What this site is for
This site is about the software and hardware decisions knowledge workers make and then live with for years: where your files live, which note app to commit to, whether a free plan is enough, what to automate, how a small team shares access.
Most articles on these topics are lists of products. This one is not. Almost every piece here is built around a decision rule — a way to tell which option fits the way you actually work — rather than a ranking. The goal is that you finish an article able to make the call yourself, including the call to keep what you already have.
How articles get written
Every article goes through the same process:
- Framing. We decide the specific decision the article is about and who it does not apply to.
- Drafting. A draft is written against that framing. Articles are AI-assisted: a language model produces the draft, working only from the research gathered for that piece.
- Automated checking. Each draft is run through two checks before a human sees it. The first is a set of fixed rules — required disclosure, prohibited claim patterns, link integrity. The second re-reads the draft against its source material looking for numbers that were not in the sources, claims about what "most people" do, absolute statements, and places where the article contradicts itself.
- Human review. Nothing is published automatically. A person reads the draft and the findings, and decides.
We think you should know that, so it is stated here rather than buried.
What we will not do
- Invent specifics. If a price, a retention window, or a limit is not in a source we checked, the article says to look it up rather than guessing at it.
- Claim health effects. Desks and keyboards affect comfort. They do not treat, prevent, or cure anything, and you will not read otherwise here.
- Rank by commission. Where affiliate links appear, they follow the recommendation. The recommendation does not follow the commission. Options with no affiliate program available are recommended on the same terms as ones that have one.
- Pretend to have tested what we have not. If an article is reasoning rather than hands-on testing, it reads as reasoning.
When we are wrong
Articles here are written from research and reasoning, not from testing every product in every setup. That means we will get things wrong sometimes. If you find an error, tell us — corrections are made in place, and material ones are noted in the article.
Affiliate links
Some articles contain affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you buy something after clicking one. It costs you nothing extra. Every article containing them says so at the top, before you read anything else. The full explanation is in our privacy policy.
Who runs it
This site is run by Settled On, a small independent publication. It exists because the people behind it have spent years choosing tools for their own work, switching when they chose badly, and wishing someone had written down the decision rule instead of another ranked list.
Contact: see the contact page.