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June 4, 2024 71 mins

David & Mike consider their use of tasks and calendars and share their workflows for how they tie these two essential productivity tools together to get things done.

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Focused #203: The Little Lies You Tell Yourself, with Jason Snell
OmniFocus
OmniFocus 4 Field Guide (Plus Edition) | MacSparky Field Guides
Obsidian
Focused #204: Analog Productivity, with Jeff Sheldon
Analog™ | The original to-do system by Ugmonk
Obsidian Tasks plugin
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Checklist Reset plugin
Notion
Projects plugin
Fantastical
Periodic Notes plugin
How to Do Cal Newport Style Multi-Scale Planning in Obsidian | YouTube
Discbound Heirloom Journal (Brown) | Ugmonk
Day One
Kindle Scribe
Custom Book Embosser | Amazon
Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
Mark as Played

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