Nested Folders

Rose and Scotty discuss how challenging it can be to manage the perception of whole tasks needing to be done from start to finish, resulting in procrastination. Some things we mention and love: Mastermind group OmniFocus LEGO Birds of Paradise and LEGO Bonsai Tree Getting Things Done Weekly Review Bullet Journal migration 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss how tasks are often hidden behind our environment and how that environment can become noise. Some things we mention and love: The silent todo list post on Reddit David Allen and the Getting Things Done methodology The Clutterbug Survey The Audra Edmonson post about project boards inspired by Barbara Shur Nested Folders Episode 35: Installing GTD Lightly NSFW: Un”filth” Your Habitat 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss how miscellaneous lists and categories help support progress and productivity. Some things we mention and love: OmniFocus Bullet Journaling Taskheat 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss how to be as productive as possible when productivity feels the most unlikely. We mention and love: Scotty’s blog post on being unwell Nested Folders Episode 60: “Best Before” Dates Nested Folders Episode 58: Defining Failure Nanoleaf Airport Express 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss managing timelines for tasks that aren’t due or critical, but which have an expiration or “best before” date. Some things we mention and love: Nested Folders episode 58: Defining Failure OmniFocus Rose’s OmniFocus script for cleaning up old tasks (forthcoming) 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of naming, words, and emoji in enforcing meaning and action. Things we mention and love: The Getting Things Done methodology for task management OmniFocus Due 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss failure, how we experience it, and how we might reframe and learn from it. 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss ways of surfacing the best content from our systems to help us manage the chaos. We refer to past Nested Folders episode 41, List of Lists, as well as to a few tools: Elgato Streamdeck Keyboard Maestro Shortcuts AirTable OmniFocus Things We also mention some books and reading: Refuse to Choose, by Barbara Sher Atomic Habits, by James Clear The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams 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!

Rose and Scotty discuss inboxes, how they manage them, and ways to optimize how they operate and what they even are. Some things we mention and love: Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part 1, Capture Drafts Airmail 1Password iOS 15: Focus, domain email, more OmniFocus Due Reminders Parsing and Sorting Shortcut OmniAutomation Script for Processing Shopping Emails The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support as a subscriber of Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. Thanks everyone!

Rose and Scotty discuss approaching a new body of work or change in lifestyle as part of a new chapter in our lives. This follows our previous episode, Episode 55: Closing a Chapter, where we talking about a large body of work or way of life coming to an end, setting the stage for this new one. If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support as a subscriber of Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episodes to discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. Thanks everyone!