Stu and Justin have been writing with our new-to-us digital versions of our beloved analog(ue) tools and we check in and see what we think. Are they any good?

How important is your data? What would you lose, and how much would you risk? Stu and Justin talk about our backup strategies and give some tips for ensuring you never lose any important information.

Data, data, everywhere. How do a couple of curmudgeons who knew these bits and the bytes before they were mega- or giga- handle data? Listen to the show.

This week Stu and Justin talk Planning. After all, how could we be a productivity focused podcast without discussing direction. And, we contemplate what happens when a plan goes off the rails.

We love books. Hardcover, softcover, and even digital. Stu and Justin talk about how we read. Discuss our differing approaches, and suggest what you should consider about reading.

What is a note, and how do we use them? What tools do we use for note-taking and note-making? Join us as we dig into our note-taking workflow this week.

Task managers are a favourite way for many of us to keep organized. Particularly Justin. We both discuss how we use our trusted systems to stay organized and stress-free in our organization.

Calendars. Simple things, really. Not so in practice, especially when your hosts use them differently. We go deep on how we use calendars in all the different ways.

Following our recent email conversation, we deep dive into instant communication and find out how people can interrupt us and who we let. The discussion is particularly interesting because of the trans-Atlantic cultural differences!

In this week’s episode, Stu and Justin tackle that monster that lies over many corporate jobs: email. How do we organize our email to avoid someone else controlling our time? Listen in…

Everyone's favourite topic - budgets. We discuss the good and the bad. And give our thoughts on setting or reviewing your personal budget during these "unprecedented times".

Unsubscribing, deleting, unfollowing, and unfriending. Sounds rather negative, doesn't it. But Justin and Stu tackle this valuable practice and have realized how liberating reducing digital clutter is.

Notes, notes, notes. PKM, sense-making, and building second brains. It's all the buzz and we dive deep into how we make notes and whether an app or philosophy helps or hinders our process.

How much more focused can we be when we are held accountable to an external person or deadline? Or we can even be accountable to ourselves. Stu and Justin, who are accountable to each other, talk about their views on accountability.

For the Northern Hemisphere, summer is here. Heat, sunlight, and vacation time have an impact on productivity. What changes for us? We talk about it in this episode.

It's almost mid-year - and 6 months after Stu and Justin started planning for 2022. How did we do? We explore our progress this episode and talk about the impact of mental health on productivity.

Friction is the desire to do anything but what you are supposed to be doing. Justin and Stu talk about the sources of friction and the techniques they have for reducing it.

Stu and Justin are used to criticism. But that doesn't stop us occasionally being bothered by it. We look at lessons we have learned and apply that to have to give criticism with the best results.

Stu has been doing a lot of serious thinking and reading. He explores how he is adjusting his thinking about life and thinking of turning his life upside down.

Justin is being harassed by a new vendor that doesn't know how to use voicemail. We figured it would be a great topic, until we realized that Stu doesn't get phone calls. It's a North American thing and we cover it from that perspective.