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My Productive Every Day Carry 2026

2025-10-07 · Tech review, setup or bag tour · Ali · recording, 14:51 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech (also: Health, sleep and habits, Relationships and personal life) · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough · tags: Family, Sponsor segment present

In a bag tour, Ali shows his everyday carry: a Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L with a MacBook Pro and iPad Pro, three Harry Potter notebooks for different areas of work, a Ricoh pocket camera, wired EarPods as a backup microphone, a portable bidet, a DJI Pocket 3 and Mic as a pocket podcast setup, the baby's nappy kit, and an Apple Watch with a Whoop.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — The Peak Design backpack, the MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro

  • ★★ Ali takes the Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L everywhere: he has tried countless backpacks and it is the one he always comes back to. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali carries a 16-inch MacBook Pro (an M3, he thinks) with a dbrand skin and an 11-inch iPad Pro, which he uses on a train or in a coffee shop when he does not want to take out the big laptop. (hedged) — 00:00:33 · MacBook, iPad Pro
  • ★★ Ali also uses his iPad Pro as a second display for his laptop and to draw diagrams, which he shares over Zoom when running a workshop for one of his courses. — 00:01:02 · iPad Pro, Zoom

00:01:15 — Paperlike sponsor read

00:02:37 — Perfume, iPhone mount, padlock, pencil case, Harry Potter Moleskine notebooks, Ricoh camera, wired EarPods

  • ★ Ali always keeps a padlock in his backpack, so he can lock the bag full of expensive tech in a locker at a train station or the gym. — 00:02:44
  • ★ Ali's pencil case holds a Montblanc fountain pen that was a gift from the YouTuber and entrepreneur Iman Gadzhi. — 00:03:28
  • ★★ Ali keeps a separate Harry Potter Moleskine notebook for each area: Expecto Patronum for notes on business products, Lumos as a personal journal, Protego Maxima for video ideas; each day he brings the one for what he will focus on. — 00:03:28 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Ali always carries a Ricoh GR IIIx pocket camera because it takes far better photos than an iPhone; he mostly uses it for photos of people, his family and his baby. — 00:04:45 · iPhone
  • ★★ Ali always carries wired EarPods because their microphone is remarkably good, cheap and portable: a backup for Zoom calls and live course sessions when his Bluetooth AirPods run out of battery. — 00:05:08 · AirPods, Zoom

00:05:46 — The HappyPo portable bidet

  • ★★ Ali carries a HappyPo portable bidet everywhere and swears by it: without one he feels unclean for the rest of the day; he keeps one in every bathroom at home, one in his suitcase and one in his backpack. — 00:05:46

00:06:33 — Cables pouch, DJI Pocket 3 and DJI Mic podcast setup, phone tripod, dongle, AirTag, nail clippers, battery pack

  • ★★ Ali always carries a DJI Osmo Pocket 3: with its gimbal it is a stable, unobtrusive mini vlog camera that makes you look like a tourist rather than a content creator, and it doubles as a nicer webcam than his MacBook one when he films a course workshop. — 00:07:07 · MacBook
  • ★★ With a DJI Mic's two clip-on microphones and the DJI Pocket 3, Ali can set up a podcast anywhere; it has come in handy once or twice for an impromptu conversation with his brother or a friend. — 00:08:01 · Taimur Abdaal
  • ★★ Ali keeps a Peak Design tripod on his iPhone, which turns the phone into a landscape filming setup or a second podcast angle; non-creators probably do not need such a kit, but he finds it very useful. — 00:08:46 · iPhone
  • ★★ Ali carries a spare battery pack because phones run out of battery quickly, and being the one who can lend a battery pack to friends or team members is a valuable addition to a group. — 00:09:19
  • ★★ Ali carries such a big backpack because its empty bottom compartment takes a Peak Design Tech Pouch that is now his baby's nappy-changing bag; it used to hold his chargers, cables and Nintendo Switch. — 00:10:00

00:10:22 — The baby's nappy kit in a Peak Design Tech Pouch

  • ★ Ali's nappy kit for his daughter holds a changing mat, absorbent incontinence pads, dry and wet wipes, Vaseline against nappy rash, and usually three nappies. — 00:10:50

00:12:10 — Pocket notebook and pen, Beats earphones, wallet and keys

  • ★★ Ali always keeps a pocket notebook and a pen: now a Smythson notebook, a gift from his friend Chris Ducker, sometimes Field Notes, and whatever pen is lying around, such as a Pilot G2 0.7. — 00:12:31
  • ★★ Ali, who recently lost his AirPods, likes Beats Powerbeats earphones: their ear hooks keep them in while running, which he does more and more, and they are reportedly more waterproof, so he uses them in the sauna. (hedged) — 00:12:31 · AirPods
  • ★★ Ali wears an Apple Watch and a Whoop 5.0; Whoop sponsored a video years ago, and since then he has paid for it himself, upgraded to the new device, and uses it for stats on his sleep and recovery. — 00:13:46 · Apple Watch

00:13:55 — Why he wears two watches: Apple Watch and Whoop; sign-off

Threads in this video

  • refine · Which tech is worth buying? — Ali always carries a Ricoh GR IIIx pocket camera because it takes far better photos than an iPhone; he mostly uses it for photos of people, his family and his baby. (00:04:45)
  • refine · What gear do you need to make YouTube videos? — With a DJI Mic's two clip-on microphones and the DJI Pocket 3, Ali can set up a podcast anywhere; it has come in handy once or twice for an impromptu conversation with his brother or a friend. (00:08:01)
  • refine · Should you track your sleep with an app or a device? — Ali wears an Apple Watch and a Whoop 5.0; Whoop sponsored a video years ago, and since then he has paid for it himself, upgraded to the new device, and uses it for stats on his sleep and recovery. (00:13:46)
  • restate · Which tech is worth buying? — Ali always carries wired EarPods because their microphone is remarkably good, cheap and portable: a backup for Zoom calls and live course sessions when his Bluetooth AirPods run out of battery. (00:05:08)

Mentioned

Central: Peak Design Everyday Backpack

Also: People: Ali Abdaal's daughter · Chris Ducker · Iman Gadzhi · Taimur Abdaal

Works: Harry Potter (book series)

Organizations: Belkin · dbrand · Moleskine · Montblanc · Peak Design · Smythson · WeWork

Places: Hong Kong

Products: AirPods · Apple AirTag · Apple Pencil · Apple Watch · DJI Mic · DJI Osmo Pocket 3 · EarPods · Field Notes · HappyPo · iPad Pro · iPhone · MacBook · Nintendo Switch · Paperlike · Peak Design Mobile Tripod · Peak Design Tech Pouch · Pilot G2 · Powerbeats Pro 2 · Ricoh GR IIIx · Whoop · Zoom

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