Nested Folders Rosemary Orchard & Scotty Jackson

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 Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy: the towel
Hemispheric Views podcast

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
Decluttering at the Speed of Life, by Dana K. White


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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 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 care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

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 eating a live frog
Monty Python’s Crunchy Frog
The Shining (All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy)


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 care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

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 discuss and try to help solution listener questions and challenges. If you don’t care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!

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! Those whø were responsible have been sacked.

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 care for subscriptions, can also show your support through a one-time donation on the Unnested Folders page. Thanks everyone!