share
For people who create or review screenshot-based instructions and evidence
People lose access to chat histories across apps and workspaces
For AI-chat users, developers, and messaging-app users
Obsidian users can’t use formulas flexibly in notes
For obsidian users with formula-heavy notes
Form responses are hard to collect and keep spreadsheet-ready
For researchers, schools, associations, and small teams collecting form responses
People struggle to view their existing data on calendars
For people managing notes, tasks, and events across apps
Researchers lose time tracing and managing paper citations
For researchers and graduate students reading and writing literature-heavy papers
People lose their workspace when apps restart or tabs change
For developers and power users who work across many windows and tabs
Spreadsheet users get stuck translating calculations into formulas
For spreadsheet users who need occasional custom calculations
Obsidian users struggle to keep image-heavy vaults small
For obsidian users with image-heavy vaults
Drivers lack reliable, car-friendly ways to listen to reading material
For drivers who listen to articles, documents, summaries, and audiobooks
Obsidian users lack reusable inline computed properties
For obsidian power users and personal-knowledge-base maintainers
Google Sheets users wrestle with dynamic data reshaping formulas
For google Sheets users maintaining multi-tab, formula-driven datasets
Readers lose track of fragmented publication subscriptions
For readers of independent journalism and email newsletters
Teams lose useful knowledge across chat and scattered docs
For teams with scattered internal documentation
People struggle to keep browser sessions distinct and predictable
For people who separate browser sessions for work, projects, or accounts
Obsidian users struggle to query and reuse Markdown data
For obsidian power users managing structured notes
Note users struggle to keep structured data connected to documents
For people building document-centric knowledge systems
Obsidian writers cannot keep note word counts in properties
For obsidian users organizing long-form writing in notes
People struggle to keep unwanted AI out of everyday apps
For people who prefer software without generative AI
Users struggle to copy, verify, and recover text
For desktop and web users who frequently copy text