So i'm someone who likes to be as productive as the next guy and anything that makes my life a bit
easier or a bit more efficient i'm always quite interested in and so for that reason i've actually
wanted the mx keys and master 3 set for a while now because it's kind of marketed as the ultimate
productivity keyboard and mouse for particularly creative people and finally several weeks ago i
got a set which replaced my old 12 year old keyboard and mouse but the interesting thing
is that it's kind of made me think about what motivates me and what makes me more productive
so in today's video i'm going to try and answer the question does the mx master 3 and the mx keys
make me more productive if you're new here my name is nick and here we talk about how to use tech to
improve your life i put out videos every friday so be sure to subscribe so first off i thought
i'd just talk a little bit about the features and the design of the keyboard and the mouse so start
off with the keys like i said it's wireless it's bluetooth doesn't need a dongle which is great
i really didn't want a keyboard or mouse that needed a dongle just because i wanted that extra
usb port free which is handy the keys are also backlit which i really like it's pretty handy
because my office is pretty dark most of the time and in the evenings i'll just have my lamp on
it's also cool because it's got a motion sensor so when you stop typing on the keyboard the backlight
will turn itself off and then as soon as you put your hand over the keys or you start typing
it will instantly turn the backlight back on and this just helps to save the battery life
another cool feature of the mx keys is that you can connect it to multiple devices so
i've got it connected to my macbook pro my ipad and then i've also got it connected to my
wife's laptop if i ever need to use her laptop and lastly it's usbc charge and i'm a big fan of usbc
anything that's usbc compatible is great because it just means i don't have to have as many cables
and therefore helps me to reduce clutter and just makes life easier in general so the mx master 3
mouse has got a pretty cool ergonomic looking design i think i've got kind of medium to large
sized hands and it feels like a pretty good fit for my hand feels really comfortable to hold
it's got kind of a rubbery matte texture which is really nice it's also got quite a range of buttons
it's got a button under your thumb which you can click got two more buttons next to your thumb
and then a scroll wheel above that and then you've got your regular scroll wheel in the middle
as well as another button above that and each of these buttons you can pretty much fully customize
to whatever you want and you can also customize them based on the app that you're using which
i think is pretty cool the mouse is also usbc charge which is great and it's got the usbc port
right in the front so you can use the mouse while you're charging it unlike the apple magic mouse
which has the charging port on the bottom of the mouse so you can't use it while you're charging it
which to me is pretty ridiculous and you can also connect the master three to up to three different
devices and switch between them just with the click of a button on the bottom of the mouse
which is also pretty cool so now that we've got the basic features out of the way
i wanted the keyboard and mouse kind of for two reasons and the first was less clutter
and the second was to be more productive now in terms of creating less clutter it's definitely
done the job moving from my old keyboard and mouse which had really long cables
all over my desk to having fully wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse with no cabling
is amazing i absolutely love it feels so nice having my desk so much more clear
and free of cabling and the fact that i don't even need a receiver dongle for the keyboard and
mouse is a big plus for me and then the second reason why i wanted it is to be more productive
because i like to make youtube videos on a regular basis as well as do other bits and pieces
including freelance work and so i'd hoped that it would help me get more stuff done now logitech
markets the keyboard and mouse as helping you to be more productive through particular features
that are included for example like i mentioned you can switch between devices really easily with the
shortcut keys on the keyboard and on the mouse and you can even copy and paste documents and files
and text between different computers with the mx master 3. however i pretty much never use
any other devices with my keyboard and mouse apart from my macbook pro i really use it with my ipad
and i almost never use it with my wife's laptop so to be honest that feature is kind of useless for
me even if this keyboard or mouse didn't have that feature at all i probably wouldn't miss it to be
honest now the next way that logitech markets the keybottom mouse to help you be more productive is
through keyboard shortcuts and the extra buttons on the mouse however i pretty much only use one
extra button which is this button on the side here which i click and it's basically a shortcut
to view all the windows that you have open at once on your laptop and that is pretty handy i'll
click it and i can quickly switch to another app but apart from that all the other shortcut keys
and extra buttons i don't really use and so at the end of the day i kind of use this three hundred
dollar keyboard and mouse set exactly the same as i use my old probably worth ten dollars now my old
keyboard and mouse set so do they really help me to be any more productive i think the short answer
for me to be honest is no the extended answer is a little bit that's where i was kind of surprised
it's kind of two things for me the first is to be honest the feeling of the keyboard itself
typing on the keys is actually super satisfying it's such a nice feeling keyboard and the fact
that it feels so nice actually kind of makes me want to type more it makes me want to use
the keyboard more just because it feels so nice and satisfying it's kind of like watching those
super satisfying videos on facebook but in a keyboard form like it feels really satisfying
typing on the keys and so in that sense it helps me to be just a little bit more motivated
to come and come into my office and do some work because it feels nice but the second and kind of
bigger aspect which ties into that as well is i think it's kind of a mental thing about having a
really nice keyboard and mouse makes me want to use it more regularly it's kind of like when i
upgraded my camera from an entry-level canon which didn't have a whole lot of video features to this
sony a6600 which has like 4k it can shoot an s-log and it's got a really nice lens it's not that i
can shoot any more video on this camera than i could on my canon it's just that it's kind of
nicer to use and the videos that i can make a bit better and that in and of itself motivates me to
make more and so i think in the same way with the keyboard and mouse even though i'm not really
using it any differently than i would a really cheap 10 key bottom mouse set it's just the fact
that it's a really nice set that looks great feels great it's kind of expensive that i think
makes me want to just use it more and so it doesn't really make me more productive as much
as it just gives me a little bit more motivation to keep doing what i'm doing so i guess the kind
of broader point that i'm trying to make with this kind of philosophical tangent i'm going
on with about a keyboard and mouse is just that i think i've realized about myself it's not so
much about the gear that i have that will make me more productive it's more about am i motivated to
be productive in the first place because i think if i wasn't motivated to make videos
or to do freelance work i could have the nicest keyboard in the entire world and it still wouldn't
really make a difference and so i think in that sense it's kind of changed how i think about gear
and tech when it comes to being more productive i think for me it's less about having the most
productive efficient gear that i can possibly buy and more about having the right attitude and
mindset when it comes to getting things done and the reason why i want to get things done so i hope
that makes sense it's kind of a weird tangent to go on from a tech video about a keyboard and mouse
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