okay i'd be lying if i told you i didn't spend a lot and when i say a lot i mean a lot of time on
my phone and i'm gonna do something that i've never done before which is i am going to share
with you today just how much screen time i spend per week on my phone and i'm really nervous to
do this because unlike a lot of people who share this amount of screen time i've never even really
seen what the normal average is so i don't know i might be like crazy high compared to most of you i
might be crazy maybe surprise me crazy low but anyways today i'm going to be sharing with you
my screen time and the reason i'm doing it this is because today i really want to talk about
productivity and as someone who is a software engineer who is a content creator a tech youtuber
trying to manage a social life and just like enjoy life there's a lot going on and i'm always on my
phone and i want to share with you today some ways that really help me stay productive and focused
this is very bright but we're just heading into the co-working space
um and then we're gonna sit down and catch up
okay i am in the co-working space it's a rare moment when it's like this quiet so i'll do a
little of the main floor a little glimpse a little tour because it's really pretty okay
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okay hi i'm sitting down with you and jack nicholson behind me of course jack say hi hello
okay it's just crickets jack doesn't want to talk uh i wanted to sit down with you and
share with you some apps that i use to really customize my mac and make it more productive
in this sense which makes me more productive because i am more focused i can utilize my tools
better and i used to be someone who wouldn't customize my mac or have apps specifically for
different things and then i started playing around with it and i got hooked because
just like the amount of time you spend on your devices whether it be your phone your computer
similarly i find that if you have tools that will help you make life easier whether it be for focus
or organization you in turn will save a lot of time to be more productive and this is something
i mean time is the most valuable thing i think it's even more valuable than money in the sense
that we cannot get time back we cannot get more time like what we are given we have and i always
think about well how do i utilize that time in the best way possible so i'm going to put up on screen
here and my computer here i'm going to share with you my first one which is called bartender and
this is a really popular app i would say i've seen it on a lot of friends computers as well and
i was kind of late to the game on it but i was super excited when i finally uh got
it so bartender you can think of it as a menu organizer bar for mac it helps organize search
and see your mac menu bar icons while you are using your desktop or keeping it tidy i should say
okay so as you can see i have bartender up on the screen here and there are a lot of options
to really customize it so if you go to menu bar layout you can see where you want to see the menu
bar items uh which ones will be hidden different things like that that you can really customize and
okay so right now you can see i have very minimal things shown on my menu bar which i really like
but i would want to add in uh my spotlight and what else it already has the time the battery
would also be important or is important i should say and i like that kind of next too there we go
and then also too to know if my vpn is on which is very important to me but yeah the rest of them
i'm fine to be hidden and this is a great way just to see quickly i found what was happening
is i have so many different applications and these aren't even all of them i just i'm not
showing them all for this this walk through but basically i had so many and it just got very
it just started looking so cluttery and it just it really in turn makes your mind feel
that way as well so that is the first app i really want to share with you let's move on to
another one i feel like i'm sharing all my secrets here okay so next up let's do one switch which i
will put up on screen here and essentially it allows you to create a personalized control
center so and i found one thing that this app has done really well is it really kind of cleans up my
mac and i i guess my favorite part of it is the shortcuts so as long as you can remember the
shortcuts that is key sometimes i make shortcuts for apps and then i forget them and then it's
just a really big pain but i'll show you what i did to customize mine here but first let me
show you in setup they have some really good images of it as well one switch you can see here
hi desktop icons this is another huge thing i absolutely love because
oh am i going to show you my desktop we're getting really personal if i do that okay i'm going to
show it to you but it's going to be quick you might pause this video because it's going to be
i'm just going to show you for one second and hopefully you don't actually see it okay
so bad i told you so bad okay let's move on next topic okay so yes one switch is
amazing and clearly i need to utilize it more for hiding files uh but let me show you let
me open mine up here okay you can see here i have general and then if you go into customize
uh so you can add remove or sort any of the switches on the dashboard so i have
quite a bit as you can see but here's what i was talking about with shortcuts
those shortcuts so you can record a shortcut so for me mute microphone that is something that i
usually have i took it out for now but so say you want it to be um let's just do m for mute
perfect so you can see there's m for mute and keep awake a lot of people like to keep their mac
awake for a long time i'm not one of those people but i'm curious to know the reasoning behind it
so if you are one of those people let me know okay let's move on to
the third app okay so some of you might know well actually you all should know if you're watching
this video that i work from a co-working space sometimes as i gave you a tour earlier and i
absolutely love getting out of the house working in different cafes or going to co-working spaces
it really helps me get my focus back especially when coding but the downside i find to that
is i just have one screen i don't have my double monitors like in my office and
sometimes that can be really annoying as far as especially if i'm coding um something on the front
end side of things so i have on screen here slide pad which has really helped me so you can see it
really helps reduce uh switching between screens you can answer different applications like slack
without opening the actual app which is pretty cool so i'm in setup here and let me just show
you some demos they do for it so it just slides over your current screen which makes it honestly
if you are someone who works from one screen or if you're a digital nomad you know this
is like an absolute game changer so i've been using slide pad for a while now especially when
i'm out at co-working spaces and it really really helps me actually enjoy working more so because
i often would go to co-working spaces for like one hour and then be like i need my two monitors
i'm going back home and then dredge back home so slide pad okay let's talk about one more app that
i am kind of obsessed with and once again this is an app that i have through setup um it's actually
where i find all of my apps so this isn't unique to just productivity but uh really for everything
and i'll put up on screen here it's called spotless and this is something this is a
tool that i've been using for quite a while now because what it does is it will auto hide
and clean up your files and you can actually go as far to customize it that it does this on a
daily weekly bi-weekly however frequently you want basis which is huge because of course as you
are working on your computer and doing different things uh more files are accumulating so the fact
that you can set it to based on how frequently you want it to be changing or organizing your
computer for you is really huge and i don't even know let me see if i can find a stack quickly
okay yeah i literally on screen here i or on my computer i just pulled up do people focus better
in a clean environment or like you know am i just unique in that way but no there's been so many
studies that show clutter actually affects your brain and how you work and that's not just the
environment you are in your external environment that includes your environment on your computer
if your mac is a complete mess yes i know i have a very messy desktop but that's very easily cured if
your mac though is a complete mess you don't know where your applications are you aren't organized
that's going to in turn affect the way you work there's no question in that it's just science it's
just it's just facts okay but i really wanted to share with you some of the apps that i use because
i get asked often about that how what apps do you use to stay organized and productive and i really
have to be on top of that because as i mentioned at the beginning of this video being into software
being a software engineer being a content creator tech youtuber all of those things they take a lot
of time and trying to grow your business with growing your tech career with growing
you know maintaining a social life and all that it is hard it is a full-time 24 7 thing so any apps i
can use to make me make my day or make my week go smoother is key so thank you set up i absolutely
love all of your apps and i always find another like i'll pull up on screen here again because
there's so many more apps that i went through and i always find one of my favorite things
to do when i'm bored or just kind of like you know looking around is to go on and actually
look at all the apps they have because sometimes hey i didn't even know that existed and this
could really solve this problem of mine so i link them down below so make sure to go
check them out okay let's move on though to something we've all been kind of waiting for
which is my screen time and i wanted to tie this into this video because if we're going
to be spending so much time on our screens we might as well make it to some degree productive
and i'm not going to i don't know can you do it on your mac i'm sure you can but for this
one i'm going to show you on my phone because i'm i'm always on my phone so my my screen time
my daily average are you ready what do you think it is okay here we go let me see i'll put it up
on screen but this is for real for real focus i'll put a screenshot up but it is four hours
and 33 minutes per day is it a lot is that a little i don't know uh let's see what the
can i see what the most is let's
see so the most is social and creativity then entertainment so the most used no surprise here
is tick tock i i love tick tock it's so fun then i have instagram i have splice which is a
video editing app i use and then i have youtube safari and camera it's crazy though it's so crazy
how many times like uh you use your apps in a day or use different tools in a day and it really
makes you think of how much time we are losing in a day by just going on especially social media
i'm curious to know though if you are willing to admit and just be honest with me as well as i
is with you what is your daily average for screen time when i searched it up the average like i just
looked it up the average is between four and eight hours a day so i think i'm on the low side which
is kind of surprising but in all honesty i spend most of my time on my computer
like a solid eight hours a day i would say it sounds so crazy but yeah i mean i work on it
eight hours a day social on it everything it's crazy anyways i hope you found this video very
helpful going through some of my favorite apps that i use on my mac to stay productive if you
have any other app suggestions leave them down below and i will see you all soon thanks everyone
you