Planning Your 2025 Effectively, Interesting Links, and More
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Your 2025 Planning Kit »
There are only two ways to Plan Your Year:
- Pick a random resolution during that one week in December/January when there are a million articles about it.
- Purposefully plan what you actually want to do (while there is time now to think clearly).
Which method do you think is more effective?
That’s why I’ve established an annual tradition in November: the How to Plan Your Year live online workshop.
It’s the single most popular training I host all year.
It’s 100% free for you to join.
And it’s happening in a few weeks — on Wednesday, Nov 13 at 2pm AND 8pm Eastern.
This year, we decided to add an extra time for anyone who can’t make it at 2pm. The webinar will be live at both times.
Morgen Adds Obsidian Integration for Time Blocking Your Plain Text Task List »
I’m a big believer in time-blocking. It’s the best way I know of to make sure that you protect time for the things that are truly important.
But as someone who manages their tasks primarily in Obsidian, there weren’t many options for getting those tasks to show up alongside my meetings and appointments on my digital calendar.
But recently, the team at Morgen released an integration with Obsidian which not only allows me to see my scheduled Obsidian tasks and block time for them on my calendar, but also syncs the completed task status back to Obsidian when I finish them.
Like peanut butter and jelly, it’s a match made in heaven.
We’ve Updated Our Review of The Best Time Tracking App »
The popularity of time tracking seems to have grown exponentially in recent years, and the number of options and resources for people who want a way to intentionally track their time on their Apple devices has kept pace. But of all the time tracking apps out there, the iOS app Timery is the best app on any platform.
It syncs seamlessly with the Toggl web service, has a simple interface for starting, stopping, and storing your timers, has arguably the best iOS widgets we’ve seen, and offers great support for Apple Shortcuts, which opens the door to a world of automation possibilities.
Before we dig in to the app itself, let’s consider the big question: why track your time in the first place?
New Notion Feature: Charts »
When I was a kid, I had quite an elaborate system to track all of my candy. I would get candy for Halloween, Christmas, and Easter and never finish all of it. But my greatest fear was that someone else would eat it.
I had a massive novelty pizza box that I kept on my wall, cause you know art, and I would tape all of my candy inside that pizza box. I then had a tracker to make sure that I could tell if anyone (specifically my siblings) broke into my candy vault and ate some. I think I created my own little spreadsheet on a piece of printer paper.
I think the addition of Notion charts to my 12-year-old self’s life would have been revolutionary.
Notion came out with their new chart feature a few weeks back and to be honest, it’s pretty great. It’s still V1 of the new feature, so there are a few improvements needed. But I’m looking forward to seeing how it gets better.
We’ve Updated Our Review of the Best GTD Task Manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad »
The “Getting Things Done” methodology and all the apps that work within the GTD system are near and dear to our hearts here at The Sweet Setup. As a result, we’ve spent days and months (even years) testing as many of the best GTD apps as we possibly can.
And no matter how many times we test these apps, we come back to believing Things 3 is the most well-rounded, best designed, and easiest-to-use GTD app available for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac. There are numerous contenders nipping on Things 3’s tail — such as Todoist, which has made some of the biggest strides of any GTD app in recent years — so we’ll continue to watch this space in the coming days and months.
Solitude Deprivation (August Focus Digest) »
Welcome to the monthly Focus Digest!
This is for creative professionals and entrepreneurs looking to create a more ideal schedule, get organized, and stay in control of the things that matter.
If you are new to the digest… here’s what to look forward to every month:
- A short article on a single concept around focus
- A couple quotes that we’ve enjoyed thinking on
- Links to interesting or related articles from our corner of the internet
- Upcoming events and resource spotlights for our Club Members
If this sparks any ideas, I’d love to hear from you!