: Clever lamp fix/automation My amazing wife got a great lamp that we love for our living room, with three warmth settings. The …
: September 30 On September 30, 2006, I married my favourite person. Standing before my dad, my hero, who married …
: Fantasy booking a new iPad While I wait for all the xOS updates today, I have been thinking about the role of technology in my …
: In an effort to reduce distraction, rather thathn go through Notifications, I first wrote down a …
: New experimental productivity hack: the first day of the week is Saturday.
: I mean, come on. How cute is this? 🧱
: Unemployment day 6: Pretty busy day over here. Coffee with friends Home Depot for project gear …
: Unemployment day one Remove all work-related accounts and apps Remove all work-related bookmarks Dump all browser caches …
: I tried the all default life, but I just couldn’t stay there. It’s not them, it’s me. I needed to …
: My valentine understands me.
: Ahoy, micro.blog-osphere! Is there a way of having a non-production environment to build in? I’d …
: The 🫠 empji is the most useful one to come around in a while.
: Note to self: problems are not solved with blank pages.
: I spend a near unhealthy amount of time time staring at this. This was easily one of my top 3 builds …
: My app defaults On the ninety-seventh episode of the Hemispheric Views podcast, which has gathered a storm of infamy …
: I feel like could legitimately be a remake of Apple’s iconic 1984 ad, except with Apple on the giant …
: Random Acts Sometimes I just need a little inspiration to get unstuck. This Shortcut adds 1, 3, or 5 random …
: Is it just me or is every Shortcuts action to do with markdown bizarrely broken?
: I 100% would love Continuity Camera for iPad. To be able to join a meeting, be on camera, and share …
: Don’t do anything that would make John Wick want to kill you. Don’t try to kill John Wick. It’s …
: Hm, the 17.0.1 security updates are not out in the beta feeds. Set updates to beta off to make sure …
: Horizontal rule This is so dumb, but I’m tired of hacky and weird ways to insert a horizontal rule in Mail.app, so I …
: Every day is a chance to make someone else’s.
: Review my Things Perhaps another one for the “so-simple-it-works” pile, I made myself a review workflow for Things. …
: My Things task deferral workflow One of the things (ha) that I miss since adopting things as my task management system is the notion …
: Unprompted, uncoached, and not even by my introduction, my daughter just put on The Smiths. I think …
: My beacon list When I’m not sure where to turn, let this list light a way forward. Touchstones Work hard Be …
: Hands (Nathan Sawaya, Art of the Brick) 🧱
: My daughter pointed out that it is polite to say “Have a great day!”, but creepy to say “Enjoy the …
: Golf score tracker This is a neat Shortcut that was requested by an internet friend that I thought others might find …
: If I gave myself the title of Freelance Shortcuts Developer, what might I do with that? Maybe indie …
: I see… blue skies… through the tears in my eyes. And I realize: I’m. Going. Home.
: What do Microsoft 365 users do in leap years?
: Log a Book in Things I love keeping track of my reading, and though I keep my library up in micro.blog, I also track my …
: Apple Watch: It’s time to stand! Me: Deletes iCloud account.
: Fun iOS 17 feature: searching a Shortcut in Spotlight gives the option to run it and the three dots …
: Creating a content workflow in Bear I thought this might be a fun little thing to try, tracking content through its states while I work …
: Tasks from Bear to Things Share a Bear note to this Shortcut (not an export or text, but a full Bear note), and it will look …
: Calculate percentage change Because I always forget how math works, this Shortcut asks for a current and previous result of a …
: Blog a Shortcut This Shortcut is one I just set up using the Humboldt actions for Shortcuts. It asks for the name of …
: Bear Tasks to Things This makes me pretty happy, a new Shortcut that takes Bear tasks to Things so that I can jot down …
: Finished reading: Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer 📚 … this might take a while to process.
: Shortcut: Copy link to file I worry that this is wildly engineered, but I couldn’t find an easy way (or way at all?) to …
: Family togetherness is a bacon-wrapped turkey.
: Shortcut: Clear Today’s Things Another day, another list of incomplete stuff in my Today list in Things. Sometimes life has other …
: TIL: Text Replacements, as set in Keyboard Settings in iOS/iPadOS/macOS also work on the Watch.
: Shortcut: Review my Things Someday list One of the things (ha) that I really like about OmniFocus is the review feature, particularly …
: With thanks to Beck Tench for inspiration that I took some time ago in a Learn OmniFocus, I have …
: Tag these Things Here is another Things Shortcut that takes selected tasks and tags them with a tag named through ask …
: TIL that port 17 is generally reserved for QOTD (Quote of the day), which is technically its own …
: Finished reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 📚 I read this back in 2017, and wow, there was a …
: Bump Things Tasks Okay, so I don’t always finish my work as intended. Fine. To help out, here is a Things Shortcut …
: Agenda Daily Note with Tasks from Things Certainly, there are all the Shortcuts on my Day automation page, but I happened to simplify one …
: Just finished (again): Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles 📚 This was my second go, and despite knowing …
: Finished: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny 📚 I enjoyed this in the end, but it was trickier at …
: Just finished: The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny 📚. My favourite of the series so far, a fantastic …
: No PKM necessary Personal knowledge management apps are unnecessary because they focus on the wrong aspect of …
: Obsidian vs. Bear When comparing Bear to Obsidian, it is clear that Bear is the superior note-taking application. …
: I think I found a new blog genre I love: productivity shitposts generated by GPT.
: Well then. 6,167 pieces. And presumably a whole additional room to keep it in? But wow. …
: Make a Things project from a task template Another Things Shortcut, this one is for creating a project based on an existing task as a template. …
: So about iPads There is a lot of chat about this excellent Viticci article on MacStories, looking at the art of …
: We are at the pinnacle of technological capability, hurtling towards singularity, and I still don’t …
: Job titles Some of the job titles I’ve held. How is this not fiction? Paper carrier (okay fine, flyers) Nanny …
: Just finished: So, Anyway… by John Cleese 📚 Very enjoyable! It read like it was written to be …
: Preparing for a Meeting with Things Converting an OmniFocus Shortcut for use with the new Things 3.17 Shortcut actions (currently in …
: As content-generating AIs continue to improve, I’m excited that the skills of the future lie not in …
: So long and thanks for all the fish “You know," said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a …
: My first read of 2023: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 📚 I love …
: Some things I find impossible: Typing “thanks” correctly on the first try (always thnaks) Leveling …
: LEGO Botanicals give me so much joy every day 🧱
: I really love the bookshelves feature in micro.blog! I wonder if there is a plugin for other …
: Quite cool, I am now officially certified as a Getting Things Done trainer. So I guess this means I …
: Shortcut with Things: Meeting Prep Email Recently, Cultured Code, the group behind the task management app Things, shared that the upcoming …
: Email inbox: 0 Task management inbox: 0 Desk inbox: 0 Best last Friday of a year scoreboard.
: It’s a beautiful frosty morning! 📷
: It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
: omg www.lego.com/en-us/pro… 🧱
: Some days, you don’t even need to know the difference between °C and °F.
: Discovering @effinbirds on micro.blog is today’s joy sparked.
: I look at Twitter because of muscle memory, but every time I do, it just makes me feel sad. I’m very …
: My favourite read of 2022: Rabbits Loving the bookshelf feature in Micro.blog, I thought it would be fun to organize my reading. I love …
: Why I think about augmented reality I am really looking forward to more mainstream augmented reality (AR) for my own generated content. …
: Because I am sentimental and nostalgic, there is a very strong association for me between Christmas …
: Inspired by the @GabrielCornish 📺 post, here is my “introduce yourself in five TV shows”: Severance …
: The mood in which I find myself.
: Loving the Bookshelf feature on micro.blog! I was looking a while ago for an easy way to store and …
: heyscottyj.com is now living on micro.blog! There is still a lot I want to do, but the good news is …
: Tonight I muck with my website in the interest of simplifying. Hurrah!
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Agenda Daily Journal Widget with WidgetPack
I’m a big fan of Agenda, and use it to store a daily journal for myself. Recently, I was inspired …
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Easy Access to Daily Journals
The Agenda app has great widgets, but I find myself wanting to make sure I always have at-hand …
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HeyScottyJ's Day Automation Shortcuts
Structure your day, combining the notetaking and task management experiences. I love having a …
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Day Automation: Agenda Rapid Email Clipper
I got clued in to this tweet by the wonderful Federico Viticci through the latest Shortcuts …
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Day Automation: Agenda Daily Log OmniFocus Variant
Update 07/25: Improved URL encoding, link handling, and some other light refinements. Hope you love …
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Day Automation: Rapid Logging with OmniFocus
Update 07/19: Now with OmniFocus task notes Update 07/20: Fixed unintentionally re-used task note …
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Day Automation: Rapid Logging
When it comes to capturing things as they come in to my life, I love the notion of rapid logging as …
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Day Automation: Agenda Daily Log
I thought it would be good to do a series about how I automate my days as a means of keeping myself …
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MS Productivity
I got to talk about my health when I had the opportunity to guest on the Conduit podcast (which was …
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Search and Replace in Agenda
I posted about this on the Agenda community, but figured it belongs here as well: I made a Shortcut …
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Productivity in Illness
“You’re not dying, you just can’t think of anything good to do.” – …
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Lists to Go with Cheatsheat
It was just a month or so ago that was thinking I needed a good way to take particular OmniFocus …
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[v1.21] Sticking Stuff Together with Bubble Gum
v1.21 update
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Shortcuts and Widgets on Learn OmniFocus
I recently had the enormous pleasure of being able to return to Learn OmniFocus, joining Tim …
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Making Meetings with Shortcuts
I recently needed to conduct a series of user interviews at work to get feedback and engage in …
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Working Agile in Slack with Shortcuts
Recently, I was introduced to Block Kit for Slack, and I was super pumped to try to …
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The Deliberate Productivity Workspace
On the latest episode of Nested Folders, Rosemary Orchard and I talked about decluttering for …
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Productivity Home Screen: Reminders Edition
I wrote about re-imaging my Home Screen for productivity, and have gotten some tremendous feedback …
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My Reimagined Productivity Home Screen
Update: The links for the Get To It and Dashboard widgets have been updated with fixes (addressed …
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OmniFocus Widgets 2.0 with WidgetPack
Update: just fixed a minor bug in refresh for Flagged and Forecast-Tagged widgets - links updated …
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Working OmniFocus with Widgets
Maybe I'm impatient, but I just love OmniFocus as my task management system, but am also finding my …
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In or Out, It Can Be That Simple
At my work, we develop goals on a quarterly cadence, and we do so pretty thoughtfully in order to …
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Homescreen Goodness: Using iOS 14 and Charty to Keep on Track
I am loving using the iOS 14 widgets to keep a clear eye on my day, and with Charty and its (beta) …
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Easier Integration of Shortcuts and Slack with Data Jar
Back on episode 25 of Nested Folders, Rosemary Orchard and I discussed agreements and the many kinds …
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Solved: Making Checklists in OmniFocus via Reminders
One of the features I wish OmniFocus had was the ability to add checklists. As an example, I need to …
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Automating Next Action Creation in OmniFocus
One of the things I wanted to make easier was how to build a new action in OmniFocus based on an …
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My Guided Weekly Review
I really really benefit from the review of my projects and actions weekly, but I find it so hard to …
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The Coronavirus and ADHD are Terrible Roommates
I generally prefer to write shorter form, but I’ve failed at that here. Maybe fix a sandwich …
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Preparing for a 1:1 Meeting
I’ve written before about a Boss Review Shortcut, a way to make it easier for me to prepare …
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Automating Emails With Data Jar
I don't write code, and I don't know how to script, but I really love the value of automation. This …
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Creating Better Structure: My Digital Bullet Journaling
Last year, I spent the time reading The Bullet Journal Method, by Ryder Carroll, and also wrote …
: Three Next Actions On the Breaking Perfectionist Blocks episode of Nested Folders, Rosemary Orchard and I spitballed an …
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Avoiding Distraction in OmniFocus Inbox Processing
Processing my OmniFocus inbox is critical for me, because I capture like a maniac, but because I am …
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Taming my Drafts Inbox
I am (once again) in love with Drafts, and having all my text start there. While I love the idea …
: Safari Reading List in Agenda If you’re keen on having all the things in Agenda, I made a Shortcut called Agenda Clipper for …
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Seeing OmniFocus Completions
There was a question on the OmniGroup Discourse Forums the other day about seeing completed items in …
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The Agenda Meeting Wrap-Up Shortcut
In the past, I have written about my Agenda and OmniFocus workflow. Today, I’m excited to …
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My Project Structure for 2020
On the last several episodes of Nested Folders, Rosemary Orchard and I have discussed topics that …
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Projects in OmniFocus and Agenda
On episode 12 of the Nested Folders podcast, Actions vs. Reference, I mentioned a shortcut to create …
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The Daily Agenda Journal Shortcut
I had a blast writing about Shortcuts with OmniFocus 3.4 last week, but based on reader Jason …
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Day Five: The Daily Journal, Five Days of OmniFocus Shortcuts
It’s day five of my series of posts about the wonderful addition of Shortcuts automation in …
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Day Four: Inbox Processor, Five Days of OmniFocus Shortcuts
It’s the penultimate post in this series of Shortcuts for OmniFocus! For day four, I’m serving …
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Day Three: Today's Actions, Five Days of OmniFocus Shortcuts
Carrying on with Shortcuts sharing in support of OmniFocus 3.4, this one is a quick reference …
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Day Two: Project Markdown Table, Five Days of OmniFocus Shortcuts
It’s day two of sharing Shortcuts that take advantage of the new OmniFocus 3.4 capabilities, and …
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Day One: Five Days of OmniFocus Shortcuts
There’s a new release of OmniFocus in the world, and does it ever bring some powerhouse features …
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Collaborating with Shortcuts and Ulysses
On lucky episode 7 of the Nested Folders Podcast, Rose Orchard and I discussed how we “do …
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Is It Worth Automating? And a Shortcut or Two
On this week's episode of the Nested Folders podcast, Rosemary Orchard and I discussed automation …
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How I Weekly Review
On this week's episode of the Nested Folders podcast, Rosemary Orchard and I discussed our …
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When Not to be Productive
On this week’s Nested Folders podcast episode, Rose and I talked about when not to be …
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Me on LearnOmniFocus
Earlier this year, I had the great pleasure of working with Tim Stringer of Learn OmniFocus to …
: Announcing Nested Folders After several months of discussion, planning, preparation, and writing, I am so proud to announce …
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From Digital Bankruptcy to More Attention: How I Fixed My Broken System
My system has been broken. Not broken in the way that the mechanics of it don’t work, but broken in …
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The Boss Review
A weekly status review on projects with one’s boss tends to be part of having a job, and I was …
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Fifty-Two Project Goals
We’re well in to January, but it’s still resolution season, right? Every year, around this time, I …
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Managing Gift Giving
Need to do some last minute holiday shopping? I know I do. Thankfully, I have a workflow for how I …
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My Agenda Action Workflow
In a previous post, I wrote about my iOS Shortcut that connects Agenda to OmniFocus. With thanks to …
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OmniFocus for the Holidays
It’s that magical time of year where I have to shovel my driveway four times in one weekend, but …
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No Commitments Left Behind
I’m a meetings guy. Largely not by choice, but a lot of my work day is meetings. One of the biggest …
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OmniFocus 3 Tags are Lists
One of the marquee features of OmniFocus 3 is the move from Contexts to Tags. I adore this …
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Organize Information to Make Something Out of Nothing
I was recently asked by a colleague how I approach the development of new strategies or processes or …
: Unsure? Two maybes make a probably.
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Today's Progressive Disclosure
I’m going to write a bit more about the Forecast and Forecast Tag in OmniFocus 3, because I …
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What’s In A Name? Everything.
In the physical world, things have names for a few purposes:
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Whither HeyScottyJ
The last few weeks of my career have been tough. Like, really tough. We’ve all been through this. …