Today’s catch is five strategies for the same problem — too many surfaces, all open at once. Four apps and an essay, each one cutting the day’s input down to whatever fits inside a single line, a single column, or a single empty page.
A buried Accessibility mode strips iOS to one big-button screen
→ wired.com
Display a single task in your menu bar, and nothing else
→ sindresorhus.com
Daily planner app modeled on a paper notebook
→ finalist.works
Reverse-engineer your schedule from the events you can't move
→ selkie.design
Use Finder's seven colors as exactly seven categories — no more
→ eclecticlight.co
Begin the day with an empty surface, then pull out only what's needed
→ herman.bearblog.dev