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Ghost

app · in 13 sources (2018–2021)

Includes: Krabby

Sources by year: 2018: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2021: 8

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Often together

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

Squarespace (8) · aliabdaal.com (9) · Safari (2) · Sheen (3) · show your work (2) · Day One (2) · Evernote (2) · Twitter (2) · MacBook (3) · iPad (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2021

  • 2021-01-10 · Does money REALLY buy happiness? — Ali's friend John O'Nolan, CEO of Ghost, the company Ali uses to host his website, has deliberately kept Ghost small and is not optimising for growth at all costs. — 00:10:23
  • 2021-02-04 · How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire — Ali started his personal blog around five years before this video, having known since his first year of university that he wanted to start some kind of blog. — 00:00:00
    • To start writing online, Ali says to Google "free website" and make an account on WordPress or Substack, both completely free, or use Ghost, the platform he uses. — 00:12:09
  • 2021-03-04 · My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro — Ali designed the new pages of his website, including its blog post layouts, in Figma and handed them to a developer called Dan, who coded them into the site's theme on Ghost. — 00:06:45
  • 2021-03-21 · Relationships, Annoying Habits and More - Q&A with my Housemate — recommendation: Ali: For a blog Ali recommends Ghost, which he calls objectively better; Squarespace, which Sheen's blog uses, suits people who do not know how to use a computer. — 00:12:12
  • 2021-04-11 · How To Build A Website in 2026 — Ali has made websites since about the age of 12; starting his personal website in 2016 was one of the best decisions of his life and ultimately led to his YouTube channel. — 00:00:00
    • For anyone who knows a little about computers, Ali personally recommends Ghost, which he says he absolutely loves. — 00:09:29
    • Ghost is open-source software from an entirely remote company, Ali says, and its hosting service, Ghost Pro, costs $9 a month. — 00:09:29
    • Ali recommends three website platforms, Substack, Squarespace and Ghost, calls them all pretty good, and says not to overthink the choice. — 00:10:13
    • Ali says not to worry about how a personal website looks: Ghost and Squarespace are pretty by default, and people care about the writing. — 00:19:30
  • 2021-05-13 · My Favourite Tech for Reading Books - Kindle vs iPad vs Books vs Audiobooks — Ali uses the iPad mainly to take copious notes on or summarise a book he has read, with the Kindle app on one side and Notion, Roam or Drafts on the other, and posts the summaries on his website. — 00:13:25
  • 2021-08-25 · How to Start a Business from Nothing — recommendation: Ali: Once the free work gives him a portfolio, Ali would build a personal website for it with something like Ghost or Squarespace. — 00:09:14
  • …and 6 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2020

  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali describes Bear as a cross between Drafts and Ulysses: a good catch-all note-taking app and a nice Markdown writing experience that can publish to PDF, text or Word documents, WordPress and Ghost. — 00:05:34
  • 2020-09-21 · Code with Me - My New Website Design — Ali buys the Ghost theme Krabby for a new design of his website. — 00:04:00
    • Ali plans to ask Angus to think about the hierarchy and structure of the many tags on his website. — 00:42:49
    • Ali sets out to make a custom home page for his website. — 01:30:04
    • Ghost is free to use if you host it yourself; otherwise you pay for Ghost Pro hosting, which Ali uses for his website. — 01:33:21
    • Ali ends the session with his website looking all right for now; what remains is mostly restructuring it and making sure there are landing pages for everything. — 02:21:22

2019

  • 2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali: Desktop mode in Safari on the iPad will help Ali edit websites in Ghost and Squarespace, and anyone annoyed that Google Docs cannot be edited on an iPad. — 00:01:24
  • 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali uses Ghost for his website in 2019 and cannot edit his posts on the iPad as fully as on a desktop; with iPadOS he expects to make website changes on the fly. — 00:03:04
    • Safari on the iPad counts as a mobile browser in 2019, which Ali says mostly makes no difference unless you are editing a website with a tool such as Ghost, WordPress or Squarespace. — 00:03:04

2018