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Shortform

app · in 19 sources (2021–2023)

Sources by year: 2021: 11 · 2022: 4 · 2023: 4

Also named in the threads: Ali says a video on overcoming procrastination and tackling the resistance is coming out later this week or next week (2021)

Often together

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

Audible (9) · Ryan Holiday (5) · Readwise (4) · Kindle (9) · deep work (concept) (3) · Cal Newport (3) · Slack (3) · Spotify (3) · Drafts (2) · Book Club (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
    • 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
  • …and 1 statement more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

Also named in: How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022)

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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2022-11-27 · 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
  • …and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

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
    • 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: 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
  • 2021-07-11 · 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
    • 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
  • 2021-08-01 · 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: 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2021-12-16 (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
  • …and 11 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

Also named in: How to Learn Anything FASTER