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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Episode 93: How We Find Our Towels, Nested Folders Finale
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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 G…
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Episode 92: I Lost My Towel
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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…
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Episode 91: Out of Context
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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…
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Episode 90: Rainy Days and Mondays
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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 eati…
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Episode 89: Balancing the Boxes
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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 di…
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Episode 88: Good Habits, Bad Habits
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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!…
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Episode 87: Playing to Your Strengths
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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…
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Episode 86: Goal Setting
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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…
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Episode 85: Performing Productivity
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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 I…
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Episode 84: Finding Your Flow Spark
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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 s…
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Episode 83: High Flips, Competing Priorities, and Fast Switching
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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 If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium s…
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Episode 82: All-Consuming Problems
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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 If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription c…
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Episode 81: Task Clutter Motion vs. Stasis
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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 If you enjoy Nested Folders…
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Episode 80: Delegation
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Rose and Scotty discuss the art of delegation, how they think about it, and how they work with 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 ca…
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Episode 79: Brainless Times
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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 su…
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Episode 78: Allocating Time
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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…
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Episode 77: Filing and Organizing the Stuff
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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, …
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Episode 76: Hybridly Productive
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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 li…
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Episode 75: Break the Chain
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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 ep…
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Episode 74: Energy Management
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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 solutio…
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Episode 73: Frictionless Systems Enjoy the Glide
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Rose and Scotty discuss optimizing their systems for being frictionless. Some things we mentions and love: OmniFocus Drafts Bullet Journal Philips Hue Go portable light 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 t…
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Episode 72: Reviews Revisited
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Rose and Scotty revisit the topic of reviews and their favourite ways of thinking about and doing them. Some things we mention and love: Getting Things Done Nested Folders Episode 5: How We Weekly Review Nested Folders Episode 32: GTD Workflow Part III/IV: Review If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription c…
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Episode 71: It Isn’t Real Until You Say It (Or Write It Down)
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Rose and Scotty discuss how externalizing ideas and thoughts changes them and makes them concrete.Some things we refer to and love: Rubber duck debugging Rubin’s vase Nested Folders Episode 59: Naming and Language Inverted question marks If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, wh…
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Episode 70: Anatomy of a Project List
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Rose and Scotty discuss how they list our their commitments/projects and the best ways to go about that. We mention and love: Obsidian OmniFocus Trello Nested Folders Episode 59: Naming and Language Rose’s Project Export Script If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unnested Folders, where we pro…
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Episode 69: Making Room for the Immovable
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Rose and Scotty discuss handling situations where a significant and immovable event is incoming, and how to plan and create space for it. Some things we mention and love: Nested Folders Episode 54: Closing a Chapter Nested Folders Episode 55: Starting a New Chapter Nested Folders Episode 3: Building Bookends Descript | All-in-one audio/video editin…
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