Best Nested Folders Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 93: How We Find Our Towels, Nested Folders Finale 40:59

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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 33:00

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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 28:42

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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 29:54

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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 30:23

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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 27:14

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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 28:25

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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 27:22

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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 30:46

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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 27:40

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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 32:51

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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 37:14

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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 30:36

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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 24:36

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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 28:43

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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 32:48

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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 32:05

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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 31:25

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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 30:32

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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 30:07

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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 30:47

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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 32:15

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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) 29:23

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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, w…

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Episode 70: Anatomy of a Project List 32:06

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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 30:00

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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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Happy Holidays, 2021! 0:48

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Thanks to everyone for all their support this year! We appreciate it so much. We'll be back with a regular Nested Folders episode on January 11. 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 list…

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Episode 68: Getting the Mundane Things Done 29:06

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Rose and Scotty discuss the mundane tasks of our lives, and how they tackle them by lining them up and using gamification and paralleling. Some things we mention and discuss: WidgetPack Nested Folders Episode 67: Todo Lists vs. Task Management Due app Nested Folders Episode 63: The Silent To Do List If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your suppo…

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Episode 67: Todo Lists vs. Task Management 32:44

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Rose and Scotty discuss the differences between todo lists and task management, and when the mental model for each applies best. Some things we mention and love: Nested Folders Episode 65: The Last Mile Nested Folders Episode 66: Background Thinking OmniFocus Mindmapping (and we like MindNode) Drafts TaskHeat If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love …

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Episode 66: Background Thinking 29:51

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Rose and Scotty discuss the idea of background thinking, and using distraction and change to invite thoughts to occur in different ways. Some things we mention and love: Desk yoga Yoga stretches at your desk Three minute yoga you can add while sitting Just Press Record Bullet Journal migrations If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! W…

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Episode 65: The Last Mile 30:37

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Rose and Scotty discuss the last mile of a project or period of time, how they look ahead to it, and how they work through it. Some things we mention and love: Nested Folders Episode 54: Closing a Chapter Nested Folders Episode 55: Starting a New Chapter If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support! We offer a premium subscription called Unn…

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Episode 64: I Can’t Start Because I Must Finish 35:45

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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 Folder…

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Episode 63: The Silent To Do List 34:01

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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 Episo…

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Episode 62: The Value of Miscellaneous 31:35

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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 a…

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Episode 61: Sidelined Productivity 35:57

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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 sub…

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Episode 60: “Best Before” Dates 31:38

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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 p…

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Episode 59: Naming and Language 30:46

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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-o…

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Episode 58: Defining Failure 27:38

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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 ca…

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Episode 57: Right at Hand 28:09

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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,…

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Episode 56: Streamlining, Managing, and Automating Inboxes 35:50

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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 Proces…

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Episode 55: Starting a New Chapter 33:23

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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…

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Episode 54: Closing a Chapter 30:01

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Rose and Scotty discuss how they approach closing off chapters in their lives, including both big chapters like new jobs and life changes, or smaller chapters like arbitrary periods or mindsets. Some related past listening is the previous episode, Episode 53: Crisis Management, and our Episode 3: Building Bookends, but wow, that's a really old one,…

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Episode 53: Crisis Management 33:31

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Rose and Scotty discuss how they manage in crisis times, using tools and ways of thinking to handle, and hopefully minimize, the disastrousness of these kinds of situations. Some related past listening is our Episode 19: Dealing with Sudden Change. If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support as a subscriber of Unnested Folders, where we pro…

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Episode 52: Juggling Projects 36:11

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Rose and Scotty discuss practices and approaches for dealing with many projects, commitments, and activities. Some things we mention and love: David Sparks' Status Dashboard Kanban OmniFocus AirTable Shortcuts If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support as a subscriber of Unnested Folders, where we produce monthly bonus supporter-only episo…

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Episode 51: Tags Revisited 38:15

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Rose and Scotty revisit their tags and lists to think more about how (and why) we classify actions. Some things we mention and love: Nested Folders Episode 39: Lists and Tags and Contexts Nested Folders Episode 50: A Year of Pandemic Folder Nesting Om Save Safari Extension OmniFocus Obsidian Agenda RocketBook If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love …

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Episode 50: A Year of Pandemic Folder Nesting 36:00

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Rose and Scotty look back on a year of a life in a pandemic, how their systems changed, evolved, and managed throughout, and what they have taken away from all of this so far. We mention Nested Folders episode 19: Dealing With Sudden Change, and make some light reference to our GTD series as well. If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support…

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Episode 49: Not in My Wheelhouse 30:09

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Rose and Scotty discuss the how we might approach new work and making the unfamiliar feel more doable. We refer to Nested Folders episode 47: Hacking Pitfalls and some other past episodes, which we try to keep evergreen for lasting value. 😁 If you enjoy Nested Folders, we’d love your support as a subscriber of Unnested Folders, where we produce mon…

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Episode 48: Praise Yourself 24:37

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Rose and Scotty discuss the importance of recognizing making progress and taking the time to celebrate wins and ourselves as a part of keeping our heads above water. 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 list…

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Episode 47: Hacking Pitfalls 35:16

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Rose and Scotty discuss their pitfalls and challenges in practicing productivity and how we work around them. We reference a bunch of past material on this one! Check out: Nested Folders Episode 46: Breaking Up and Down the Weekly Review Unnested Folders: Our Productivity Apps Unnested Nested Folders Episode 13: The Year End Review Nested Folders E…

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Episode 46: Breaking Up and Down the Weekly Review 33:05

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Rose and Scotty discuss ways of addressing the magnitude of the weekly review by breaking it up, parcelling it out, and breaking it in to manageable chunks. We're talking weekly reviews, and to hear more about us on this kind of topic, check out past episodes of Nested Folders: Nested Folders episode 32: GTW Workflow Part III/IV: Review Nested Fold…

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Episode 45: Finding the Fuel 28:54

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Rose and Scotty discuss ways of kick-starting out energy or motivation when it's tough to feel inspired or get going. Some things we mention and love: Pomodoro technique Pomolego technique Nested Folders episode 42: Decluttering for Productivity Nested Folders episode 8: Setting Up Your Workspace Dark Noise app Rubber duck debugging If you enjoy Ne…