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The 10 Best iPhone Productivity Apps in 2021
The 10 Best iPhone Productivity Apps in 2021
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by skillshare today we are going through 10 of my favorite productivity
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apps for the iphone here in 2021.
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though i'm actually going to start this list out with a productivity
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feature of the iphone that isn't actually an app but is useful nonetheless
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it's this little magnetic
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wallet thing that you can get from apple that just snaps onto the back of
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your phone but the cool thing is it's got this little
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sliding thing where if you have a credit card that you frequently use or
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in my case an office access key it's very easy to slide it up
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scan it wherever you need to scan it and put it right back on
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your phone just like that so i figured i'd mention that because i've been
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enjoying this and it's definitely a purchase that i don't regret
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let's get into the list of apps and the first app we're going to
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talk about is called otter which is an amazingly
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good ai voice transcription
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app so as a youtuber
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i get a lot of ideas for content
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often at times when i can't easily either write something down or pull my
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phone out to take notes and in those cases i take a lot of
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voice memos but a lot of times i would love to have those voice
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notes translated into so i can then port them over to notion or use
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them and actually you know go through the text and edit it and things
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like that otter is
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freaking amazing at doing that i've tried a ton of other apps some that
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have apple watch integrations
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which i really would like for otter but they use this built-in siri dictation
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which is just not
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that great at translating your voice into readable text meanwhile
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otter does not as far as i can tell have a real human shoved
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into your phone who's literally
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you know acting as a court
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and typing out your text
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but it might as
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the transcription is nearly as good as the human transcription
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that i actually pay for for these youtube videos
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which means that when i speak something while i'm driving or i'm out on
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the bike i can basically guarantee that when i come and read the text
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later on it's going to look pretty much like i said it it also
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keeps the audio file it's not quite as high quality of an audio file
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as you get with regular voice memos so i don't use it for song
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ideas but it does keep the audio file which is nice because it allows
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me to export both the audio file
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and the text into
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drum roll please the very next app on our list which is
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you saw this coming
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notion so notion is an app that i talk about a lot in fact
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i have a entire second channel called thomas frank explains
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full of notion tutorials
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link in the description
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down below if you're curious
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and if you haven't heard of notion it is basically an all-in-one workspace
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app which allows you to take notes it allows you to manage tasks it
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allows you to do pretty much anything you want and at this point i'm
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using it fully for running my channel for managing my tasks for running projects
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and for taking all the notes that i want to take and for writing
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all the scripts for my videos
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the last time i talked about notion on my channel there was no actual
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official widget but now there is and in fact there are a couple that
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are very useful which i want to show you right now the one that
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i keep right on my home screen here is the favorites bar and a
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trick that i use is i keep a dashboard
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page with links to a lot of things i'm working on because i often have
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more links than will fit on this widgets
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area i think it only keeps
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about nine links at one time so using this dashboard
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i can actually create like a central place for
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all of the important things in my life including my tasks my notes content
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with my channel with thomas frank explains my other channel and ongoing
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projects and i have like this hub page that allows me to easily get
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to anything i want to get when i want to add something or reference
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the other nice thing though is there's another widget which i keep over here
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on this quick access area which shows you your recent pages so instead of
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relying just on your manually created favorites bar you have all of your recent
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pages right here and i can get to
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say the research and notes for
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this very and look there's otter there's notion
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and there is our third app which i'm going to now smoothly transition into
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so authy is a manager
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for two-factor authentication codes that functions a lot like google authenticator
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hopefully you are using two-factor authentication
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on any account that offers it in addition to your passwords
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if you care about your online security
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now one thing you might not know about two-factor authentication
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is there's two different types
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sms based or text message based
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and app-based like google authenticator
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or in this case
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authy sms-based authentication is actually a lot less secure because
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identity thieves and you know hackers and people like that have been known to
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spoof your sim card essentially calling up your phone company convincing them that they
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are you and convincing them to
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set up a new device with the exact same sim
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so they get the text messages that you're supposed to get including
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to factor off messages
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which is why whenever i have the choice i use app-based
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authentication instead of text message authentication
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but there's a problem
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with app-based two-factor auth especially with google authenticator
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at least last time i used it it didn't sync
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between different devices which means if you accidentally
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drop your phone down an elevator shaft you're out of luck and you have
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to spend a ton of time doing password resets
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or hopefully pulling you know backup codes that you had for your two-factor
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it's a whole big mess so that's why i like authy because you can
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log into your account and get your two-factor
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auth codes back and as long as you're using a secure password for that
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account i think it's still pretty secure now the next step that we're going
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to talk about is the only one on my list that doesn't have an
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android equivalent this is an app called command
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which is actually a web browser and it has a killer feature that you
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probably know about if you saw my ipad video earlier this year
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that feature is that you can highlight
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text within any web page
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and then once you highlight
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not only is it going to stay
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highlighted or highlit i'm not sure how you're supposed to say that
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when you refresh the page but you can also tap your highlights
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and you can add journal entries which allow you to essentially take notes on
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the highlights you make i have written
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entire articles inside commands
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journal feature because i'll take a highlight from something i'm reading on the web
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get inspired and then i'll just you know think i'm going to take a
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little bit of a note and then it balloons into a huge article
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the other thing that i love about command is it actually can send the
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highlights that you take to your read wise account
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and i guess i should just talk about read wise now because it is
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the next app on our list so read wise is basically a highlight manager
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for the knowledge that you intake from various sources
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books kindle books podcasts
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using an app called air which i will talk about a little bit later
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even tweets and content
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from your web now there is a way to sync highlights from mobile safari
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to read wise but it's kind of a friction
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full process and command makes it much
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much easier so i love doing research and doing highlighting using the command browser
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when i'm reading blog posts and
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but coming back to read wise read wise is essentially a highlight manager that
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can resurface and help you recall
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the knowledge that you gathered over time it's got this daily review area which
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will actually give you a collection
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of different highlights so you can remember them more usefully
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i don't use that too much what i actually do is i kind of
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use this as a database
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for a lot of the highlights that i take in books and other pieces
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of media but the thing that i really love about raid wise is that
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not only does it store all of my highlights here like these highlights from
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the book askiwata that i've been reading really recently
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but there is a native integration
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with both notion and with rome research
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and also with rem note i believe
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so whenever you take a highlight from kindle or from the command browser or
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from even the safari extension or
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read wise to roll up a tweet thread
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it'll send it to read wise and then read wise will dutifully kick that
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highlight to your integration
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platform in my case it's notion so i have a beautiful raidwise database
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on notion where i've got all of my highlights from books and articles and
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all kinds of media sources
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and then when i'm doing research for an article
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i can pull in my highlights
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into my research areas and actually now with notions synced blocks feature i don't
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even have to copy and paste i can just create a synced block and
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port content over from my highlights area into
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whatever article that i'm writing which is pretty sweet next up on our list
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is one called tide which is my favorite pomodoro
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timer for the iphone
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now it's got a ton of different features it can track your stats it's
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got all these sounds so you can create these soundscapes
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to help you focus
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personally i just like the way that it looks i like the fact that
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it's free and i like the fact that i can open up i can
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hit the focus button i can choose 25 minutes and i can start a
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pomodoro session and like i've said before the pomodoro
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technique is one of the most powerful
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short-term productivity techniques there
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because it externalizes the self-discipline
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that you need to keep
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but it also reframes your task from output based to input based as in
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i have to write a paper which is really daunting and scary too i
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just need to work on this paper for 25 minutes and then i'm allowed
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to take a the next step on my list is actually a built-in
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app in the phone so if you have an iphone you already have this
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and it's the fitness app or i don't know if it's called fitness or
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activity but this is absolutely
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a productivity app for me because when i'm active
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when i'm moving when i am exercising
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every day i also feel more energetic and i get more done and i
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work with more focus
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exercise is absolutely associated
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with cognitive performance and if you want to learn more about that there's a
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great book by dr john ratey called spark
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highly recommend that especially if you like books full of scientific
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studies but having this app and specifically
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its integration with the apple watch
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and the face here that shows me around my rings every time i look
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at the apple encourages
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me to get my exercise
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done i've actually got the trends thing activated here so i can see that
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pretty much all my trends are on the up i've been moving more i've
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been exercising more i've been standing more
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walking more all kinds of stuff
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one of my favorite things about the fitness app is the sharing aspect of
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it so if we go over to the sharing tab you're going to see
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that i actually have shared my fitness data and vice versa
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with some of my friends brian from real engineering
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who probably forgot to put on his apple watch today
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my friend chris who wrote the productivity
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project in hyperfocus my agent dave and also renee ritchie from the channel renee
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ritchie who talks a lot about apple
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so using the sharing feature we all get notified when we work out we
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send each fun emojis
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to encourage each other we'll sometimes
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check in and be like hey how come you haven't gotten your workout done
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today it adds some nice accountability
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into your daily exercise routine even if your friends are far flung across the
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globe next up on the list is audible which is an app that i've
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been using for a very very long time but i've actually been using a
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lot more heavily recently
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i am now riding an e-bike
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to my downtown co-working office on any day where i don't have to sit
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in this chair and film videos in my studio and i absolutely
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love riding my bike getting out of the house going somewhere else to work
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and that whole process of writing actually about 40 miles on the e-bike
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gives me a ton of time to listen to things that i can use
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to educate myself so audible
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is probably my number one resource for that since i love listening to audiobooks
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and one thing that i did want to point out on the iphone now
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that home screen widgets feature is live
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is that audible has a widget which allows you to scroll down and basically
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resume the last book that you were listening to or pick one of the
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four that you listened to most recently other than that one so it's a
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nice way to just launch into a book that you were listening to recently
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without having to open up the app and wait for it to load next
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up on our list is an app called adobe scan which is probably the
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best document scanner app on the iphone this is going to look really weird
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because you're going to see a camera and i'm moving it around
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hi other camera anyway this is a great app for scanning
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paper documents and then exporting them as pdfs
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or as picture files and porting them into your knowledge management system in my
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case it's going to be notion it might be rom research or evernote for
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you but it's really nice to have a document scanner app on the phone
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next up we have spotify
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for podcasts yep i have finally switched over to just using spotify
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as my default podcast
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player i resisted it for a very long time i was a pocket casts
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fan but it's good enough now in spotify
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they've got the speed controls they've got the sleep timer function
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and uh it's fast that's really nice thing
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now i really wanted
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to recommend an app
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air instead of spotify
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in this slot in the video
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air is a really cool podcast
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player that has a killer feature my friend ali abdull actually turned me on
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to this app so you may have heard him talking about it if you
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watch his videos but air is not just a podcast
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player it's also an app that integrates with
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read wise and it has this really cool feature where if you're listening to
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something in a podcast
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episode and you want to make a highlight of it you want to save
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it you want to add a note to it you can do that by
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hitting this little quote button here and it's going to save either last 30
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seconds or last minute you can change
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the duration if you want
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and you can add a little note and it's going to send that to
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raidwise which again would send to notion or roam research or rem note if
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you have that integration
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created it is super cool but the performance of this app is just
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it's just not great right now it's slow if i want to like rewind
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15 seconds it takes
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like five seconds just to do it and start playing again so i'm really
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hoping that they're going to improve the performance
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of this app and once they do that i'm going to be probably switching
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over to using it because i really do want to use that read wise
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feature i just need it to be faster now if you're watching a video
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on my channel about iphone apps then i would say it's probable
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that you also watch one of my favorite tech
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marquez brownlee aka mkbhd
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and if you do i want to let you know about a new course
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he just launched over on skillshare
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all about how to create great youtube videos
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i cannot think of many other people who i would rather have teach me
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how to make a great youtube video than marquez
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especially because his quality
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is well let's just use the term that he uses it's absolutely
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crispy it's amazing i've taken a lot of inspiration
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from his setup his gear the way he films things to improve the quality
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of the footage on my own channel and if you want to learn how
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to upgrade your own youtube game or even start a channel if you haven't
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done it yet his course over on skillshare
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is a great place to start
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and the wonderful thing about skillshare
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is that when you join you don't just get access to marquez's
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class you get access to thousands of classes that can boost your skills and
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your creative abilities in a ton of different areas
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including productivity because i have three different classes on skillshare
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of my own one on building a productivity
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system that combines apps to make sure that nothing ever falls to the cracks
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also on skillshare you're going to find classes in graphic design
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in video in music production
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in storytelling and public speaking there is a ton that you can learn on
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skillshare and it's also a very affordable
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platform in fact if you are one of the first 1 000 people to
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sign up for skillshare today using the link down below you're going to get
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a one month free trial which means
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that you can go take my classes you can go take mkbhd's
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class for free and test out the platform for a month before you have
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to pay anything it's a great platform i really think you're going to get
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a lot of value out of it and you're going to want to keep
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paying for it after that trial
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is over but you've got that trial to try it out so once again
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go to that link down in the description below sign up be one of the
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first thousand people to get that free
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one month trial thank you for watching this video hopefully you found something helpful
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here and i would also like to hear from you what are your favorite
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apps that i did not mention in this video
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leave them down in the comment section below and we can all try new
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things out and uh you know probably end up spending too much time on
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our phones and not actually being productive whoops anyway i'll see you in the next video
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