Nested Folders: Recent Episodes
Rosemary Orchard & Scotty Jackson
Interested in learning more about making the best use of your time and establishing your best personal workflows? So are Rosemary Orchard and Scotty Jackson. Join them as they discuss ways of thinking, working, and using technology solutions to achieve more and feel good about doing their best work.
In this, our last episode, Rose and Scotty discuss finding stability in changed or uncertain times.Thank you so much for your support and for listening. We sign off with gratitude and appreciation.Some things we mention and love in this show:* Scotty's blog post about stopping podcasting * Nested Folders post announcing our finale * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia) * Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy: the towel * Hemispheric Views podcast
Rose and Scotty discuss how they manage through periods where systems and practices aren’t working for them.Some things we mention and love:* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia) * Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy: the towel * The pot roast story * How to Train Your Dragon (Wikipedia) * About the KonMari Method | The Official Website of Marie Kondo * Decluttering at the Speed of Life, by Dana K. White
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they approach productivity when environments, contexts, or other factors take them out of their norms.Some things we mention and love:* Die Hard (many times) * Finding Nemo, just keep swimming * Month Python and the Holy Grail, counting to five for the holy hand grenade
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Rose and Scotty discuss how to productively persevere when prevailing circumstances might risk getting them down.
Some things we mention and love: * Rainy Days and Mondays, by the Carpenters (not Blondie, but we've fixed attribution here!) * Lose Yourself, by Eminem * Enemy, by Imagine Dragons x J.I.D * CTRL^^^, by MONOWHALES * Light boxes * Mark Twain on eating a live frog * Monty Python's Crunchy Frog * The Shining (All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy)
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they both identify and balance the various parts of their lives.
In this episode, we mention and love Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight A Student.
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Rose and Scotty discuss habits, both good and bad, and identifying and caring for them.
Some things we mention and love: * The pot roast story * Getting Things Done - What is GTD? * Horizons of focus
Yes, there was an issue with Scotty's local audio for the first part, and so we had to sub in our backup audio for the first few segments. Sorry about that! Those whø were responsible have been sacked.
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they think about their strengths, consider what they mean, and how to best employ them.
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Rose and Scotty discuss goal setting practices, how they think about them, and how they conduct them.
Some things we mention and love: * 12 Week Year * Nested Folders episode 3: Building Bookends * Mike Schmitz’s Personal Retreat
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Rose and Scotty discuss ways of demonstrating productivity in cases where one might not feel so productive.
Some past episodes that expand on ideas mentioned here: * Nested Folders Episode 83: High Flips, Competing Priorities, and Fast Switching: Snowball effect * Nested Folders Episode 2: No(n) Zero Day * Nested Folders Episode 66: Background Thinking
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Rose and Scotty discuss the state of flow, getting in to it, and keeping it sparked. Some things we mention and love: * Rubber ducking * Pixar's Soul, the ocean
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Rose and Scotty discuss rapidly moving between many pieces of competing work and how they navigate through these experiences.
Some things we mention and love: * You Need a Budget: Snowball effect * Eisenhower matrix * How to be a miracle worker (Scotty Principle): Part 1 and Part 2
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Rose and Scotty discuss implications of and approaches to all-consuming problems.
Some things we mention and love: * What is Getting Things Done * Office Space: I could set the building on fire * Mad Men: Not great, Bob * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: find your towel
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Rose and Scotty discuss task management clutter, the difference between clutter in motion vs. in stasis, and how they are managing through both.
Some things we mention and love:
- How to Deal with Clutter When You Have ADHD
- OmniFocus
- Agenda
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Bring Out Your Dead
- The LEGO® Botanical Collection
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Rose and Scotty discuss the art of delegation, how they think about it, and how they work with it.
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Rose and Scotty discuss how sometimes we are brainless, and so need to both prepare for and respond to such situations.
Some things we mention and love: * Mise en place (Wikipedia) * What is Getting Things Done
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Rosemary and Scotty discuss the use of time, choices we make, and ways we try to make the most of the time we have.
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Rose and Scotty talk about our handling of stuff and where it goes.
Some things we mention and love: * KC Davis and Struggle care * Drafts app * Agenda app * Scotty’s Agenda Daily Log * Yoink app * Unclutter app * Setapp * DEVONthink * Baskets! All baskets!
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Rose and Scotty discuss their best practices for working in a mixed workstyles environment, where some people are in office and others are remote.
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Rose and Scotty talk about breaking out of bad patterns.
We mention Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret (this is the earliest mention of it we could find), and a few quotes from David Allen.
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Rose and Scotty talk about how they manage and conserve energy productively.
We mention the XY problem, which is something worth really reflecting on!
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Rose and Scotty discuss optimizing their systems for being frictionless.
Some things we mentions and love: * OmniFocus * Drafts * Bullet Journal * Philips Hue Go portable light
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Rose and Scotty revisit the topic of reviews and their favourite ways of thinking about and doing them.
Some things we mention and love: * Getting Things Done * Nested Folders Episode 5: How We Weekly Review * Nested Folders Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review
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Rose and Scotty discuss how externalizing ideas and thoughts changes them and makes them concrete.
Some things we refer to and love: * Rubber duck debugging * Rubin’s vase * Nested Folders Episode 59: Naming and Language * Inverted question marks
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they list our their commitments/projects and the best ways to go about that.
We mention and love: * Obsidian * OmniFocus * Trello * Nested Folders Episode 59: Naming and Language * Rose’s Project Export Script
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Rose and Scotty discuss handling situations where a significant and immovable event is incoming, and how to plan and create space for it.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 54: Closing a Chapter * Nested Folders Episode 55: Starting a New Chapter * Nested Folders Episode 3: Building Bookends * Descript | All-in-one audio/video editing, as easy as a doc
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Thanks to everyone for all their support this year! We appreciate it so much. We'll be back with a regular Nested Folders episode on January 11.
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Rose and Scotty discuss the mundane tasks of our lives, and how they tackle them by lining them up and using gamification and paralleling.
Some things we mention and discuss: * WidgetPack * Nested Folders Episode 67: Todo Lists vs. Task Management * Due app * Nested Folders Episode 63: The Silent To Do List
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Rose and Scotty discuss the differences between todo lists and task management, and when the mental model for each applies best.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 65: The Last Mile * Nested Folders Episode 66: Background Thinking * OmniFocus * Mindmapping (and we like MindNode) * Drafts * TaskHeat
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Rose and Scotty discuss the idea of background thinking, and using distraction and change to invite thoughts to occur in different ways.
Some things we mention and love: * Desk yoga * Yoga stretches at your desk * Three minute yoga you can add while sitting * Just Press Record * Bullet Journal migrations
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Rose and Scotty discuss the last mile of a project or period of time, how they look ahead to it, and how they work through it.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 54: Closing a Chapter * Nested Folders Episode 55: Starting a New Chapter
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Rose and Scotty discuss how challenging it can be to manage the perception of whole tasks needing to be done from start to finish, resulting in procrastination.
Some things we mention and love: * Mastermind group * OmniFocus * LEGO Birds of Paradise and LEGO Bonsai Tree * Getting Things Done Weekly Review * Bullet Journal migration
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Rose and Scotty discuss how tasks are often hidden behind our environment and how that environment can become noise.
Some things we mention and love: * The silent todo list post on Reddit * David Allen and the Getting Things Done methodology * The Clutterbug Survey * The Audra Edmonson post about project boards inspired by Barbara Shur * Nested Folders Episode 35: Installing GTD * Lightly NSFW: Un"filth" Your Habitat
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Rose and Scotty discuss how miscellaneous lists and categories help support progress and productivity.
Some things we mention and love: * OmniFocus * Bullet Journaling * Taskheat
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Rose and Scotty discuss how to be as productive as possible when productivity feels the most unlikely. We mention and love: * Scotty’s blog post on being unwell * Nested Folders Episode 60: “Best Before” Dates * Nested Folders Episode 58: Defining Failure * Nanoleaf * Airport Express
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Rose and Scotty discuss managing timelines for tasks that aren’t due or critical, but which have an expiration or “best before” date.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders episode 58: Defining Failure * OmniFocus * Rose's OmniFocus script for cleaning up old tasks (forthcoming)
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Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of naming, words, and emoji in enforcing meaning and action.
Things we mention and love: * The Getting Things Done methodology for task management * OmniFocus * Due
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Rose and Scotty discuss failure, how we experience it, and how we might reframe and learn from it.
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Rose and Scotty discuss ways of surfacing the best content from our systems to help us manage the chaos.
We refer to past Nested Folders episode 41, List of Lists, as well as to a few tools: * Elgato Streamdeck * Keyboard Maestro * Shortcuts * AirTable * OmniFocus * Things
We also mention some books and reading: * Refuse to Choose, by Barbara Sher * Atomic Habits, by James Clear * The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande * The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
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Rose and Scotty discuss inboxes, how they manage them, and ways to optimize how they operate and what they even are.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part 1, Capture * Drafts * Airmail * 1Password * iOS 15: Focus, domain email, more * OmniFocus * Due * Reminders Parsing and Sorting Shortcut * OmniAutomation Script for Processing Shopping Emails * The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
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Rose and Scotty discuss approaching a new body of work or change in lifestyle as part of a new chapter in our lives.
This follows our previous episode, Episode 55: Closing a Chapter, where we talking about a large body of work or way of life coming to an end, setting the stage for this new one.
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they approach closing off chapters in their lives, including both big chapters like new jobs and life changes, or smaller chapters like arbitrary periods or mindsets.
Some related past listening is the previous episode, Episode 53: Crisis Management, and our Episode 3: Building Bookends, but wow, that's a really old one, and the audio quality isn't quite as it is now. You've been warned.
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they manage in crisis times, using tools and ways of thinking to handle, and hopefully minimize, the disastrousness of these kinds of situations.
Some related past listening is our Episode 19: Dealing with Sudden Change.
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Rose and Scotty discuss practices and approaches for dealing with many projects, commitments, and activities.
Some things we mention and love: * David Sparks' Status Dashboard * Kanban * OmniFocus * AirTable * Shortcuts
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Rose and Scotty revisit their tags and lists to think more about how (and why) we classify actions.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 39: Lists and Tags and Contexts * Nested Folders Episode 50: A Year of Pandemic Folder Nesting * Om Save Safari Extension * OmniFocus * Obsidian * Agenda * RocketBook
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Rose and Scotty look back on a year of a life in a pandemic, how their systems changed, evolved, and managed throughout, and what they have taken away from all of this so far.
We mention Nested Folders episode 19: Dealing With Sudden Change, and make some light reference to our GTD series as well.
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Rose and Scotty discuss the how we might approach new work and making the unfamiliar feel more doable.
We refer to Nested Folders episode 47: Hacking Pitfalls and some other past episodes, which we try to keep evergreen for lasting value. 😁
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Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of recognizing making progress and taking the time to celebrate wins and ourselves as a part of keeping our heads above water.
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Rose and Scotty discuss their pitfalls and challenges in practicing productivity and how we work around them.
We reference a bunch of past material on this one! Check out: * Nested Folders Episode 46: Breaking Up and Down the Weekly Review * Unnested Folders: Our Productivity Apps Unnested * Nested Folders Episode 13: The Year End Review * Nested Folders Episode 44: Getting the Little Things Done * Nested Folders Episode 16: The Maker and the Manager
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Rose and Scotty discuss ways of addressing the magnitude of the weekly review by breaking it up, parcelling it out, and breaking it in to manageable chunks. We're talking weekly reviews, and to hear more about us on this kind of topic, check out past episodes of Nested Folders: * Nested Folders episode 32: GTW Workflow Part III/IV: Review * Nested Folders episode 5: How We Weekly Review * Nested Folders episode 13: The Year End Review
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Rose and Scotty discuss ways of kick-starting out energy or motivation when it's tough to feel inspired or get going.
Some things we mention and love: * Pomodoro technique * Pomolego technique * Nested Folders episode 42: Decluttering for Productivity * Nested Folders episode 8: Setting Up Your Workspace * Dark Noise app * Rubber duck debugging
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Rose and Scotty discuss approaches to managing the smaller tasks we are always faced with, trying to making it easier and more enjoyable to tackle the myriad of little things we have to tend to.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 27: The Two Minute "Rule" * Rose on The Sweet Setup: How I Use Timeblocking to Increase my Efficiency * Dark Noise
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Rose and Scotty discuss the application of the complete burning down of a system and starting from scratch.
We refer to some previous episodes of Nested Folders here, including: * Episode 5: How We Weekly Review * Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part II/IV: Review * Episode 37: I'm a Mess * Episode 15: Staying on the Rails
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Rose and Scotty discuss approaches to optimizing workspaces and workflows through deliberate moves to organize. Things we mention or refer to: * The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Joy at Work, and all the things by Marie Kondo * Bluelounge cable management products * The number 42 (this is the forty second episode of Nested Folders, after all)
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Lists aren't just for actions! Rose and Scotty discuss some of the lists they keep in their systems for purposes of both practicality and fun. Some of the lists we talk about: * Media * Gifts * Games * Books * Apps * People * Wine * Autobiography titles * Things to automate * Productivity
Some things we mention and love: * Ticket to Ride * OmniGroup Slack
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Rose and Scotty discuss simplifying tasks and projects and unknowns to detect and avoid complexity.
Some things we mention and love: * Crouton * Constant vigilance
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Rose and Scotty discuss list management through tags/categories/contexts for actions, helping to organize lists and actions through different kinds of ways of thinking about how to group our tasks.
Things we mention and love: * Getting Things Done (GTD) contexts * OmniFocus
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Rose and Scotty discuss the value of relaxation, and how to relax (and prepare for relaxation) effectively.
Some things we mention and love: * Feel good about what you are not doing * Cal Newport Straight A Student * Nested Folders Episode 5, How We Weekly Review * Nested Folders Episode 32, GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review * Scotty's daily journaling * Rose's daily routine on Automators #47: The Daily Brief * Merlin Mann Productive Talk interview with David Allen
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Rose and Scotty discuss the feeling of life moving faster than systems, ending up in a mess, and what paths to recovery might look like.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 10: Capturing Braindumps * Nested Folders Episode 28, GTD Workflow Part I: Capture * Not great, Bob * Cognitive defusion (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
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Rose and Scotty, in their continuing and unnumbered series of episodes examining Getting Things Done (GTD) best practices, discuss the GTD horizons of focus, what they mean, and how they apply to define life and work.
Things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 13: The Year End Review * Nested Folders Episode 14: You've Got to Have a Plan * Mike Schmitz's Personal Retreat Handbook (12 Week Year) * OmniFocus * Agenda
Previous Nested Folders GTD series episodes: * Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part I, Capture * Episode 29: GTD Workflow Part II, Clarify/Process and Organize * Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review * Episode 33: GTD Workflow Part IV/V: Do/Engage * Episode 35: Installing GTD
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Rose and Scotty discuss what it can be like to introduce a Getting Things Done (GTD) system in to your life, as well as ways to think about the system you have and ways to continuously improve it.
Things we mention and love: * Getting Things Done * Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part I, Capture * Nested Folders Episode 29: GTD Workflow Part II, Clarify/Process and Organize * Nested Folders Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review * Nested Folders Episode 33: GTD Workflow Part IV/V: Do/Engage * Hipster PDA * OmniFocus * Things * Nested Folders Episode 34: Fire Inspection Unnested * Nested Folders Episode 7: How to Do Productivity With Others (Who May or May Not)
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Rose and Scotty introduce Unnested Folders! As a first go, this episode is available to everyone, where we discuss ways of approaching the challeges of the work of a busy fire inspector.
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Things we mention and love: * Unnested Folders * Hipster PDA * DEVONthink * Belvedere (Windows) * Hazel (Mac) * Todo.txt on Lifehacker * Rocket * Four colour Bic pens * Expandable filer * Sharpie pens * Coloured folders
Rose and Scotty get to what is hopefully the last in our tragically numbered series on our coverage of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, which is Engage (or Do). We talk about the act of getting in to execution, using this act to prove out or improve the preceding part of the workflow, and what the mindset of doing can accomplish in terms of life and your system.
Things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part 1, Capture * Nested Folders Episode 29: GTD Workflow Part II, Clarify/Process and Organize * Nested Folders Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review * Know where your towel is, care of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Fandom Wiki * Debt-snowball method * GTD Weekly Review audio program
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In part three of our GTD workflow series, we tackle part four of the GTD workflow: review (sorry for the numbering). From the weekly review to inbox sweeps to larger horizon reviews, we touch on this aspect of the Getting Things Done methodology.
We mention and love: * Nested Folder episode 5: How We Weekly Review * Nested Folders episode 13: The Year End Review * GTD Weekly Review Checklist * Nested Folders episode 11: Someday/Maybe/Never * Nested Folders episode 31: One Year of Nested Folders * Rose's Daily Brief on Automators episode 47: The Daily Brief * Scotty's Daily Journal (with Agenda and OmniFocus)
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Rose and Scotty reflect on a year of doing Nested Folders, what we've learned, and what's to come.
Thank you to all of out listeners for your time, attention, feedback, and support! We're having a lovely time.
We mention and love: * Matthew Lee's question about learning * Aran Rees' question about what we were wrong about/false assumptions * OmniGroup Slack * Ryan Dotson * Josh Hughes * J.F. Brissette and JFB Media Solutions * Build Your OmniFocus Workflow * Automators Podcast * Relay.fm * Share your feedback with us
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Our thanks to Agenda for sponsoring this second of two special episodes, where Rose interviews Scotty about his setup and usage of Agenda, what he keeps there, and how it fits in his workflows.
Links to resources mentioned: * Agenda * Agenda x-callback-url scheme * Agenda Community * Nested Folders episode 26: Rose's Agenda Setup * Daily Journal Shortcut * Rapid Logging/Bullet Journaling Shortcut * Meeting Wrap Up Shortcut * List Manager Shortcut * Agenda and OmniFocus Project Maker Shortcut * Shortcut to Make Rich Text from Markdown and Email
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Rose and Scotty continue their take on the GTD process, teasing apart and conflating the Clarify/Process and Organize phases of the workflow.
Related things we talk about and love: * Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part I, Capture * Nested Folders Episode 27: The Two Minute "Rule" * GTD Official Workflow * GTD Workflow Processing and Organizing * DIY Planner GTD Workflow Flow Chart * HeyScottyJ: What's in a Name? Everything. * Merlin Mann: Getting Started with "Getting Things Done" * OmniFocus
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Rose and Scotty tackle the first of the five phases of the Getting Things Done workflow, capture (or collect, if you like). We discuss our ways of thinking about and managing this phase, as well as our best practices for how we approach it.
Things we mention and love: * Nested Folders episode 27: The Two Minute "Rule" * Getting Things Done workflow * OmniFocus * Agenda * Drafts * Shortcuts
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Rose and Scotty discuss the adherence (or not) to the classic two minute rule of Getting Things Done. We talk about context (not always in the GTD sense), actions vs. goals, and the modernization of productivity systems as they relate to this guideline.
We mention: * Getting Things Done * Two Minute Rule * GTD Live Seminar * OmniFocus * OmniFocus Automation
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Our thanks to Agenda for sponsoring this first of two special episodes, where Scotty interviews Rose about her setup and usage of Agenda for Mac and iOS.
Important links: * Agenda * Agenda Community * x-callback-url Support/Reference
Rose's Shortcut for adding notes to a project in Agenda
Apps Rose uses together with Agenda: * Pushcut * Data Jar * OmniFocus * DEVONthink
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Rose and Scotty discuss what agreements help fuel collaboration across time zones, locations, teams, and ways of working.
Things we mention and love: * Nested Folders episode 16: The Maker and the Manager * Google Docs * Slack * Dropbox * Scrivener * CalZones * WhenWorks * Calendly * Marvin the Paranoid Android * Build Your OmniFocus Workflow
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Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of saying no as a way of limiting commitiments, creating a platform for collaboration, and playing metaphorical Jenga.
Some things we mention and love: * Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell * Jenga * OmniFocus * AirTable
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A very special thank you to DEVONtechnologies for sponsoring this bonus episode of Nested Folders. In it, Scotty interviews Rose and explores her setup, architecture, and usage of DEVONthink to organize her projects, studies, reference material, version control, and life.
Follow our special link to the DEVONtechnologies website to enjoy a 10% discount on any of the editions of DEVONthink, a special for listeners of Nested Folders!
Other apps that complement Rose's use of DEVONthink: * DEVONthink Reminders * Send to DEVONthink action for Drafts * Yoink * PopClip * DEVONthink browser extensions * Zapier * IFTTT * Hazel * Shortcuts
Scotty's setup is available on Nested Folders episode 20.
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Rose and Scotty talk about creating structure in the course of a pandemic, or in any kind of context where lines between activities can blur because of environmental factors or not changing physical spaces.
Some things we mention and love: * Donut * Day One * OmniFocus * Agenda * Streaks * Scotty's journaling stack * Learn Klingon * AirTable * Automators #47: The Daily Brief * Nested Folders episode 21: Boundaries * Nested Folders episode 16: The Maker and the Manager * Getting Things Done trigger list
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Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of defining and managing boundaries, as well as how they might need to shift in the context of significant change.
Things we mention and love: * Jonathan Lacour's article on automating a Fire tablet as a sign * Philips Hue * Airtable
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A very special thank you to DEVONtechnologies for sponsoring this bonus episode of Nested Folders. In it, Rose interviews Scotty and explores his set up, architecture, and usage of DEVONthink to organize his files, reference material, and life.
Follow our special link to the DEVONtechnologies website to enjoy a 10% discount on any of the editions of DEVONthink, a special for listeners of Nested Folders!
Other things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 12: Actions vs. Reference * OmniFocus
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Rose and Scotty discuss approaches to handling and managing sudden and large changes.
Things we mention and love: * OmniFocus * Things * Todoist * Eisenhower 2x2 matrix * Due * Back to Work (I couldn't identify the exact BIQNX * What I Need shortcut (set to make notes in a project in Agenda, but you can modify it!)
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Rosemary and Scotty discuss the symptoms of being blocked by perfectionist tendencies, as well as a variety of strategies to keep moving and getting past feeling blocked.
Things we mention and love: * Nested Folders episode 16: The Maker and the Manager * Nested Folders episode 2: No(n) Zero Day * Three random OmniFocus actions * The Importance of Planning Every Minute of Your Work Day, by Cal Newport * OmniFocus * Drafts * iOS Shortcuts
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Rose and Scotty discuss how we manage through feelings of overwhelm, how we think about overwhelm, and reflect of strategies to prevent overwhelm.
Things we mention and love: * Nested Folders Episode 15: Staying on the Rails * Nested Folders Episode 14: You've Got to Have a Plan * Nested Folders Episode 5: How We Weekly Review * Nested Folders Episode 13: The Year End Review * Nested Folders Episode 9: Professional and Personal * X-Wing design Moleskine day per page notebook * Mindmapping * OmniFocus
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Rose and Scotty discuss the differences in schedules and workflows between those who have maker-like calendars and those who have manager-like calendars.
Stuff we mention and love: * Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule, by Paul Graham * Maker vs. Manager: How To Schedule For Your Productivity Style, by Stella Garber on Trello blog * Maker vs. Manager: How to make a schedule that supports your working style, by Jory MacKay on RescueTime blog * Nested Folders Episode 2: No(n)-Zero Day
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With year end reviews in our rearview mirrors, Rose and Scotty discuss mechanisms and practices to keep consistent in our workflows and systems to avoid going off the rails.
Some things we mention and love: * Nested Folders, Episode 13: The Year End Review * Nested Folders, Episode 5: How We Weekly Review * MPU, Episode 519 (using the Drafts badge) * Mike Schmitz's Personal Retreat * DevonThink * Unibox + ScreenCastsONLINE preview of Unibox * OmniFocus * Agenda * Mindnode * Field Notes * Scotty's daily journal shortcut * Pushcut * Due * X-Wing design Moleskine day per page notebook * WhenWorks
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The key is to have a plan, so that you know what you’re changing when you change it. Rose and Scotty talk about what it is to have a plan, make a plan, and deal with having a plan. We discuss approaches and things to think about, as well as tools we use about those (Airtable is probably mentioned).
Some of the things Rose and Scotty mention and love: * iA Writer * Drafts * Agenda * Rubber Duck Debugging * Taskpaper format * Airtable * GitHub * Notion * WhenWorks * Zoho Projects * Taskheat * OmniFocus * OmniPlan * OmniOutliner * Nested Folders episode 12: Actions vs. Reference * GTD Podcast episode 55: David Allen on Removing System Drag
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Rose and Scotty discuss their approaches to year end reviews, reflecting on what has been and planning for what is to come.
Some questions we ask ourselves: * What did I do this year that was awesome? + Why did that work so well? * What do I want to do next year? * What could I have improved from this year? + How might I improve that? * What did I learn this year? * What mistakes did I make? + What habits need time and attention? * What's already planned for next year? * What am I excited about?
Other things we mention and love: * Streaks * OmniFocus * Cortex Theme System * Nested Folders episode 2, Non-Zero Day (please excuse the early day podcast proof of concept-level audio quality) * The Personal Retreat Handbook, by Mike Schmitz
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Rose and Scotty discuss the difference between and management of actions/tasks and reference material.
Things we mention and love: * Rose's blog post on DEVONthink, OmniFocus, and Shortcuts * Scotty's blog post on project creation in Agenda and OmniFocus with Shortcut * DEVONthink * OmniFocus * Shortcuts * Agenda * Evernote * Nested Folders episode 10: Capturing Braindumps * Nested Folders episode 5: How We Weekly Review * Nested Folders episode 11: Someday/Maybe/Never * AirTable * Confluence
Once again, a huge thanks to J.F. Brissette and JFB Media Solutions, whose audio engineering expertise helped Rose and Scotty sound their very best.
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Rosemary and Scotty discuss the purpose and value of someday/maybe lists, as well as different ways to manage them, featuring Rose's use of git as a method. Here are some of the the things we mention and love:
- Eisenhower matrix
- OmniFocus
- Nested Folders Episode 4: When Not to be Productive
- DevonThink
- Trakt
- Goodreads
- Git
- BBEdit
- Source Tree
- Working Copy
- iA Writer
- Drafts
- Taskpaper formatting reference
- Markdown formatting reference, followed by its extended syntax for tasks
- Bullet Journal
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Rose and Scotty discuss how we unencumber our brains by capturing all the things through various tools and techniques.
Apps we mention and love: * Scapple * MindNode * OmniOutliner * Notability
Some resources we talk about: * Build your OmniFocus workflow trigger list * Rose's Trigger List Shortcut
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Scotty and Rose discuss managing professional and personal (and personally professional?) demands in systems to get things done while also organizing effectively.
Stuff we mention and love: * OmniFocus * Agenda * Ulysses * Drafts * Fantastical
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Rose and Scotty discuss the optimization of workspaces in home, coffee shops, on the go, and possibly even in an office.
Some things we mention and love: * Roost Stand (with alternatives on Amazon) * Zebra telescopic biro (ball-point pen) * Anker PowerCore Speed 20000 * ZMI USB PD Backup Battery & Hub
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Rose and Scotty discuss how not everyone might work a productivity system, and strategies for collaborating with others whose systems you don't know of or can't see.
Some things we mention and love: * Getting Things Done, by David Allen * Slack * Filofax * Kanban * Shortcuts (iOS) * Agenda (iOS) * Student collaborative note taking during lecture, via GeoEd Trek
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Rose and Scotty discuss (perhaps not really answering) the question of whether work is worth investing in automation for. From anger to accuracy to convenience, there are a number of great reasons to think about automation as a valuable tool.
Check out the Automators podcast, which Rose co-hosts with David Sparks, and which is a wealth of automation information.
We talked about a lot of software in this episode, including: * Airtable * Shortcuts * Zapier * Integromat * Excel (not a database) * Numbers * OmniFocus
Also mentioned is the Brydge Keyboard (with a y).
Get all kinds of insights about automation from Rose's blog, and there are some Shortcuts on Scotty's blog as well!
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they conduct their productivity reviews and how they like to think about them.
Mentioned in the podcast: * The GTD Weekly Review checklist * GTD: Weekly Review audio program (which Scotty quoted without thinking about and which is a good one - no affiliation) * Blog post: Pre-Frontal Mondays, by David Kadavy (Scotty referred to Executive Mondays, and this was the inspiration)
Not mentioned in the podcast: * Podcast: The Weekly Review, hosted by James Dempsey and Jean MacDonald (wonderful podcast)
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In this episode, Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of times to be unproductive, and how to manage that.
Things we mention/discuss in the show: * Definition of procrastination (from Merlin Mann’s interview with David Allen) * Yoshi’s Crafted World for Nintendo Switch * Marvel Cinematic Universe * Why Power Napping can Increase your Productivity * Airtable * Integromat
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In this episode, Rose and Scotty look at the influence things like vacations (or holidays as Rose calls them) can have on your productivity and how you can recreate that without needing to travel all the time. Along with less practical suggestions like "have children" there are plenty of tips to get you started as well as existing systems you can implement!
Things we mention and love: * 12 Week Year * https://courses.faithbasedproductivity.com/p/personal-retreat-handbook?affcode=289620_cb9jt9df * International Fixed Calendar * Tweet thread on the calendar (it's well worth reading, it has an unexpected turn or two!)
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In this episode, Rose introduces Scotty to the concept of a non-zero day, and they discuss ways to keep progressing towards goals, even if it's just a bit at a time.
Things we mention and love: * Original non-zero day Reddit post * NonZeroDay SubReddit * If You Want to Change the World, Start Off by Making Your Bed - William McRaven, US Navy Admiral
Also (thank you for listener feedback!), Scotty's new mic is live starting next episode. Hooray!
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So many projects, and they can be overwhelming! In this episode Scotty and Rose break down some of the ways they do project planning.
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Hello, it's lovely to meet you! In this episode Rose and Scotty introduce themselves and tell you a little about the podcast they're going to be producing.