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app · in 25 sources (2019–2024)

Made by: Google

Sources by year: 2019: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2023: 9 · 2024: 8

Also named in the threads: Ali's first book, which a publisher asked him to write (2020) · Ali works with his CEO coach Eric Partaker (2022)

Often together

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

energy investment portfolio (2) · Notion (10) · Google (4) · Feel-Good Productivity (book) (9) · weekly review (2) · aliabdaal.com (4) · keyboard navigation (3) · Readwise (3) · Roam Research (3) · The Lord of the Rings (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

  • 2024-01-15 · How to actually achieve your goals 🎉 — Ali keeps his 12-month celebration in a Google Doc bookmarked in his web browser and scans it whenever he sits down to begin work, to remind himself what it looks like. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-02-14 · How to Find Time for Everything with a Full Time Job — recommendation: Ali advises writing your goals where you will see them regularly: his are in his goalkeeper doc, a Google Doc that is the first thing in his Chrome, where he also does his weekly reviews and looks at least once a week. — 00:12:50
  • 2024-03-29 · Stop Wasting Time - 11 Tools to Double Your Focus — recommendation: Ali calls tracking time in a Google Doc low-key, low-friction and free, with no app or payment needed; typing docs.new creates a new Google Doc. — 00:05:33
    • Ali's team has used the time tracker Toggl for years; he only recently started trying it for this video, to compare it with the Google Doc he has always used. — 00:06:46
    • If you are new to time tracking, Ali recommends starting with a YouTube video and a Google Doc rather than a timer app such as Toggl, since remembering to start and stop a timer may be a bit much. — 00:08:38
  • 2024-05-26 · You need to lower the bar ⬇️ — Ali procrastinated a lot writing his book Feel-Good Productivity because a book felt like a big deal: a publisher, printing, and a printed thing feels very different to a Google Doc. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-06-25 · How I Manage My Time Without Burning Out — recommendation: Ali: The tactic from Slow Productivity that Ali finds most interesting, close to his energy investment portfolio: keep a list of active projects and a backlog in a Google Doc or Notion page and make it visible to your manager and coworkers. — 00:08:08
  • 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — recommendation: Ali: Without VoicePal, Ali suggests any speech-to-transcript software, then pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and editing it in Notion, Google Docs or Microsoft Word. — 00:20:52
  • 2024-12-20 · How To Actually Achieve Your Goals in 2026 (Evidence-Based) — Ali: For the last couple of years Ali has kept his goals in a Google Doc he named goalkeeper. — 00:03:18

Also named in: Full Course - How to Type 3x Faster

2023

  • 2023-02-22 · My Favourite MacBook Apps of All Time — Ali spends a lot of time in Google Docs these days because his book is in the editing stage. — 00:07:12
  • 2023-02-24 · Does a vertical monitor make you more productive? #shorts — Ali: A taller window on the LG DualUp is nice for reading PDFs, writing in Google Docs and watching YouTube, Ali says, but he does not scan the whole vertical page: he scrolls whatever he is focusing on to the middle of the monitor. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-03-01 · How to Stay Focused While Studying - Evidence-based Tips — Ali's adventure for the day of filming is doing the edits for chapters one and two of his book, going through a Google Doc to approve or reject suggestions. — 00:03:19
    • Ali runs his Pomodoros in Rize, an automatic time tracker that shows him how much time he actually spent in Google Docs on his book or scrolling Twitter, his most common pastime. — 00:05:07
  • 2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali has used the writing tool Lex since 19 October 2022 and still enjoys it as basically Google Docs with AI built in, in a distraction-free writing environment. — 00:10:48
  • 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — recommendation: Ali and Eric Partaker set goals in a Google Doc: life is split into health, wealth or work, and relationships, with one to three goals in each for the quarter. — 00:05:28
    • Just looking at his goals Google Doc at least once a month keeps Ali taking steps towards his goals. — 00:08:12
    • Eric Partaker's simpler suggestion, which Ali passes on: create a parking lot section under your goal-setting document, where ideas wait until you are ready to make them active goals. — 00:14:15
  • 2023-08-30 · I Tried 137 Productivity Tools. These Are The Best. — recommendation: Ali writes most first drafts on his iPad in Ulysses, a simple, minimalist Markdown writing app, then moves them to Notion for videos, Google Docs for book work or ConvertKit for email. — 00:03:42
    • Rize shows Ali spent 183 hours in Google Docs in 2023 up to August, most of it editing his book. — 00:09:11
  • 2023-12-22 · How to Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life — Ali keeps his goals for each area of life in a Google Doc with his CEO coach, Eric; every quarter they decide what tangible progress to make in the next 90 days. — 00:10:54
    • Ali recommends writing each goal down somewhere easy to revisit, such as a Google Doc bookmarked on the Chrome bookmark bar. — 00:11:23
  • …and 2 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

Also named in: How to Be Effortlessly Disciplined: 5 Mindset Shifts

2022

  • 2022-03-25 · My Complete Productivity System — Ali used Airr, which links into Readwise to capture podcast notes automatically, for about six months a year or two ago but found it too buggy; now he notes podcasts in an Apple Notes folder, or straight into a Google Doc when they are for the book. — 00:13:36
    • For writing, Ali combines Google Docs for the book, Notion for videos and Apple Notes for most other notes; having dabbled with Notion, Roam, Evernote, Obsidian, RemNote and SimpleNote, he has found over time that simple is better for him. — 00:15:20
    • Ali has written the first draft of many of his book's chapters in Apple Notes, because writing there feels less high-pressure than in Notion or Google Docs. — 00:15:49
  • 2022-06-14 · I Read 2,216 Resumes. Here’s How You Stand Out 🚀 — recommendation: Ali advises checking an application for basic errors, for example by writing it in Google Docs, which flags typos, or with a free tool like Grammarly. — 00:23:12
  • 2022-08-26 · 27 Critical Apps That Shaped My Life — recommendation: Ali: Having tried Google Docs, Pages and Word, Ali finds none as nice and distraction-free as Scrivener for writing a book manuscript, and recommends it to anyone writing a book. — 00:25:04
  • …and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

Also named in: Which iPad Should You Buy? (Basic, Mini, Air, Pro or Pro 12.9)

2021

  • 2021-03-04 · My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro — Ali and his team write the blog posts for his website in Google Docs, and he spends most of his time there writing his book proposal and compiling research and notes for his book. — 00:02:31
    • Ali still uses Microsoft Word because his editor at the publishing house likes it: for the book they send Word files back and forth, though he uses Google Docs with his team for everything else. — 00:08:13

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