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Sources by year: 2019: 1 · 2020: 9

Also named in the threads: Ali promises a much more detailed video about Roam Research (2020) · Workflow, Ali's series on Nebula of deep dives into how he uses his apps · On a Zoom call Ali and Angus plan the final details of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, a four-week live interactive course Ali runs for the first time from next week (week of 16 November 2020).

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

Christian (5) · WhatsApp (3) · Workflow series (3) · Nebula (4) · Final Cut Pro (3) · Angus (2) · Drafts (2) · Ali Abdaal's grandmother (2) · Spotify (2) · Building a Second Brain (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali is in several Slack groups, among them Rad Reads, for followers of the blogger Khe Hy (as heard), where people are friendly and share recommendations of interesting articles. — 00:19:28
    • Ali is also in the Slack groups of Forte Labs, whose course Building a Second Brain he took a few months earlier, and of Standard, the creators' agency he belongs to, which built Nebula. — 00:20:14
  • 2020-04-07 · A Productive Day in Isolation — Ali spends two morning hours chatting on Slack with his team members Angus and Christian and writing ideas for future videos and projects. — 00:02:16
  • 2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali uses Slack to chat with his team members Angus, Christian and Liz and to keep track of their projects. — 00:16:54
    • Ali recommends joining two public Slack groups: Forte Labs, run by Tiago Forte, whose Building a Second Brain course he calls very good, and Khe Hy's Rad Reads. (hedged) — 00:17:23
    • Ali prefers Slack to Discord, which has no threaded replies: Discord feels like an app for kids, Slack like an app for grown-ups. — 00:17:53
  • 2020-05-12 · I Tried Making a Viral Video - Day in the Life VLOG — Ali: On Slack with his team, which he calls the A-team, Ali plans more videos for his Workflow series on Nebula about Evernote, Notion, Roam Research, Drafts and his other note-taking apps. — 00:02:46
    • Counting the long money video, an hour's call with his friends, an hour with his assistant, Slack with his team and the video schedule for the next few weeks, Ali calls the day reasonably productive. — 00:07:27
  • 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali: 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
  • 2020-11-18 · Perfection - M1 MacBook Air (2020) Review — Ali's computer use is fairly basic: Chrome, Notion, Spotify and Slack, and only occasionally Final Cut, since he does not really edit his own videos. — 00:04:18
    • Ali says the fanless M1 MacBook Air did not come close to getting hot even with about 20 Chrome tabs, Slack, Spotify and a Zoom call open, unlike the early 2020 MacBook Air, which overheated and got noisy. — 00:04:47
  • 2020-12-22 · PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete — Ali: The first cohort of Ali's live cohort course, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, with 360 students, is about to finish, and registration has opened for cohort two, starting in February 2021. — 00:01:56
  • …and 3 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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2019

  • 2019-09-13 · My Productivity Desk Setup — Ali: On the ultrawide's side windows Ali juggles other apps: an email opens in Superhuman, launched with Alfred, in one window, a Slack message in another. — 00:02:07