Hello everyone and welcome back to the Software Pulse
It is Francesco D'Alessio, your host for another new segment
So obviously I've been away for two weeks. Now. I've been away to sunny Cyprus for a little bit of a vacation
It was a really nice relax
We got some time to enjoy the Sun and put my feet up, but I also got some time to sort of
Recalibrate a lot of the work I'm doing too which hopefully will reflect in the next couple of weeks video
So do stay tuned and if you're new on this channel, do hit that subscription button
So just before we dive in and to the news
I wanted to announce that I will be announcing two more Skillshare courses, which is great
So think sorry will be available very soon within the month of August.
Reason why I'm doing this course is mainly to overview the features and functions of Things 3
It's a very expensive application and hard to invest in sometimes when you're you know, like a first-time buyer
Of course, they've got a free trial on Mac
But maybe you want to understand all of the platform before you invest in the iOS and Mac application
And of course, I'm doing another one on Bear
Which is a note-taking or even a writer application that you can use just the ins and outs of that
So there are two new courses coming
So I'll include the links below to the current Skillshare courses, but I think you were drew there
So do stay tuned in August for those
Anyway, guys, let's dive into some of the news from some of your feedback are broken into a segment. So let's start with hardware
So first off hardware Apple have released new pro units
They have obviously been working on their MacBook Pro lineup
they've included new Intel processors in them and also introduced new power saving functions as well as
Power boosting functions, so you'll get more power for the punch as well, which is great
So that's the latest on a MacBook Pro line
Now in other news PC sales have actually grown for the first time in six years
This is quite an interesting figure of course pcs are becoming a little bit easier to use as you go around home
Because you've always you've got a base there and you can set up a lot of people were going back to this desktop productivity
so it's going to be quite interesting because
That's kind important factor with these app developers
So for example todoist if they see growth in desktop applications
They will invest more in their desktop apps and that will influence the way that you experience
So just to note that that's obviously a growth in that area and will affect apps over time
Of course that's going to be sustained growth
Maybe that's quite interesting to you. Now moving on to personal productivity. We all know recently this week todoist
Have almost pretty much announced dark mode now dark mode
Which Amir tweeted on social media is going to be a fallback mode of todoist
And it looks great and I think it's gonna be very appealing to a lot of users who like this
You know a sort of dark skinned experience. It is absolutely fantastic
They are going to be releasing it very soon
They've said pretty much within the month on Instagram
But obviously that's a provisional
now in to follow suit notion have actually added a dark mode as well with it with their plan to add a dark red are
They haven't officially released its in their upcoming section, which I can imagine will be available in 2.3
Which I'll talk about more in the team's tools now
I have bit sapphire, which is an iOS application have added a Mac OS version the Mac OS version is priced at
$19.99 a real sort of desktop way to manage your habits and sort of experiences. So
Let's stay tuned for that because I will be reviewing it here on the keyboard a YouTube channel, and it's been a popular
Like sort of resource for everyone, especially on iOS now in other news Newton Newton disclaimer
I do work with Newton
But Newton have released recap recap is a way for you to get your emails
That you've had conversations in the past with so for example, let's say you've discussed a certain date that you've got coming up
Well recap we'll basically use machine learning to pick up
different emails and
Resurface them at relevant times so that you have all of the most important emails sort of at your fingertips
So at Newton we've just launched that but as you can imagine it is getting a lot of popularity
so that to recap that has just been rolled out in Newton female 1 so drafts have added a 5.3 update with the
Addition of a todoist integration, which is great news. So that has also rolled out while I've been away
So congrats to drafts on adding that todoist integration now moving on to team productivity tools, of course
There's been a few changes in this area
Notion has launched a 2.2 which is added a few additions the likes of inline
sort of modifications with comments and also permission so you can be very
Specific about the pages and access you give to other people. So that's a really big leap for their team productivity
Application Microsoft teams have also introduced teams for free. So you're allowed to access it in an attempt to
Challenge the likes of slack. So they're offering a sort of new freemium pricing, which I'll including a link in description
It's been getting a lot of attention. A lot of people are enjoying the fact that this is a sort of a bit of a
Challenge for everyone sort of taking down slack it obviously monks top teams got a long way to go
But it's something that they've taken the leap in now in other news Microsoft are releasing
Well, they have released whiteboard an application which will allow you to
Visually communicate ideas essentially in the same way. You would use a whiteboard on
Certain applications. So that's quite an interesting update and I believe they'll be releasing it on certain platforms windows being the first one
Now in other team tools news meister tasks has now introduced their business class section, which is great
So obviously the most enticing a very popular task manager and it's been growing in popularity
They also own their to company their own mindmeister, which is a and now again a popular mind mapping technology
So, of course that's going to be a good addition to their experience
So business is available and I'll probably do a review very soon about it
So some of the offline news at GTV book by David Allen
GTD for kids is now available so or actually think it's due to D for teens
I think this is someone I've spoke with David Allen about a year ago
I was honored to get to chat with him and I was mentioning, you know on the side note
Have you ever considered this for like young people and he was saying yeah, they're working on book at the moment
And I think it's a great addition
I haven't yet read it and because it's just been released and I probably will get around to reading it but gdb 14 sort of
overviews how you can manage all
Aspects of your productivity at a young age and also and it touches on the sort of anxiety sign of stuff too so managing
You know your emotions as well
So this is a really nice addition and something I think
Universities in school should definitely consider looking into now. There was also some news of its newest redesigned sadly
This was not a resign. It was a concept piece of art that was rolling around the key productive Facebook group
And so just it calm down
Alex did announce actually on on his social media that they will be obviously rolling out the icons as well
So the icons will look slightly different and I did hear on social media as well that they are working on an iOS beta
The county looks quite exciting you guys. Hopefully you enjoyed this week's news obviously
We'll be back and ready with some more new segments
Probably next week or the week after is looking at two weeks or the stem for this one
But I think it will be a nice round up to the software post
Anyway guys, thank you so much for stopping by today
Make sure to have a great week, keep productive and I'll see you guys very very soon
Cheers