Ali's Skillshare classes (2019)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2024-10-08) · owner: Ali
Parts: Ali promises more videos and a further Skillshare class on Getting Things Done (2020) · Ali promises a Skillshare class on how to grow on YouTube, launching the following week (2022) · Ali promises a follow-up Anki class for intermediate and expert users (2020)
Told alongside: Ali promises Skillshare classes on how he films, edits and produces his videos (2019) · Ali: release his productivity class on Skillshare (2020) · Ali promises further Skillshare classes on productivity, including one dedicated to productivity apps (2020) · Ali says he is working on an ultimate study guide video (2023) · Ali promises a monthly video on his favourite things discovered that month (2018) · Ali promises to say what he thinks of the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard in May (2020)
About: Skillshare classes
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-23 | announced | Ali says he is going to work on his own Skillshare classes, taking a deep dive into how he makes his videos: filming, editing and post-production. | Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad 00:14:54 |
| 2019-05-28 | milestone | Ali says he is working on a series of Skillshare classes on how he films, edits and produces his YouTube videos, and asks viewers to follow his Skillshare profile for them. | How to Spin a Pen Around Your Thumb (Tutorial) 00:08:08 |
| 2019-06-16 | milestone | Ali says he is in the planning stages of a series of Skillshare classes on how he makes his videos: production, filming and editing. | How to Study for Exams - The STic Framework for Effective Learning 00:12:39 |
| 2019-09-24 | launched | Ali has just made a Skillshare online class on his own process for editing videos in Final Cut Pro, and this video is used as an example in it. | Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 00:00:00 |
| 2019-12-17 | milestone | Ali, who already has a Skillshare class on editing videos, is working on more Skillshare classes, including one on studying effectively. | Study With Me - A Super Productive Day 00:03:50 |
| 2020-01-14 | milestone | Ali has his own Skillshare course on editing videos in Final Cut Pro: some 33 or 35 videos, three hours and 15 minutes long. (hedged) | My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) 00:22:06 |
| 2020-02-27 (happened 2023-10-03) | milestone | In 2023 Ali puts his evidence-based study masterclass, which over 100,000 people had taken on Skillshare, on YouTube for free as a thank-you to the students who support his channel. | How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass 00:00:58 |
| 2020-03-22 | milestone | Ali's Skillshare class on exam preparation is due out on 31 March. | Interviewing a Writer // Day in the Life VLOG creator comment |
| 2020-03-26 | milestone | Asked whether Ali plans a productivity course on Skillshare, the channel says it is on the way. | Unboxing the New 2020 iPad Pro · 11 & 12.9 Inch Versions creator comment |
| 2020-03-30 | milestone | Asked for the release date of Ali's second Skillshare class, the channel answers that it comes out the next day. | Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen creator comment |
| 2020-03-31 | milestone | Ali's class on how to study for exams is now live on Skillshare: over 35 videos of evidence-based techniques on everything about studying for exams. | How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes 00:08:09 |
| 2020-04-07 | milestone | Asked for an in-depth video on Anki and flashcard learning, the channel says Ali is working on a mammoth Skillshare class about it. | A Productive Day in Isolation creator comment |
| 2020-04-14 | milestone | Asked how Ali uses Anki if its decks test facts in isolation, the channel says he is working on two Skillshare classes about it. | Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation creator comment |
| 2020-04-19 | milestone | Ali's friend Kim has been teaching him to cook, and they are in the process of turning those lessons into a class on Skillshare. | Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos 00:00:58 |
| 2020-05-01 | milestone | After his class on editing videos, Ali has made a Skillshare class on how to study for exams and is lining up many more Skillshare classes for the next few months. | How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber 00:23:06 |
| 2020-05-05 | milestone | Ali has edited in Final Cut Pro for about three years and made a Skillshare class on it, but these days does little of his own editing. | My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? 00:19:25 |
| 2020-05-17 | milestone | At 12:15 Ali has a Zoom meeting with his team to plan their videos and Skillshare classes for the next few weeks. | My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog 00:02:15 |
| 2020-05-19 | milestone | Asked for a video on working with remote video editors, Ali answers it will probably be part of his Skillshare class about becoming a YouTuber, being too niche for a video. (hedged) | How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels creator comment |
| 2020-05-29 | milestone | Ali launches his new Skillshare class, Learn Anything with Flashcards: The Ultimate Guide to Anki. | How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret 00:00:00 |
| 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) | milestone | Asked when his productivity class comes out on Skillshare, Ali answers in two weeks. | Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life creator comment |
| 2020-06-28 | milestone | This video is an excerpt, introducing the productivity equation, from Ali's brand-new Skillshare class about the principles of productivity. | My Simple Productivity System - The Equation 00:00:00 |
| 2020-07-01 | milestone | Ali has a brand-new Skillshare class on the principles of productivity: his productivity equation, then three myths, three laws and three powers; it is one part of a three-part series. | Why Motivation is a Myth 00:06:00 |
| 2020-08-20 | milestone | Ali has churned out online classes on Skillshare, which have made a stupidly large amount of money relative to his full-time job salary; recycling ideas from his second brain made the process far easier. | The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System 00:04:06 |
| 2020-09-25 | milestone | Ali and his friend Sam have just released a Skillshare class on Stoicism, How to Be Happier – A Stoicism Masterclass, on its five fundamental principles and five domains where they applied them. | How Stoicism Made Me Happier 00:00:00 |
| 2020-10-21 | milestone | This video is one of the 25 lessons of Ali's brand-new Skillshare class on productivity, which looks at David Allen's book Getting Things Done. | The 5 Key Principles of Productivity 00:00:00 |
| 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) | milestone | With seven classes on Skillshare, Ali has made about $515,000 from watch time and affiliate sign-ups in 2020, which a year earlier he would not have believed. | How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:36:50 |
| 2021-02-28 | milestone | Ali has a Skillshare class on how to be happier with lessons from Stoicism (the Stoicism Masterclass), and another, on productivity for creators, is coming out in a few weeks. | 10 cheap purchases that improved my life 00:08:14 |
| 2021-04-15 | milestone | Ali has just launched a new Skillshare class, Productivity for Creators: How to Start a Successful Side Hustle. | 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week 00:01:56 |
| 2021-04-18 | milestone | Ali has three Skillshare classes on productivity and time management: one on the fundamentals of productivity, one on his productivity equation, and a third, on productivity for creators with a side hustle, released the week before (April 2021). | How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips 00:10:48 |
| 2021-08-15 | milestone | Ali's Skillshare class on editing videos with Final Cut Pro took him one day to film and a freelancer two days to edit, and makes between $2,000 and $5,000 every month without him doing anything. | Revealing ALL My Investments at 27 00:23:41 |
| 2021-10-08 | milestone | Ali's Skillshare class on how to study for exams, made a year or two earlier, brings in about $10,000 every month in pure passive income, though he does basically nothing to promote it. | The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money 00:09:21 |
| 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) | milestone | Ali's Skillshare royalties ran between $55,000 and $74,000 a month from January to October 2021; with affiliate income, Skillshare has made $716,691 this year (2021), not counting November and December. | How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 00:23:58 |
| 2022-02-25 | milestone | Ali's new free Skillshare class, a step-by-step guide to starting a YouTube channel, was filmed a few weeks earlier and is being edited; Part-Time YouTuber Academy sign-ups get it free. | How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal 01:15:10 |
| 2022-03-03 | milestone | Ali's Skillshare class YouTube for Beginners is now out, free through a link in the description: creating the channel, the first video, the fear of posting, being on camera, thumbnails, titles and market research. | How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube 00:29:07 |
| 2022-04-29 | milestone | Ali has about 12 classes on Skillshare and has just released a new one, YouTube for Beginners, on building a YouTube channel from scratch. | How to Invest as a Teenager 00:11:05 |
| 2022-08-09 | milestone | Asked for a video on how he edits his videos, Ali points to the 33-video online course he made on it, with free access through Skillshare. | How I Make $4 Million Per Year - The CBM Framework creator comment |
| 2022-08-19 | milestone | Ali has around a dozen Skillshare classes; his brand-new one, just filmed, is on how to use Notion for beginners. | How I Manage My Time - The System That Changed My Life 00:10:06 |
| 2022-08-26 | milestone | Ali's Skillshare classes, made since late 2019, earn his business about $50,000 to $80,000 a month from about 12 or 13 classes paid per minute watched. | 27 Critical Apps That Shaped My Life 00:22:38 |
| 2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) | milestone | Ali's Skillshare classes made $8,470 in 2019, $449,295 in 2020 and $859,106 in 2021, probably his second-highest revenue source that year. | How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) 00:30:33 |
| 2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) | setback | Around mid-2022 Skillshare changed its pricing structure and Ali's monthly revenue there took a hit: $778,131 in 2022, against $859,000 in 2021. | How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) 00:32:42 |
| 2024-05-21 | looked back | Ali's Skillshare classes made $8,470 in 2019 and, after he made more courses, $515,000 in 2020. | A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses 00:04:52 |
| 2024-06-04 | milestone | Ali releases his typing course, a paid Skillshare class recorded a couple of years earlier, on YouTube for free so that more people can improve their typing speed. | Full Course - How to Type 3x Faster 00:00:29 |
| 2024-10-08 | milestone | Ali's Anki course, made a few years earlier for paying Skillshare subscribers, is now free on YouTube. | How to Study for Exams with Flashcards (Anki Masterclass) 00:00:58 |
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What is said about it
53 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-12-17 · Study With Me - A Super Productive Day — Ali says writing is a big part of making good YouTube videos and that it would be cool to write a book at some point; he is watching a Skillshare class on building a successful writing habit. — 00:03:21
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali: At the end of February 2020 Ali sets out to create the world's best, most in-depth online class on how to study for exams. — 00:00:00
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali's Skillshare class on how to study is 4.5 hours long with 35 videos, and he rates it highly. — creator comment
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — announcement: Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked for a next course on productivity, the channel says Ali's team is working on one and asks which questions viewers have. — creator comment
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked for a video on the peg system for memorisation, the channel says it is covered in Ali's study class on Skillshare. — creator comment
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali: Angus, one of Ali's new team members, goes over the structure of the study class with him in Notion, the app Ali uses to plan everything. — 00:00:58
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali: By 1pm Ali has filmed seven videos of the study class: the three steps of effective studying, understanding anything with the Feynman technique, active recall, whether and how to take notes, and scoping the subject. — 00:01:27
- 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — Ali finishes filming the study class at around 11.30pm, having done about 28 videos that day. — 00:07:04
- 2020-04-07 · A Productive Day in Isolation — Ali spends an hour filming more short intro videos for his Skillshare class on how to study for exams. — 00:05:56
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali: Angus edited Ali's Unfair Advantage video, his first YouTube edit, after working through Ali's 35-video Skillshare class on Final Cut a month earlier; it got about 150,000 views in two days. — 01:53:24
- 2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: Skillshare pays teachers for every minute that viewers with a premium account watch their classes, like streaming royalties; Ali has two classes there. — 00:03:24
- 2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: On Monday 23 March 2020 Ali's one Skillshare class then live, on editing videos in Final Cut Pro, filmed in one day in September 2019, had 3,086 premium minutes watched and made $169.73; it has made over $100 a day since. — 00:03:53
- 2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali never thought of teaching on Skillshare until a fellow creator told him about his own classes and showed him how much he was making. — 00:22:07
- 2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali's one Skillshare class, filmed in a day and edited by a freelancer in two, made $1,428.86 that week, more than his 63 hours as a doctor, with no work beyond the odd reply to a comment. — 00:24:33
- 2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali's Skillshare classes on editing videos and on studying for exams generate passive income: he made each course once and it keeps selling without much more work. — 00:11:02
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali Abdaal (channel): A bonus interview in Ali's Anki class features David, who scored in the 99.9th percentile in the MCAT using only Anki; it should be up at the end of the class within days. — creator comment
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: Section one of Ali's Anki class covers the basics: basic and reverse flashcards, cloze deletions, image occlusions and the basic ways of making and reviewing cards. — 00:01:05
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: Section two of Ali's Anki class demonstrates how he makes flashcards from lectures, books and videos, and how to improve flashcards over time. — 00:01:27
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: Section three of Ali's Anki class answers questions hundreds of people sent via his Instagram story: how long a flashcard should be, avoiding overload, staying motivated, what to put on a card, and Anki versus Notion, Google Sheets or Quizlet. — 00:01:27
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: Section four of Ali's Anki class covers optimising performance with tags, add-ons and, most crucially, pre-made decks. — 00:01:57
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: A bonus section of Ali's Anki class has interviews with students from around the world who use Anki effectively in all sorts of subjects and share their tips. — 00:01:57
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — Ali's Anki class has 42 videos in its main section and many more in the bonus section, and runs over five hours. (hedged) — 00:02:26
- 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — Ali and his team worked on the Anki class for about two months. — 00:02:55
- 2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali: After work Ali does the highlight he set for the day in Notion that morning; on days without one, he looks through Notion, Todoist, the sponsored-video schedule and the Skillshare class release schedule to pick the best use of the next few hours. — 00:06:19
- 2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali: At 10 a.m. Ali has his roughly weekly half-hour team meeting on Zoom with Christian, Angus and Elizabeth about the next month's videos, articles, podcasts and Skillshare classes. — 00:00:29
- 2020-06-28 · My Simple Productivity System - The Equation — announcement: Ali: Productivity is probably the question Ali is asked about most, so he decided to put together an extensive series of Skillshare classes sharing what he has learnt about it from reading and experimenting. — video description
- 2020-06-28 · My Simple Productivity System - The Equation — announcement: Ali: The rest of Ali's Skillshare class on the principles of productivity covers the three myths, the three laws and the three powers of productivity, with theory and practical tips. — 00:07:35
- 2020-06-28 · My Simple Productivity System - The Equation — announcement: Ali's Skillshare class on the principles of productivity has 13 or 14 videos. (hedged) — 00:08:22
- 2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: With the YouTube channel taking off, plus courses, Skillshare classes and affiliate products, Ali no longer needs medicine to make money, so he now practises medicine for fun. — 00:27:07
- 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali's team built its own pipelines in Notion for videos, the email newsletter and Skillshare classes; Roam Research is hard to use as a team, and Evernote lacks the flexibility for kanban boards and to-do lists. — 00:09:53
- 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali currently makes more from Skillshare than from YouTube, but only because he has an audience already built on YouTube. — 00:04:20
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's Skillshare earnings were $3,105.89 in January 2020, $300 of it from affiliate links, and $2,643 in February; his class on how to study for exams came out on the last day of March, which brought $5,680.57. — 00:35:17
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's Skillshare earnings were $29,746.84 in April 2020, $9,340 of it from affiliate sign-ups; after his Anki class came out at the end of May, May brought $40,926.99, and with a productivity class at the end of June, June $56,547.21. — 00:35:44
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's Skillshare earnings were $62,541 in July 2020, $60,582 in August, $67,363 in September and $66,194 in October; he estimates about $60,000 each for November and December. (hedged) — 00:36:21
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: About 100,000 students have watched about 8 million minutes of Ali's Skillshare classes, 9.5 million expected by the end of 2020, about 90 minutes each, only about $5 per student. — 00:37:19
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: The Part-Time YouTuber Academy is the first time Ali has charged real money: Skillshare classes, free on a trial like a Netflix documentary, and affiliate deals do not count; at first he was really scared. — 00:42:54
- 2021-02-28 · 10 cheap purchases that improved my life — Ali has eight online classes on Skillshare, two of them on studying for exams. — 00:07:45
- 2021-04-15 · 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week — Ali's Skillshare classes make about $60,000 a month, around $15,000 a week and the bulk of his business's $27,000 a week; once a class is made he only replies to comments and occasionally plugs it. — 00:23:18
- 2021-08-08 · Dating, Regrets and Boxing - 2 Million Subscriber Q&A — Ali says YouTube AdSense makes his channel about $30,000-40,000 a month at 2 million subscribers, only about 10-15% of the business's revenue; most revenue comes from Skillshare classes and his online courses. (hedged) — 00:01:27
- 2021-10-08 · The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money — Ali: The Skillshare class was no get-rich-quick scheme, Ali says: he had made study-themed YouTube videos for two years before it, and the income built up over time now helps pay his mortgage. — 00:09:50
- 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali has eight to ten classes on Skillshare, a subscription of about $10 a month with unlimited access; like Spotify, it pays teachers about three to seven cents per minute of premium watch time, varying by month. — 00:22:48
- 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali started on Skillshare after a friend showed him stats of about $2,000 a month, which seemed a life-changing amount that might let him hire someone, before he had a team. — 00:24:51
- 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali barely promotes his Skillshare classes, yet some people found his channel through them, such as his classes on Stoicism and productivity. — 00:25:19
- 2022-04-29 · How to Invest as a Teenager — Ali's new Skillshare class YouTube for Beginners is about four hours long with about 30 lessons. (hedged) — 00:11:34
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2019, two years into his YouTube channel, Ali made his first Skillshare course, on how to edit videos in Final Cut. — 00:04:52
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali calls the 2019 to 2020 Skillshare jump atypical: the timing was in his favour, with the pandemic and Skillshare's weirdly lucrative way of paying teachers. (hedged) — 00:05:31
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says Skillshare no longer pays like this, his YouTube audience helped, and jumping from $10,000 to $500,000 a year is very atypical. — 00:06:00
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: 2021, at the peak of the pandemic, was Ali's peak Skillshare year, with $859,000. — 00:06:00
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali's Skillshare courses have had 37 million minutes of total watch time. — 00:06:47
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali's Skillshare earnings fell to $778,000 in 2022 and $351,000 in 2023, decaying towards zero after the 2021 peak. — 00:06:47
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali shows that his company has earned $2,579,138.19 in total from Skillshare. — 00:08:00
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali taught himself video editing from scratch between 2017 and 2019 with YouTube tutorials and Skillshare classes, first in Premiere Pro and then Final Cut, and made a course about it in 2019. — 00:55:12
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says his 2019 video editing course has made him $5,000 every month for about five years. — 00:55:12