All statements about Apple Watch

41 statements about Apple Watch in 16 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-01-07 · 15 Lessons that Improved My Life — recommendation: Ali's brain inbox is Drafts: he notes every idea there on his Apple Watch, phone or Mac, and in his housekeeping and weekly reviews turns the items into Notion projects or Todoist tasks. — 00:20:09
2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali calls Drafts a really great tool for quick capture: whenever he has a thought he can open it on his iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac and start writing straight away. — 00:00:24
2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali does not use Bear much any more: Drafts has largely replaced it for him because Drafts runs on the Apple Watch and has amazing dictation features. — 00:06:03
2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali: Messages syncing across his iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad is probably one of the main reasons Ali uses no non-Apple products: he can reply to texts on any device, which with an Android phone he could do only on the phone. (hedged) — 00:21:42
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: If he could keep only one, Ali would keep the AirPods over the Apple Watch any day: he calls the AirPods a life-changing piece of tech and the Apple Watch not. — 00:17:46
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali finds the Apple Watch nice to have but overall very useless: he uses it only for Apple Pay and cannot wear it at work, where infection control requires bare below the elbows. — 00:17:56
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — recommendation: Ali: Drafts is Ali's quick-capture tool: he dictates notes into it from his Apple Watch, say while listening to a podcast in the car, and later moves them to Evernote, Notion or Roam Research. — 00:09:27
2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali: When Ali wants to take notes on a podcast or audiobook he is listening to on the drive, he dictates them into the Drafts app on his Apple Watch. — 00:01:27
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali captures by source: from podcasts or audiobooks in the car he dictates voice notes into Drafts on his Apple Watch, synced to Evernote; Kindle highlights and notes sync to Evernote and Notion through Readwise, which he calls amazing. — 00:02:39
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali uses Drafts only for quick capture, dictating podcast notes into it on his Apple Watch while driving: it syncs well with Evernote through the API, dictates well and loads very quickly. — 00:10:22
2020-10-01 · What's on my iPhone - Favourite iPhone Apps ft. @KharmaMedic — Kharma Medic has just downloaded Sleepwatch, an app that tracks sleep with the Apple Watch, and wore his watch to sleep the night before. — 00:03:19
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali thinks everyone is a show-off to an extent: we all play a social-status game, signalling status and identity through things like an Apple Watch, a Gymshark hoodie or the way we talk and act. — 00:11:39

2019

2019-02-07 · THE BEST EARPHONES - Apple AirPods Review — Ali: Putting in his AirPods and pressing play on his Apple Watch takes Ali about three to four seconds; a double tap on an AirPod opens Siri to resume Spotify or Overcast. — 00:05:05
2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali says the Apple Watch is not really a productivity device: it is a very expensive gadget with few productivity uses. — 00:03:42
2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — announcement: Ali is working on a video about the Apple Watch in which he will say more about its productivity uses. — 00:03:42
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali loves his Apple Watch Series 4 and uses it every day; it adds a small amount of convenience through notifications, Apple Pay, music and audiobook control, maps and two-factor authentication. — 00:00:29
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali thinks the Apple Watch Series 4 looks really pretty as an accessory that goes with every outfit, and that it signals to people that he is into tech. — 00:00:29
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali puts the price of the Apple Watch Series 4 at 400 pounds or 400 dollars. — 00:00:29
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali says that since about 2015 the specs of phones, iPads and similar devices have made no real difference to anyone's life, but for the Apple Watch they still matter. — 00:01:31
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali's earlier Apple Watch Series 1 was so slow that taking out his phone was quicker; he has never once noticed the Series 4 being slow. — 00:01:31
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: The Apple Watch Series 4 has much thinner screen bezels, so Ali's 44 mm model feels about the size of his old watch but has a lot more screen. — 00:02:00
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: None of Ali's uses of the Apple Watch Series 4 is life-changing: they are very small conveniences in day-to-day life, which he personally thinks worth the 400 pounds. — 00:02:00
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: Email notifications on the Apple Watch let Ali decide whether he needs his phone or iPad, or reply to or archive an email from the watch, so he spends less time checking his phone and triaging email. — 00:02:00
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali gets a few tens of Instagram message requests a day and likes seeing them on his Apple Watch at work as a little burst of happiness. (playful) — 00:02:51
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: Apple Pay on the Apple Watch is why Ali no longer carries a wallet: the vast majority of UK shops now accept contactless. — 00:02:51
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: When Apple Pay on the watch fails, Ali says you look foolish and have to get your phone out and use Face ID instead. (playful) — 00:03:20
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: Paying with the Apple Watch instead of Apple Pay on the phone saves about two seconds each time, which Ali calls no big deal but nice. — 00:03:49
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali changes or shuffles the songs Alexa plays on Spotify from the Spotify app on his Apple Watch. — 00:04:12
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: The Apple Watch Series 4 is waterproof, so Ali wears it in the shower and skips songs on his Bluetooth speaker from it. — 00:04:12
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: Turn-by-turn directions on the Apple Watch work only with Apple Maps, not Google Maps. — 00:04:42
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: Instead of using an authenticator on his phone, Ali reads two-factor authentication codes from the Dashlane app on his Apple Watch, saving a few seconds a day. — 00:05:11
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali's three-part test of whether something is objectively worth the money: does it make him happier, remove a salient negative, or let him do or make something that adds value; the Apple Watch fails all three. — 00:06:10
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali does not regret buying the Apple Watch Series 4: although objectively not worth the money, he thinks it subjectively nice to have, provided you can comfortably afford it. — 00:06:59
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: As a student tutoring to save up the 300 to 400 pounds, Ali would not buy the Apple Watch: a digital camera, a Kindle with non-fiction books or an Audible subscription would add far more value. — 00:07:28
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — recommendation: Ali: If you are financially stable and would be reasonably okay spending that much on an ordinary analogue watch, Ali says by all means get the Apple Watch. — 00:07:58
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali thinks signalling, showing people what sort of person you are, is a strong part of why people spend money on luxury products such as the Apple Watch. — 00:08:27
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — recommendation: Ali says a techie who can comfortably afford the Apple Watch will not be disappointed, but anyone who cannot should not save up for it and should buy a camera or a Kindle and non-fiction books instead. — 00:08:27
2019-06-07 · Top 14 Funniest Moments from Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali names Kevin's line at the start of the WWDC 2019 keynote, about a robin recorded in Apple Park for the Apple Watch chime, the joke of the event. — 00:09:01
2019-07-05 · AWAY Weekender Bag Review — Ali hardly uses his wallet: he pays for everything with his Apple Watch. — 00:03:30
2019-10-19 · How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar — recommendation: Ali: Listening to podcasts at double speed in the car, Ali records notes with the Drafts app on his Apple Watch: two taps, so he can do it while driving, and it transcribes the speech into text reasonably well. — 00:05:08

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2018

2018-10-29 · Study With Me - Scoping the Subject ft. Just Eat — announcement: Ali unboxes a new Apple Watch and promises a review of it later on. — 00:02:55

Also named in: What's in my Bag - Junior Doctor Everyday Carry