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The Weekly Review — 250 episodes

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250: My Whole House Is Still An Inbox

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249: Six Percent of Our Four Thousand Weeks

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248: The Beginning Of The End

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247: In Case of Emergency: Publish This Episode

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246: In Case Of Emergency: Bring Glasses

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245: The Ad Hoc Year

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244: Moving From Coast To Coast

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243: Updating My Most Expensive iPhone Accessory

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242: Clandestine Saint Nick

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241: Indoor Plumbing, AirPods Pro, and Other Things We Are Thankful For

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240: Journaling Intervention

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239: To Shop Or Not? Some Black Friday Tips

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238: Family Autofocus

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237: Tricks and Treats Included 🍫👻

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236: Another Non-Guru

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235: Dusting Off Our Digital Photo Albums

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234: This Episode May Be Habit-Forming

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233: It's Just Happening Because It's Happening

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232: Deep Due Due

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231: The Cat’s MEOW and D23 Skidoo

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230: Getting Rescued is a Multistep Project

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229: Faux pas en place

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228: Tree Swimming

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227: The Mystery of the Purloined AirTag

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226: Donuts Of Control

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225: BS is in the Eye of the Beholder

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224: Greetings From The Atlantic Time Zone

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223: M.O.O.F.

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222: Flag And Forget

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221: Totting Up Next Steps

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220: Back To Active Projects

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219: A MEOW Review 😺

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218: Organizational Debt

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217: Disneyland for Developers

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216: A Different Dub Dub Week

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215: Fence Sitting

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214: An Elderly Chihuahua Or Two

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213: We Won't Forget You, iPod

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212: Squirreling The Mail Away

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211: Dog Walking For Productivity

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210: Big Little News

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209: Streak Tracking Pros and Cons

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208: Half A Decade In The Making

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207: Tab-It Stacking Workflows

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206: Busy Bees

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205: Earn Big Bucks With This One Weird Trick

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204: Peek Performance Recap

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203: The M.E.O.W. System 😸

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202: A Bit More Than One Pomodoro

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201: Mind Like Mashed Potatoes

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200: Two Hundred Weeks In A Row

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199: I Think My Brain Is Not Working Right

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198: Questions About Eight Things

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197: Curbing Clutter With Pretend Possessions

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196: Eight Things

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195: Plenty To Do In 2022

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194: Eschewing the To-Doing 🎉

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193: A Very MacBook Pro Christmas

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192: The Return of The Organizing Fairy Godmother

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191: Don’t Cry Over Spilled Gravy

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190: The Gift Card Project 🧑🏼‍🎄

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189: Thankful for Things Big and Small

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188: Nobody Likes Lurking Devastation

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187: You Can't Take It With You

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186: Holy Crap, It's November!

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185: Dune Was Not On My To-Do List

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184: MacBook Pros and Cons

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183: The Post-Productivity Hangover

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182: The Big Reveal

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181: Unannounced Projects

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180: Dancing The Year Away

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179: The One With The iPhone 13

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178: Tales Of The Unexpected

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177: Back to Basics 📝

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176: Minimum Viable Episode

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175: On The Road Again

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174: Full Stack Disappointment

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173: Getting Things (or The Overdue Shopping Spree)

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172: Things of Future Passed

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171: Until It Happens, It Hasn't Happened

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170: In The Ballpark

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169: Leaky Open Loops and Organizing Fairy Godmothers: Followup

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168: Cascading Household Mysteries

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167: Working With A Professional Organizer

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166: Email Avalanche

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165: Our Shortest Episode Yet

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164: Short On Time

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163: Spoiler Alert

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162: The To-Do That Keeps On To-Doing

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161: Dusting Off The Packing List

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160: Venturing Out

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159: Get Out Of Jail Free Card

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158: The Most Productive Color

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157: The Shadow Someday/Maybe List Strikes

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156: Plentiful and Precious

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155: Showing Up

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154: Passwords Aplenty

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153: Contacts Zero

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152: Wintery Mix

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151: A Big Bowl of Open Loops

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150: We’ve got nothing

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149: Emergency Planning, Winter Edition

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148: Pandemiversary

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147: The Big Life Questions Episode

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146: Far Out Vision

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145: One- to Two-Year Goals

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144: Areas of Focus

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143: Lost Horizons

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142: A Little Bit of Soul

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141: Holiday Surprise Inside 😹🎄🌟

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140: Habit Trainers

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139: A Very Friendly Competition

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138: Getting Stuff Accomplished

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137: We Don't Pretend to Be Plumbers

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136: Macs And An Adorable HomePod

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135: The Deluge of Email Solicitations

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134: Productivity and Pets Past and Present

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133: Don't Let The Season Get You Down

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132: A Week in the Life 2020

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131: A Little Mystery is a Good Thing in a Podcast

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130: I’ve Got A Friend In Me

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129: Intentions are No Match for Habits

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128: Dance Party!

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127: Productivity, Fitness, and What's New From Apple

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126: Saneboxing

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125: We're the Friendly Productivity Podcast

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124: Downtime and Cat Productivity

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123: Emergency Planning

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122: Sparking Motivation

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121: Procrastivity

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120: Make It Easy

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119: Serious Actions

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118: Adjusting Seasonal Expectations

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117: Suddenly This Summer

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116: Maybe It Wasn’t The Travel

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115: The Liki Song Project 🌴

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114: It Has Been 399 Days Since The Topic Was Email

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113: Turn Good Intentions Into Next Actions

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112: Not Alright

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111: Habitually Speaking

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110: The Pitfalls of Distorted Thinking: Quarantine Edition

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109: A Little Routine

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108: Self-Recrimination is a Lousy Productivity Strategy

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107: Who is sending me work?!?

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106: Bathing Suit Not Required

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105: The Weekly To Do-woo-woo

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104: It's Not A Competition

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103: Handle With Care

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102: The 2020 Cancellations-At-A-Glance Wall Calendar

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101: Operating In A New Context

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100: One Hundred Weeks of Organizational Fun

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99: The Clean Slate Revisited

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98: James Has News

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97: A Very Emoji Episode

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96: A Shoddy Review Is Better Than No Review At All

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95: Beautiful Streamer

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94: The Clean Slate State

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93: How DID Mom and Dad Manage?

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92: Cat Bombed, with Special Guest Dexter

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91: A Space Alien Would Lie About Finishing A Weekly Review

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90: A High Resolution Year

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89: Baffle The Next Recipient

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88: The Gift of Doing Nothing

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87: Reviewing Our 2020 Calendar Strategies, with Special Guest David Sparks

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86: December is A Write-Off (and so is June, July, November and January)

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85: A Thankful Techsgiving

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84: Productivity À La Mode

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83: A Different Perspective

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82: Tasks From The Vault

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81: The Productivity Pitfalls of Distorted Thinking

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80: Groove Is In The Heart

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79: Giving Yourself Rudimentary Instructions

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78: Productivity/Fun Balance At Release Notes

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77: Packing List Power

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76: Excavating Open Loops

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75: iPhone Season

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74: Tags and Flags

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73: If It's More Than Once, It's a Streak

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72: The Weekly Review Times Two

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71: Processing That Giant Stack of Physical Mail

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70: The Mid-Air Refinery

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69: The Odyssey of the Ford Taurus

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68: Lessons from ‘The Tumble In Trieste’

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67: Putting the Trip into Day Trip

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66: Traveler’s Checks and Balances

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65: Travel Can Be Habit Forming

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64: Making Peace With The Last Minute

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63: Still In My Head

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62: Spontaneity and GTD

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61: Post-WWDC Wrap Up and Twitting Quitter

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60: Renegotiating Commitments

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59: The WWDC Week In Review Preview

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58: Talking About App Camp For Girls

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57: I Have To Laugh

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56: Whelmed

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55: Decluttering Sentimental Junk

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54: A Very Tasty Pepper With Special Guest Ish ShaBazz

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53: A Personal Investment

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52: Emailiversary

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51: Someday/Maybe (or Maybe Not) Domain Names

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50: Fifty!

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49: This Was Supposed To Be The Fun Part Of The Week

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48: Diagnosing Some Review Avoidance

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47: The Time-Sensitive Micro Project

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46: Finding, Keeping, and Dusting

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45: See What Happens When You Leave The House!

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44: Not The Best Week

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43: You Can Always Make More Money

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42: LIfe, the Universe and What's In Our Junk Drawers

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41: Productivity + Fun = PodCon 2 in Seattle

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40: Organizational Fatigue

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39: A Very Long Story, With Special Guest Rosemary Orchard

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38: Doing What Comes Naturally

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37: We Are Doing This For All Eternity

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36: Holiday Grab Bag

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35: James Is My Trusted System

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34: The Biggest Of Projects

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33: On The Hunt For The Perfect To-Do List App, with guest Aleen Simms

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32: Over The River and Through The Security Checkpoint

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31: Holiday Hacks and Productivity Gifts

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30: Being A Better Capturer-er

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29: No Trusted System Can Overcome Human Incompetence

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28: The Big Email Processing Episode

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27: Do You Know What's Next?

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26: Apps We Use: Built-In or Third-Party?

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25: I Feel The Need, The Need For Feeds

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24: What's The Forecast? A Special Extra Episode of TWR

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23: The Greatest Productivity (And Anti-Productivity) Tool The World Has Known

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22: Perspectives on Perspectives

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21: A Day Without A Dot 🎉

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20: Organizationiversary

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19: That's Too Devious, Jean

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18: Extreme Measures For Mundane Tasks

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17: Laundry Can Be Motivating

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16: The Unbearable Lightness of OmniFocus Bankruptcy

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15: Reboot and Refine

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14: Profit!

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13: Initial Capture Redux

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12: Half A Gold Star

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11: No Gold Stars For Us This Week

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10: Flat Surfaces

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9: We're Not Gurus

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8: The Usual Monkey Wrench

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7: Red Hot Poker Mode

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6: Productivity Nerd Christmas

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5: A Container of Pebbles

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4: Backsliding, Deferred

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3: Brute Forcing Our Way To Inbox Zero

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2: Making Space For What Is Truly Important

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1: My Whole House Is An Inbox