Nested Folders

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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