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

Pinterest

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

Again, special 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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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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