this video is all about productivity apps to enhance your 2022 like always links to everything
will be in the description below and my thanks to spike for sponsoring this video speaking of spike
that is the first app we're going to cover here that is a conversational email app with excellent
group collaboration features what i like about this is it takes the formality of email out of
the equation i like this because it clears the clutter of the traditional email out of my inbox
but i know the person on the other end is still receiving a regular email when writing a message
you can easily attach images files and gifs like you would come to expect from any email
application one of my favorite email features that's in spike is the ability to hide messages
until some point in the future now i get a lot of emails about things that i can't necessarily deal
with in the moment whether i'm waiting for another part to come in or i'm waiting on a contract or
whatever i you know i'm waiting on something so i can't deal with this email at that particular
moment with spike you can send that email off into the future and it'll come back to your inbox at
that set point spike's inbox also has some smarts behind it as well so i have this setup to filter
when new emails come in if it's somebody in my contacts or somebody i've messaged in the past
it goes right into the inbox but if it's a cold email a newsletter something i just didn't sign up
for it goes into an other folder and then i can just deal with that stuff whenever i have time
in the inbox you can also create notes and tasks this is great if something comes in and you want
to write a little reminder to yourself about it in the future it sits in your inbox and then you can
see that reminder and when you have a chance or when it comes time to deal with that you'll see it
be reminded about it and you can deal with it but there's also a collaborative aspect to these
notes and tasks so anyone else that's using spike you can share them with them and you can work on
these reminders and tasks together so if you're working on a project and you have a bunch of
steps that need to get done you can work on these and see what's getting done by the other person
and they can see what's getting done by you in addition to notes and reminders there is also a
calendar view so you can see all of your appointments right from spike there's even
built-in video and voice chat in spike it's just an all-around great collaborative tool spike works
across all the platforms ios mac android and even the web i will put a link in the description below
to where you can check out spike and again my thanks to spike for sponsoring this video
keepit is a note-taking app but also a database app it kind of blends together in a really nice
fashion i've been using this to store apps and tips and tricks i want to cover this stuff can
clog up my traditional note-taking app really quickly keepit has an excellent tagging system
so you can organize all your content and then there's excellent search as well as a database app
it does a great job of linking to different kinds of content if you're linking to something that's
just a web page it'll even load the page right in the app now you absolutely could use keepit as
just a note-taking app but i feel its real power is when it becomes kind of a database for like
storing stuff for a long period of time but then you can also write notes about that
it's just a good tool for this kind of thing no plan is a more traditional note-taking app
but with a small spin on it its main focus is on daily notes it links up with your calendar and the
reminders app and you can write all of your notes for the day in one place now my brain just doesn't
work this way i tried to use it and i was just like okay i can't write all of my video projects
and my personal stuff in in one place for one day just i couldn't just wrap my head around that
but if you want more traditional file and folder note taking that is in there as well even if you
do want to use the daily notes this is great for categorizing stuff for long periods of time
in note plan you can pull down on the note to make a quick reminder or calendar event this is super
cool i love how integrated notes and calendars and reminders are in this app honestly this is
how apple's suite of you know calendars reminders and notes should be notepad also has wiki style
linking and mention support this is great for linking all of your notes and content together so
that way you can quickly reference stuff and jump through two different notes in the application but
there's one big feature that would just that just keeps me from using it and it's a small thing too
because i absolutely could swap it out but it if it sees an asterisk it turns that into a to do
and i use asterisk as bulleted list for when i'm writing out outlines and scripts i break all my
stuff up that way so it turns all that stuff into to do's and i don't like that now you could just
use a dash instead that would be fine but i like asterisks there's a ton you can do with noteplan
i should probably do a dedicated video on it in fact any app in this video if you'd like to see
a dedicated video let me know in the comments below do is a timer app meets reminders app
it's what's cool about this is you can set up reminders in the app and then it'll nag
you until you get them done it's really great for super time sensitive tasks things that have
to be done that could be personally world ending to you so something i do is i have it set up for
two times a day to remind me to take my meds these are on repeating reminders at six a.m and six pm
and they just go off and they will keep reminding me about them until i get them done
you can set up repeating tasks and you can change how often it does the reminders personally i like
every 10 minutes it's just kind of enough time period for a reminder to go off give me enough
time to do something and then i can mark it complete before the second reminder or the
third reminder or whatever goes off it also has excellent shortcuts integration if you're looking
for something that you could just like fire off a shortcut and then start a series of timers
trello is a collaborative kanban system kanban basically works with a group of tasks that you
can move through different stages with trello you can work with a group of people and assign tasks
to certain people then move the tasks through different stages trello is great for any group
projects and tracking large amount of tasks within a project it's also web-based so it'll
work on any platform so no matter what platform your group is using guaranteed you can use trello
tas is a task management app that i really like and i've talked about before but it recently got
a big update like trello it uses a kanban system but you can also turn those projects
into a simple list it recently got updated to support folders and smart lists and it's
on its way to being a true professional task management app right now i've got a lot going
on so i can't swap out my task manager but i've been playing with this one a lot and it has me
super intrigued that when i get a chance i may make this my main task manager i just i need to
play with it a little more but i wanted to talk about it because if you're looking for a native
app for the apple ecosystem that does both kanban and list views tas is a good app to start looking
at for that good notes is probably the most popular app on the ipad anytime somebody makes an
ipad apps video on youtube good there's a really good chance goodnotes is going to be on that list
it's a digital notebook app with a ton of different paper style templates so you can
swap all the templates out for normal lined paper or the squared paper or all sorts of stuff that
i've never even heard of it's a really good app for that it's also got a great ink engine so
when you're using the apple pencil like it just looks really nice like some of the stuff people
can do in good notes i i can't do it but some of the stuff people could do in good notes is really
impressive so if you're looking to turn your ipad into a digital notebook i think goodnotes
is the best place to start concepts is another ipad app this one is for drawing but what's
different about this as opposed to other drawing apps is it has an infinite canvas basically what
that means is you can zoom out and move around and it just keeps making the image larger and larger
so you don't run up against edges now i can't draw to save my life but what i like using concepts for
is planning out a large project or mapping something out so i can just kind of like
start writing things out and i can zoom out more i can keep zooming out and keep moving around
and i don't ever run into an edge i don't ever have to go to a second page or anything like that
this is where the power of the ipad over something like a physical notebook comes into play
also concepts has really great tools for drawing or handwriting and out of all of the ipad apps it
has one of my favorite color pickers so a quick tip when using the apple pencil a lot i like to
use a paper like paper like full disclosure is a channel sponsor but what i like about it is it's
a textured screen protector so when you're using the apple pencil and you're writing on the ipad
it feels like you're using a pencil and paper as opposed to plastic on glass i really don't
like that plastic on glass feeling so i will always recommend the paper like i i really
really like it okay so this next one is more of a tip not really an app because it uses
the files app it's built into ipad os and ios but there is a scanner built right into the files app
so if you're still getting physical documents you can go into the files app
hit the more button select scan document then you just line up the camera with the document it will
detect the page and then auto crop to fit that and then just scan the document and then you can add
more pages or you can save the file whatever you need to do it's a really great built-in utility
so that's it for this video let me know what your favorite productivity app is in the comments below
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