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to sign up and now back to the video so our phones can be incredibly destructive when it comes to
getting distracted and getting things done but at the same time they can be one of the most useful
tools for productivity it all depends on how you use it my phone basically organizes my life
it notifies me of important dates any appointments or meetings i have that day and tasks that i have
to get done and i've set up my phone to be as optimized and encourage me to be as creative
as possible so in this video i'm gonna go through five of the most powerful productivity apps that
i use that honestly if i didn't have these apps on my phone my productivity throughout the day
would decrease significantly blinkist okay so over the last two months or so i've been really a bit
obsessed about getting things done as efficiently as possible so making my day so efficient that i
can almost double my productivity but by still working the same amount of hours and so on this
journey of essentially attempting to live as efficiently as possible it got me thinking
when i read a book it takes probably on average eight hours to go through an entire nonfiction
book and in that eight hours that i'm reading i'm not physically doing anything i'm not working i'm
not creating i'm just sat there reading so how can i make this process more efficient
and that's where blinkist comes in blinkist is an app that basically summarizes the key points
of a nonfiction book in around 15 minutes and these 15-minute summary is what they call blinks
you can read them like you would a normal book or you can listen to them just like you
would a normal audiobook and the app covers pretty much every non-fiction book you can
think of covering from business personal growth psychology education pretty much
every genre i've put a link in the description if you're interested in checking it out and it
makes sense why this app is so successful because when you read a nonfiction book it's very likely
although it took you eight hours to read you'll probably only take away two or three main key
points from it but the blinky snap cuts out all the fluff and just get straight to the point so
you learn almost as much in 15 minutes as you would from reading the full book for eight hours
so i've been using the blinky start pretty much every day for about five or six weeks now
a blink lasts for 15 minutes and i shower for about 15 minutes so when i wake up in the morning
i get a shower and i turn on the audio version of a blink and put my phone on the loudspeaker
on the bathroom shelf and so now time showering which used to be dead time has now turned into
15 minutes of being productive and learning and growing i've put a link in the description below
if you want to check blinky style if you read a lot of non-fiction books or you listen to a lot
of audio books then it's definitely something you might want to consider todoist now this app
is maybe the most important app on my entire phone and it's just a simple task list it's weird that
something this basic is so integral to my overall productivity however recently i started to change
the way that i use this app so if there was something that popped up during the day and
it couldn't be done immediately then i jot it down on the task list that's how most people use
their task list right but a couple of weeks ago i started to also write down the one most important
task that needed to get done that day and i do this the night before so as soon as i woke up in
the morning i knew exactly what i needed to do and i would start with the one task where if it
was completed it would take me the closest to my overall goal it's kind of taken into account the
80 20 pareto principle where 80 of outcomes are as a result of 20 of actions so it's likely that 20
of your tasks result in 80 percent of your results so it makes sense to focus on and prioritize those
most important 20 of your tasks and i've tried a whole load of different task lists but todoist is
the app that i found is the most customizable it's really basic it does exactly what i need it to do
you can customize it pretty much however you want and i set my phone up so when i swipe left from my
home screen the task list is right there and what i like about this is that i've also put my most
commonly used apps on the same page so whenever i swipe right to use one of my most commonly
used apps which is at least 10 to 15 times a day i'm constantly being reminded that i have
tasks left on my task list to do so it's almost impossible to forget that i still have tasks to do
your calendar widget okay so on my home screen you swipe left and you get to the task list and
most commonly used apps and if you swipe right you arrive at your calendar widget app and this
app pretty much organizes my entire life so during the day i often have a lot of things to remember
a lot of important dates or appointments or meetings and it's almost impossible to
remember everything going on in my life and that's where your calendar widget comes in
pretty much my entire life is on here and i'd like this app because if you have an important
meeting or appointment you can set a reminder one hour before the time so it's really difficult to
forget anything you have going on during the day i probably use this app i don't know maybe seven
or eight or nine or ten times a day at least like i said i really don't know what i'd do without my
phone scheduling everything for me and just like the todoist app is super customizable and i like
that i can change the background and the color of the text so that throughout my entire phone
all the apps and widgets look like they belong together all the apps use the same colors and
same theme with the white text and icons well everything except my commonly used apps and i
purposely keep these with their original icons because just so i can recognize them in a split
second when i need to find a specific app which would take a bit longer if they were all white so
those are my three most important productivity apps that i have on my phone are absolutely
integral to my overall productivity but i'll go over a few others that are still incredibly useful
focus to do the focus to do app is again a really basic and simple app and you might be starting
to see a theme here the apps that are the most basic and do just one job but they do that one
job incredibly well tend to at least in my opinion be the best apps to use so this app it basically
just forces you to study that's all it really is you set a timer say for 25 minutes and then
it locks your phone so you're not tempted to get distracted while you're supposed to be studying
and there's loads of features on it for example you can turn on relaxing background music
throughout the app or turn on full screen mode and if you do feel tempted to close the app when the
timer is counting down then it will give you five seconds to go back onto the app and it won't stop
vibrating your phone until you do so so a really nice feature to have that's the focus to do app
forest the forest app is very similar to the focus to do app in that it's basically a pomodoro timer
and i made a video about five months on this exact topic the best productivity apps that i
have on my phone and when i went to the comments of that video i had so many of you commenting
mentioning this forest app so i downloaded it and i tried it for myself and it's it really is
good basically you set the pomodoro timer and you start the timer and the tree starts to grow and if
you stop the timer or close the app then you kill the tree and obviously you don't want to kill the
tree right so it encourages you to keep studying until the timer rings and you can take a break
clevernote another app that i use every day i'm a big advocate of budgeting and tracking what you
spend so at the end of the month you know exactly where your money has gone it will help you create
a spending plan for your money and help you make sure you have enough money for the things you need
and the things that are important to you and i've been tracking pretty much every single thing that
i spend for i don't know maybe 10 15 years maybe now and i have to do it for my business for when
i found my taxes at the end of financial year so it's just a habit now so during the day everything
that i spend i'll add it to the app and at the end of the month i'll add all the numbers up
onto a big excel spreadsheet so i can see exactly where my spending is going and here's an excel
spreadsheet that i used to use way back in 2014 and my current one for 2021 doesn't look that much
different so if you don't budget or you don't have any kind of financial plan in place i definitely
recommend doing so once again a quick reminder the transform your grades in 30 days course is now
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