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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