i reviewed more than 100 apps and tools
since i started my youtube channel i
found a lot of amazing ones but i
actually use only a few of them in my
life because i want to keep it as simple
as possible so in this video i want to
show you my absolute favorite apps i use
every day for studying taking notes
writing and managing my to-do's and the
schedule
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raindrop is probably the app i use most
often it's like my personal digital
library i use it to save articles i
liked videos files music i love and
pretty much anything i want to keep and
pull whenever i need them without it i
cannot do my work because i store lots
of things in there so i can use when for
example creating my newsletter blog
posts and youtube videos i used to use
an app called my mind which is also a
fantastic app i no longer use it but i
thought it was worth mentioning it
because it's one of the most unique and
genius apps if you're interested i made
a bunch of videos about it so you can
take a look
there are many things i love about
raindrop for example it has integration
with raycast and alfred which makes it
possible to instantly look up things in
your raindrop no matter where you are on
your computer i can just press command
space to open the quick search bar and
find the thing i need this was a huge
reason why i decided to switch to
raindrop from my mind it makes it so
easy to browse through my digital
library and find references especially
when i'm writing i can find the resource
i need in just a few seconds
also it has permanent copy feature which
means once you save an article to
raindrop it will automatically make a
backup of the website or the article so
even if the website got taken down or
disappeared you can still see them also
they recently added highlighting feature
i don't really use it but might be
useful because now you can annotate and
make highlights so you can easily find
sentences or paragraphs you like
but the best part is it's super cheap it
only costs a few dollars a month which
might be the lowest among this type of
apps
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for my reading inbox i use an app called
mata which is unfortunately ios only
since i have an iphone i mostly use mata
to save articles to read later but the
thing is i recently got an android phone
as a secondary device for consuming
content
and mata is not available on android
this is why i'm thinking i should maybe
just use pocket since it's available
both on android and ios and mata is a
great app though i love its simple
design and more importantly in mata you
follow writers not just publications so
in my experience it's much easier to
discover articles that resonate with me
than other reading apps and also it
might be trivial but the fact mata lets
you save an entire twitter thread is
great because i love reading them in
comparison pocket lets you save only one
tweet of a thread
anyway for now whenever i discover
interesting articles i just save it to
mata or pocket so i can read them in a
batch later when i have time then when
i'm reading them i make highlights which
can also be imported to my notetab via
redevice
also if i really like the article i
usually save it to raindrop i can do
this manually but i have it automated
with ifttt whenever i favorite an
article in pocket it will be
automatically saved to raindrop
so right now i'm kind of going back and
forth between mata and pocket it's a bit
frustrating so i really hope mata will
make an android version soon
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the next one is my absolute favorite
podcast i've snipped i have been a huge
fan of it for a long time so i'm very
happy that they are sponsoring this
video i love listening to podcast it is
great way to have fun while doing
something else because you have your
hands free and you still get to listen
to great stories and learn something new
i've tested many different podcast apps
but the best one for me is snips it has
such a refined beautiful ui and pack
great features i love that it creates
chapters for each episode automatically
this makes it so easy to kind of skim
through to find out what each section is
about and
just listen to the ones that interest
you but the most impressive feature is
audio highlighting when you are
listening to a podcast and come across
interesting idea you want to save you
can just hit the save button on the
screen or just triple tap your earphones
or headphones then you will use ai to
figure out perfect timing for the
highlight and save it for you and you
can see all the highlights you made in
one place what's more you can also
import the highlights into your note app
by connecting to read wise which is a
great up too this way you can make noise
from the highlight on your favorite
note-taking app which will help you
remember what you learned from podcast
if you're curious you can download a
snippet from the link in the description
it's free
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for writing and managing my highlights i
have been using logsiq for
a very long time
i have reviewed many note-taking apps
before but for me it's always being
log-seek not because it's better than
the others but simply if it's how i
think and work it's an aligner app and
perfect for people who like to think in
bullet point or block level it's also
open source and all of your nodes are
stored in your local computer which is
great for privacy all the highlights are
automatically imported in my lockseek
database so i can see and browse them
anytime or i can use them for my writing
projects i used to have a neat workflow
called the jetcasting system which i
talked about in my previous video but
the problem was that i got tired of
building complicated system like that
and trying to maintain it and following
the steps i thought i would rather spend
the time for writing instead so that is
why i stopped doing the casting and
doing complex workflow
now i just look at the highlights and
think about how i can use them for my
future writing project that's it another
tool i use sometimes is napkin i
reviewed about a month ago and it really
clicked with me since i'm getting tired
of building complex system navigation
seemed great because of its simplicity
it's like an ai-powered digital index
card not taking nap i used to use an
index card a lot when i was in
university and i missed how simple it
was so napkin felt very natural to me
maybe that's why it resonated with me so
much being able to easily create a note
card for inspiring ideas it's great and
then i can cycle through them to review
my note cards it also shows you similar
note cards which is perfect for
serendipity and finding surprising
connections between ideas anyway it's
still an early product and doesn't have
features like read-wise integration yet
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before managing my to-do's and the
schedule and keeping track of things i
have been using ampunoid for years now
it was kind of basic back then but now
it's a completely different story
it just keeps getting better and better
recently they added the sidebar feature
which is of course kind of a standard
feature for modern note-taking apps but
it made it so much easier to write and
organize things
you may think it's just another note app
but ampunoid is an all-in-one app so it
can be such a great to do and the
calendar app too for me i mostly use it
for keeping track of things in my life
so whenever i think of something or see
something i want to remember i write it
down in ampunoit it can be a book
recommendation my favorite quotes a
restaurant movies to watch i write them
down and then organize them into lists
this way i can keep track of things in
my life with ease there are many apps
that let you do something similar but
for me android does it the best it's
simple and you can even share your notes
and list with other people with just a
few clicks
and of course it's a great to do up too
you can write down things you need to do
and they get accumulated in the unified
task list which is automatically sorted
using the eisenhower matrix then i can
switch to the calendar mode and schedule
these tasks which is how i usually plan
my week
alright so these are the tools i use
every day if you're curious about other
great apps like ampunoid for organizing
your life make sure to check out this
video and also don't forget to check out
sniped it's free and available on both
ios and android alright thank you so
much for watching and
i will see you in the next video bye