I was asked to do an episode on the apps I use on my iPhone and how it’s all set up, so here you go.
so today what i want to do is go through
and show you what's on my phone
now if you're a podcast listener this
might sound a bit weird but i'll explain
as much as i can
but there is a link in the show
description to go and actually watch
this
this video this episode um so as you
know
i like to do things really really simply
and i have taken screenshots of this
so people have been asking me um you
know it's all well and good showing me a
screenshot of nothing on your phone
there is nothing on my phone um we want
to know
what's actually on your phone can you go
through it so this is what this episode
is about
so as you know my front screen i have
nothing
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on the page itself i have three items on
the dock on the far left i have
fantastical which is my
calendar of choice now the reason why i
chose this
and i've been using fantasticoff for
years actually on my mac on my ipad and
on my phone
but they recently went over to a
subscription model
now i hate paying for subscriptions
unless
it helps me and the one feature that
really works for me is a proposal
feature that they have there's there's
lots of other features
new features that they have on it but
the proposal feature actually works out
really really nicely because i know i
have calendly
people go on to my website and actually
book things through my calendar but
a proposal features me sen being able to
send out a link
with proposal dates and times for
someone that i'm working with for
instance generally i don't send them to
people that i'm not working with because
they need to set up an appointment and i
and that's done through
candidly but if they're people that i'm
working with or clients that i know and
stuff
i generally use that and it works out
really really well
i'm not going to go through go into
most of these apps because there are
there is personal information in there
and if you need further information
about specific apps
let me know in the comments below or
send me an email
and i'll do what i can to reply to them
or even make a video about it
the middle one is my phone app
self-explanatory i'm not going to go
through that obviously
on the far right i and i only have three
so on the far right i have
um things three which is my task manager
of choice
now it does projects as well so if i'm
doing
smaller projects i generally do
put it into a project in my uh
thanksgiving my task manager
anything personal um like
i don't know take my car in to
the garage or groceries or anything
and personal i basically put into here
if i've got a bigger project
i'll probably put into my project
management tool and i'm going to go
through that in a moment
um but generally if i'm working with a
client
but i don't need any feedback from the
client it's just things that i
need to do for a client i would do it in
things three if it's a project that i
need to collaborate with a few people or
a client
then i put it into base camp and i'm
going to get to that
in a moment so that's basically it for
my
front my first page my second page and
the only page
is basically everything else so i'm
going to go through them very quickly
there's
not much here actually so messages
bottom left uh self-explanatory sms's
and so on and so forth
email i will go into that there's
literally
nothing in here something i have i need
to obviously reply to here
nothing in flagged nothing in drafts
obviously things incensed nothing in
junk nothing in bin
a bunch of stuff in archive obviously
and domains i i'll go into that another
time but basically i like to keep
in box zero obviously i didn't with this
one but it came in late last night i
think
so i'm gonna deal with that this morning
but basically
i have nothing in my uh email inbox and
i've
done a bunch of videos about that but
obviously if you need any information
put it put send me an email put it down
in the comments below
send me an email actually probably
better
notes now in notes um i
have i've been using notes from the
early days
of apple since using an apple
and uh i kind of keep it like kind of
like a wiki
there is there are times i just delete
notes because i haven't looked at them
and i don't need them
um for instance um what do i use notes
for so
or every day i'd make a video like this
so i will
actually i didn't do it for today i
should have done it for today so i have
a
um template like this
which i will copy and paste and then i
will basically
make um fill out the template as to
what i actually need to do and right at
the bottom i have the tasks i need to do
for each individual video now this looks
really complicated but actually
it's so simple i see people making
um massive task lists
putting in a task manager putting in a
project manager using trello
like really do you need do you actually
need to do that
so i just make a note so i'm just
looking at see if it's blown out
i just basically make a note and um i
have it with me
at all times so that's notes i'm not
going to get into it too
too much basecamp is my project
management of
choice now as i said in
if i'm doing projects um with a client
or i need to do collaboration with a
client or people
outside i will use base camp and not
things basecamp is is fantastic
especially if you're a coach if you're a
coach or a facilitator and you're
working with your
clients base camp is is amazing so again
any questions
let me know so let's go to the
into the folders and i'll work um
actually
let's work top to bottom so
travel is literally my maps and
translate and where to stay trip advisor
airbnb park for night stuff like that
um again really simple if you notice i
only have
two rows and not the full three rows
because i think
it makes it look cleaner um doesn't
yeah it's just much simpler basically so
i'm not
inundated with loads of apps when i'm
looking into a folder
music self-explanatory all my music apps
photo apps all the photo apps that i
need that
i need to edit or whatever on the go
which is very rare but i
it's good to have them videos netflix
um dry bar actually drive by is really
funny
it's really good it's uh just found it
recently it's actually an
app it's stand up comedy basically
and it's free it's it's really really
good
uh vimeo obviously and anything to do
with my
cameras and my drones and stuff like
that is all
in here tools again self-explanatory
stuff that i can't put into any anything
else but i do use you know things like
one password
my lights for my home authentic
authentication apps all my
web browsers i put in here
again you can see what's here just tools
and stuff
i have one called network a folder
called network
and i set up a lot of wi-fi systems for
my clients
uh business or otherwise and everything
i need
is basically in here health i need to
keep
healthy and do workouts and stuff
i try to do them every day um yeah
anyway
shopping buy stuff that i don't need
it's all in here okay um apple so
anything to do with apple
um the first page is generally the ones
that i do use
like app store and settings and photos
and stuff and obviously my safari
um and um all the other apple apps
are all in here business all my business
apps
um so stuff for that i use for my
business
if you see there's hardly anything in
here because you don't need that many
tools to run your business
i do have slack i tell people not to use
slack but i do have slack and that's
because
certain groups that i'm involved with
use slack
but the notifications for most of this
stuff is off and i'm going to go through
that at the end
so these are the only um business
apps that i'm actually using
finance again self-explanatory anything
to do with my bank and my finances and
paypal and stripe and stuff like that
um sorry my camera is going a bit
weird let me make that a little better
there you go
okay i might have to change that again
soon because the sun out here is crazy
um okay social again um
i'm not on that much social media
twitter linkedin is pretty much most of
the stuff that i use
um i watch feedly the next app i'm gonna
keep looking at the screen to see if
it's blown out or not
the next app is my gaming stuff sorry my
dog
hey wolfie gaming stuff xbox makes a d
live stuff that i do online
um again it's very rare that i go into
those things
so what i want to show you is um
the notification so in my notifications
and i tell people to turn off all your
notifications you just
you don't need notifications so if you
look
you'll notice pretty much everything
other than
tools mainly business tools that i need
if someone's trying to contact me for
work they're generally on
so base camp is on day one to remind me
of
writing my journal fantastical that's my
calendar obviously
find my phone pretty obvious ground wire
is actually my
landline o2o number for my business so
it comes into there
um linkedin obviously i don't want to
hear
messages i just want to see a badge or a
banner if someone's messaging me
messages sms's obviously or on park
mobile
you want to make sure that you want to
get out of your parking
in time telephone self-explanatory
slack with badges i don't have
notifications or anything i just look at
the phone and go oh there's something i
need to do
because i i set my slack for only
mentions
i don't even do everyone or yeah i don't
think you can say can you say that yeah
i've set up
so it's just um just uh mentioned
if you're mentioning me things three
which which is my task manager obviously
uh wi-fi now i use unifying at home and
i
need to make sure that things are
working
here so i just have badges
video ask is quite interesting um
i think i've done a video about this
before it's just it's a it's the little
thing that i have on my website that
people can contact me through
so that's interesting why is my secure
messaging with my client sorry let me
just turn this back
up oops wrong way um
so that's why xbox i just have badges
because sometimes my
friends need to contact me and zoom so
basically everything else
is off i you don't need a bunch of
um notifications just turn off
everything that you don't need
so that's basically my phone there's
nothing on it you really don't need to
have
that many things on your phone the less
you have the less headaches you have
and the less you are um
distracted with notifications and and so
on and so forth so
hopefully that's helped you out i'll
leave the episode there as i said if
you're a podcast listener
there is a link to this video in the
show notes
and if you are a video watcher there's a
link in the show notes
for going to listen to this on the
podcast which if you want to
anyway have a great day i'll see you
tomorrow and as always just like my
phone
keep it simple see you tomorrow ciao
bye-bye
you