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iPad Pro

device · in 11 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 8 · 2020: 3

Also known as: iPad

Also named in the threads: From the next week Ali will start a beginner's course in hand lettering for fun, on the iPad and on paper, perhaps for birthday and thank-you cards and Instagram. · Ali says more videos for students are coming: on motivation, productivity, how he makes notes though he doesn't like making notes, the apps on his phone and how he uses the iPad for medical school. · Ali plans to borrow a friend's 2018 iPad for a full comparison with his iPad Pro, and will hurry it along if viewers ask for it in the comments.

Often together

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

Notability (10) · MacBook (4) · Notion (4) · Tim Ferriss (2) · Skillshare classes (2) · active recall (4) · University of Oxford (3) · Ali Abdaal's mother (2) · Ibz Mo (2) · Anki (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali: Around 11 a.m., once the morning's jobs on the ward are done, Ali opens his iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and starts his daily note in Roam Research, on some days writing morning pages there. — 00:01:56
    • Through the day Ali checks email in Superhuman on his iPhone and iPad, messages his team on Slack and his school and university friends on WhatsApp. — 00:03:53
    • While filming, Ali keeps a rough outline of the video in Notion, in a small window at the edge of his screen or on his iPad Pro next to the lens. — 00:06:49
    • When he wants to play without deliberate practice, Ali pulls up the chords of a song in the Ultimate Guitar Tabs app on his iPad or iPhone. — 00:07:39
  • 2020-06-07 · My Favorite Mechanical Keyboard - IQUnix F96 Coral — Ali types slightly slower on the IQUnix F96 than on the Apple Magic Keyboard or his iPad Pro Magic Keyboard (154 wpm there), as more key travel and a harder press shave off a few words per minute. — 00:04:30
    • The IQUnix wireless mechanical keyboard charges over USB-C only with a power-only cable: a USB-C data cable, such as his iPad or MacBook charger, does not charge it. — 00:08:48
  • 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali wakes at 8 a.m. with his alarm, lies in bed doing nothing for half an hour, then does his morning journaling in Notion on the iPad by his bed. — 00:00:00
    • Ali calls the iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard, used on the sofa, his favourite casual writing setup. — 00:01:27
    • At 4.50 p.m. Ali moves to the sofa with the iPad, which he says seems to be his dedicated writing device, to continue his daily challenge of writing a thousand words. — 00:04:01
  • …and 1 statement more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2018

  • 2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends Feedly, an RSS feed aggregator, for reading all the blogs you follow: instead of visiting each blog, you browse the new articles each day on your phone or iPad. — 00:03:59
    • From the next week Ali will start a beginner's course in hand lettering for fun, on the iPad and on paper, perhaps for birthday and thank-you cards and Instagram. — 00:09:58
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For anyone getting an iPad, Ali recommends the new 2018 iPad rather than the iPad Pro: it is a lot cheaper and does basically the same thing. — 00:07:10
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali scans lecture handouts into OneNote when he is typing, or into Notability when he is handwriting on the iPad. — 00:03:18
    • Ali was anti-Apple until he could afford it, seeing no point in a £1,500 MacBook when Windows gave the same specs for under half; after his mother gave him a MacBook Air at university, he found its user experience worth the price, at least when Windows was not that good, and premium Apple products worth it for him. — 00:24:39
  • 2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali takes notes on an iPad with the Apple Pencil because he thinks it combines the advantages of handwritten and typed notes and removes the disadvantages of both. — 00:00:36
    • For taking notes at school or university, Ali would probably recommend the 2018 iPad rather than the 2017 iPad Pro; most YouTube videos he has seen say its larger pencil-to-screen gap is noticeable only to digital artists. (hedged) — 00:03:50
    • Ali calls Notability the best note-taking app for the iPad if your laptop or desktop is a Mac; it is not available on Windows, so Windows users should use something like OneNote. — 00:04:19
    • Ali thinks the iPad is worth having for that alone if it encourages you to take more and better notes about ideas and day-to-day life. — 00:12:50
  • 2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali would still probably buy the iPad Pro himself: spreading its £300 extra cost over the three years he expects to use it, about 150 weeks, comes to about £2 a week. (hedged) — 00:05:52
    • To Ali the iPad Pro is an absolute joy to write on while the 2018 iPad is only functional, and that pleasure justifies the extra £2 a week for him personally. — 00:07:28
    • For the vast majority of students, who are not trying to make money online with illustration and graphics, Ali highly recommends the 2018 iPad over the iPad Pro. — 00:09:25
  • …and 33 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018