Clutter is a pernicious problem for many people. And, so is its cousin, digital clutter. Across your many desktop and mobile devices now prevalent in daily life, we house files piled high (metaphorically speaking) that as Art Gelwicks aptly notes, lives on "without a clearly defined purpose." Clearly this is a complicated issue and the ProductivityCast team has a healthy debate about the practicality of managing our digital worlds, and what awaits us in the future for digital information management. Join us for this fascinating discussion into digital clutter and the need to do digital decluttering.

This is surely a topic we'll revisit in the future, as the more information we have about us living both locally on our systems and in the cloud grows, almost exponentially.

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If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). What are your thoughts on your digital information and performing any kind of digital decluttering? Do you suffer from digital clutter? Or, do you have a particular area where you manage your digital information well (say, at work), but very poorly elsewhere (like, home digital photo organization)? You can comment below, or let us know via our contact form (audio or text) and we'll be glad to help as best as we can in a future episode.

In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Trello for Mac

Evernote

IFTTT

Amazon Kindle e-Readers

Survivorman

Instapaper

Pinterest

Minimalism (documentary)

ProdPod: Episode 68–Digital Clutter: Out of Sight Is Not Out of Mind

Otixo

MultCloud

OneNote

Google Drive

Dropbox

Getting Things Done by David Allen

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personal world better to live a

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Augusto received mistakenly a letter from his local municipality, and the time-wasting process began of fixing another person’s mistakes. And, yes, people will make mistakes. You will make mistakes. But, the deeper issue here is valuing other people’s time. There are many issues when respecting and understanding the productive value of other people's time. And, in this cast, we guide you on how to be more productive when valuing other people's time and helping them understand how to value yours.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

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Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Modern Meeting Standard - Anonymous Meeting Feedback Tool

Facebook Messenger

Slack

WhatsApp

Microsoft Teams

Telegram

OneNote

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen, PhD

Not mentioned in the episode but worthwhile mentioning:

On Time Window

On coming to work on time

On having better meetings

ProdPod episodes on Time Thieves, Thugs and Terrorists:

Episode 96: Time Thieves, Time Thugs, and Time Terrorists – Who They Are So You Can Identify Them Efficiently

Episode 97: Time Thieves, Time Thugs, and Time Terrorists – How to Combat Them So You Can Get Back to Being Productive

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Eight years ago Paul Graham wrote an article characterizing two different types of time management, each centering on either a maker or manager perspective. The maker schedule is that of the individual who needs longer stretches of time in order to create, whereas the manager schedule is structured around meetings and shorter periods of work times. But times, they are a-changing...and fast!  In this cast, the ProductivityCast team looks at potentially new additions to the maker and manager schedules (ergo, the maker, manager and the artist's productivity...and individual, too!), and how to attempt to master time management in a changing world.

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Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

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SkedPal

“Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” by Paul Graham

Maker vs Manager’s Schedules

Brainswarming

Google Calendar

Principle of Universalizability

The Platinum Rule by Dr. Tony Alessandra

The Platinum Rule - Sample Report

Keirsey Temperament Sorter

16 Personalities

Holacracy

McKinsey article: http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/making-time-management-the-organizations-priority

Meetingless Meetings by Francis Wade

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Agile project management

RescueTime

Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Surprising Insights into How You Think by Stephen Kosslyn and G. Wayne Miller

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There was a recent study of ravens that found they can plan. They can do the simple-to-humans function of planning for future possibilities. Only known to be a capability of humans and apes before, ravens (or, corvids) have now joined the elite thinkers of planet Earth. But, what does planning have to do with productivity? Why, everything! And, that's what the ProductivityCast team entertains in this cast--the importance of planning and getting into action so that you can get more done by thinking more about the right things and doing less of the unproductive things on your way to your goals. So, enjoy this episode on how to think more, do less, get more done.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Show Notes | think more, do less, get more done

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Ravens—like humans and apes—can plan for the future

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Google Drive

Dropbox

Gmail

Evernote

OneNote

Flow

Deliberate practice

Deep Work (book)

Deep Work (Productivity Book Group)

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Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life then you've come to the right place product to be cast the weekly showboat all things product to Vittie here your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks Hello and welcome to productivitycast the weekly show about all things personal productivity I'm Ray Sidney-Smith and I'm joined here with Augusto Pinaud and Francis Wade Welcome to the show guys good morning oh is everybody doing to be back I'm doing really well and today we're going to be talking about thinking about thinking we're going to talk about thinking about your productivity system and getting into action and we were just talking before the show recording about this study that was done back in July of ...

Ray starts out most productivity seminars with a fundamental definition of a productivity system: a dynamic set of skills, strategies and tools, that you adapt as your life circumstances change. And, as you'll hear from Francis in this episode, you have the system that usually developed organically, not out of planning necessarily. So, in many ways, you need to overcome your own productivity system that developed to a productivity system that you have built to match your needs and wants today.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

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Evernote

OmniFocus 2

3 Superpowers you need to survive improvement fatigue by Francis Wade

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Revised & Updated Edition by Peter Senge

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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productivity cast the weekly show about

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all things productivity here are your

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hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto

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Pinaud, Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks welcome

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back to another episode of productivity

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cast the weekly show about all things

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personal productivity I'm Ray Sidney-Smith

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and I am joined here today by

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Augusto Pinaud and Francis Wade how's it

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going guys great wonderful wonderful

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today we are going to be talking about

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overcoming your own productivity system

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and while that might sound a little

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vague we will explain to you what we are

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talking about very shortly and to do

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that what I'm going to do is I'm gonna

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pass the baton the microphone virtually

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to Francis Francis if you want to

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Consider this: you couldn't have gotten to this cast without reflection. Consciously or unconsciously, you reflected on taking that action that lead you here, right now, preparing to listen to ProductivityCast. But, downloading this episode won't simply, magically make you more productive. There's much more to it. You need to listen to the substance, then reflect on how the knowledge bomb Augusto, Francis and Art drop in this cast will help you. ;) So, enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

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* The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, PhD

* Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

* Evernote

* OneNote

* SkedPal

* Todoist

* Mind map

* Research on mind mapping

* Bullet Journal

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Transcript coming soon!

Where do you work best? And for what type of work (focused thinking work, diffuse thinking work, mundane/ministerial tasks, big projects that require multiple modalities, or specialized handcrafting) do you do best in what environment? Creating your ideal workspace is important to being able to be and stay productive. In this cast, the ProductivityCast team discusses the factors and tools to get and sustain productivity in your workspace.

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Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

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The Zeigarnik Effect

Digital Bankruptcy

Inbox Zero

Unclutterer

80/20 Pareto Principle

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud good morning everybody and

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity today

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we have Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks

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with us and with me Augusto Pinaud

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and Ray is somewhere in the world

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missing hopefully having fun or sleeping

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according to the recording time we have

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today we are going to be talking about

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creating your ideal workspace it is

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important to understand what are the

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needs of your work-place mostly or the

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workspace mostly because you know will

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allows you to establish higher levels of

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productivity in that space or if you are

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the lucky kind who can have it anywhere

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anywhere so today we would like to split

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Is doing more faster really better? When is slow good for productivity? That’s what the ProductivityCast team seeks to find out in this cast on productivity and the need for speed!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

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* Weekly Review (GTD)

* 4AM - Augusto Pinaud

* “Effective Utilization” (primarily in consulting)

* Ray’s Unschedule video tutorial (based on The Now Habit by Dr. Neil Fiore)

* PROCRASTINATION, DEADLINES, AND PERFORMANCE: Self-Control by Precommitment by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch

* Francis’s paper, Reducing the Risk of Un-Productive Team Members

* Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD

* The pace of life in 31 countries

* Reducing the Risk of Un-Productive Team Members

* The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, PhD

* I’m So Busy I Must Be Important

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud

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welcome everybody to productivity cast

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the weekly show about all things

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personal productivity we are back with

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Have you ever gotten stuck? Are you stuck right now? How do you get unstuck? Well, getting unstuck is tough, but it's doable! In this cast, the ProductivityCast team discusses what gets us stuck and methods for getting unstuck.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

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What Designers of Task Management Apps Can Do to Catch Up with Pokemon Go by Francis Wade

50 Shades of Grey (if you didn’t get Augusto’s joke ? )

Getting Things Done by David Allen

OmniFocus 2

Todoist

Any.do

Habitica (f/k/a HabitRPG) (Let us know if you’d like to join Ray’s GTD Habitica Party!)

Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation

SuperBetter - Jane McGonigal, PhD (McGonigal’s TED talk)

Jerry Seinfeld / Don’t Break the Chain

Bullet Journal

Unstuck app

Tim Ferriss - “deconstruction of expert process”:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSq9uGs_z0E

* https://tim.blog/2016/10/06/the-art-and-science-of-learning-anything-faster/

Human Senses

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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"If the things we believe in are different than the things we do, there can be no true happiness."

—Dana Telford

The ProductivityCast team tackles the concept of integrity and its relationship to your productivity system.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, PhD

The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey, PhD

Servant leadership

Evernote

Skedpal

House, MD

Pocket

Instapaper

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud

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hello again productivity enthusiasts

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this is productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things personal

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productivity I'm Ray Sidney-Smith and

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I'm joined here today with Augusto

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Pinaud and Francis Wade welcome guys

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good to be here good morning Ray's great

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we have a fantastic show today we are

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going to be talking a little bit

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philosophically today not that we don't

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philosophically talk on most episodes

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right but but today we're gonna be

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talking about productivity and its

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