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The Podcast of Personal Productivity Lessons in Two Minutes or Less
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The weekly show about all things personal productivity
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Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America, brings timely updates, powerful note-taking and workflow techniques, and interesting conversations for getting more done with Evernote.
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Looking to learn something useful from a productivity podcast? Tired of the stale "interview-the-author" format which just regurgitates stuff you have already heard? Join me at the 2Time Labs and listen in as we attempt to create a new product, service, tool or aid in real time. It's not an interview, but a joining together of minds where my guest and I use everything we can find to craft something new you can use to improve your productivity. Sometimes we hit the mark... sometimes we don't, ...
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Today on ProductivityCast we’re going to be talking about stepping away from getting things done so you can review and reflect, and then get back to getting things done better. It’s halfway through the year and so it’s a good time to discuss the mid-year review.By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Today on ProductivityCast we’re going to be talking about stepping away from getting things done so you can review and reflect, and then get back to getting things done better. It’s halfway through the year and so it’s a good time to discuss the mid-year review.By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Today, the ProductivityCast team talks about terminology, that is, what are the terms that we use in the personal productivityBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Today, the ProductivityCast team talks about terminology, that is, what are the terms that we use in the personal productivity space? And why is there so much confusion around those particular words that we use?(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/140 for clickable links and the full show not…
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team debated subjective versus objective time as commentary on the article, “My Fixation on Time Management Almost Broke Me.”Thanks to Brian C. for the recommended reading! (See https://www.personalproductivity.club/posts/14785370.)(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://…
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team debated subjective versus objective time as commentary on the article, “My Fixation onBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All – ProductivityCast Live
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Today, we’re releasing this episode which was recording live at the Task Management & Time Blocking Summit 2023 stage. The theme of the conference is “One Size Doesn’t Fit All” and so the ProductivityCast team spent time discussing in front of the live audience what our thoughts are on challenges of one-size-fits-all and some thoughts of solving fo…
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All – ProductivityCast Live
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Today, we’re releasing this episode which was recording live at the Task Management & Time Blocking Summit 2023 stage. TheBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Hyper-Scheduling: Commentary on MacSparky’s Granular Time Blocking Method
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In a post entitled, Hyper-Scheduling, David Sparks (a/k/a MacSparky) writes about his method of time blocking on a granular level.By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Hyper-Scheduling: Commentary on MacSparky’s Granular Time Blocking Method
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In a post entitled, Hyper-Scheduling, David Sparks (a/k/a MacSparky) writes about his method of time blocking on a granular level. This week, the ProductivityCast team provides their commentary, challenges and methods on this concept of hyper-scheduling, which will hopefully spark ideas on how you can better manage your time-based work.(If you’re r…
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Projects Sequencing: Ordering Your Projects to Enhance Productivity
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team continues their conversation about sequencing for greater productivity, this time about ordering projectsBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Projects Sequencing: Ordering Your Projects to Enhance Productivity
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team continues their conversation about sequencing for greater productivity, this time about ordering projects to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/136 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcri…
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Task Sequencing: How to Condition and Order Tasks for Greater Momentum
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This week, the ProductivityCast team tackles the topic of ordering tasks conditionally and task sequencing for momentum. (If you’re readingBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Task Sequencing: How to Condition and Order Tasks for Greater Momentum
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This week, the ProductivityCast team tackles the topic of ordering tasks conditionally and task sequencing for momentum.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/135 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!If you'd…
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Get More Out of Your Calendar: Forecasting, Budgeting and Tracking Your Day
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team chats about how to track and manage time in a calendar/agenda style formatBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Get More Out of Your Calendar: Forecasting, Budgeting and Tracking Your Day
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In this week's episode, the ProductivityCast team chats about how to track and manage time in a calendar/agenda style format to be more productive.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/134 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, th…
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Time Blocking and Time Chunking: Setting Up an Effective Reminder System
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This week, the ProductivityCast team talks about how to set up effective reminders when you're time blocking (or time chunking) as your primary productivity system. The conversation turns out much more useful for anyone looking to set up an effective reminder system. Enjoy!(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://pro…
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Time Blocking and Time Chunking: Setting Up an Effective Reminder System
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This week, the ProductivityCast team talks about how to set up effective reminders when you’re time blocking (or time chunking)By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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In this week’s cast, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss why task lists fail in your personal productivity systems? And, we offer some tips for making task lists that are resilient to our workaday worlds.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/132 for clickable links and the full show notes an…
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In this week’s cast, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss why task lists fail in your personal productivity systems? And,By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Learning and the Four Stages of Curiosity
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss learning and four stages of curiosity. Curious what they are? Listen inBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Learning and the Four Stages of Curiosity
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss learning and four stages of curiosity. Curious what they are? Listen in and learn! 😉(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/131 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for liste…
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Last week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art started a discussion about caffeinated productivity. This week, they continue their conversation aboutBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Last week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art started a discussion about caffeinated productivity. This week, they continue their conversation about their favorite caffeine beverages, timing them for greater productivity, and many of the varieties of caffeination available to the productivity enthusiasts out there.(If you’re reading this in a podcast di…
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about coffee and tea and all things caffeine!(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/129 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!If you'd like to cont…
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about coffee and tea and all things caffeine! (If you’reBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Taxonomy: Making Tags Work in Your Personal Productivity System (Part 2)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art continue the conversation about tags, discussing how they use tags in their own lives and work, and how to deal with the limits of software when tagging.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/128 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript…
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Productivity Taxonomy: Making Tags Work in Your Personal Productivity System (Part 2)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art continue the conversation about tags, discussing how they use tags in their ownBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Taxonomy: Do Tags Help You Be More Productive? (Part 1)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about tags. Classifying information in our productive lives comes inBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Taxonomy: Do Tags Help You Be More Productive? (Part 1)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about tags. Classifying information in our productive lives comes in many different ways. We discuss what tagging is, how tags are different from other types of organizing, and how to jumpstart your use of tags.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://prod…
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The Power Bible: In Conversation with Comedian and Author Brendon Lemon
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This week, Augusto and I sat down with co-author of The Power Bible, Brendon Lemon. Brendon is a comedian and with his co-author William Betweet, III, are the authors of this unique book on how to manage power dynamics in relationships. (We had some technical recording issues, so you may notice we jump a bit in the conversation. It still came out t…
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The Power Bible: In Conversation with Comedian and Author Brendon Lemon
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This week, Augusto and I sat down with co-author of The Power Bible, Brendon Lemon. Brendon is a comedian andBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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BookCast: The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a new series on ProductivityCast, BookCast, to discuss books in time management-related genres. To start us off, we’re discussing The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/125 for clickable lin…
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BookCast: The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a new series on ProductivityCast, BookCast, to discuss books in time management-relatedBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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This week, in continuing on our recent episodes about note-taking methods, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art are taking on a closely-related topic of personal knowledge management to discuss Zettelkasten. Don't know about Zettelkasten? Listen in and learn!(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/124 …
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This week, in continuing on our recent episodes about note-taking methods, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art are taking on aBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Labs, Methods Edition—Bullet Journal
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Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art art starting a new “series” called Productivity Labs here on ProductivityCast. We’re going to beBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Labs, Methods Edition—Bullet Journal
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Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art art starting a new "series" called Productivity Labs here on ProductivityCast. We're going to be discussing tools, methods and research we're experimenting with in our own personal productivity systems (even when they are not what we normally use) so we can report back to you what we've learned. This week, we're diving…
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In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking methodologies. (If you’re reading thisBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking methodologies.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/122 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!If you…
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In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking—the value of note-taking, methods we use, and tips and tricks for taking notes in different contexts.Note: I say that we're covering note-taking methodologies in this episode, but we will actually be discussing those in the next several episo…
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In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking—the value of note-taking, methods weBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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The four-day workweek is lately in the news. Its promise is greater economic benefits for businesses and governments, and increased productivity for organization’s human resources. How should we think about this from a personal and business productivity perspective? Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art share their thoughts on the four-day workweek.(If you…
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The four-day workweek is lately in the news. Its promise is greater economic benefits for businesses and governments, and increasedBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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In this week's episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art explain the concept of building a memory palace (a/k/a Method of Loci, or Journey Method) and then discuss its veracity in work and personal life, and some productive uses of the memory palace for someone starting out.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://produ…
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In this week’s episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art explain the concept of building a memory palace (a/k/a Method ofBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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In this week's episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art gathered round the microphones to discuss what they noticed happening in the world of personal productivity, and then what their plans are for next year (in terms of their own systems and other work they are doing).(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://producti…
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In this week’s episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art gathered round the microphones to discuss what they noticed happening inBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity App-apalooza! Fourth Edition
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A few times per year, the ProductivityCast team comes together to share with you a few software products and/or services that we know/use in our personal productivity systems, or with our client’s systems. We call this series Productivity App-apalooza, and do this in three rounds, with each of us taking the opportunity to explain the tool and why w…
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Productivity App-apalooza! Fourth Edition
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A few times per year, the ProductivityCast team comes together to share with you a few software products and/or servicesBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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