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2020

  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali has used Evernote since about 2011 and, to viewers who ask why he has not replaced it with Notion, says he does not see Notion as replacing Evernote. — 00:02:57
  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali thinks of Evernote as his long-term memory: he uses Notion for project management, to-do lists and important but not urgent projects, and Evernote to store archives, highlights from books and articles, and random bits of his writing. — 00:03:26
  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali: Evernote's strength for Ali is search: writing a newsletter on productivity, he searches the word and gets every note with it that he has saved since 2011, which apps like Notion cannot quite do yet. — 00:03:55
  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali might one day replace Evernote with a new note-taking app and will try apps like Roam Research, but suspects Evernote will be a big part of his second brain for a long time. (hedged) — 00:03:55
  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali highlights passages of articles in Instapaper, and his highlights sync automatically to Evernote through a service called Readwise. — 00:10:33
  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali has highlighted on Kindle since 2010 or 2008, when he first got one, and all his Kindle highlights sync to Evernote through Readwise. (hedged) — 00:12:01
  • 2020-02-28 · My Favourite Note-Taking App for Students - Notion — Ali: If one thing makes Notion fantastic for students, Ali says, it is its toggle feature, which hides details and which no other note-taking app has: not OneNote, Evernote, Notability or GoodNotes. — 00:03:11
  • 2020-02-28 · My Favourite Note-Taking App for Students - Notion — Ali: In Notion, Ali says, extra information is easy to add without losing the big picture, while in OneNote and Evernote diving deeper into a topic he did not understand clogged up his notes. — 00:03:59
  • 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali: In August 2012, just before his first year of university, Ali decided he wanted to become a memory champion; he still has the document he wrote then on the peg system in Evernote. — 00:03:53
  • 2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked why Ali prefers Evernote to Bear, the channel says Evernote handles everything you put into it better than Bear does. — creator comment
  • 2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali still uses Evernote: no app handles everything you throw at it as well, and it is the long-term memory of his second brain. — 00:08:08
  • 2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali drops documents, letters, receipts, images and bookmarks into an Evernote inbox and every couple of months sorts them into notebooks. — 00:08:33
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020-05-12 · 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
  • 2020-07-07 · My Creative Workflow with Notion — Ali: Before Notion, which he has used for over a year, Ali kept video ideas on his phone, in Evernote or in a paper notebook, and often forgot ideas he had in the shower or while driving. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Two key features set Roam Research apart from Evernote and Notion; the first is the daily note: each day the app opens on a new blank page, with no folders or notebooks. — 00:00:58
  • 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
  • 2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The sixth Building a Second Brain principle, start with abundance: you are never starting from scratch; to write about motivation, search your second brain in Evernote or Notion for the word and draw on the articles you have read and annotated over the years. — 00:07:14
  • 2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — recommendation: Ali: Asked what advice he has for a 14-year-old, Ali says to make an Evernote or a Notion account: it does not matter which app you use. — 00:11:06
  • 2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: Looking back at his Evernote notes from about 2015, Ali does not remember what he was thinking when he took them, because he assumed too much intelligence on the part of his future self. — 00:12:50
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali: For librarian personalities, Ali says, Evernote or OneNote suit best: everything has its distinct place, every note sits in a notebook and notebooks sit in stacks. — 00:01:59
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says people joke that Evernote is a write-only system: you put things into it and then never really look at them. (playful) — 00:02:29
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali is not much of a librarian type himself, so he does not use Evernote or OneNote as his main note-taking apps, though many people he knows do. — 00:02:29
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Tiago Forte, who runs the online course Building a Second Brain, uses Evernote as his second brain, Ali says. — 00:02:29
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says Evernote is very old, made around 2004, yet still has fantastic features that librarian types will gel with. — 00:02:58
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: For gardeners, who want to start from a blank slate and build their garden from the ground up, Ali says Evernote is way too rigid and Roam Research is really useful. — 00:03:27
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali: Architect personalities, who want to build their own structured system without a rigid hierarchy or pure freedom, suit Notion, Ali says; he fits this type most. — 00:03:56
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali: Switching note-taking apps, like a divorce, is messy and expensive, Ali says: it takes energy to learn a new system, so decide whether the new app's features are worth the switching cost. — 00:05:24
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali advises against switching note-taking apps just because a new one appears: switch when the benefit of Notion or Roam outweighs the value you have built up in an app like Evernote. — 00:05:57
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Hopping from app to app out of shiny new toy syndrome, from Evernote to Notion, Roam Research and Obsidian, is probably unfulfilling, Ali says: you only go round in circles. (hedged) — 00:06:55
  • 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
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Evernote forms the base long-term memory layer of Ali's note-taking system. — 00:07:56
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali uses Evernote as a set-it-and-forget-it filing system for PDFs and receipts: searching "corporation tax" finds his company's corporation tax number through its optical character recognition. — 00:08:25
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Evernote is the easiest place to save research resources, Ali says, because it handles images, scans, PDFs, web pages and snippets, while Roam Research and Notion need some hacking to accept everything. — 00:08:55
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali's team built its own pipelines in Notion for videos, the email newsletter and Skillshare classes; Roam Research is hard to use as a team, and Evernote lacks the flexibility for kanban boards and to-do lists. — 00:09:53
  • 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
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says Roam Research and Notion take ages to load, and Evernote is really slow and bloated. — 00:10:22
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali: At around 17 or 18, Ali read a lot of blog posts and discovered Evernote and productivity blogs like Lifehacker. — 00:09:05
  • 2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali: For a second brain, Readwise exports to Notion, Roam Research and Evernote, so you are not tied to any one app. — 00:10:15
  • 2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: To win back the £900, in September 2012 Ali brainstormed money-making schemes in Evernote from what he was good at, including websites on getting into medicine, BMAT preparation and interview preparation. — 00:17:34
  • 2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali's 2012 Evernote brainstorm morphed into SixMed, the company he founded a year later, in 2013. — 00:18:01
  • 2020-10-21 · The 5 Key Principles of Productivity — Ali: Step three of GTD, organise: put things where they belong, such as reference material in the right folder in Evernote or Notion (Ali uses Notion), and sort to-dos into projects and areas, then by priority. — 00:07:10

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2019

  • 2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali calls Bear a nice, simple, easy-to-use Markdown writing app that he enjoys writing in, without the bells and whistles of Evernote; he also tracks his gym workouts in it. — 00:04:37
  • 2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali will keep Evernote for typed medical notes that draw resources together, but no longer use it as a general note-taking app as in the past, because he prefers Bear for that. — 00:05:07
  • 2019-05-18 · The Best Productivity Apps for Students — recommendation: Francesco D'Alessio: Francesco used Evernote at university: when he lacked focus in a lecture he hit its audio-recording button, which he found really useful. — 00:02:02
  • 2019-05-18 · The Best Productivity Apps for Students — Francesco D'Alessio: Francesco imported into Evernote the diagrams, pictures, PowerPoints and PDFs his teachers sent over. — 00:02:02
  • 2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Tiago Forte (quoted): To remember what you read, Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain says to keep an app such as Evernote as a second brain: summarise and distil what you read to its essence, put it in, and review it semi-regularly to build a treasure trove of knowledge. — 00:05:51
  • 2019-07-23 · The World's Smartest Notebook - Rocketbook Everlast Review — Ali has set the first Rocketbook icon so that when he shades it and scans the page with the Rocketbook phone app, the scan goes straight into his Evernote inbox. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-07-23 · The World's Smartest Notebook - Rocketbook Everlast Review — Ali: The Rocketbook Everlast syncs pages easily to Evernote, OneDrive, Google Drive, OneNote or another service of your choice. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — Ali: When listening to a podcast while driving, Ali taps his AirPods and has Siri record a voice note; for a really big point he stops the car and makes notes in Evernote or Notion, whichever app he is using that week. — 00:06:41
  • 2019-09-17 · My Favourite Productivity App for Students - Notion — Ali: Note-taking apps such as Evernote, OneNote and Notability impose a rigid structure, Ali says, like buying or renting a ready-built house, while Notion has no set hierarchy and is like building your own house. — 00:01:07
  • 2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — recommendation: Ali has recently started syncing his Readwise highlights to Evernote, so when making a video on productivity he searches Evernote for the word and finds every quote on it he has highlighted. — 00:09:49
  • 2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — Ali: Highlights made in Instapaper, which Ali uses to read online articles, also sync through Readwise to Evernote. — 00:09:49
  • 2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — Ali now feels excited to highlight passages, knowing each goes into Readwise and Evernote as wisdom he can call upon, and this helps him read more consistently. — 00:10:18
  • 2019-11-20 · Study with Me + How I Learn New Content — Ali: Though a sucker for productivity apps, Ali thinks the specific app rarely makes much difference: GoodNotes or Notability, OneNote or Evernote, Todoist or Things are basically the same; what matters is applying the general principles of productivity and effective studying. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-11-20 · Study with Me + How I Learn New Content — Ali is working on making his own productivity system as app-agnostic as possible, so that if Evernote, Notion or Todoist shut down he could easily move it to another app or even pen and paper. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-11-20 · Study with Me + How I Learn New Content — Ali: Even when not preparing teaching, Ali would still write down active recall questions, in OneNote, Notion, Evernote or whatever note-taking app he was using that month, because he calls it the single most effective study technique ever. — 00:04:41
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali uses Evernote as the long-term memory of his second brain, with notebooks for the subjects he cares about. — 00:07:43
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — announcement: Ali says he will make more videos later on about using Evernote as the long-term memory of his second brain. — 00:07:43
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali's rule for what goes where: something he comes across goes into Notion when it is a resonance calendar piece, and into Evernote when he is taking notes on it. — 00:08:12
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — recommendation: Ali: Readwise syncs Ali's Kindle and Instapaper highlights into one Evernote note per article, so returning to a long Wait But Why article he sees only his highlights, which he calls incredibly useful. — 00:15:49
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali: Kindle highlights sync through Readwise into Ali's Evernote notebook, but he tends not to highlight fiction, seeing no point in it. — 00:17:42
  • 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali used to do his annual review in Evernote; he prefers Notion for it because its toggles keep the review from turning into one massive page. — 00:00:57

2018