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Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2020: 16 · 2024: 1

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Also named in the threads: 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).

Often together

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

Twitch (4) · Drafts (4) · Instagram (9) · Facebook (3) · Notion (8) · Slack (2) · Day One (2) · Workflow series (2) · Adobe Lightroom (2) · iPad Pro (7)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024

  • 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says scaling his business gives the option of hiring a ghostwriter for Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram; he has dabbled with it over the years, but for now it feels too inauthentic. — 00:02:44

2020

  • 2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — recommendation: Simon Clark turned off most phone notifications, including all Facebook, Twitter and Instagram ones, and is on Twitter far less since he removed its notifications. — 00:05:21
  • 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali scrolls Instagram and Twitter at random during the day; he is trying to do less of it, but it always ends up happening. — 00:03:53
  • 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali: Browsing Twitter, Ali falls into reading articles and watching videos about the Black Lives Matter protests, tweets and retweets, wonders what more he could do with his platform to help, and feels depressed about it for an hour. — 00:04:30
  • 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps only useful apps such as Notion, Drafts, Castro, Audible and Anki on his iPhone's first screen; Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and dating apps, the infinity pools, sit on the second screen. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali: Thomas Frank changed Ali's life most directly: in October 2019 he introduced Ali to Standard, the agency Ali is now part of. — 00:07:37
  • 2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali reads many books, browses many articles, listens to a lot of podcasts and scrolls Twitter, but until recently he had no way of logging the insights he came across. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — announcement: Ali has not mentioned the Part-Time YouTuber Academy on YouTube before, only on Twitter and his mailing list; its next cohort is in February 2021. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: With the iPad Air at his bedside, Ali types night-time ideas into Notion or Drafts, and in the morning does his journaling, plans his day or scrolls Twitter without getting up. — 00:15:24
  • 2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Over the past few years Ali has become friends with many other creators through YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. — 00:08:58
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali: Thomas Frank followed Ali almost at once; Ali messaged him a question about sponsorships, and Frank got on a two-hour Skype call with him and introduced him to the agency Ali is now part of, which Ali says completely changed his life. — 00:00:00
    • Ali's point: replying a few times to someone on Twitter can lead to life-changing connections, as just replying to Thomas Frank's tweets led to his agency. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Towards the end of 2019 Ali joined Standard, an agency of about 100 educational creators including Simon Clark, MedLife Crisis, LegalEagle and Wendover Productions; Thomas Frank introduced him. — 00:29:53
  • …and 13 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2019

  • 2019-10-01 · iPhone 11 vs iPhone 7/8/X/XR/XS - Real world camera comparison — Ali posted on Twitter a comparison of selfies from the iPhone XS Max and the iPhone 11 Pro Max; most people picked which was which, but a fairly high share chose the XS Max, which he says shows most people cannot really tell the difference. — 00:05:01
  • 2019-11-14 · Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal — Taimur Abdaal: In a Twitter thread asking what "I'm proud of you" means, Taimur says he has said it a couple of times as a canned phrase when someone accomplished something, but meant that he was happy for them. — 00:12:22
    • Taimur Abdaal: Among the replies to his thread, Taimur reads one saying "I'm proud of you" partly means "I'm happy that you're happy" but adds recognition that the person had to overcome something to reach that happiness. — 00:12:22
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali keeps Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on page two of his iPhone to add a slight layer of friction; he thinks he would use Instagram much more if it were on page one. — 00:14:14
  • 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali: The productivity YouTuber Thomas Frank gave Ali a lot of good advice a few months before and introduced him to Standard, the agency Ali is now part of. — 00:02:56
    • Signing with the agency Standard changed the game for Ali on YouTube: he can now do sponsored videos pretty much whenever, and the extra money lets him hire people full time and scale the channel. — 00:03:25

2018

Also named in: Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal