Issue #2 · July 2026
Your projects, minus the chaos 🗂 (+10% off awork)
This week we ran a fact-check sprint across our 20 most-read pages — every price and plan verified against the vendors' official pages. A few things changed quietly (Notion bundled its AI, Blinkist grew to 9,000+ titles), and everything below reflects the July 2026 state.
The theme this time: project management and productivity — including an exclusive discount on our favorite German PM tool.
awork
Project management with built-in time tracking — made in Hamburg
awork combines task planning, team workload and native time tracking in one friendly tool — GDPR-compliant with EU hosting, which matters if your clients ask where their data lives. We use the connected time-tracking-to-billing flow as the benchmark in our comparison table. Bonus for readers: the code AFFILIATE_26 gets you 10% off any plan.
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- Notion — big 2026 change: Notion AI is now bundled into the Business plan instead of being a paid add-on — docs, tasks and databases in one workspace.
- TickTick — task manager with a built-in Pomodoro timer — the lightweight pick if a full PM suite is overkill for your solo workflow.
- monday.com — visual workflows and automations that non-PM people actually understand — strong for small teams running client projects.
Deal of the issue
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a fresh guide — from Contra's 0% commission to Upwork's locked variable fees, with the real July 2026 numbers.
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