Google Drive

app · in 18 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 11

Also named in the threads: Ali promises a proper day-in-the-life video, made in partnership with his hospital, going into the clinical details (2020)

Often together

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

Things 3 (3) · Christian (3) · Alfred (2) · Microsoft OneNote (2) · Microsoft Windows (2) · keyboard navigation (2) · Evernote (2) · iPhone (2) · Notion (3) · Molly Hunt (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali copies the class footage from the SD cards to an external hard drive and uploads it to Google Drive overnight so that his editor Christian can get the files in Romania. — 00:07:42
2020-04-07 · A Productive Day in Isolation — Ali records the voiceover for an upcoming day-in-the-life video as a gynaecology junior doctor, uploads it to Google Drive and works on his VidCon vlog. — 00:06:55
2020-04-19 · Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos — Ali films a silent unboxing video of the new iPad Pros with Post-it notes and sends the files to his editor Christian via Google Drive. — 00:03:24
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali's entire life is on Google Drive, about four terabytes of it, and he shares a Google Drive business account with his team. (hedged) — 00:15:05
- Everyone needs some cloud storage, Ali says, so that a broken or stolen computer does not take everything important with it; he has tried Dropbox and prefers Google Drive, but which service you use does not matter. — 00:15:34
2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali hands the recorded voice-over to his team by uploading it to a Google Drive they share. — 00:05:14
2020-07-07 · My Creative Workflow with Notion — Ali: When he sits down to film, Ali picks a video from the board's "ready to film" column; once filmed, he uploads the footage through Google Drive to his editor. — 00:02:13
…and 3 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

Also named in: Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2, Studying, Cooking and Netflix · Day in the Life During Lockdown

2019

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
2019-07-26 · How I Manage my Time as a Doctor + YouTuber - 9 Time Management Tips — recommendation: Ali: With Alfred's file search Ali types a file name and it opens at once, instead of spending 10 to 20 seconds clicking through folders in Finder or Google Drive. — 00:08:13
2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: At medical school Ali started a shared Google Drive of essay plans and a Google Sheet of past papers on which he and about 16 college friends crowdsourced mark schemes. — 00:20:55

2018

2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: A recent update of Google Drive for Mac lets you share files in Google Drive by right-clicking them in Finder. — 00:05:08
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: Notability integrates with Google Drive and Dropbox; since all of Ali's life is on Google Drive, he imports PDFs from it straight into Notability. — 00:05:18
2018-07-09 (said on 2018-05-12, implied) · Final year exam results - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #39 — Ali: Paul, president of the Medical Education Society, leads an initiative to get medical students to share their notes in an openly accessible Google Drive; Ali, its vice president, is putting the drive together. — 00:00:50
2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — Ali has stored almost everything he has done for the last eight years on Google Drive; he pays £80 a year for its 1 TB option and has used about 300 GB of it. — 00:01:59
- Ali highly recommends Google Drive to anyone not using some kind of cloud backup. — 00:02:28