- Hey friends.
Welcome back to the channel.
This is the annual, what is on my iPhone video,
which is always super, super exciting.
And in fact, super excitingly this year
I'm actually going to be showing you
all of the different apps that I use,
categorised by the room of the house,
the location that I use the apps in.
So let's start with location number one.
All right.
Let's talk about apps that I use in the bedroom.
Now, the only one that I consider myself
allowed to use in the bedroom is Audible,
because often if I'm getting ready for bed
I will have my AirPods in.
I'll be listening to a book on audible.
I've just finished the Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion,
which is apparently one of the Bill Gates' favourite books.
And it's about a genetics professor with autism,
who's trying to find a wife.
So that was relatable in some ways.
And at the moment,
I'm listening to the Pillars of the Earth series
by Ken Follett, which is very good.
Now, normally I try to not bring my phone
into bed with me, but occasionally I do.
And that is when I end up
spending lots of time on Clubhouse.
I'm spending a fair bit of time on Clubhouse recently.
You can follow me on there if you like.
Clubhouse. if you're not familiar, is like audio,
sort of like Discord audio rooms for different topics.
And so occasionally I see
that some of my friends in America,
like YouTubers in my agency,
are doing an event,
which in America time ends up being midnight in the UK.
And often then I open Clubhouse thinking, oh,
I'll just listen in for a few minutes.
And then I get like involved and then I get sucked in.
And then I'm there on three o'clock in the morning.
Obviously, if I do take my phone into bed,
I inevitably end up wasting time on Instagram.
Often I scroll through Instagram.
And sometimes, if I'm feeling particularly narcissistic,
or scroll through my own Instagram feed,
and watch some of my old stuff.
And of course I also spend large amounts of time
scrolling through Twitter.
And Twitter and Instagram are the banes of my life.
And that's why I try my very best
to not to bring my phone into bed with me.
Oh, and one more app, which I don't really use actively,
but which is passively tracking my sleep
is called AutoSleep.
So depending on how I'm feeling,
often I will track my sleep
using my Apple Ring and my Apple Watch,
which I'm not wearing at the moment,
because I've been wearing it for so long
that it's caused some like, you know dermatitis on my skin
or something weird like that.
But normally I track my sleep using my Apple Watch
and AutoSleep takes all that data
and tells me how well I'm sleeping.
I haven't really found the trends
to be particularly helpful, but I thought, hey,
the data's there,
so I might be able to query it at some point.
So those are the apps I use in the bedroom.
Let's not head over to the bathroom.
Okay.
Hey, now we're at the bathroom.
Don't judge me for this.
I know you did the same thing.
We all bring our phone into the bathroom.
And then we end up using lots of apps in the bathroom.
Now, one of them being a waste man
the ones that I scroll through our Twitter and Instagram
which we've talked about already, and YouTube Studio.
The bathroom is actually where I respond
to most of my YouTube comments.
So I'll go on YouTube Studio,
I'll click on the comments thing.
Usually I, if I see a comment, I just like it
because then it helps me keep track of what the comment is.
And I will try my very best to reply
to people's comments while I'm on the toilet.
So that's, if I'm being a waist man.
But one thing I'm trying to do when I'm in the bathroom
instead of using Twitter, Instagram and YouTube
I'm instead trying to use Instapaper.
Instapaper is the app that I use
to collect all of the articles
that I've stumbled across on the internet
that I know I want to read later, at some point,
But if I don't have time
to read them there and then,
usually when I'm on the computer,
I'll save them to Instapaper,
and then there'll be in a nice little feed on my phone.
And hopefully what I'm hoping is that when I have free time
like when I'm on the toilet,
I will read through an article
that I've wanted to save already.
And the really cool thing about Instapaper,
is that I can highlight things.
And thanks to the app called ReadWise,
which I'll talk more about later.
It automatically synchronises to Roam and to Notion,
which are two of my kind of pivotal note taking apps
that I'll talk about in a little bit as well.
Here's an interesting one,
The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated
to Turn Hobbies into Hustles.
So clearly I saved that to Instapaper thinking, oh,
this is an interesting article,
I should read that.
Let's say what a highlight a bit of it.,
I'll hit the highlight button.
And now it's going to show up in my Roam research
from my daily notes and it's pretty magical.
So that's what I do when I'm sitting on the toilet.
Let's now move into the kitchen.
All right.
So now we come to the kitchen.
And normally when I'm in the kitchen,
I make myself a cup of coffee.
And as the coffee is going,
I ask Alexa to set me a two minute timer.
And then in those two minutes,
usually I'm checking my calendar
to see what my day is looking at.
So the calendar app I use is called Fantastical.
it's pretty solid.
I've been using it for the last, like, I don't know,
four or five years at this point.
A little bit expensive, but it's pretty good.
And the cool thing about Fantastical
is that it like syncs with Google Calendar,
and iCloud calendar and all the other calendars.
And I can subscribe to different calendars.
It's all the same stuff that any other calendar app does.
But because I've been using it so long,
I have basically no reason to switch away from it.
Occasionally while I'm in the kitchen as well.
I will also browse a little bit of TikToK.
Recently I've started to become more active on TikToK.
So you should follow me on TikTok if you aren't already.
And it's mostly like the life advicey stuff
that I post on TikTok, you know,
like a little bit of TikTok captions and emojis,
and trying to keep it short sweet.
But sometimes I post experimental content
on TikTok as well.
So this is me trying to do a Harry Potter impression.
Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum.
Then again, clearly some of her have come to Hogwarts,
in possession of abilities so formidable,
that you feel confident enough to not pay attention.
And finally, depending on whether I'm trying to hit my goals
of getting six pack abs, I'm not right now,
I will occasionally use MyFitnessPal
to track my calories, and my macros and that kind of stuff.
And if you look for the last year,
I started off at 73 kilogrammes this time last year,
and I'm currently about 79 kilogrammes.
So things are not going great on the front
of trying to get shredded with six pack abs.
And then usually I grab my coffee from the kitchen,
and make my way into this armchair,
where I sit with my feet up and my blanket, usually.
And when I'm not sitting here playing PlayStation
or watching TV,
I like to treat this as a bit of a alternative work corner
as an alternative to my desk.
And so the main app
that I spend a lot of my time in, is Slack
this is how my team and I communicate.
And it's how we talk about stuff around the YouTube channel
and the podcast and brainstorming titles,
and thumbnail ideas for videos, that sort of thing.
Slack is also what we use to host the members-only community
for the Part-Time YouTuber Academy Inner Circle,
which is our membership community
for the alumni of the Part-Time YouTube Academy.
And so we've got a channel for like general,
and gear questions, feedback on videos, titles,
and thumbnails, support, tips and tricks,
that sort of stuff.
It's a very nice, wholesome community.
While I'm sitting here on my phone,
I often use the app called Draughts to take any notes
on anything that's top of mind.
Generally the app that I use for note taking these days
is Roam Research.
But Roam is still a little bit temperamental.
So often I switched to Draughts
if I have a need to write something down,
in particular, if I have a random idea for a new video
which I often have when I'm sipping on coffee in the morning
and on my phone,
then I'll just try and try and write
a quick script and draught.
So this is what my intro to Bitcoin video started off as
as a Draughts script written on my phone
and that will be linked up there somewhere.
Another cool app I've been using recently
is called ShortForm.
ShortForm is like really good summaries
of popular nonfiction books.
So for example, if we read the summary
for the War of Art, this is what we used
to create a video, which is, I think coming up next week
around this book, The War of Art.
And it's really nice because they give you
like a really detailed one page summary.
But then on top of the one page summary,
you've got a full summary as well.
And that sort of gives you a chapter by chapter
summary of the book.
And I don't use ShortForm
as an alternative for reading books.
I use it as like an in addition,
or if I come across a book
and I'm not sure I want to read it
I'll see if they've got a summary of it on ShortForm.
And for a lot of them, they do.
And then if I like the ShortForm summary.
then I'll actually read the book.
So those are the absolute use.
What I'm sitting on the armchair.
Let's now move on to the sofa,
where I do my relaxing on my phone.
Sometimes while I'm here on the couch
I would just mindlessly scroll through Instagram, Twitter
and YouTube Studio and occasionally TikTok.
But if I'm feeling particularly frisky,
I might hang out a little bit on Hinge,
and check out some of my matches.
This is what my profile looks like,
for whatever it's worth.
Do let me know if there's any ways I can improve it
down in the comments below.
I'm obviously flexing my million subscribers plaque
as the very first thing on my Hinge profile.
The hallmark of a good relationship
is where we spend 90% of our time doing our own thing.
And 10% of it hanging out, doing stuff together.
Got my uniform.
Nice picture of me.
If loving this as wrong, I don't want to be right.
Long road trips listening to audio books at two X speed.
And yeah, that's the profile.
How many?
Ooh, 69 matches so far, or likes, so far
because I've got Hinge premium,
so I can see who likes me,
before they can see that I've liked them,
which saves me a lot of time.
I've also still got subscriptions to Tinder Gold
and Bumble premium.
I actually have a lifetime membership to Bumble premium
because it was on sale.
And I thought, you know what?
Why not?
But Hinge where it's at these days.
So I don't really use any of the others.
Sometimes if I'm in the mood to read a book,
I'll use the Kindle app, which is surprisingly good.
If I can't be bothered to get my Kindle,
which has all the way across the flat in my bedroom,
then I'll just read on the Kindle app on my phone.
I've just finished reading Open the autobiography
of Andre Agassi, which was absolutely fantastic.
And I'm now reading a book called
How to Find Fulfilling Work,
which is published by the School of Life,
which is very interesting indeed.
It talks about all the different ways
in which we find meaning in our jobs,
and the quest for meaning,
and all the ways in which sometimes
our jobs can feel meaningless.
Alternatively, if I'm feeling like listening to a podcast
then the app that I use is called AirAudio,
which I think is still only on iOS, unfortunately.
The cool thing about Air
is that while you're listening to a podcast,
you can hit the air quote button,
and it will save a quote from the podcast.
And usually they have transcripts
of the most popular podcasts,
including mine and my brother's.
And so it like clips the last 30 seconds
that you were listening to.
And so you've got that saved.
And the really cool thing is that I've got this synchronised
with a ReadWise into my Notion and my Roam set up,
so I can immediately see the transcripts
that I've air quoted from podcasts that I've listened to.
So for example, you know, the Seth Godin episode
I heard in October,
loads and loads of air quotes from me,
and I can go through air quotes and I can be like, oh yeah
I can re I can revisit this stuff.
This is all kind of theoretical.
I've never once actually gone through my air quotes
for a podcast,
and actually done something with them
but it makes me feel better to know that they're there,
and it's not just going in one ear and out the other.
And then I used to have this real problem.
I still have this real problem
with always forgetting the wisdom
that I picked up in podcasts.
And finally, while I'm on the sofa
I might occasionally go into Lightroom.
I might take a selfie of myself,
and then go into Lightroom to edit it,
to upload onto Instagram.
And so if, for example, I want to edit thumbnail
then I can do adjustments to it in Lightroom,
and then I can upload it to Instagram
with some fancier effects put in, if that's what I'm into.
Next we have one app that I use when I'm on the piano,
keyboard rather, and that is UltimateGuitarTabs.
And the cool thing about this app
is that you can search
for any song in the world,
and you can find the chords to that song,
and then you can play the song.
So these are the songs in my favourites list.
If we pick Can You Feel the Love Tonight.
It will tell me the courts for it.
So I can be like,
(plays piano)
♪ There's a calm surrender, ♪
♪ to the rush of day, ♪
♪ when the heat of a rolling world ♪
♪ can be turned away. ♪
So that's UltimateGuitarTabs,
and you can follow me on Instagram
to see more of that singing type stuff if you're into that.
So that's Ultimate GuitarTabs.
But now as I film this, it's around 10:00 PM,
and I'm feeling a little bit hungry.
So my housemate Sheen and I
are going to go to McDonald's to grab a drive-through.
And the really cool thing is that
I now have the Tesla app on my phone,
which lets me prewarm the car,
so that when we get into it, it will be warm.
So we click on the climate button
and I can hit turn on climate,
and I can heat the front driver and passenger seat remotely.
At the moment, the interior is two degrees Celsius
which is very cold, but because I've turned on climate
it's going to warm up in about five minutes
and then we're going to go into the car,
grab a McDonald's.
And this is pretty cool.
Hashtag flex.
All right.
So we're in the car.
We're just about to go to McDonald's.
Usually when I'm in the car by myself,
I like to listen to audio books on Audible at double speed
or podcasts on AirAudio at triple speed.
But because Sheen my housemate is with me,
we're not allowed to do that.
And instead, we got my boy Ed Sheeran playing on the Spotify
And gonna put the phone on the wireless charger,
so that'll charge wirelessly, while the car is going.
Now see you in McDonald's.
Thank you very much.
- [drive through attendant] Thank you, oh I'm sorry.
- Woops.
Cheers, bye bye.
Alrightie.
Yes, cannot wait for this McKee's, it's going to be lit.
Should we even go home or no?
- [Sheen] It's up to you.
- All right.
So the food has arrived.
Now we're going to turn on the old
(fire crackles)
and get cosy.
Let me turn the lights on
This is how Sheen and I eat McDonald's together.
Isn't it Sheen?.
- [Sheen] A ha.
- Finally, we come to the desk.
Now, there's actually very things that I do with my phone
on my desk,
because it's just a hundred times more efficient
to use apps on my Mac rather than on my phone.
And basically every app I use for productivity
is cross-platform.
So it works on my phone, Mac, iPad, whatever.
But because this is what's on my iPhone video
the app that I use
for all of my note taking is Roam Research these days,
mostly on desktop.
I very rarely use it on iPhone.
But it does have a reasonable quick capture way
of taking notes.
And I'll put a video up there
that shows more about how I use Roam
in case you want to check it out.
So Roam is what I use for personal note taking.
But the app that we use for team note taking
is Notion unsurprisingly.
Notion has helped me, and my team, and my business,
and almost my life, apart from personal note taking.
This is how we organise everything:
video schedule, book reviews, courses, website, podcast,
research for my book.
It's all going into various Notion pages
and Notion is what we use for absolutely everything.
Again, I'll put a link over there,
and in the video description to more videos
where I talk in depth about exactly how I use Notion,
because I've talked about that ad nauseum
on this channel so far.
The app that I use for private journaling
is called a DayOne.
And I'm not going to show you what my journal looks like,
'cause well, it's a private journal.
Usually I don't use DayOne on my phone.
But again, cross platform.
So if I want to type anything into DayOne
I usually just type it on my Mac.
Usually before I go to sleep, or in the morning
when I'm doing my morning journaling,
I chuck it straight into DayOne.
I've been using DayOne since like 2014 or 2015,
something like that.
So I actually have five years worth
of journal entries in DayOne.
And yeah,
you can see these blue days are the ones
where I've actually used it.
I have kind of periods where I use it quite a lot,
and periods where I don't use it at all.
But you know,
it's actually quite nice to be able to look back on my life.
And it gives you these things of, you know,
on this day, five years ago, this is what you wrote.
And I'm like, oh, on this day in 2016,
this is what I was thinking.
That's kind of interesting.
Music-wise, Spotify for absolutely everything.
I would love to be an Apple music sort of person,
but it's just so bad compared to Spotify.
And right now I'm playing an instrumental playlist
for Homework Club for my part-time YouTube Academy,
where me and like 12 other people
are all filming various videos
for our YouTube channels and just doing it together.
Oh, and in terms of email
I actually use the email app, Superhuman.
Superhuman is apparently the fastest way to do email.
I've been using Superhuman since like June of 2019.
And it's a very solid app, have found a reason to switch.
It's a bit expensive.
It basically lets give you the privilege
of paying to check your Gmail.
But I actually really like it
and it's a pretty solid app.
So yeah, Superhuman across all my devices
is how I check my email.
And finally an app that I've actually been using
relatively recently, is Discord.
I dabbled with having a kind of fan Discord server
at one point,
but it just became way too much to manage.
Maybe thinking about restarting one
if anyone's interested in being a moderator for it,
or helping me start one out, drop me an email
My email addresses on the website
and in the video description.
But now I use it,
like for the last few days, I've been playing Call of Duty
Cold War, Modern Warfare Cold War, Black Ops,
Cold War Black Ops,
whatever it's called with some friends.
We've been playing like domination mode.
And so we have a voice channel on Discord
where will sit on the couch,
play PlayStation with my airpods in,.
And I'll be on Discord with the boys.
The final app I want to talk to you about
is actually one that I often use when I'm on the sofa,
because it's just so easy to access on my phone.
But I also use it on the iPad, and on desktop
if sometimes I feel like it.
And that is the app Brilliant,
who are very kindly sponsoring this video.
Now Brilliant is actually a fantastic app
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If you guys like this What's On My iPhone type video,
you might like to check out this video,
which is all the apps on my iPad for 2021,
or that video,
which is all the apps on my MacBook for 2021.
Thank you so much for watching,
and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.