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Revue

tool · in 12 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2020: 2

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What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

2019

  • 2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali writes his weekly email newsletters and blog posts in Ulysses: it supports Markdown and different styles, and he finds it a distraction-free pleasure to write in. — 00:05:07
  • 2019-10-19 · How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar — Ali used to start each Sunday's newsletter from a blank slate, taking an hour or two; drawing on his resonance calendar, the latest issue took about 20 minutes. — 00:10:57
  • 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali's email newsletter grew from maybe 4,000 subscribers a year earlier to 18,000. (hedged) — 00:04:53
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2018

  • 2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: About five weeks before the video Ali started using Revue to set up a weekly email newsletter, which he sends out every Sunday morning. — 00:00:29
    • Ali recommends Revue as an email newsletter service because it gets out of the way and lets you focus on the writing; he has used many others, such as Mailchimp, while running SixMed. — 00:01:14
    • Ali says Revue suits a personal newsletter: links are easy to add, it builds a profile page with all past issues, and its fixed design spares him worrying whether his newsletter looks good enough. — 00:01:51
    • Ali's weekly email newsletter goes to about 650 people, a number he calls ridiculously large. — 00:03:01
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: On a day you cannot study, Ali advises asking what your goal is and whether a break is consistent with it: if it is, take a break; if not, battle through, as he wrote in his latest newsletter. — 00:21:27
  • 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: Following Gary Vaynerchuk's idea of one main pillar of content, Ali makes YouTube his main pillar, with his email newsletter and blog as offshoots. — 00:20:07
    • Ali's second newsletter email, Motivation is a myth, gives his thoughts on motivation with links to articles he returns to, including one called "Screw motivation, what you need is discipline". (hedged) — 01:04:38
  • 2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: For almost five months Ali has sent his weekly email newsletter every Sunday without fail, with a snippet of life advice or something he learned that week and links to interesting things. — 00:14:21
  • 2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali: From around April 2018 Ali decided to write his weekly email newsletter every Sunday and has not missed one since, because once he set that system it stopped being optional. — 00:02:56
  • …and 1 statement more in 2018 — all statements of 2018