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TOPIC: Learning the Wheres and Whens of Productivity

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about learning from how you work to improve your basic productivity infrastructure, with specific attention to using Perspectives in OmniFocus.

Whether it's consolidating shopping lists, eliminating task rot, or leveraging geolocation, there are innumerable tricks for lightly tweaking a system in powerful, non-fiddly ways.

Also: learn Dan's Unified Field Theory of Grocery Shopping.

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