Exploring Psychological Themes in Current Reads

David & Mike consider their use of tasks and calendars and share their workflows for how they tie these two essential productivity tools together to get things done.

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Links and Show Notes:

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Focused #203: The Little Lies You Tell Yourself, with Jason Snell

OmniFocus

OmniFocus 4 Field Guide (Plus Edition) | MacSparky Field Guides

Obsidian

Focused #204: Analog Productivity, with Jeff Sheldon

Analog™ | The original to-do system by Ugmonk

Obsidian Tasks plugin

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Checklist Reset plugin

Notion

Projects plugin

Fantastical

Periodic Notes plugin

How to Do Cal Newport Style Multi-Scale Planning in Obsidian | YouTube

Discbound Heirloom Journal (Brown) | Ugmonk

Day One

Kindle Scribe

Custom Book Embosser | Amazon

Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter

Same as Ever by Morgan Housel