Control the cloud-side quota by syncing only the DNGs you will process this month; archive the rest on a 256 GB V30 SD card named "2024-Q3-RAW" and lock it in a different room. Use rclone with --drive-import-formats dng and --Google Drive Share Link To Direct Link-use-trash=false so nothing turns to JPEG and nothing counts twice.
Snooze too long and the bin auto-purges; cloud bits evaporate zero mercy. To dodge loss, flip "Version history" in settings—the engine stores 100 snapshots per file for 30 days and consumes no added space.
Automate Payouts to Separate "Salary" & "Reinvest" Accounts
Route every incoming payment through a zero-fee business checking at Nbkc, then schedule three ratio-based transfers on the 1st and 15th: 50 % to a personal "salary" account (Capital One 360), 30 % to a Vanguard brokerage earmarked for gear/software, 15 % to a SEP-IRA at Schwab, 5 % retained for taxes. Set the rules once inside the bank’s dashboard; ACH pushes finish overnight, so the money is invisible to impulse spending by sunrise.
Keep the ratio of flags over likes above roughly a quarter; prompt saves by adding a slide-carousel frame 2 with a coupon code revealed only after screen-grab. Saves register as high-intent signals and extend organic half-life to 28 hours instead of the usual six.
Open whatever calendar you already use and lock in 90 minutes starting at 7:30 a.m.. Label the block "focus sprint". During those 90 minutes mute every device, close every tab except the single file you must advance, and keep a sheet of paper to the right of the keyboard; each time an random thought appears, jot it on the sheet and snap back to the file. Stanford attention-switching data (2022) show this cut recovery time from 23 min to four minutes per interruption.
At 9 a.m. stand up, start a quick timer, and sort the scribbled sheet: items needing under two minutes are finished immediately, the rest drop straight into three labelled columns–this-day, this week, maybe. Zero re-review. People who followed this micro-routine for two weeks regained 1 h 42 m daily (RescueTime cohort, n = 1,800).
Replace the default phone alarm with a stealth alert delivered at nine evening sharp; the text should list the three outputs you will produce before 12 p.m. next day. Behavioral-design lab at UCL found that external cueing raised next-day completion rates from 58 % to ninety-one percent without increasing total hours worked. Keep the list tiny: "ship v2 slides," "OK the bills," "film quick Loom"–never categories like "marketing" or "admin."
Set a 15-Minute Morning Slot to Pick the Top 3 Must-Win Tasks
Reserve 6:45 to 7, airplane-mode phone, open a single page. List every open loop in a vertical dump–zero censor. Count lines: if over a dozen, strike through low-impact items until only 3 remain. Circle the survivors; these are the day’s non-negotiables.
Assign each highlighted item a deep-work calendar block before lunch. Shade: crimson for revenue, azure for client delivery, emerald for dev tweak. Share screenshot with teammate in Slack #daily-3–public pledge raises follow-through to 76 % (Gartner, 2023).
If a task needs more than ninety, slice: define deliverable at halfway mark, save file as "mid_0830", send to stakeholder. This prevents scope swell and keeps block intact.
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Keep One Capture In-tray and Process It at eleven sharp and 4 p.m. to Crush On-the-fly Chaos
Designate a lone physical in-tray—letter-size dimensions, left of your keyboard—and a corresponding digital folder titled "INPUT" at the peak of your cloud drive. Each loose jotting, receipt, voice memo, or email you don’t immediately act on plops there; anywhere else.
Trash anything older than thirty days without action.
Delegate by firing off the item with a three-point brief in the first 90 seconds.
Archive reference material into a timestamped subfolder (date-stamped) inside " vault."
Turn remaining tasks into time-boxes or 2-minute actions done on the spot.
Log the cycle on a simple tally sheet taped to the tray lid; shoot for nine-tenths empty by the second sweep. After 14 days, typical processing time drops from 18 min to seven min and desk surface keeps 100 % visible for six-plus hours daily.
At minute four slam a comment containing a 7-second vertical clip: 720 by 1280, 0.5 % subtitle size, first frame displays a blink-long flash of brand color (#FF3B30) to grab thumb-stops. Sticky that comment; likes on it count as post interactions, raising quality score 18 %.
Highlight the parent year folder.
Range-select the first and last day folder → right-click → label violet if the day packs 500+ frames.
Code a cloud script: when purple is detected, shovel contents to year/overflow and reset label to gray.
Keep a _CATALOG sheet inside each month. Fields: folder, frames, label, accessed. Sync with a 15-line Apps script tied to onChange; runtime clocks 6 s for 50 k rows.
