PTPL 054: What on Earth Does Productivity Have To Do With Natural Ecosystems?

PLUS TaskPaper in Obsidian, and comparing MoneyWiz with YNAB

Plain text, Paper, Less Productivity Digest text-based image by Author

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Welcome to the Plain Text, Paper — Less Productivity Digest! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week taster of the unusual, the helpful, and the delightfully mundane, as well as the next instalment in my quest to future proof and simplify my digital-analog workflow.

This week — 

• Productivity systems that work the best mirror and flow with the natural systems all around us

• TaskPaper: using a @focus tag to quickly recentre my workflow 

• Budgeting: MoneyWiz vs YNAB

• Setapp utility of the week: Popclip

Productivity Tips and Inspiration

Modelling our productivity processes on the earth’s ecosystem

We can be more whole as individuals when we work together toward the creation of systems that sustain us all. — Adam Greenfield

I knew when I saw some recent posts by Adam Greenfield, despite not understanding much of it, that I was looking at something important and deeply profound.