Hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
Welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel if you're brand new, but if you're a regular welcome back
So in today's video what I wanted to do with you guys is something a little different
I wanted to open up my backpack which I use for work and give you a bit of a dive into some of the tools
Physical tools that I use on a daily basis and that's ranging from hardware to the offline stuff like networks
So hopefully this video gives you an insight
Into some of the things that I carry around the knee on my the regular typical day
So guys just before we dive in just a huge
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So guys, let's dive into a few of the things that I carry around in my day
Now of course let's start with the barrack I think the very key is an important factor, I guess I
Mean I didn't travel too far to work. It's like a 15-minute commute
But my bag is this one the fact that I'll use is I believe it's called a spiral rollup bag
It was I found it in TK Maxx, which is a UK outlet store for about 15 pounds
So it's pretty cheap and you can tell it's cheap in terms of the quality of it and it's probably something that will upgrade
But I like this design of this sort of roll-up bag and it's definitely something that's coming in
So a fashion trend probably out of fashion trend by the time I get to it
But I quite like the strap that comes down
I don't like it because it's velcro but I like that concept and even I could even fill it to the brim
are using the
extension and I quite like the two front pockets at end on my phone and my air pods in there because I really like to
Take out my phone as much as I want
When I'm traveling because if I've got a podcast on or something like that just stow it away in here
Maybe it's a thieves like dream, but it's ideal for me when I'm traveling
So inside my bag, I tend to store some general accessories like my glasses
These are like prescription lens long distance ones
That I use just for sunny days. That's just helpful. I also have this bag of like goodies
So this bank of goodies includes a whole range of stuff?
Like from extra headphones like cheap 5 pound or $10 headphones
universal adapters a couple of cables and a couple of charges that
For Android for iOS ones that I don't particularly use anymore
But a pretty handy just a hat on me in this like really nice travel pack
Becky got me this one for going to Cyprus and I actually stowed her engagement ring away underneath all of this
And it's I guess is quite especially because I can keep it in my bag and some days
I take it out if I want a sort of bulk free bag
And I know I'm not going to be in those sort of situations
Maybe I'm just nipping in or something like that
but I find it pretty handy because it's got all of the cables that I need in case of emergency and
Also when you're in coffee shops and people go have you got an Android charger and you want a sort of help?
This is a handy kit
So something non tech related again. I have not lis deal in my bag
I've had this made fast couple of months me and
Dan who I play badminton with
But sometimes we play Monopoly deal and it's quite a handy game to have because it's like a fifteen minute game
If you want to bump into someone or a social sort of bump in it's definitely a game to bring along soon
Probably the bulk of the experience is inside of this fool sort of laptop sleeve or case
um
I've found this really brilliant purchase recently because it stores away my laptop giving me the security like it is a really
well padded unit as well as being a very
Nice interior because it's got this sort of fluffy design hopeful it and show you
Individuals because that really does give me a sort of sense of security
But my laptop's not gonna get scratched when it pulls out or anything like that
So what it tends a half in here is oh
I have like an a4 bit of paper or a book as well as my laptop
In the moment. I've got a copy of Wired because I am slowly reading it and that's helpful for when I'm in coffee shops
But my the 13-inch MacBook slots in there, and it's a great size
It just seems really like it just fits perfectly and then I've got this fan pouch here, which is like an extension of the experience
Extension in spoons, which I have a pen some extra headphones
not very well organized and extra headphones and
an adapter as well as
A couple of of the SD cards as well as just for wine. I'm like recording stuff. And also I normally have a
Lenovo
USBC adapter for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro because of the ports on the side
it's a really handy units have and it's definitely something that I you just keep it and half on me like any given point because
I don't know when
Gonna be in a situation where my charger breaks or something like that and I need a an old version of it
So the final part of the experience is my tube and Figg notebooks
I have a red one, which is the raspberry honey edition and also a
Double one which I've got recently which is the dribble edition and maybe I can take you through the ways I use them
So the red one for raspberry honey, I use for general note-taking. This is
full thought of like so journal ideas and
musings about everything like it's just a general general use
Notebook because sometimes in my day weren't like me the notebook got it there and this one is more of a story book
it's got half of the page which is like
Which is free for space here for drawing
So I just draw a general bit and have that so it's always the journal and they both work really well together
They're not too thick
It's not like having a library my barrack, but I tend to keep these at home apart from the red one
Which I tend to just keep on me all the time
So these are the final edition. These are the air pods. I pretty much have these on me all times
They're a great addition, especially when you're in a coffee shop
Um, so I use these for meetings use these for obviously using them as general headphone news
But what I particularly love about them is the wireless experience in its course or why I got them
The wireless experience when you're in a coffee shop is a game changer because when you're in a coffee shop, and somebody asks you something
And you want to go over to them or I don't know something like that
And you don't have to unplug your experience
You can just sort of go over take your ear pods and put them in your pocket now
I've had a few problems with them
Which I'll be doing in a sort of Apple earpods review soon because I know you guys been asking
but it makes for a really light experience especially if I'm just like
like working really intensely and I need a real set focus so these have been gotten and
Apart from all the charging stuff that you have to do with them. They are really portable and handy
So guys that was all of what is in my work Bank
It's obviously not I would say not as much as many people's think because I didn't try and carry my camera
I don't carry maybe stuff that I don't necessarily need like a keyboard or mouse
Because everything my laptops works really well for that
Situation now I do of course in occasionally carry my gym stuff in my bank for the day
Or I'll carry an extra bag with my shoes in but apart from that
It's a pretty simplistic bag and I'm trying to keep thing as minimal as possible
I'm looking to maybe shuffle things down a little more and make it more efficient so that they will probably come with very soon
Anyway guys, hopefully you enjoyed this video today
I'll include all of the products in the scripture and below as well as some of the time stands where I talk about them
So you can go back and make my time and find out what those products were
And that might be useful for you, but I just want to say a big big. Thank you to monday.com
who are sponsoring this week here on Keep Productive YouTube channel?
It's great to have a sponsor especially because it keeps everything moving forward with the channel
monday.com is a project management resource, which is being grown in popularity
Mainly because it has a really custom experience
It challenges a lot of this sort of thoughts that we have about project managers in our sort of like careers
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Anyway, guys, hopefully you enjoyed today's video. Let me know in the comments below what you carry in your work bag
It'd be great to hear from your laptop
To some of the smaller devices and even some of the fun stuff that you carry in there
Let me know in the comments below would be really great here
Anyway guys, thank you so much for stopping by make sure have a great week keep productive and I'll see you guys very very soon