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How I Get My Best Ideas While Showering

2025-11-08 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:20 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time (also: Tools, apps and tech) · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: His own products discussed

Ali gets his best ideas in the shower: wearing waterproof headphones, he starts a VoicePal recording and speaks his thoughts out, which he finds gives far better results than typing at his computer.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Speaking ideas into VoicePal while in the shower

  • ★★ When Ali has an idea for a video, content or a business in the shower, he starts a recording in VoicePal, goes back into the shower wearing waterproof Beats Powerbeats headphones and speaks his thoughts out. — 00:00:00 · VoicePal
  • ★★★ Ali often finds that what he produces by speaking his thoughts out in the shower is far better than what he would come up with sitting at his computer typing. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ VoicePal, the app Ali's team builds, records for up to 90 minutes, and its clean transcript can be exported to ChatGPT, Claude, Notion or Google Docs. — 00:00:29 · VoicePal, ChatGPT, Notion, Google Docs

00:00:58 — How to get VoicePal; which feature to add next

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you have more creative ideas? — Ali often finds that what he produces by speaking his thoughts out in the shower is far better than what he would come up with sitting at his computer typing. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Central: VoicePal

Also: ChatGPT · Claude · Google Docs · Notion

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