5 Internal Tools I Built That I Now Use Daily

Once they existed, work felt lighter

Hassan Nauman

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Jan 25, 2026

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I don’t build tools because I’m bored.
I build them because I get tired of repeating myself.

After about four years of writing Python professionally, something becomes painfully obvious:
most of your time isn’t spent solving “hard” problems — it’s spent babysitting small, annoying ones.

So I started killing those problems. One script at a time.

These are five internal tools I built for myself.
No SaaS. No dashboards. No pitch decks.
Just Python doing exactly what I need, every day.

1. The “Silent Context Switch Killer”

(Because interruptions are productivity poison)

Every time I switched tasks, I lost context.
Slack message. Jira ping. Random email. Boom — flow gone.

So I built a tool that tracks when and why I lose focus.

Not with AI. Not with fancy NLP.
Just brutal honesty and timestamps.

import time
import json
from datetime import datetime

LOG_FILE = "context_switches.json"
def log_switch(reason)…