hello everyone welcome back to another video it is
Francescp here welcome to Keep Productive YouTube channel if you're brand new
but if you're a regular welcome back so today's video I'm going to be taking a
look at my Mac but pro well you are because we're going through a wats
on my Mac Book Pro 2018 now I did a Mac Pro one and acted of MacBook Air one
back in 2016 so that was a fair while ago now and something that I think I
definitely need to refresh I think during that time my MacBook has gotten
better with the apps I'm using but I've also minimized a few apps that I wasn't
using so I will put the I will put the video previously in description below so
you can mainly see the differences but I think this one will be a super
interesting one if your macbook lover or your even considering moving to Mac so
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hello everyone and welcome back to another video
it is Francesco here now as you're seeing on my screen you are seeing my
macbook pro so this is going to be a full overview of what is on there and
what i want to do to start off with is explain my sort of mini story i guess
with my devices signer stuff so maybe from the last video that i did it on
macbook or what I have on my Mac I was on a MacBook Air now in I've only been
using this since maybe January time I've been using a MacBook Pro and it's been
really developing over time mainly because previously I never had the need
to upgrade now I do so you will be seeing a quite a few of the more intense
application video editing here my day-to-day role sort of is more
demanding on that side of stuff so I have just been looking to grow that out
but today's video will just be an overview of the apps I use and I'll also
explain a few of the functions in terms of going over things ok so we think
what's best is to start with the bottom bar down here and I think that's a good
base because I keep most of the important apps down here now you're
probably seeing I am viewing bear which is a few of the notes I've made on my
iPhone so that's a reason that's popping up obviously I've got finder here that's
sort of fixed i'm camtasia 3 so camtasia 3 is my video editing software and i use
that on a daily basis now this is something that i probably need to have a
separate conversation with you guys about things 3 is at the moment my
temporary to-do list application and i will explain why in another feature but
it is installed and ready on my Mac Mac and so is todoist but that is probably
something I need to explain in a week's time Newton Newton is my default email
application and I find a lot of value in it just to note I work with the Newton
team so that might could be a little bit of bias but I fell in love with this
application long before hand notion is my
application of choice for planning I use it and have it pinned
down here chrome is my default browser Spotify is my go to music playlist I
think or music player slack is my main team application of communication with
some of the clients iTunes comes up whenever I stick my phone in I really
try and get rid of it most of the time and you can see it will drop out and
Evernote I actually don't have it as much these days up here and that's no
reason it's just because I've gotten used to using the search spotlight bar
and typing in Evernote and I really want to do that more often with some of the
lease lesser-known applications like the ones that I don't want to use all the
time my Spotify or even slack like keeping them in spotlight or not on the
dock at the bottom mainly because I don't want to mess things up so I want
to explain up here result um so obviously I'm recording so it's got a
little record light Evernote's are the quick note one I use quite on a
lot because we have to do here it's not typing you know you can even click off
it and come back to it and as soon as you want to save it it goes so if you
ever know and it will go straight into the note inside of evident now I have
the timing installed as well so I will explain that a little bit in a bit but
it's basically tracks your productivity across your day giving you an outline of
how much time you spent on certain applications up here I've got unclutter
unclutter err sorry something I want to do a full review on separately but it's
actually a neat way to edit glance quickly get access to the copy and paste
stuff forklift which is quite helpful across the day cloud app which I
continually rave about but it didn't have any it in my last Mac ok review
thing but it actually has been a massive savior so we have to do is clip a
screenshot or a screen a screenshot or screen recording you can even create a
gif or annotate but honestly I use this so often like to just visually
demonstrates enough to people just save so much time
over here I've got sin app obviously the synapse description works pretty simply
there's obviously a review in the description so you can go out and fully
understand what it does but you can find it in the finder that was a hard thing
to say you can find it in the finder you just have to give it a set app and see
all of the apps that you've got connected here so these ordinary apps
I've got connected at the moment obviously there's tons more but I like
to keep things pretty simple as I go but you can search for applications up here
which is pretty cool so if I'm like okay I'll actually want to get Ulysses up
then I can click that and if I don't have the application so let's say I have
walk vocabulary if I open that one up what happens is it automatically takes
you to a page with it on and obviously you can install it or uninstall it which
is pretty easy you can go to my dashboard and see all of the items there
but there's a full review in description if you want to go over it they've been
lovely enough to sponsor this feature as well which is great the only other
things I have at the top are now I have I didn't why I've called my ear pods
carrot face I think it's because some my other devices called carrot face I
didn't want it helps me to distinguish it when I'm in coffee shops and people's
Wi-Fi pops up not that my name isn't already distinguishable so I connect up
my air pods which I've recently got I probably need to do a separate features
on this those ones because they're so good obviously got Apple the play
airplay my Wi-Fi and all of the regular stuff along the sides now one of the
things I don't do in my day is I don't do or do do do do is click the Do Not
Disturb I always have that one on during the day first thing I turn on in the
morning and I do take it off in the evenings but I tend not have on maybe
because they're distracting coming up across here now I'm not sure what that
is if you can see it it's like a screenshot II thing I don't know so I'm
going to go to these sort of like view view the view view of all of the
applications so I'm going to scroll to the first page obviously I've got all of
the default applications installed and they come with the Mac and I want to
explain a few that have come Chrome so the C chrome comes with a few
web applications and now installed on your Mac - they're almost like shortcuts
you've got clean Google Calendar as a separate application it's probably
something I do need to catch up using but it's essentially like a nice view in
Google Calendar you've got chrome remote desktop pocket
and these all take you to separate pages now I have got to do is still on here
again probably needs a four video on this massive two or three videos because
people gonna freak out Nutan are obviously accessible here bare
which I use for scripting mainly because I like to know what's coming up on my
videos and I tend to use it like this so I just have like the two panels out on
here then I just use it to list some of my features but I love best so much it's
gotten some huge part of my routine obviously got slack there and as I go
across here a lot of the other bulk of the applications Evernote my note-taker
notion my planner Spotify I've gone for all of these I've
got all of the default at Microsoft applications in case I need them zoom us
is my go-to video conferencing tool I have fallen in love with it especially
for one-to-one communication recording the podcasts of them Skype next to it
and that's probably because a lot of people still use Skype and need it so
it's a regular feature and of course I need to have access to it Snagit is a
screen capturing one I downloaded it not sure about it so I've kept on here
ScreenFlow again is very similar to Camtasia 3 um it helps you to record
pictures but I'm going to be using it for certain client projects Monday I
installed that one with the thing station now this is an interesting one I
haven't actually checked out and this was a recommendation over lunch with
Alex icon and he was like Francesco you you accompli you don't know about
station and I was like station I've heard of it I mean I've seen the logo
seeing lots of absolute guys but I in actually got in time to go into it
basically this communication application it combines all of your communication
to one spot and just saves you a huge amount of time so you'll probably see a
feature on that separately now this set up they're obviously good tasks are used
using to review at the moment forklift forklift I'm finding very very helpful
it's an application that allows me to view my view my view my view my finder
but also be able to move stuff across different items so if I was like okay I
need to move these over there you know it does help me to organize
items as well as keep things clean and progress as well so that's one of my
nice ones you'll see something yet to check out I've got it installed for a
review stop and is is one that helps me to block adverts I'm still getting used
to it things again temporary to do this application give Fox an application as
well as gift brewery three that are used to manage gif management especially when
I'm posting them on social media audacity I'm getting used to although I
need to spend a lot more time with it our audio editing software ticktick
haven't stole from reviews unclutter again a saying copy and paste timing
now timing is available on the are likes of setup but basically i use it to view
one actually spend my time on so you can see here web browsing I spent 11 minutes
web browsing today already that's bad I got notion as well a notion open for
18 minutes and that was mainly due to the review I did this morning know and
Newton was open for 15 minutes Google things was open you know all of these
applications you get insights into and you can even go back to the previous day
although this was a Sunday so I can imagine it was a lot less and give you
an outline of exactly where you spend your time on and your most active hours
as well as being able to review all of the amazing information and even add
your own so it's basically a time not time manager a time time tracker that's
the one I've got flume here which is my Instagram viewing feed this is available
on setup as well but so all I have to do is log into my setup
log into my Instagram and once I open this up I get all my Instagram feed I
can see everything at a glance which so the final two are noise
noisy little noisy or noisy oh I'm gonna go with noisy or essentially allows you
to play different tones for different times and of course they you can unlock
these different areas they've got tons of sounds and you can mix them up with
each other it's been one of them the most loved applications that I've found
in the last couple of weeks and err table which I use for a review so that
is my entire macbook pro set up I don't really have any other applications I
find hideously usefulness I obviously use a ton of apps on the go and I use
the web browser quite a lot so hopefully this feeds you found some use to you
guys so guys just before we go I hope you enjoyed this video let me know in
the comments what you think what absolutely using on your macbook but a
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