The Email Charter: 10 rules for reducing email
The email charter lays out 10 rules that will save you from an email inbox of doom.
Monthly favourites — November 2022
It’s a real mixed bag this month: escapism, ADHD, leadership, living by our values, philosophising, and being real!
How to live by your values with help from your calendar
Discover your core values and use your calendar to live by them. Learn to schedule what matters most and create a life aligned with your priorities.
How to setup a film and TV watchlist in Notion
How I use Notion to manage our household film and TV watchlist, as a curated subset what’s relevant, as opposed to being governed by algorithms.
How to stick with a new habit
This is how I use t-shirt sizing, habit stacking and data tracking to make my habits stick!
How to track blog post ideas across your iPhone and computer
How I use the Notes app on my iPhone alongside Notion on my computer to keep track of blog post ideas.
Monthly favourites — October 2022
This month we’re learning about the future of houseplants, beating the cost of living crunch, and reminding y’all to use a password manager (like 1Password).
How to secure your online accounts using a password manager
Data security is a hot topic right now! Here’s how you can protect yourself from hackers, and minimise impacts of a data breach.
How to setup two-factor authentication with the Google Authenticator app
Learn how to set up Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication and protect your accounts with an extra layer of security—easy, quick, and effective.
How we use Photoshop and Google Slides for feature image creation
Take a peek at how we combine Photoshop and Google Slides to create styled feature images—an easy setup for consistent, custom blog and content visuals.
Check out our Producing Paradise YouTube channel
For those who prefer watching over reading, we got you: Producing Paradise has its very own YouTube channel!
Monthly favourites — September 2022
Fashion reality TV, entrepreneur interviews, life admin hacks, free audiobooks, psychotherapy and just saying no — these are some of the things floating our boat right now!
How to batch resize images using Automator
Quickly batch resize images using the built-in Automator app on your Mac. It can rename files too—handy for those odd jobs that shouldn’t take all day.
How to get the best out of Siri
This is how I use Siri as my very own personal assistant, including the basic features and the ones I use the most.
How to use the Momentum Chrome extension to hone focus
This is how I use the Momentum Chrome extension to hone focus each day, and how this works alongside my personal dashboard in Notion.
How to create a Google Slides theme
Creating a Google Slides theme lets you easily reuse the same font, layout and colour styling on every new slide deck. Here’s how you do it!
Monthly favourites — August 2022
Home organisation, imposter syndrome, Notion, stretches, and how-to videos… these are a few of our favourite things this month!
How to setup a personal dashboard in Notion
I’ll show you how to setup a personal dashboard in Notion from scratch, including filtered views, timelines and how to quickly hop between views.
How to setup Notion for book content management
I’ll show you how to start a Notion database from scratch to manage content for a book: how to do it, what fields to use, and a couple of basic filtered ‘views’. If you’re writing a book, I hope this helps you too! Summary: Set up Notion for...
Monthly favourites (return edition!) — July 2022
It’s been a while *checks notes*… yes two years since the last one of these, but let’s just blame the panini and give it another whirl.
The ‘work self’ vs the other self
Do you ever think of your ‘work self’ as a different person? I try not to, but it happens. Lately I’ve been trying to bring these two people closer together.
How to manage a remote team using digital tools
No one could have envisioned they’d still be a remote workplace eight months on. No one knows what the new world of work is going to look like. Use this checklist to build your digital toolbox to manage your remote team.
Using emoji: In Life and On Slack
Taking a break? Working from home? Do not disturb? Which emoji says it in one tidy character? Should we use emoji at all?! (tl;dr: yes)
Monthly(ish) favourites — MARCH, June… what month is it AGAIN? (2020)
It’s been… quite a year. In amongst all the doom and darkness, here are a couple of things Jess has been digging that you might too.
How I prepare my personal tax return
On the topic of ‘how a producer-type manages their finances’ I thought it would be useful to share my process for preparing a tax return in Australia and —spoiler alert— how I prepare little parts through the year, so at tax time it’s just a matter of compiling them all.
Black Lives Matter
We’ve been prompted to examine our place in the systemic racism that exists, and to seek out actions we can take to make meaningful change.
Monthly favourites — November 2019
Two bite-sized favourites this month: a thought-provoking podcast on how Indigenous languages shape perception, and a fresh attempt at learning Italian (or maybe French?) with Duolingo.
Project management approaches – waterfall and agile
A quick overview on Waterfall and Agile project management approaches. What makes them different and what will work best for you.
Monthly favourites — October 2019
Here are some things that we’ve been enjoying during this seasonal transition.
Setting boundaries in a digital workplace
Taking inspiration from the “right to disconnect” law passed in France, I’ve reset my own boundaries for a healthy work-life balance in a digital workplace. Here’s some steps you can follow to do the same.
7 email management principles to tame your inbox
An approach to email management that works! The 7 email management principles you need to tame your inbox.
Monthly favourites — September 2019
September swept by, spring sprung in and here are a few things that caught our attention.
Producing our branding: seven easy steps to build a brand concept
The process we followed to develop our branding and how it played out, including a free creative brief template for your next branding project.
Understanding child themes in WordPress
The 101 on WordPress child themes and why they’re important. A WordPress child theme saves you time, provides greater flexibility and added security.
What we’ve learned about taking lunch breaks
If you have the luxury of choosing when to take your lunch break each day, you might sometimes find it appealing to cut it short to “get more done”, or worse… just work through. We set out to take our full lunch break every day to see what would happen. So what did happen? Read on…
Monthly(ish) favourites — July & August 2019
Life happened in July, as it does. We took the pressure off by combining our favourites for the last two months (and we’re giving Lil a break for a while, as life continues to happen!).
Monthly favourites — June 2019
The end of the financial year, the start of winter, and a quiet time around these parts.
Monthly favourites — May 2019
Game of Thrones ended, the weather got cold, Lil had a birthday, and Aimee went on holidays! Here’s what else stole our attention in May.
How we use: WordPress for this blog
Why did we choose WordPress.org for this blog and why is it different to WordPress.com? Here’s our take, along with the steps we took to set up this blog.
Monthly favourites — April 2019
April was filled with Easter Eggs and Anzac Cookies, among some of these other things!