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    #147: Task Management & Focus

    March 15th, 2022 · 86 minutes

    David & Mike revisit the topic of task management to talk about Mike's Obsidian task management experiment and their (very different) use of checklists.

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    Links and Show Notes

    Getting Things Done by David Allen
    Building My Bullet-Journal-Based Hybrid Productivity System | The Sweet Setup
    Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
    Analog | Ugmonk
    Linking Your Thinking
    Obsidian Tasks plugin
    Obsidian Dataview plugin
    Obsidian Calendar plugin
    Obsidian Kanban plugin
    reMarkable
    Rocketbook
    The Light Phone
    The Social Dilemma
    LEGO MOC Patriot Puzzle Box by ThePuzzler | Rebrickable