Oh what is up guys karma medic here and
welcome back to another dose you need to
the channel hi my name is Nasir and I'm
now a fourth year medical student
studying at King's College London and in
today's video I'm gonna be covering the
topic that's been highly requested over
in my Instagram DMS you don't already
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right over here and that is the topics
of what is on mine I'm gonna be going
through a series of apps that are on my
computer that help me study while in
medical school and also just help me be
a more efficient human being in my day
to day interactions with my laptop I
also want to say thank you to Graham
early for sponsoring today's video I'll
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fantastic application later on in the
video before we begin let's get the
details out of the way this here is the
2017 13-inch base model touch bar
MacBook Pro so it doesn't have the best
specs in the world but it is easily the
best purchase I have ever made and in
second place very shortly after it is my
iPad pro so first things first let's
start off with my desktop setup on Mac
OS you have this amazing functionality
to create three different desktops
you'll see that they're all quite
similar but slightly different colors
but they each serve a very different
purpose this first desktop over here is
sort of my chilling relaxing and having
fun desktop this is basically why I
watch Netflix I watch my youtube videos
I browse the web doing random things and
also when I have both my calendar and my
email app of choice this blue desktop is
dedicated solely to work so this is why
I do things like my medical school
assignments writing essays or doing any
research project work this is also why I
study for the USMLE exam so you guys
will see here I've got boards and beyond
I've got sketchy
I've got path um I've got you world
USMLE RX whatever whatever
so this desktop is where I only do work
and then the last desktop is dedicated
only for YouTube related things so this
is why I have my Final Cut Pro open and
this is where I work on editing my
videos and this is also where I check my
YouTube analytics and where I do keyword
research and things like that
so anything YouTube related is dedicated
to this third desktop over here so in
the same way that in real life I never
ever work on my bed or on my couch I
only ever work on my desk in my laptop I
have different desktops dedicated to
different purposes and this helps give
me cues to be in different states of
mind or in different moods when I'm on
my differ
desktops and that way for example if I'm
doing work on desktop number two and I
put my three fingers up to get this sort
of bird's-eye view
I won't be distracted by seeing anything
like Netflix or my youtube channel which
would be on different desktops I only
have work-related things on desktop
number two and then last thing about my
desktop I try and keep it as decluttered
and clean as possible
yes before filming this video there were
a couple of screenshots and documents
here and there which I've filed away but
90% of the time my desktop is 90% clean
and that's what matters to me alright
let's start talking about the different
apps that I use in my day-to-day
interactions with my laptop starting off
with internet browsers there's nothing
too special here I used both Safari on
Google Chrome but what's a little bit
more interesting is that I use the two
different browsers for two different
purposes Safari you will only ever find
on desktop number one and Safari for me
is associated with and it's dedicated to
relaxing watching YouTube videos and
Netflix and things like that whereas
Google Chrome is found on desktops two
and three and is dedicated to more work
related things again this is a very
subtle queue it's a very simple way of
reminding me that I'm currently doing
work because I'm using Google Chrome and
that helps keep me in this sort of
work-related mood I think each one of
these segregating things that I do by
themselves are probably not that useful
but when you put them all together I'm
sort of created this world for myself
where if I'm on desktop one these are
the apps that I use and this is the type
of work and stuff that I'm doing or if
I'm on desktop 2 and 3 these are the
apps that I use and everything is
dedicated more towards work all right
now let's move on to talking about my
email app of choice the email app that I
use is called spark and I think that
this is infinitely better I see an email
and I think this is infinitely better
than the default mail app that comes on
your Mac with spark you can color code
all of the different emails you have so
they're a little bit easier to manage
and separate on top of file you can use
keyboard shortcuts to navigate the
software and it just helps make things a
lot more easy for me it's just so much
more of a pleasure to use and if it's
easy and simple to use and that makes me
use it more often and that helps me get
through my emails much faster alright
moving on to the calendar app that I use
this one is called fantastical and it is
fantastic
the reason fantastical is so great is
because it understands normal language
it intuitively interprets a written
sentence into a calendar event I realize
I'm probably not making sense let me
just show you what I mean so let's say I
want to write in
then for today the 29th of May I'll say
study for USMLE exam 9 a.m.
guys campus alert me 30 minutes before
ok so I just quickly typed in that
sentence and now it created this event
which says study for the USM the exam
the location is guys campus the start
time is 9 a.m. and there's going to be
an alert that's gonna remind me about
this 30 minutes before how incredible is
that ok that is very very useful my
biggest problem with using the default
calendar app was not every time I wanted
to put in an event it was like such a
chore it was a hassle to do I don't have
to create a new event and title it then
I have to manually go in and change the
time and I'd also have to type in the
location myself and if I wanted to set a
reminder then I had to additionally
click on the alert whoops remind me 30
minutes before then hit enter so using
the fantastical app has completely
streamlined my process of inputting
events into my calendar and if something
is easy and simple for me to do then I'm
gonna do it more often and so I can make
more use of this calendar without
wasting time checking in all those
details of every event that I make all
right the next app that I want to talk
about is a small app but it has big
potential and it's called thumb train so
it's why you guys see up here which is
sort of this scrolling list of reminders
that I've set for myself and because it
stays at the very top of the screen
you're almost forced to look at it more
often throughout the day and so it's an
easy way to keep something that I want
to be reminded of right at the forefront
of my view alright next let's talk about
notes ability which is my main
note-taking app of choice I forgot to
mention before that notes ability as
part of my work is also open on desktop
number two now note ability is just
quite simply amazing it's a digital
note-taking app that I have on my iPad
and it syncs up very quickly and easily
seamlessly whatever with my macbook so
ever since I switched to taking digital
handwritten notes with my iPad and I've
made a bunch of videos on that here on
the channel I'll leave them linked in
the description down below if you want
to check them out I've been using
notability so all of my notes in medical
school even from first year which I've
scanned and uploaded to notes ability as
well are all backed up online and stored
on both my iPad and my macbook so after
having written something down on my iPad
I can study it from my life
or also on my laptop which is especially
useful if I'm using my iPad to do
something else entirely
I love notability because it's able to
take my 784 notes that you can see over
here and helps me organize them into
very easy logical different folders and
files and that way if I'm ever trying to
refer to a specific note or study a
specific subject that I've done in the
past it's very easy for me to find and I
have everything synced across my devices
if I update one of them they all get
updated it's honestly just a fantastic
note-taking app 410 notes alright
continuing on to the theme of
note-taking let's talk about the notes
up I have such a love-hate relationship
with the default notes app on Mac OS it
syncs very well between all of my Apple
devices which is great but the biggest
pet peeve that I have with it honestly
is that the text writing is so small
like you can't zoom in there's no way to
make this bigger it's just tiny tiny
tiny ever since I bought my Mac on my
iPhone I've been using the Notes app in
order to take my type notes so it's kind
of become my default for doing that but
I honestly need to change because it's
so bothersome seeing this tiny tiny
writing especially when I'm trying to
read it on my laptop but I've used my
Notes app to write down and take care of
absolutely anything I have my book movie
restaurant recommendations over here
I've got some work from the summer
research lab Toronto I've got my gym
workout routine I've got some important
stuff for kcl hospital placement and
I've got a couple more things here and
there but basically I use this app
anytime I want to write down something
that is typed either on my phone or on
my keyboard however like I said the
writing is very small which makes it
absolutely horrible for scripting my
YouTube videos which is what I have been
using it for and so I'm determined to
make a change so recently I've been
using bear bear is a much more pleasant
note-taking app experience you can see
here that I have the script for the
YouTube video that I'm recording right
now and I'm basically using it to keep
track of my ideas for YouTube videos and
my scripts for YouTube videos
I like having different apps to be used
for different things for example bear is
dedicated to YouTube scripts and ideas I
have the Mac OS Notes app in order to
write down all these other random little
things here and there that you can see
on the left hand side and then I also
have notion which I'll get into in a
little bit notes ability is from a
handwritten notes etc etc speaking of
apps that helped me with my writing and
my note-taking let's talk about the
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the video okay next let's talk about
notion notion is another note-taking app
one of the many many note-taking apps
that you guys see I use no notion has a
wide variety of uses and there's so many
different things that you can do with it
but me personally the primary use that I
have for it is to study from my USN of
the exam so as you can see here I've got
a page open for the USMLE and then
within it I have one of these blocks I
think they're called for each different
system of the human body so we've got
cardio gastro hymn endocrine renal
psychic neuro you name it I've got it
now the reason that I'm using notion to
study for the USMLE exam is because it
helps integrate active recall into my
study now what I mean by that is for
example on notes ability which I have
closed because my laptop fans were
running very high in notes ability the
way that I take notes is by giving
myself the information I don't have to
do any work in order to figure out the
informations for example if I read
sentence number six over here it says
obligate aerobes or requires oxygen and
err Bello I didn't have to do any work
to think about this piece of information
with this type of studying and with this
type of review you don't use active
recall in order to actively recall
pieces of information it's just given to
you and you read it passively however
with notion what I'm trying to do is
integrate active recall into my
studying's for example let's go into
neurology over here each one of these
little toggles has hidden information
within it so for example let's talk
about a phages I know that there's
different types of aphasia so for
example there's Broca's aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia global aphasia and
conductive aphasia okay so if I open
this I would expect ya so I have the
four different toggles for each one of
those eight phases and then within each
one of those I have more information so
Broca's aphasia
what is Broca's aphasia Broca's aphasia
is an expressive aphasia I better get
that right okay so it's an expressive
aphasia great and now we're nika's a
pager for example I know that that's
from damage to the temporal lobe and
that causes a receptive aphasia so
receptive aphasia and I don't have the
cause so caused by damage to the
temporal lobe let's go to a different
one of these that's a reproduction it's
for example this question here says what
are the hormone levels at menopause so I
know that estrogen and progesterone
hormone levels are low LH and FSH are
high so if I open the toggle estrogen
and progesterone low LH and FSH high and
generate high but whatever anyways I've
organized this information into question
because that almost makes it like I'm
answering questions on the exam which is
very useful for reinforcing those
neuronal connections and helping me
remember things better another app that
I'm using to help me prepare for the
USMLE step 1 exam is Anki now Anki is a
flashcard app which takes advantage of
spaced repetition in order to help you
remember pieces of information I like
using Anki and flashcards for specific
purposes for example when I'm trying to
memorize very memorization heavy topics
such as biochemistry or pathology or
immunology that's when I find it useful
for me to use flashcards and Anki
however I don't like to use Anke as one
of the fundamental core parts of my
studying technique and that's because I
find that it doesn't give you enough
context to help understand the
information within a wider scope it
simply helps you remember that one
specific fact so the way IQ works if you
don't know
is that you open one of these decks
let's do respiratory and you hit study
now and it's basically flashcards but it
has some software some algorithm that
shows you the different flashcards apps
based intervals which it has determined
is the best way to help you remember all
right the next app that I want to talk
about is revolutionary I came across it
when I asked Ali Abdullah this question
on Twitter and he came back to me with
this response in its YouTube video the
biggest micro efficiency I do is that
when I use a computer I try and avoid
using the mouse I try and navigate with
keyboard shortcuts and the app that
makes that super easy to do on a Mac
it's called Alfred and I cannot live
without Alfred it saved me so much time
so anyways alfred is something that i'm
integrating more and more into my daily
use on my daily interaction with my
computer it's basically a much more
powerful version of spotlight that
you're probably all used to on a Mac now
you can also use offer to open different
files and folders which is so useful
because it literally takes a tenth of
the amount of time to open it for
example I export all of my finished
YouTube videos into a folder called
finished videos which is located in
YouTube then comma medic then often then
finished videos so I can access that
folder by clicking through the file
explorer to get to it or I can open up
Alfred and just typed in finish videos
hit enter and it's already open so you
can see that it saves so much time in
maneuvering around your laptop in
opening different files and folders and
in just completing actions that would
otherwise take ten times as long now you
might be thinking hey Nasir you only
saved a couple of seconds worth of your
time there who cares
but imagine saving seconds on each
interaction that you have with your
computer of which you do like hundreds
of times a day that's gonna add up to
minutes that's gonna add up to hours and
even days over long periods of time so
whenever I can shave off time doing
absolutely anything on my computer I
will try and do it that's the reason
that I love fantastical so much because
it helps me so easily input new events
into my calendar and that's why I love
Alfred so much because it just helps me
save so much time let's say for example
I needed to buy new pens I just click
pens go down here Amazon and it's
already searched pens on Amazon for me I
mean how much more amazing can this be
my music listening app of choice is
Spotify and that's simply because it's
the best app to do this with if I'm
honest I almost never have spot if I
open on my computer I don't really
listen to music on my computer because
that's mostly why I'm doing my work I
use Spotify on my phone and on my ipod a
lot more often let's talk about Final
Cut Pro which is the editing software
that I use I think it's better than
Premiere Pro and if you disagree with me
you can find me in the comments down
below anyways there isn't too much to
show here this is most of the projects
that I've done over the last two years
there's a couple also on one of my hard
drives over there and also a couple on
this hard drive over here that I
actually dropped down the stairs and
completely broke alright and the last
three apps I want to talk about our
small apps but they're just so useful
and help improve my overall experience
with the laptop very very much the first
one is called Mac fans I think or fans
control yeah Mac fans control what this
allows you to do is to voluntarily
increase or decrease the fan speeds on
your laptops for example when I'm
editing and I'm cutting through 4k
footage my laptop can get quite hot and
sometimes I want to increase the fan
speed to help cool it down so I can just
click on custom turn up the speed over
here and I'll do the same on both sides
and now you can hear my laptop is a lot
louder
so yeah that's very useful if I just
want to help cool my laptop down
especially if it's doing something quite
intensive like video editing the next
thing that I want to talk about is
magnet that is this little application
over here and what that allows you to do
is to move around and resize and reshape
your windows in a very quick and easy
way which is especially useful for my 34
inch monitor that I have over here I can
very easily just click and move my
different applications to different
sides of the screen and take up
different proportions of the screen as I
see fit okay and then last but not least
is this tiny little app that I don't
know where I found or how I got it on my
laptop but it's called only disk sweeper
and it just basically lets you see where
the different storage is being used on
your hard drives or on your SSDs or
whatever this is a very useful
application for seeing where all of your
different files are stored and how much
space they're taking up in their
respective folders this is what helps me
clear out my hard drive when it starts
to get full and it's also what helps me
manage the many many hard drives that I
use to fill my YouTube videos yeah super
random app but I find it invaluable and
I wanted to share it alright guys and I
think that's it I've talked about pretty
much everything that I use on all three
desktops of my laptop I hope you guys
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in the future and that is it for me guys
I will see you in the next one peace I
think part of my heart broke along with
it that day very very sad about that but
yeah it's dead and it's gone I lost a
bunch of footage on that and I'm still
salty about it