you guys i finally gave my ipad a much needed makeover now i feel like it's aesthetic af
and also functional great for productivity which is
so in today's video i'm going to show you guys what's on my ipad what apps i use and how i
customized it so let's get started so i have the ipad pro 11 inch with an apple pencil i love it
it's amazing this case is the combo touch keyboard case from logitech i'm absolutely obsessed with it
it's so sleek i never thought i needed a keyboard for my ipad because i have a laptop but boy was
i wrong it is so easy to take this on the go it essentially turns my ipad into a mini laptop so a
lot of times i'll just take the keyboard off and just use the case as is but occasionally when i
want to take notes for like an online class that i'm taking it's super super handy so i'll link
this case down below i love it so here we have my lock screen it is a june calendar and little
graphic and it actually comes from my friend christine she has a business called flourish
planner and if you haven't followed her yet i highly recommend i literally use her wallpapers
every month for my laptop phone and ipad i'll link her page down below but yeah i like this one a lot
all right so then we have my home page i just redid this and i like it so so so much i really
hadn't customized my ipad much before i love to keep it really simple and pretty much only keep
the apps on there that i use and i really only use my ipad for work and like creative brainstorming
so it's been very simple very minimal but also like very boring the layout before was just
extremely simple so i decided to look at some new widgets and apps that would really like boost my
productivity and actually be functional but also be super aesthetic and cute so my first widget in
the top left is actually just a photo widget so if you guys want to create custom photo widgets
you can download an app called widget smith and once you're in there you can basically decide the
size that you want so i chose large and then you can literally just choose which style you want but
i chose photo click on select photo choose photo and make it whatever you want then basically from
there when you go to add a widget onto your screen you would just go to widget smith and then choose
large and from there select the one that you made so so i just found that picture on pinterest as
well as some other ones i have like a whole folder of like aesthetic phone wallpaper stuff so i just
pulled it from that and i think it's super cute the next widget over is this awesome zen flip
clock it's in military time right now i actually didn't realize that but it's literally just called
zen flip clock and i just think it's super cute right next to it i just have the calendar widget
i am used to actually showing all my calendar appointments but i have those on my phone and
computer so i feel like it's a little bit overkill so i'm keeping it simple with just that right now
in terms of the apps on this first page honestly i don't really use social media on my ipad but i
do have instagram right there and youtube in case i need to check something really quick
i have my podcast apps since i do have a podcast and i'm coming back with it soon which is great
and then basically just all the basic apps like calendar photos and notes that i use i also have
this giant editing folder because like i said i do a lot of my creative work on my ipad so a lot
of like thumbnail making and stuff like that so here are just some of the photo editing and other
editing apps that i have on my ipad and then this might be my absolute favorite app and widget ever
this is called the actions app so essentially what actions is is it's a place where you can
categorize different tasks that you have so for me sometimes i get really overwhelmed because there's
a lot to think about i have different social media platforms i have personal stuff finances like
other things i want to do long-term goals so what's cool is you can kind of create these lists
and you can just add a new task on any of these lists you can either leave it unscheduled just
push done and it'll be right there or you can actually schedule it and the second you put it on
a certain day it'll show up on the side along with your calendar so it syncs with your calendar to
show you everything that's on your calendar and then below it the tasks you have so i love that
because i like to keep my calendar pretty much just like appointments and reminders and then
tasks separate but i never had a way to like sync them so i am absolutely in love with this when you
complete something you just swipe it to the right and it disappears so actually i can swipe that
one because i finished and i'm filming this right now but anyway absolutely obsessed with that and
obsessed with the different options for widgets that they have so i can actually see my tasks
right here without even clicking into it so i love that i've been using actions for a super long time
but then i took a break for a couple years i don't know why and i'm so excited i found it
again because it seriously makes my life so much easier then on that bottom row i have ones that
i use pretty often surprisingly enough i don't really use texting or facetime on my ipad i try
to keep it distraction free and like just use it for work so i don't have notifications on for any
of those things actually i turn off notifications for literally everything on my ipad except for my
calendar because again i just want to use it for work and stay really productive and distraction
free so down here i have good notes and procreate which i use often good notes i mostly just use for
taking notes i also you know sometimes will make a to-do list or i have actual like digital planners
that i've purchased actually flourish planner has made quite a few but at the end of the day i feel
like i never have gotten fully fully into digital planning i'll do it for a little bit and then stop
i'm definitely more of a pen and paper type of gal or now like the actions app is really what i need
it's all about what works best for you so i love that i have these but i mostly just use this for
like notes i'm taking an online course and so i actually have like my whole entire notebook here
procreate is so much fun it's where i go to draw honestly for fun or to doodle on thumbnails or
actually use it for work purposes it's really fun to experiment with drawing different things and
diagrams and stuff for my business so it comes in handy kind of creatively to just be able to like
write out what you're thinking i've done some cool campaigns with brands where i get to like do some
handwritten stuff which looks really cool i also actually made my home screen background on here
basically all i did was just draw a bunch of circles and then use a blur effect and created
that so it's really easy to do fun graphics i'm really having a moment with like bright colors
right now i think those are awesome so i don't know anyway throwback to learning how to make eyes
i forgot how to do that it's cool another thing i do is i always turn off notification badges so
as you can see there's none of those little red badges if i were to go to settings and actually
turn on notifications for example for bisco you'd have this little badge which i just think is ugly
so i'm going to go ahead and turn that back off all right and then moving on to the second page
i know i literally just said i turn off badges but i cannot figure out i think i need to restart
my ipad i can't figure out where this badge is coming from or where these 12 badges are coming
from because i went through and none of them have them turned on i have no idea but anyway up in the
top left is another photo widget that i created just from widget smith another thing you can do if
you want like rotating photos is you can actually create a pinterest widget the difference is that
these pinterest ones can switch images like hourly so let's just say that i'm going to choose my own
board and have it change hourly it'll actually every hour be a different photo right now i'm
liking just the ones that i have and maybe i'll change them eventually at the top here i
just have like all the apple apps in one i really don't typically use these i could probably hide a
lot of them but whatever too lazy and then a work folder so again these are just things i would use
for work the actions app is right there and just so that you guys know if you do want to sync your
calendar onto your app you need to download the time page app that's the one that'll give
access to your calendar and then even if you don't use this this is like another calendar
it's honestly a little too like too cool for me like i'm just so used to my normal apple calendar
but if you sync your calendar through time page it'll automatically show up on your actions app
so that's really cool the next widget is this little one that says how was your day and it's
called daily bean i just think it's such a cute little widget and also what it actually is is it's
a mood tracker and kind of a way to mark like how you felt during a day it's not even made for ipad
but i don't care i think it's super cute so you can just like rate your day i thought it was happy
and click done and then you can just do that for every day and i think it's kind of cool
to see like what were your moods throughout the month i don't know i just think it looked cute
and then right below that i have this app called habit so again i like the widget this is an app
where i can track certain habits that i want to be doing often and for me like the biggest thing is
just keeping it simple if the interface is simple and easy to use then actually that's what i want
i don't want all these million features so today for example i worked out so i can actually slide
that all the way over all right base camp and then that will show up as completed on my actual little
widget but yeah i thought that was super super cute and then moving on i don't use these very
much but occasionally if i'm looking at apartments or home things i like having a bigger screen than
just my phone so i've got some apps for that some food some shopping again i don't really use that
a whole lot entertainment in case i'm like on a plane or want to watch some things on a bigger
screen and then books so i use goodreads to track like what i want to read and what i have written
written read so far i've read seven books this year which is like great for me because
i usually don't read um so that's really exciting and then books i want to read
and then typically what i'll do like when i actually want to go to read
them is i will go on to libby which is a library app and i'll actually place a hold
a lot of books have like a really long wait but they're free it's like a library app so ooh
borrow oh my god i didn't read this one in time so i uh i have seven days okay
whatever anyway so it's super cool to be able to read for free obviously like oh man
placeholder okay yeah it just saves a lot of money if you're willing to wait on some of them but it's
cool you can kind of like set it and forget it and then so believe it or not that's kind of the gist
of what's on my ipad but i've really been loving it i feel like it is great for productivity nice
and simple and clean i have this cool keyboard i can use and just everything feels so good so i'm
gonna also do an updated what's on my iphone video because i also redid my phone and i think it looks
so good it's very similar vibes this is very conducive for productivity and things like
that so stay tuned subscribe if you want to see that and i'll see you guys in my next video bye