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33 statements about Shortform in 17 sources, by upload date.

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2023

  • 2023-03-31 · My Evidence-Based Braincare Routine — recommendation: Ali calls Shortform the best book summaries in the world: when curious about a book he blitzes through its Shortform summary, and if he likes it he buys the book and reads it properly. — 00:09:06
  • 2023-04-30 · My Productive Phone Setup — recommendation: Ali: Through the Readwise integration, every book Ali highlights on Kindle or Shortform appears in Notion with its highlights, such as his 79 highlights from Luke Burgis's Wanting, read in February 2023. — 00:05:21
  • 2023-04-30 · My Productive Phone Setup — recommendation: Ali: Shortform is Ali's favourite app for book summaries; the last one he read there was Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. — 00:16:12
  • 2023-12-15 · How I Read 100 Books a Year (My 10 Best Tips) — recommendation: Ali calls Shortform an insanely good book summary service, by far the best he has used, with summaries of the best nonfiction books. — 00:06:35

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2022

  • 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — Ali has not yet read Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, only several summaries, his favourite on Shortform; it is on his to-be-read list because every flick through it impresses him. — 00:01:27
  • 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — Ali calls Carol Dweck's Mindset, on fixed versus growth mindset, a good but dense, academic and sometimes dry book, and says most of its value comes from the Shortform summary or his Book Club video. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — Ali: Deep Work is pretty dense, Ali says: you do not need to read it to get the core idea, and can read a summary instead, for example on Shortform. — 00:05:41
  • 2022-03-25 · My Complete Productivity System — recommendation: Ali calls Shortform by far the best book-summary app he has found: after a year of Blinkist, whose summaries he found surface level, he values Shortform's in-depth summaries, a one-page overview plus detailed chapter summaries. — 00:09:42
  • 2022-03-30 · This Book Made Me a Happier Person — Ali has read The Courage to Be Disliked twice cover to cover, then read its Shortform summary to put this video together. — 00:18:44
  • 2022-11-27 · Follow Your Passion is Terrible Advice. Here’s Why. — recommendation: Ali calls Shortform great and says it does not sponsor the video: he reads its summaries to revisit books he has read and to decide whether to read a book properly. — 00:17:42

2021

  • 2021-01-24 · My Favourite iPad Productivity Apps — Ali, who discovered Shortform a few weeks earlier, finds its book summaries deeper than Blinkist's, which are usually surface level and take about 20 minutes. — 00:03:38
  • 2021-01-24 · My Favourite iPad Productivity Apps — Ali: Besides a one-page summary of each book, Shortform has a detailed full summary of every chapter, with exercises the reader can type answers into. — 00:04:46
  • 2021-01-24 · My Favourite iPad Productivity Apps — Ali says book summaries are no substitute for reading the book, but with too many books to read he reads a summary to decide whether to read the full book, or to recall the highlights of one he has read. — 00:04:46
  • 2021-02-14 · The Book That MOST Changed My Life — recommendation: Ali: Shortform is now Ali's favourite way of reading book summaries, a lot more detailed than Blinkist or others he has tried. — 00:16:27
  • 2021-02-14 · The Book That MOST Changed My Life — recommendation: Ali: Before reading a new book, Ali often reads its Shortform summary first, so that he starts with a big-picture idea of what the whole book is about. — 00:17:26
  • 2021-03-28 · My Favourite iPhone Apps — recommendation: Ali recommends Shortform for really good summaries of popular nonfiction books: a detailed one-page summary plus a chapter-by-chapter full summary. — 00:06:11
  • 2021-03-28 · My Favourite iPhone Apps — announcement: Ali's team used Shortform's summary of The War of Art to make a video about the book, which he thinks comes out next week (the week of 29 March 2021). (hedged) — 00:06:11
  • 2021-03-28 · My Favourite iPhone Apps — recommendation: Ali uses Shortform in addition to reading books, not instead: when unsure whether to read a book he reads its Shortform summary, and if he likes it he reads the book. — 00:06:11
  • 2021-07-07 · How to Live more Intentionally — recommendation: Ali: Shortform, which has summaries of some of these books, is Ali's favourite way to read book summaries, which he does daily. — 00:08:20
  • 2021-07-11 · How I ONLY Work 4 Hours a Day - How to Stay Focused — recommendation: Ali recommends Shortform, which is not sponsoring this video, as his favourite way of reading book summaries. — 00:04:25
  • 2021-07-11 · How I ONLY Work 4 Hours a Day - How to Stay Focused — recommendation: Ali reads a book's Shortform summary to decide whether to read the book, and to revisit the ideas of books he has read, such as Deep Work or The 4-Hour Workweek, instead of rereading them. — 00:04:54
  • 2021-07-11 · How I ONLY Work 4 Hours a Day - How to Stay Focused — Ali: Rereading the Shortform summary of Deep Work, Ali realised his three-hour morning block is probably not enough, so he is now trying to block out all of Tuesday and all of Friday just for deep work. (hedged) — 00:06:51
  • 2021-07-23 · 12 Evidence Based Tips to Improve Your Sleep — recommendation: Ali read Why We Sleep properly once and now revisits its points through the Shortform summary, his favourite way to read book summaries. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-07-23 · 12 Evidence Based Tips to Improve Your Sleep — Ali likes that Shortform cross-references each book with others in its library, for example linking a point of Walker's to a similar one by Ryan Holiday. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-08-01 · The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life — recommendation: Ali: Shortform, Ali's favourite way to read book summaries, is no replacement for reading books: he reads a book and then its summary, or the summary first and then the book if he likes it. — 00:08:02
  • 2021-08-04 · The Greatest Enemy of Success - Ego is the Enemy — Ali first read Ego Is the Enemy a few years ago and has been rereading its summary on Shortform. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-08-04 · The Greatest Enemy of Success - Ego is the Enemy — Ali: Citing Shortform's notes on Ego Is the Enemy, Ali says positively visualising success can reduce stress and anxiety, but negative visualisation has much more evidence for actually getting things done. (hedged) — 00:06:31
  • 2021-10-03 · How to ‘Read’ 1000 Books a Year — recommendation: Ali: To decide whether to read a book properly, Ali reads its one-page Shortform summary: if he likes it, the book goes further down the funnel; if not, it is scrapped, its key ideas already taken. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-10-03 · How to ‘Read’ 1000 Books a Year — recommendation: Ali: When he feels really productive, Ali reads Shortform's detailed chapter summaries in its mobile app, which he says is basically reading the book at 10x speed with zero fluff. — 00:03:53
  • 2021-10-03 · How to ‘Read’ 1000 Books a Year — Ali sees reading a book summary, on Shortform, Blinkist or a blog post on Medium, as no different from reading the book, since it gives the main idea; if he enjoys the summary, he gets the book on Audible or Kindle and reads it properly. — 00:07:03
  • 2021-10-03 · How to ‘Read’ 1000 Books a Year — Ali: When he reads only a book's Shortform summary and actually does its exercises, typing out answers, Ali often gets a lot more value from the book, because he works out how to apply its principles to his own life. — 00:09:00
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali's ten main affiliate partners are TubeBuddy, Readwise, Ugmonk, Epidemic Sound, Ghost, Amazon Associates, Teachable (for courses such as Building a Second Brain and Write of Passage), Paperlike, IQUnix and Shortform. — 00:15:22
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — recommendation: Ali calls Shortform a genuinely good service that summarises books in one-page and detailed summaries, and says he uses it almost every day when reading books. — 00:16:21

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