I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show where I answer queries from my readers

about work, technology, and the deep life.

Now at the beginning of recent episodes of this podcast we have been talking about

household productivity that is how do you organize all of your obligations and your life outside of work?

I noted this is a topic that I don't talk about as much on this podcast or in my writing. It's also something that is underrepresented in the biggest books, the books that have the most sales or get the most push behind them from the publishers

within the business productivity space. So we have been exploring the topic. I

propose some ideas I had come up with for experiments I might be trying to my own at-home productivity

systems, but then I also invited listeners to send in their own ideas and their own strategies.

We got some really interesting feedback,

so I thought I would share a few of these examples now

here at the top of the show.

So Regina wrote in to explain the system that her and her husband used.

Here's what she said.

We rely mostly on technology to implement our system,

specifically a platform called Not notion, which you can find at notion

dot S.O, which is like Evernote Trello Excel all in one. We made a task board, essentially a

Trello board, and continually add into things we want to do,

whether in the short term or the next five years from now.

Each item gets added as a card.

We created a category chart of accounts, logistics, finance, adventuring, etc.

And add the appropriate category tags to each of these cards.

Then at the beginning of each month we sprint plan to decide what we want to accomplish for that month as a card gets completed we move it to the done column

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