Productivity · Beginner · about 16 minutes

Problem-first thinking — start from your calendar, not from the tool

You save AI tool recommendations. You have a folder of them. You follow three newsletters and you can name twenty tools.

You need

Role: Finance manager, 60-person manufacturing company, Coimbatore. - Chasing department heads for their monthly numbers — every month, 4 hours, and I hate it - Building the monthly MIS pack — monthly, 6 hours - Vendor payment queries on email — daily, 45 minutes - GST return prep — monthly, 5…

Tool

Your own calendar and sent-items folder

You get

Ranked by annual hours: 1. Vendor payment queries — 45 min × 5 days × 48 weeks = 180 hrs/year.

Time saved

Twenty minutes, once a quarter. It routinely redirects effort from a 30-hour-a-year problem to a 180-hour-a-year one.