- Hey friends welcome back to the channel. Today we're talking about all of the apps that I use in a day. So, let's get started. At half past six when I wake up, with the trusty iPhone Alarm Clock sound. Then I take off my my Oura smart ring that I sleep with. Put it on charge on the dock, and I'll occasionally check
my sleep stats on the app, just to see what the quality
of my sleep overnight was. Then I go to the bathroom
for my morning wee and while I'm on the
toilet I open up Notion on my phone and I fill
out my daily check-in. This asked me a bunch of questions, including what I dreamt that night, 'cause I'm trying to remember my dreams, it asked me what one thing I'm
gonna focus on for the day, my highlight of the day, and it asks me the question,
"What under my control "would make this day better?" And I find that just gets
me off to a nice start. Then I get off the toilet, undress and while I'm naked I stand
on my Withings smart scale, which syncs to my Apple Healthcare and that let's me weigh myself everyday. I then open Spotify on my phone and I set it to play whatever these days, lot's of songs by John Mayer, put the volume on full blast
and head over to the shower. By around 6:45 I'm out of the shower, on my way to the bedroom I will tell Siri which is in the HomePod in the kitchen and in the living room
to play something like the morning acoustic
playlist on Apple Music. And yes, I do have both
Spotify and Apple Music just 'cause I like being able
to play music through Siri. I really wish the HomePod
worked nicely with Spotify. Then at seven o'clock I get into the car and I drive to work. Now on the drive to work, usually I'm either listening
to an audiobook on Audible at double speed, or listening
to podcasts on Castro at double speed, or if
I'm feeling really lazy, I will just listen to some
random songs on Spotify very very occasionally, if
I'm in a very reflective mood, I will just drive in silence. And if I'm listening to
a podcast or an audiobook that I want to take notes on, I actually use the Drafts
app on my Apple Watch to dictate notes into. I get to work around eight o'clock, I'll grab a morning cup of
coffee, change into my scrubs. And then there are four
apps that I use a lot throughout the morning. The first one is Medic Bleep which is like a secure
communication platform that the NHS uses. Secondly, I use Google
on safari quite a lot to google stuff that you
know, I need to look up. If I'm prescribing a drug, I'll often look up the doses in the BNF, the British National Formulary,
which is like a national app with the drug doses, which is quite handy, and if I need to give someone antibiotics, every hospital has their
own kind of local guidelines that sort of which
antibiotics you give someone based on what sort of bugs
are growing in the local area. So we've got an app called
MicroGuide for that. By around 11 o'clock the initial jobs for the morning are done, so I take a break from saving lives and I'll usually bust open my
iPad Pro with magic keyboard and I'll start my daily
note in Roam Research. Some days I like doing the
morning pages thing on Roam where you just kind of write three pages of whatever kind of comes to mind. But these days I've got
this challenge for myself that every day I'm gonna write 1000 words. And so I usually make a
start on my writing in Roam. And again, if you want
to find out more about how I use Roam, I've got like six videos in my workflow series on Nebula, details in the video
description, about specifically how I use Roam and how
it fits into my workflow. Once I've done my morning
journaling practice thingy on Roam, then are normally open Todoist. And I usually check that
a couple of times a day because that's my to-do list app of choice to see if there's anything
urgent that needs doing during the day. Then up until lunch I'm saving more lives and just kind of spending time on my iPad productive downtime when
there's not much going on in the wards. And then around one o'clock
I will have a lunch break. These days I take these
Tupperware type things to work so I can warm them for lunch and dinner and sometimes breakfast. These are from the
Fitness Kitchen in Leeds. And it's 'cause I'm
trying to track my macros so I can one day become
a Gymshark athlete. So I'll usually go to the doctor's office, I'll warm up this for three
minutes in the microwave and then I will sit at the computer with my iPad Pro in front of me and Notion and Roam open
on the Windows PC at work. Just before eating,
I'll look at the macros in the Tupperware and I will add those to MyFitnessPal, which
is the app that I'm using to track my calories, and then assuming there's nothing going on in the ward that needs my attention over lunch, I'll usually sit in the doctor's office and do some more writing
in Roam and Notion, either on my iPad or on the computer. Now how do I choose between the two? Well, usually I'm writing stuff in Roam when my writing or my
ideas or a video plan is in the embryonic or in
the fetal development stage. And then I'll usually
transition it over to Notion to sort of write the
final script for the video or the final version of
the article or blog post. So that's sort of how I use them together. Obviously, at random
intervals throughout the day I'm also checking my email on Superhuman which is the email client that
I use on my iPhone and iPad. I'm also replying to messages
from my team on Slack, replying to messages
from other school friends and university friends through WhatsApp, and of course, scrolling through Instagram and Twitter randomly. I'm trying to do less of that, but it just always
inevitably ends up happening. Assuming my lunch break was
uninterrupted with bleeps, usually I'll head back to
the ward around two o'clock with another cup of coffee. And at some point during the day, I'll usually make it a point to kind of put on one of those masks and snap a selfie of myself
using the default camera app on the iPhone, but then
I import that photo straight into Adobe Lightroom, and I will edit it using a
color grade filter preset thing that I've kind of customized
that I've been using for the last two years, which just makes the images
look a little bit nicer. And occasionally while I'm at work, I will try and come up with some kind of pithy sounding tweet and
then I'll tweet that, by the way, follow me
on Twitter and Instagram if you haven't yet, if you
want to see this sort of stuff, Then more saving lives
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m, And then at 4 p. m I'll hand
over to the evening team and then I will leave work so
I'll change out of my scrubs back to my clothing, put the AirPods in resume the thing that I was listening to on Audible or Castro
or occasionally Spotify then I'll get in the car and
set the direction for home on Google Maps because that
lets me kind of navigate and tells me what the
fastest route home is. On days where I'm being my higher self, I will immediately change
into my workout clothing, like I did today. And I will do my home workout which I track on Google Sheets. I used to track my workouts on Notion, but then I got this
online personal trainer and he uses Google sheets for them. So okay, fine, we'll
track it on Google Sheets. So, I'll try and do some
sort of home workout then. And of course, while working
out I'm continuing listening to whatever I was listening to on Audible. Earlier today, it was "The Lord of Chaos," which is book number seven of
the "Wheel of Time Series," which I'm listening to on double speed, it's absolutely fantastic. I'll put a video, in the
video description about my favorite fantasy books. That would be the order that I recommend listening to these fantasy books in if you want to get into
fantasy for the first time. So, that's an ideal day,
like very occasionally I will get home changed
into my gym clothes and do a workout. But usually I just end
up sitting on the sofa and just randomly scrolling
through Twitter and Instagram for an annoyingly long period of time. Once I get bored of that
I move over from the sofa to this desk where I've got my MacBook Pro connected via a USBC cable to this huge-ass 49-inch LG monitor with my fanciest keyboard,
link's in the video description to all this stuff. And usually the first
thing I do is I touch base with my team again on Slack
to see if there's anything that I need to do for the evening. And usually in the morning
while on Notion on the toilet, I love setting my highlight for the day. So for example today,
it's to film this video. So then I kind of get to doing the thing that is my highlight
for the day after work. And on days where I haven't pre-decided what I'm gonna do, I'll just
have a look through Notion, have a look through Todoist. And I'll have a look at the
sponsored video schedule along with our Skillshare
class release schedule to figure out okay, what's
the best use for my time for these next few hours. Then once I've decided
I'm gonna film a video, usually takes around 15 minutes to get the lights, camera
and everything set up. So, while doing all of that,
obviously I can multitask. So occasionally I'll play
some music on the HomePod, or more often I'll have my AirPods in, I'll be listening to my
fantasy audiobook on Audible. And while filming I
usually have Notion open so I've got it in a little
window at the edge of my screen. So hopefully you can't
see it on the camera or I'll have my iPad Pro in front of me just kind of next to the lens. So I can see a vague outline of the video, and again, that's all done in Notion. Again more details about
that in the Workflow series. In an ideal world, I'll have
finished all the filming that I need to do by 9
p.m, but it is 9:40 today, so I think I'm gonna
finish this one by 10 p.m. So at some point, I will
grab another Tupperware from the fridge, put it in the
microwave for three minutes, and that would be my
dinner sorted for the day. Of course, I'm gonna put the
calories into MyFitnessPal. And then assuming I've done
all my filming for the day, and I still got a reasonable chunk of time in which to be productive, I will try when I'm doing my higher self to do some music practice. These days, I'm going
through Justin Guitars online kinda guitar teaching course, which is how I taught myself guitar
initially like five years ago. And I'm trying to learn music theory to get better with music production. So I'll usually kind of
practice a little bit of that. Or if I'm feeling like doing music, but I don't want to do
deliberate practice, I'll often just bring up some
chords for a particular song using the Ultimate Guitar tabs app on my iPad or on my iPhone, I'll just kind of play a few songs. And occasionally I will
film this on my iPhone with the front facing camera record it and post it on Instagram on IGTV. At around 9:30 after doing
a bit of music practice, again when I'm being my higher self, then I will think you know what, I'm gonna do some
productive entertainment. And I'll watch a documentary
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details and you can watch till your heart's content. At this point, it's usually around 10 p.m and I think about winding
down for the night. So, initially, I say, hey Siri, set relax. And then all the lights go warm. And I'll usually turn on night
shift on my desktop as well because apparently blocking out blue light is a good way of kind of getting
your body ready for sleep at least that's what Matthew
Walker says in the book "Why We Sleep" which is very good. By the way, if you're wondering
about that magic trick, that is the Philips Hue
light bulbs in action and I've got different scenes so. Hey Siri, set fire and frost. And that would be like my filming setup, which is a sort of - [Siri] Okay, living room
is set to fire and frost. - Siri is a bit talkative,
it's a bit annoying. But that would be my kind
of video shooting setup. And then if I'm feeling
particularly decadent, I will say something like hey Siri, play relaxing piano Jazz Music. - [Siri] Now I'm playing
some choo piano Jazz - Hey Siri stop. So then with the lights
and the music mood set I will brush my teeth, wash
my face cleanse, moisturize. I'll put on my Oura ring
again for the night, I will take off my Apple
Watch and put it on charge, I'll set the alarm for 6:30 on my iPhone and put it on the wireless charger on the Chester drawers that is literally on the opposite side of
the bedroom to my bed so that I'm not allowed
to have my phone in bed. And then usually I will get into bed, and while I'm in bed, if I
still got any writing left to do for my 1000 words of writing for the day, I will finish them off
using Roam or Notion. And then within my daily
check in on Notion, I will fill in some more questions. So one of the questions is, what are your three
biggest wins for the day? What are three things
that you're grateful for? And my favorite thing,
this is something called homework for life that I started doing for the last two weeks. That's where I ask myself what is the most story
worthy moment of my day? So I'll think about a moment
that I could potentially turn into a story of
some sort or an anecdote and I will kind of write a few
sentences about it in Notion and I've been tracking Since like, I don't know, the beginning of May. So, yeah, that's just a
way of reflecting on my day in a way that I've never
really done before. But I finding that
really kind of helps me. At this point usually it's about 11 p.m and I'm thinking okay, I
should really sleep now. So I will turn my iPad off, I'll chuck it onto the floor. And if I'm feeling particularly tired, I will just turn the fan on, I use a Dyson fan thingy
'cause they look cool and it's quiet and nice. I'll turn the fan on and
just go directly to sleep by asking Siri to turn the
lights off in the bedroom because I've got Philips
Hue in the bedroom as well. Or if I'm not feeling particularly sleepy, but I know that I should be in bed anyway, I will grab my Kindle which I always have on my bedside table, and I'll turn the brightness
right the way down so that it doesn't strain my eyes too much and then usually I'll read
some kind of fiction book. These days I'm reading "A
Court of Thorns and Roses," I think that's what it's called. It's pretty good so far, it's quite an educational read as well. The only problem with
this book thing is that occasionally if like a book is
really really really riveting then I will just read it
until like four o'clock in the morning and then be
completely sleep deprived for work the next day, which is probably not the sort of thing I want to admit on camera. So, those are all the apps
that I use in a standard day when I'm at work and then trying to be, you know, vaguely healthy and
productive in the evenings. I hope you enjoyed it. There's a playlist over here that has more app themed videos about my favorite apps on the
iPhone, the iPad and my Mac. So if you're into this whole app thing, you should check those out. And you should definitely
sign up to CuriosityStream so you can see my Workflow series where we deep dive full nerd level about more of these apps. So thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye-bye.
