
Nested Folders
Interested in learning more about making the best use of your time and establishing your best personal workflows? So are Rosemary Orchard and Scotty Jackson. Join them as they discuss ways of thinking, working, and using technology solutions to achieve more and feel good about doing their best work.
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Feb 1, 2023 • 41min
Episode 93: How We Find Our Towels, Nested Folders Finale
In this, our last episode, Rose and Scotty discuss finding stability in changed or uncertain times.
Thank you so much for your support and for listening. We sign off with gratitude and appreciation.
Some things we mention and love in this show:
Scotty’s blog post about stopping podcasting
Nested Folders post announcing our finale
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy: the towel
Hemispheric Views podcast

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Jan 12, 2023 • 33min
Episode 92: I Lost My Towel
Rose and Scotty discuss how they manage through periods where systems and practices aren’t working for them.
Some things we mention and love:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy: the towel
The pot roast story
How to Train Your Dragon (Wikipedia)
About the KonMari Method | The Official Website of Marie Kondo
Decluttering at the Speed of Life, by Dana K. White
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

Dec 16, 2022 • 29min
Episode 91: Out of Context
Rose and Scotty discuss how they approach productivity when environments, contexts, or other factors take them out of their norms.
Some things we mention and love:
Die Hard (many times)
Finding Nemo, just keep swimming
Month Python and the Holy Grail, counting to five for the holy hand grenade
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

Nov 30, 2022 • 30min
Episode 90: Rainy Days and Mondays
Rose and Scotty discuss how to productively persevere when prevailing circumstances might risk getting them down.
Some things we mention and love:
Rainy Days and Mondays, by the Carpenters (not Blondie, but we’ve fixed attribution here!)
Lose Yourself, by Eminem
Enemy, by Imagine Dragons x J.I.D
CTRL^^^, by MONOWHALES
Light boxes
Mark Twain on eating a live frog
Monty Python’s Crunchy Frog
The Shining (All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy)
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

Nov 16, 2022 • 30min
Episode 89: Balancing the Boxes
Rose and Scotty discuss how they both identify and balance the various parts of their lives.
In this episode, we mention and love Cal Newport’s How to Become a Straight A Student.
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

Nov 2, 2022 • 27min
Episode 88: Good Habits, Bad Habits
Rose and Scotty discuss habits, both good and bad, and identifying and caring for them.
Some things we mention and love:
The pot roast story
Getting Things Done – What is GTD?
Horizons of focus
Yes, there was an issue with Scotty’s local audio for the first part, and so we had to sub in our backup audio for the first few segments. Sorry about that! Those whø were responsible have been sacked.
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

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Oct 19, 2022 • 28min
Episode 87: Playing to Your Strengths
Rose and Scotty discuss how they think about their strengths, consider what they mean, and how to best employ them.
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

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Oct 5, 2022 • 27min
Episode 86: Goal Setting
Rose and Scotty discuss goal setting practices, how they think about them, and how they conduct them.
Some things we mention and love:
12 Week Year
Nested Folders episode 3: Building Bookends
Mike Schmitz’s Personal Retreat
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

Sep 21, 2022 • 31min
Episode 85: Performing Productivity
Rose and Scotty discuss ways of demonstrating productivity in cases where one might not feel so productive.
Some past episodes that expand on ideas mentioned here:
Nested Folders Episode 83: High Flips, Competing Priorities, and Fast Switching: Snowball effect
Nested Folders Episode 2: No(n) Zero Day
Nested Folders Episode 66: Background Thinking
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

Sep 7, 2022 • 28min
Episode 84: Finding Your Flow Spark
Rose and Scotty discuss the state of flow, getting in to it, and keeping it sparked.
Some things we mention and love:
Rubber ducking
Pixar’s Soul, the ocean
If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!
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