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Drafts

app · in 13 sources (2019–2020)

Sources by year: 2019: 2 · 2020: 11

Also known as: Drafts app

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali promises a much more detailed video about Roam Research (2020) · Workflow, Ali's series on Nebula of deep dives into how he uses his apps

Often together

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

Apple Watch (8) · Notion (16) · Evernote (8) · Workflow series (4) · Roam Research (5) · Day One (3) · Nebula (4) · Adobe Lightroom (3) · Twitter (4) · second brain (3)

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
  • 2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali uses Drafts for notes in the moment because Notion is slow to load on iOS, Roam Research has no real iOS app yet and Evernote is slow and bloated. — 00:09:02
    • 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
  • 2020-05-12 · I Tried Making a Viral Video - Day in the Life VLOG — Ali: On Slack with his team, which he calls the A-team, Ali plans more videos for his Workflow series on Nebula about Evernote, Notion, Roam Research, Drafts and his other note-taking apps. — 00:02:46
  • 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
  • 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps only useful apps such as Notion, Drafts, Castro, Audible and Anki on his iPhone's first screen; Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and dating apps, the infinity pools, sit on the second screen. — 00:02:26
  • 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 a combination of four apps for his note-taking: Notion, Roam Research, Evernote and Drafts. — 00:07:56
    • 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
  • 2020-10-21 · The 5 Key Principles of Productivity — recommendation: Ali usually captures in the Things app on his iPhone, puts video ideas in Notion and uses Drafts when driving; he says it does not really matter which app you use. — 00:04:31
  • 2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: With the iPad Air at his bedside, Ali types night-time ideas into Notion or Drafts, and in the morning does his journaling, plans his day or scrolls Twitter without getting up. — 00:15:24
  • …and 5 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

Also named in: How Much Money I Spend in a Week as a 25 Year Old Doctor

2019

  • 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
    • Moving notes from Drafts into Notion takes some manual labour, and Ali is sure Notion will at some point open its API so that Drafts can add items to Notion automatically. — 00:05:50
    • For now Ali finds copying notes from Drafts into Notion a very reasonable method, because it lets him quick capture his ideas while driving without stopping the car. — 00:05:50
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — recommendation: Ali discovered the app Drafts a few months ago and has used it practically daily since: a very quick note-taking app that opens a new note as soon as you tap it. — 00:00:58
    • Ali keeps Drafts as a short-term memory, like a computer's RAM: any thought he needs to write down during the day, such as an idea for a podcast or a video or a little to-do list, goes into Drafts on his iPhone. — 00:01:49
    • Ali used Bear a lot before he discovered Drafts and still uses it for long-form writing, such as book notes on a plane, since Notion has no offline features, or newsletter pieces; but he is phasing Bear out for Drafts and Notion together. — 00:09:52
    • Page one of Ali's iPhone holds the apps he actively wants himself to use, such as Drafts, Notion and Bear for writing, or that need very quick access. — 00:13:48