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Apple Watch

device · in 18 sources (2018–2020)

Includes: Apple Watch Series 4

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2020: 9

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What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Drafts (8) · Roam Research (4) · Notion (8) · Evernote (4) · Nebula (3) · Building a Second Brain (3) · iPad Pro (8) · Slack (2) · Day One (2) · Workflow series (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2020-12-13 · 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
  • …and 1 statement more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2019

  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Ali puts the price of the Apple Watch Series 4 at 400 pounds or 400 dollars. — 00:00:29
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2019-10-19 · 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
  • …and 16 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

Also named in: What's in my Camera Bag - My YouTube + photography travel gear

2018

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