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platform · in 69 sources (2018–2024)

Sources by year: 2018: 21 · 2019: 19 · 2020: 27 · 2024: 2

Also known as: IGTV

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Also named in the threads: Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017) · Ali teaches himself the piano from YouTube tutorials in his third year of medical school · Ali promises a Q&A with a friend doing graduate-entry medicine at Cambridge (2018) · Intercourse, Ali's podcast (2018) · Ali says he is going to work on his own Skillshare classes, taking a deep dive into how he makes his videos: filming, editing and post-production. · Ali promises a Q&A with his housemate Molly Hunt (2020) · Ali promises reviews of the M1 MacBook Pro and Mac mini (2020)

Often together

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

Facebook (9) · Adobe Lightroom (7) · Twitter (9) · friction (7) · Sunday Snippets (6) · Not Overthinking (7) · Drafts (5) · Cambridge (14) · iPad Pro (15) · iPhone (8)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

  • 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says scaling his business gives the option of hiring a ghostwriter for Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram; he has dabbled with it over the years, but for now it feels too inauthentic. — 00:02:44
    • Ali writes his weekly newsletter Sunday Snippets himself, and many of his own Instagram captions. — 00:02:44
  • 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says his courses, priced at $1,000 and more, are available free online, and that impersonators of his Instagram account have messaged his followers (all 800,000 of them, he says) offering the courses for about $7. — 01:02:48

2020

  • 2020-01-07 · 15 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali: Home from work at 9 p.m., Ali often procrastinates on filming by scrolling Instagram on the sofa, too guilty about the unmade video to read a book or play his Nintendo Switch. — 00:14:14
  • 2020-04-09 · I WAS WRONG - iPad Pro 11 vs. 12.9 inch — Ali: On the 11-inch iPad Pro Ali is much more tempted to waste time scrolling Instagram, or to reply to YouTube comments, which he says is fine but adds little value. — 00:07:15
  • 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Starting today, Noah would use YouTube, Instagram and a SendFox newsletter, and post at least weekly for a year before even thinking of stopping. — 01:00:02
    • A couple of weeks earlier, spending too much time on Instagram, Ali unfollowed the models he followed; his feed is now desk setups, landscape photography and workout accounts that push him to do pull-ups. — 01:30:26
    • Noah Kagan: Noah asks of every activity whether it adds or subtracts: people give their time away accidentally, and Instagram and YouTube are optimised to waste it. — 01:31:27
    • Ali's environment design: remove friction from what you want to do and add it to what you don't, such as uninstalling Instagram or burying it in a folder; his is on the third page. — 01:32:45
  • 2020-05-12 · I Tried Making a Viral Video - Day in the Life VLOG — Ali has hired a personal, or executive, assistant: she emailed him after he joked on an Instagram live about wanting one, and he hired her on the spot. — 00:06:10
  • 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: Section three of Ali's Anki class answers questions hundreds of people sent via his Instagram story: how long a flashcard should be, avoiding overload, staying motivated, what to put on a card, and Anki versus Notion, Google Sheets or Quizlet. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — Ali used to take his phone into bed and lie awake for hours browsing Instagram, watching YouTube videos or, now and then, replying to a message on Tinder. — 00:01:27
    • 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
  • 2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — recommendation: Ali: When Ali catches himself procrastinating, such as scrolling Instagram on the sofa, he asks himself what he wants to be doing right now, and if the answer is not scrolling, he gets up and does it. — 00:01:27
    • Over the past few years Ali has become friends with many other creators through YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. — 00:08:58
  • …and 28 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

Also named in: iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill, How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels, Studying, Cooking and Netflix · Day in the Life During Lockdown, My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections

2019

Also named in: Recommended Tech for Students 🎧📱, How to Study for Exams - The STic Framework for Effective Learning

2018

Also named in: Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update, Study With Me + 10 Productivity / Revision Tips - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #31, Study Tips for First Year Medical Students, Graduate Entry Medicine - A comprehensive guide + Q&A, Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A