I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions habit tune-up mini episode.

The format of these mini episodes is straightforward. They're shorter. I take voice

questions from listeners where we dive into the nitty gritty details of the types of

habits we like to geek out about here on this podcast.

Let's start as always with quick announcements.

Announcement number one, if you like the type of things we talk about on this podcast you will love my upcoming new book a world without email

It comes out on March 2nd. I've talked about it before so I won't go into too much detail now but if you pre-order it

hold on to your digital receipt I will soon be announcing on my newsletter and then subsequently on this

podcast a very exciting pre-order promotion involved on this

Poodcast a very exciting pre-order promotion involves something known as

email Academy, so stay tuned for that. Quick announcement number two. I believe I have the team in place that is going to help me with the video component of this

podcast. The goal is starting in February. Pretty early in the February, We will begin posting video of the any deep dives I do as

well as some select questions from the podcast. We'll also get up a backlog of all of

the deep dives I've done so far. All that video is coming soon so stay tuned.

Let's do a quick summary of the show looking at my question list we have some good ones this week. Among other topics we have

someone asking about their fear of moving from analog to digital

productivity tools. We have some deep diving geek questions on Trello and something here about

taking notes in meetings. As always if you want to submit your own question be

it audio or written you can find out how at

CalNewport.com.

So before we get started with this show, let's take a brief moment first to thank one of the sponsors that

makes it possible. I am talking about Magic Spoon. You know the drill here I talked

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