Just use apple apps for productivity (Reminders, Notes, Calendar)

Should you ditch your other productivity apps for Apple’s native suite? After testing this for 9 months, here’s what I learned.

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[thebritishindian]

I did the same after trying 30+ apps over a decade and I totally agree when you said “Apple apps just work”. I love Apple Notes and Reminders especially. Adding reminders and calendar appointments with Siri was a game changer.

[Lotus]

I knew I was in the right place when I saw the Netter book. I recently retired from patient care and am transitioning into nonclinical work, which requires retooling my organizational system. I've tried Notion, which drove me nuts. I bought an At-A-Glance paper calendar this week, thinking it got me through the era of hospital pagers and finding a pay phone just fine. Your video is well done and confirms that staying within the Apple ecosystem is for me. Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing your insights and taking the time to post and nurture your channel. I wish you a fulfilled life, personally and professionally. Thrive and be well.

[palladionhh]

2 comments - if you work with mail links, make sure that with iOS and iPadOS in Settings - Mail - Accounts - Fetch new Data - your account - all the folders you move stuff into should be ticked here if you use Push. Then refresh mailbox and from there links will work across devices. Second you can move a note link to a calendar item. In the note click on Share - select Collaborate - and from the second row select “Invite with link” (if it is not visible you need to activate from the … More button at the end of this row). Put your iCloud email as the recipient and then “Share Link”. Now you have a link you can insert in any note field (reminders or calendar) which will bring you to the note.

[jason_lifts]

The way it feels like you effortlessly flip around the complex bits of this system. Very well done. Ill watch this a few times over

[minimalist]

I’m not joking. These videos are so classy and professional. It’s ridiculous that this channel has barely 2000 subscribers! This YouTuber is a 100 times better than the ones in India who have a million subscribers!
Do collaborations and grow quickly buddy! ❤

[arielspalter]

Eloquent and to the point. I’d love to see more videos from you!

[carlosmanueldias]

Desperately need a video on how you manage Reminders!!!

[maikaimakena]

I agree I’m always dragging Apple Mail to reminders it is one of my favorite features

[RameshKumar-ngnf]

You earned a subscriber 🙏
I wasted lots of time and money moving here and there on multiple flashy apps seing the advertisements in youtube.
Now after watching this video, i have decided to stick to apple ecosystem and spend time with it, which gets work done. No headaches of sync etc using apple apps. So will stick to it from now .
Thanks for sharing . I realised simplicity is the best .

[HKelley-jmgm]

In 3:12 you mentioned you can't link your note to your Apple Calendar Event, but you can. Click the 'Invite with Link' add your email and it will automatically add the link to the clipboard, then go to your calendar event and click inside the URL section or NOTE section and 'paste'. Nope not the easiest way, but better than nothing. You will have to make sure it is set to collaborate to share the note. Also if that is glitching out and doesn't want to work, click share button on the note, then messages, and then send it to yourself. Then from there you can copy the link and add it the same way to your calendar event as mention previously. Yes, this one creates two messages in your message section under your contact: one from you - one to you, but its a good work around and easy to clean up!

[JB-wwjh]

I’m not in medicine, I’m a self employed private piano tutor and I have a pretty busy schedule as I also play in a function band as a secondary income. This video was helpful in me deciding to stay in the Apple ecosystem. The only app I’ll use to annotate music score is ForScore but that is because that is use case specific and has specific music annotation tools

[Hedgehog-jibm]

As Mac & iPad user - I use Pages, Numbers & Notes daily. Of course, calendar, messages & contacts are a must too.

[tspmcfarlane]

I really enjoyed your concise and insightful style here. Happily subscribed.

[Bruceneuman]

I too have recently decided to narrow my focus to the Apple productivity apps. You are better organized than I am so good tips. And, a great video. I am a fan.

[Jathwon]

I would love to learn more how you use tags with smart lists in reminders. Are you going to make a video walking through your reminders setup, workflow? It would be awesome to see how you use it for other areas of your life. Great valuable information!

[Whiskeyjack_T]

Small world...just wanted to find a video showcasing Apple's native productivity apps and come across a fellow Otolaryngologist, who appears to have trained in the same city as myself! Thanks for the video and best of luck with the rest of your training!

[MIKE_IS_SO_DOPE]

Looking forward to your video on reminders to break down your system. I think it will be really useful!

[questr_]

Great video. Totally agree as the Apple apps can do more and more these days and there’s no need to necessarily pay for Todoist or Things.

Re linking notes in other apps like Calendar: if you tap the Share button from within an Apple Note then select Copy Link, you can then paste the link to that Note within the other app. That might give you what you’re looking for.

[BalanceWithBhuvan]

There are some genius insights in the video. The template bit was known but tagging each step in each section with its hashtags, and then using smart folders to segregate them and then doing it in batches rather than ad hoc was so sweet.

Also how did you make hyperlinks to other notes within the app?

I have ADHD and has spend years setting up Notion but not coming around to using it. It's like I get hyperfixated with the form over function conundrum. Here it's simple and it WORKS!

Earned a sub! Love from India.

[TheEricBooth]

I was a huge Onenote fan for many years until I did the jump to the Apple ecosystem. Notes is just so good I have no regrets switching over.