Nested Folders

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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