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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