Nested Folders

Rose and Scotty introduce Unnested Folders! As a first go, this episode is available to everyone, where we discuss ways of approaching the challeges of the work of a busy fire inspector. If you’re interested in supporting us and getting future episodes of Unnested Folders, which will feature listener use cases and challenges, check out our website – we’d love your support! Things we mention and love: Unnested Folders Hipster PDA DEVONthink Belvedere (Windows) Hazel (Mac) Todo.txt on Lifehacker Rocket Four colour Bic pens Expandable filer Sharpie pens Coloured folders

Rose and Scotty get to what is hopefully the last in our tragically numbered series on our coverage of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, which is Engage (or Do). We talk about the act of getting in to execution, using this act to prove out or improve the preceding part of the workflow, and what the mindset of doing can accomplish in terms of life and your system. Things we mention and love: Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part 1, Capture Nested Folders Episode 29: GTD Workflow Part II, Clarify/Process and Organize Nested Folders Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review Know where your towel is, care of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Fandom Wiki Debt-snowball method GTD Weekly Review audio program 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!

In part three of our GTD workflow series, we tackle part four of the GTD workflow: review (sorry for the numbering). From the weekly review to inbox sweeps to larger horizon reviews, we touch on this aspect of the Getting Things Done methodology. We mention and love: Nested Folder episode 5: How We Weekly Review Nested Folders episode 13: The Year End Review GTD Weekly Review Checklist Nested Folders episode 11: Someday/Maybe/Never Nested Folders episode 31: One Year of Nested Folders Rose’s Daily Brief on Automators episode 47: The Daily Brief Scotty’s Daily Journal (with Agenda and OmniFocus) 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 reflect on a year of doing Nested Folders, what we’ve learned, and what’s to come. Thank you to all of out listeners for your time, attention, feedback, and support! We’re having a lovely time. We mention and love: Matthew Lee’s question about learning Aran Rees’ question about what we were wrong about/false assumptions OmniGroup Slack Ryan Dotson Josh Hughes J.F. Brissette and JFB Media Solutions Build Your OmniFocus Workflow Automators Podcast Relay.fm Share your feedback with us 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!

Our thanks to Agenda for sponsoring this second of two special episodes, where Rose interviews Scotty about his setup and usage of Agenda, what he keeps there, and how it fits in his workflows. Links to resources mentioned: Agenda Agenda x-callback-url scheme Agenda Community Nested Folders episode 26: Rose’s Agenda Setup Daily Journal Shortcut Rapid Logging/Bullet Journaling Shortcut Meeting Wrap Up Shortcut List Manager Shortcut Agenda and OmniFocus Project Maker Shortcut Shortcut to Make Rich Text from Markdown and Email 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 continue their take on the GTD process, teasing apart and conflating the Clarify/Process and Organize phases of the workflow. Related things we talk about and love: Nested Folders Episode 28: GTD Workflow Part I, Capture Nested Folders Episode 27: The Two Minute “Rule” GTD Official Workflow GTD Workflow Processing and Organizing DIY Planner GTD Workflow Flow Chart HeyScottyJ: What’s in a Name? Everything. Merlin Mann: Getting Started with “Getting Things Done” OmniFocus 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 tackle the first of the five phases of the Getting Things Done workflow, capture (or collect, if you like). We discuss our ways of thinking about and managing this phase, as well as our best practices for how we approach it. Things we mention and love: Nested Folders episode 27: The Two Minute “Rule” Getting Things Done workflow OmniFocus Agenda Drafts Shortcuts 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 the adherence (or not) to the classic two minute rule of Getting Things Done. We talk about context (not always in the GTD sense), actions vs. goals, and the modernization of productivity systems as they relate to this guideline. We mention: Getting Things Done Two Minute Rule GTD Live Seminar OmniFocus OmniFocus Automation 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!

Our thanks to Agenda for sponsoring this first of two special episodes, where Scotty interviews Rose about her setup and usage of Agenda for Mac and iOS. Important links: Agenda Agenda Community x-callback-url Support/Reference Rose’s Shortcut for adding notes to a project in Agenda Apps Rose uses together with Agenda: Pushcut Data Jar OmniFocus DEVONthink 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 what agreements help fuel collaboration across time zones, locations, teams, and ways of working. Things we mention and love: Nested Folders episode 16: The Maker and the Manager Google Docs Slack Dropbox Scrivener CalZones WhenWorks Calendly Marvin the Paranoid Android Build Your OmniFocus Workflow 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!