
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.
Latest episodes

Aug 24, 2022 • 33min
Episode 83: High Flips, Competing Priorities, and Fast Switching
Rose and Scotty discuss rapidly moving between many pieces of competing work and how they navigate through these experiences.
Some things we mention and love:
You Need a Budget: Snowball effect
Eisenhower matrix
How to be a miracle worker (Scotty Principle): Part 1 and Part 2
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Aug 10, 2022 • 37min
Episode 82: All-Consuming Problems
Rose and Scotty discuss implications of and approaches to all-consuming problems.
Some things we mention and love:
What is Getting Things Done
Office Space: I could set the building on fire
Mad Men: Not great, Bob
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: find your towel
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Jul 12, 2022 • 31min
Episode 81: Task Clutter Motion vs. Stasis
Rose and Scotty discuss task management clutter, the difference between clutter in motion vs. in stasis, and how they are managing through both.
Some things we mention and love:
How to Deal with Clutter When You Have ADHD
OmniFocus
Agenda
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Bring Out Your Dead
The LEGO® Botanical Collection
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Jun 29, 2022 • 25min
Episode 80: Delegation
Rose and Scotty discuss the art of delegation, how they think about it, and how they work with it.
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Jun 14, 2022 • 29min
Episode 79: Brainless Times
Rose and Scotty discuss how sometimes we are brainless, and so need to both prepare for and respond to such situations.
Some things we mention and love:
Mise en place (Wikipedia)
What is Getting Things Done
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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May 19, 2022 • 33min
Episode 78: Allocating Time
Rosemary and Scotty discuss the use of time, choices we make, and ways we try to make the most of the time we have.
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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May 5, 2022 • 32min
Episode 77: Filing and Organizing the Stuff
Rose and Scotty talk about our handling of stuff and where it goes.
Some things we mention and love:
KC Davis and Struggle care
Drafts app
Agenda app
Scotty’s Agenda Daily Log
Yoink app
Unclutter app
Setapp
DEVONthink
Baskets! All baskets!
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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Apr 20, 2022 • 31min
Episode 76: Hybridly Productive
Rose and Scotty discuss their best practices for working in a mixed workstyles environment, where some people are in office and others are remote.
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!

Apr 6, 2022 • 31min
Episode 75: Break the Chain
Rose and Scotty talk about breaking out of bad patterns.
We mention Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret (this is the earliest mention of it we could find), and a few quotes from David Allen.
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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Mar 22, 2022 • 30min
Episode 74: Energy Management
Rose and Scotty talk about how they manage and conserve energy productively.
We mention the XY problem, which is something worth really reflecting on!
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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