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In this Cast | Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at Gelwicks Tech, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as a collaborator on ProductivityCast Podcast.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7x0E0hLaJ8&t=12228sSummary (Auto-Generated) Samsung Galaxy Unpacked initial impressions. + Art Gelwicks felt the Samsung Galaxy unpacked show had an “awkward” start but improved with a live audience. + Art Gelwicks found the presentation to be lacking in energy and enthusiasm, with a few notable exceptions. + Ray Sidney-Smith contrasted the pre-recorded and live elements of the presentation, finding the latter to be less engaging. * Samsung’s commitment to security updates and AI-powered call features. (4:25) + Ray Sidney-Smith: Samsung’s commitment to 7 years of security updates and 7 operating system updates for flagship devices shows their dedication to customer satisfaction. + Art Gelwicks: Samsung’s decision to make updates backward compatible for 7 years highlights the power and longevity of their hardware. + Art Gelwicks highlights the on-device AI component in Samsung’s new phones, which processes language translation and live calls without relying on the cloud. * AI-powered real-time language translation technology. (9:14) + Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the benefits of real-time language translation technology, including smooth and accurate translations, and the ability to choose between speaking and listening to translations in different languages. + Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the potential of AI in making communication more efficient, with examples of language translation features in Samsung Keyboard app. + The speakers highlight the benefits of seeing both languages side by side during conversations, rather than relying on post-typing translations. * Samsung’s AI-powered note-taking features. (13:35) + Art Gelwicks: Samsung notes getting AI functionality, handwriting realignment, and note summarization. + Gelwicks: Samsung’s focus on making phone the “do all be all” for productivity and photo editing. + Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the limitations of Samsung Notes, a feature that uses AI to clean up handwriting and typing. + They agree that while the feature is useful for some users, it’s not a practical solution for most people due to the limitations of the Samsung ecosystem and the inefficiency of using the app on a phone. * AI-powered note-taking features on Samsung devices. (19:20) + Ray Sidney-Smith: Photomoji capabilities in Google Messages are powerful and seamless, but RCS availability is crucial for full functionality. + Art Gelwicks: RCS standardization across backends makes this feature more useful, but personal interest is low due to limited use case. + Samsung Notes is designed to be a competitor to Apple Notes or Google Keep, not OneNote, with S Pen integration for handwriting recognition and text conversion. * AI-powered features in Samsung phones and Google partnership. (23:55) + Art Gelwicks highlights the usefulness of Android Auto’s one-button reroute feature and ability to send an ETA with a single button press. + Ray Sidney-Smith agrees, emphasizing the importance of keeping eyes on the road and facilitating a seamless driving experience. + Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the Voice Recorder app on Samsung phones, which can transcribe speech in real-time and synchronize with the recording. + Samsung partners with Google on “circle to search” feature, allowing users to quickly search for objects circled on the screen using Google Search/Lens. * Google’s new visual search feature. (29:00) + Ray Sidney-Smith highlights the potential of Google’s new visual search feature, Circle to Search, to improve search experiences and solidify Google’s position in the future. + Art Gelwicks notes the privacy and security benefits of the feature, which only sends the specific part of the image being searched, rather than the entire image. + Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the new visual search feature on Android devices, which can identify objects in images and provide related information. + They praise Google for continuing to improve search functionality and make it more accessible, especially through voice search and visual search on mobile devices. * Android’s quick share feature and its potential impact on file sharing. (33:42) + Google and Samsung are standardizing Quick Share for Android devices, making it a universal transfer tool. + Ray Sidney-Smith: Samsung and Google’s collaboration on quick share flattens the playing field for Android, providing an olive branch to Microsoft and an opportunity to improve file sharing across ecosystems. + Art Gelwicks: Quick Share will likely come in the form of multiple third-party apps tying together all the pieces, providing a more seamless experience for users. * Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 series with AI-powered photo editing capabilities. (38:09) + Art Gelwicks and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss Samsung’s new AI-powered photo editing capabilities, including the ability to remove unwanted objects or reflections from images and the addition of watermarks to indicate AI editing. + Ray Sidney-Smith likens the AI editing watermark to Microsoft’s CoPilot logo, with two small stars representing that AI was involved. + Ray Sidney-Smith and Art Gelwicks discuss the design of Samsung’s new phones, including their similarity to Apple’s iPhone. + Ray and Art praise the flat design of the S 24 Ultra and the use of titanium edges, but note that the curved screen of former models with the S Pen was a mistake. * Samsung Galaxy S23 camera features and improvements. (43:37) + Ray Sidney-Smith: Sizes of screens increase from 6.2 to 6.8 inches, with battery sizes also increasing. + Art Gelwicks: Improved glass technology reduces screen reflections by up to 75%, and AI processing is used to optimize battery usage. + Ray Sidney-Smith explains that Samsung has optimized their camera system for the average user, dropping the 10x telephoto lens in favor of a 5x 50 megapixel lens for better image quality. + Art Gelwicks agrees, highlighting how the camera’s ability to switch between lenses based on the user’s distance from the subject creates a more seamless and high-quality zoom experience. * Samsung’s new phones, including specs and pricing. (49:31) + Ray Sidney-Smith highlights Samsung’s focus on user feedback and improvements in camera capabilities, while Art Gelwicks notes the significant differences between the standard and ultra models, including storage and RAM. + Ray Sidney-Smith: Samsung’s Knox Matrix offers synchronized, encrypted data across devices, while Knox provides separate, encrypted partitions on individual devices. + Art Gelwicks: Knox Matrix synchronizes encrypted data to the cloud and to other devices, while Nox requires separate authentication for each device. * Samsung’s Knox security platform and health features. (54:54) + Art Gelwicks highlights Knox Matrix’s potential to securely store sensitive information across multiple devices without risk of breach. + Ray Sidney-Smith and Art Gelwicks discuss Samsung health and its new AI capabilities, with Art expressing reservations about the My Vitality score but hoping for improved insight and learning. + Samsung health users like Art Gelwicks use the app daily, with potential benefits including better data analysis and new sensor sets for feeding data. * Samsung’s upcoming health tracking device, the Galaxy ring. (1:00:14) + Ray Sidney-Smith: Samsung Galaxy ring is a competitor to the Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch, tracking health data and feeding it into Samsung Health. + Ray Sidney-Smith: The ring navigates the small place between non-watch wearables, solving a problem for those not compatible with the aura ring or brand. + Ray Sidney-Smith mentions the ring’s ability to capture data without needing to charge the watch, which solves the problem of waking up with an indentation on the face from sleeping on the watch. + Art Gelwicks suggests that the ring could be improved by adding a temperature sensor and EKG reading capabilities, and if it could measure blood sugar, it would be a game-changer. * Samsung’s new Galaxy ring and its potential features.* (1:06:35) + Ray Sidney-Smith and Art Gelwicks discuss the potential of smart rings for measuring health data, including heart rate, sleep apnea, and blood oxygen levels. + They speculate that smart rings could be a complementary device to watches or other wearables, rather than a competitor, and may be used intermittently for specific purposes.

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Read MoreRay Sidney-Smith 0:00
Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith. And unfortunately, Agusta pronounced is not joining us today as he normally would. He’s dealing with some family issues. And so I’m going to be solo today for hosting purposes. But either way, this is episode 124. And we’re recording this on January 17 2024. Today was Samsung Galaxy unpacked. And they announced the new Samsung S 24. Series phones. So we’re doing this special episode, mostly because we wanted to geek out about all the technology and possibly productivity embedded in these new devices. Also, I have on the show today, art Gelwicks, our Samsung aficionado and our blogger podcaster. extraordinaire, over at Gelwicks tech. Welcome to the end, but idle art.

Art Gelwicks 0:52
Hey, thanks, Greg, I appreciate you for having me on. For this. As always, I’d love to talk Samsung. So

Ray Sidney-Smith 0:59
absolutely. And I just love to talk productivity in tech. So this is a really great opportunity for us to bring this special episode of Anything But Idle online. And so hopefully folks who are inside of personal productivity club and those of you who are watching on YouTube will join along with us as we get into our first kind of impressions of Galaxy unpacked here as we start 2024. What did you think about the show itself?

Art Gelwicks 1:25
It started off with that big stadium feel. I mean, definitely back in front of a live audience, that kind of thing. They’ve been building back to that since post pandemic that had a good opening. But the overall show itself. It felt I want to say awkward at times, not negatively. It just it didn’t feel like it had the positive energy. That other you know, big hardware releases, we’ve got this thing that everybody’s crazy stoked about. It just had this underlying feel that they know they have something that I hate to use the phrase game changer, they know they have something that is a game changer. They’re just not quite sure how to convince everybody else to that fact yet. And you could see it to me, you could see it in the handoffs between people, you could hear it in their voices. They were trying really hard, but sometimes almost a little too hard to get that message across. But from if I had to give it an A rating, you know, we normally give it like a grading, I’d give it a solid B, I’d probably give it a solid B. They did well, they did a little extra effort, but certainly nothing to put them at the top of the class of their other presentations.

Ray Sidney-Smith 2:56
I really found the pre recorded material against the live speaking pieces of it very contrasted. And that created a real, I don’t know, it just it created the deleterious effect for me that I felt that the whole model of Galaxy unpacked seems stayed at this point, it seems a little bit boring. And the the big screen actually, quite honestly, it was the most thing I was interested most in the curved, you know, display they had on on the stage. That was the most interesting thing I found about really the presentation.

Art Gelwicks 3:28
There was a point where I actually found myself going, I missed the pandemic presentations, I missed the pandemic unpacked, because you know, they were put together a little bit differently. They had an opportunity to mess it up and come back and things like that. I did have to chuckle a little bit though, I watched the entire presentation live off of Samsung site. And they had closed captioning running. Their closed captioning was I struggled a little bit with some of the people they didn’t feed it the script, they they let it go off of the audio. And there’s a couple of them where the accents were just like, yeah, that’s not quite what he was saying. Or she was saying but you know, all in all, like I said, I’ll give them a good solid B. And they started the whole thing off, which with I think is probably the biggest thing across the entire line. And that’s the updates.

Ray Sidney-Smith 4:24
Right? So seven OS seven operating generations and seven years of security updates, starting with the S 24 series will be supported now. And I feel like that that’s a fantastic way to kick off the show and a real testament to Samsung standing behind their products for especially their flagship product. So yeah, that was a great, that was a great start to the show.

Art Gelwicks 4:49
That just floored me because I had to think how many people are actually holding on to their device for seven years. You are they are literal We committing to you being secure on your device and having the operating system updates for the life of your ownership of the device. Because honestly, nobody keeps it that long, unless it’s a flip phone, and my mom still has it. Nobody else is keeping their devices that long. So to me, that’s a, that’s a spectacular commitment. But it’s also, I think there’s a little bit of a different or a deeper layer to that to what they’re recognizing is that all of their updates coming forward for that next seven year period, have to be backward compatible on those previous devices. So I think it’s a great indicator that the hardware has gotten so powerful, that it is worth using for up to that period of time, it will support it, it will continue to run, you’re not going to be looking at diminishing returns on hardware. B just because you can’t get a software update. So I thought that was a great way for them to start. I was revved up at that point. I’m like, Oh, this

Ray Sidney-Smith 6:04
is great. Yeah, the cynic in me, of course, understands that people typically in especially in these flagship phones are keeping their phones for 18, you know, longest, probably 24 months. And so they know that people are already doing that. But that means that these phones are being handed down a second hand devices to, you know, whether that be spouses, partners, sisters, siblings, and of course, children. And so these devices need to live longer, because they are being passed down to other folks. And this gives a little bit more longevity to those devices. And I think you’re right, the hardware is good enough that especially with these new SOC s, that are really stellar, even after they burn for you know, several years, they’re still going to have enough oomph left in them that it’s going to be good enough for, you know, your daughter or son or otherwise, to kind of use for a couple more years before you have to kind of turn it in and hand it along. Alright, so that

Art Gelwicks 6:58
that hand, that’s a great point, I jumped in there that the hand me down factor, I didn’t even think about that. But that’s now you’ve got a device that is worth handing down. Okay.

Ray Sidney-Smith 7:11
Yeah. And, of course, I’m very much concerned about giving a hand me down, that’s not going to get security updates, right. And that kept being the prime. Right. So I don’t even care about the OS generation updates, I really care about the security updates. And but I’m really glad to have the seven and seven, so that you really have strong support there. Alright. So I mean,

Art Gelwicks 7:32
this is just to jump in there. This is a this is a kind of an underpinning of multiple times throughout the entire event, security was raised, security was raised as a feature as a factor and as a requirement, which again, made me feel pretty good.

Ray Sidney-Smith 7:46
Absolutely. So they kind of segue us into really the the flashiest piece of the of the show. You know, I think, and that is, you know, all of these new call functions that allow to to utilize AI on the device, so that you’re able to do things like live calls where you have real time translation happening. They call it call assist, there are 13 languages that it currently supports out of the box. And they also provide text translations using the Samsung keyboard. So what did you think about the live call demo that they did on screen?

Art Gelwicks 8:25
I think that the demo is a great indication of where AI will make its difference in these devices. For a couple of factors. One, the demonstration itself was, it was interesting, but it’s similar to other demonstrations we’ve seen, such as when Google initially released their earbuds, you know, it’s that live transact or translation back and forth. That’s great. But there are some factors in this that I think really differentiate one. All of that is being done on device. It’s using Gemini nano from Google to do that AI component within the device itself, which means that only one device in the equation needs to be able to do that language processing. So and as they called out, it’ll work even all the way if the other person is using a landline, which makes perfect sense. The second thing is it looks very smooth. Previous translation mechanisms have been kind of jerky, you know, a little Herky jerky, there’s delay. You weren’t totally sure. This gave you a sense of confidence that the translation was happening. And it was accurate. So I have to say I do like it. I don’t really have an opportunity to use it. But I I really can see for somebody who needs this kind of functionality. This could be a significant feature for them. Yeah,

Ray Sidney-Smith 9:56
I’m currently using this feature inside of Google. it’ll translate in meetings currently. And, and so it’s very similar except that that’s all happening on the chip. It’s happening, you know, in this kind of sandbox environment. And as you said, you don’t have that latency issue of having to worry about translation, going up to the cloud being translated coming back down from the cloud, and then being spoken. But the idea is, is that you have the choice of speaking, it then does the translation and speaks it to the person on the other side, or turning off your voice and their voice altogether. And all you hear is the translations between the two. So they’re hearing the translation in the language of their preference, and you’re hearing the language in your preference. And so it gives you a real powerful capability, there even remembers which languages you used with that person in the past. So when you call them back, it basically picks up where you left off.

Art Gelwicks 10:54
Those are the little things that I think make a huge difference with this kind of thing, when that when they start to tie that to a contact record, so that the system knows when you start talking to that person, or you call that person, it needs to do that translation in real time from that language. That’s huge, because it becomes more transparent. And I think, across the board, that’s our expectation, or should be our expectation of AI. Not that it’s going to stand up in the middle of everything. But it’s the grease on the wheels, it’s what makes everything just kind of happen. And I think this is a perfect example of how that can function.

Ray Sidney-Smith 11:33
Right. And I know that right now, everything is going to have the word AI in it. Once upon a time we called AI, programming languages, we called it code. So it’s just basically a new iteration, utilizing some of these large language models and other other models that are coming online. It’s just code. And so we are we are seeing a lot of this being done because it can process such a large amount of data, and also start to do some interpretation that is novel in a lot of ways. And so I liked the idea of being able to transact in multiple languages, I really enjoy the text translation features built into Samsung keyboard. So you can type in one language, you see it in your native language below it, and you’re just typing, you know, and you’re just having that conversation. Again, I use something similar currently in the Google keyboard. So folks who don’t don’t know, if you’re using G board, which is an application you can install on Android and iOS, the G board application itself has a Google translate function built into it, you just click on the little, you know, on the little bar icon, there’s a little for widget icon, and then you’ll see the little translate button, you click on it type in whatever language you’d like. And then you type in it automatically translated, translates into the language that you want to. But what I liked about the Samsung keyboard demonstration was that they had that kind of layer, right, so you’re seeing both languages side by side, kind of the way in which Facebook and other social networks have applied that level of like clicking on a button and you can see the translation, and then you just are kind of continuing the conversation without really a lot of, of slowing down of things. Whereas with this, you’re you’re you’re only seeing the translation, you just typed in not both your language and there’s so you have to remember what you typed, which can be difficult if you’re typing in a language that you’re not comfortable in like it for me that’s Russian or, or you know, Japanese or something like that you’re typing to somebody and you don’t know what you just typed, because you typed it in English. And now it’s only showing you the kanji. You know, that’s a real problem. Exactly.

Art Gelwicks 13:34
I was just thinking about that with English to Korean. I mean, you’ve got a language there that doesn’t use the same letter structure. So you have no context whatsoever, you don’t have that feedback. So yeah, it’s it’s definitely worthwhile, I think. And you’re right, I liked the fact that they called out that it’s now built into the Samsung keyboard. That’s not the only time that Samsung pushed one of their own apps as part of this presentation, which I thought was interesting, because as of late, they haven’t really done that they haven’t really showcased their own stuff. They’ve always been showcasing everybody else’s. But there were two other times that they took apps that are just built in and kind of elevated them to a higher platform. And I’m like, Well, okay, that’s good. Yeah.

Ray Sidney-Smith 14:21
I’m going to skip to one of those, which was when they talked about speech to text, and also their note assist capabilities, because they really talked about the flavor of Samsung notes and how it really shines. Now. Talk to me about what you thought were kind of the key points of them talking about the speech to text and the note assist capabilities. So

Art Gelwicks 14:39
I have to admit, I was watching the opening rolling graphic that they always have, you know, in the like the hour before, and you’re always looking for those little visual cues as the giveaways and part of the image was the Samsung notes logo and I’m like, No, they’re not going to talk about stuff. No Yeah, sure enough they brought up. And what they brought up about Samsung notes is the fact that one, it can do handwriting realignment, it can summarize the notes that you’ve taken. It’s, they’re building that functionality into this tool. And I think that’s fascinating. Because they’ve been so much the last time we went around, they were touting about how we’re integrated into one note, and, you know, we have this, they’ve never really given Samsung notes, its own place on the stage. And now it’s one of the first apps to get this kind of AI functionality. And I think it, it’ll be interesting to see if this just happens to be an app that had a use case, or are they planning to make it bigger and better and more important as part of this overall platform equation, and there was an undertone within the presentation about how your phone should almost be able to be considered the do all be all for all things, you should be able to do everything there, do your photo editing, do your productivity, that should be the center of your world, because for most people it is. So it was interesting to see that I do like the handwriting cleanup. I know a lot of people struggle with that. Even with the new S Pen configurations, no, that’s still still an iffy thing. The note assist, I liked the functionality, I like its capability. Unfortunately, it happens to be one of those showcase features, that doesn’t offset some of the other weaknesses of the application. So I think they’re gonna have to kind of kick the application in his pants to really bring it up. But I think this was a good place for them to be able to take this and showcase functionality. So yeah, it’s a harmless app if they don’t do it. Yeah.

Ray Sidney-Smith 16:53
And I always take it from the perspective that I mean, I still use Notepad for taking some notes in meetings, right, and then it’s a copy and paste into my my note taking application of choice, right. So whereas I believe Samsung would have probably showcased to OneNote, in the past, maybe even a partnership with Evernote, while many, many moons ago, you know, those things are going to happen. Now, like you said they had a use case, I think that the the, the real concern for me with regard to the AI in in the note cleanup sense, is just like with with Evernote note, Ai no cleanup tool, it’s useless to me, right. And if I take really good notes, I know how to structure notes, I know how to, you know what I mean? So it’s like, it seems kind of like, okay, if you’re really, really bad at capturing notes, then then great this, this helps you. But the the flip side to it is that I can see the genesis of something really powerful in the future, right, where this can actually do a lot more in the future. This is this is a building, this is a foundation for something that’s going to come that will be much more powerful in the future.

Art Gelwicks 18:02
Yeah. And this may be one of the cases where Samsung notes actually doesn’t do themselves a benefit. But for Samsung doesn’t do themselves a service by using Samsung notes as the case for this. Because I really can’t imagine anybody taking lengthy notes on Samsung notes, using anything around the shape of a phone, it would just take forever to type the keyboard interface. It’s just, it’s not a good experience. I’ll admit that. However, Samsung notes if you’re in the ecosystem, and they’ve made it, so it’s only in the ecosystem, you can get the notes on your tablet and on your Samsung laptop. So you do have that cross compatibility, but it’s still it’s still not perfect. So I think this is one of those cases where for people who maybe aren’t efficient at keeping notes, or maybe just capturing things on the fly during a discussion, or a better example is what they talked about with voice recorder. That is a good use of this functionality. I just think that it was a neat thing to see. But it was more of just an illustration of functionality than a practical solution.

Ray Sidney-Smith 19:15
Yeah, and I felt the same way with the speech to text functionalities. And it being able to provide summaries. These are things that we’ve seen now in chat GPT and Google Bard. We’ve seen that in anthropic Claude, and many other you know, kind of chatbot focused AI tools today. And one thing I wanted to step back and as they actually showed in the, in the demo, their photo Moji capabilities and again, this is just bringing that flavor of AI and and how they’re handling, photo editing and video editing and so on so forth. We’ll talk about that in a bit. But the idea was that you can now take kind of a, a section of a photo and turn it into a is a kind of a MIMO G style image that you can then post into the chat, utilizing Google messages is a really, really powerful tool takes a lot of work under the hood to make it happen. And it looks pretty seamless. And so I’m really looking forward to seeing folks with Samsung devices utilizing that and seeing how it works across device, whether it’s only going to be within the ecosystem, that it actually looks good. If it’s if it’s just going to text message be an image, you know, or is it going to actually give me any other flavor of what’s going on under the hood. On the other side, within Google messages I’ll be I’ll be curious how that will all work.

Art Gelwicks 20:37
This is a feature that could be very strongly supported by the RCS availability, through messaging. Without that, it’s going to be kind of useless. It’s just a flat image. But the fact that RCS is now standard across the back, that makes a huge difference for this kind of feature. I personally, I don’t see a lot of use for it, because I don’t really use that kind of capability of it. But I know a lot of people who would just live for that, I mean that every other thing would be that kind of thing coming through. And again, RCS is going to make that that really powerful.

Ray Sidney-Smith 21:14
Yeah, it’s not going to be supported by SMS or MMS. Anyway, it’s going to be supported by the RCS protocol. And I think that it would be really good. But I just wanted to make note of that, because I know, I know, it was kind of interesting how they pointed that out, back onto the note assist piece and taking notes by hand, I know that you and I would never do that it’s not a comfortable experience to do that on your phone. That is taking lengthy notes or, or, or copious amounts of notes on there. But I will say that there are a lot of people who do, and there are a lot of people who are of a younger generation where that is the only device they’re utilizing. And so therefore they are doing it there, I see it all the time in seminars, and I I’m baffled because I see them, you know, to fingering, like notes and, and it hurts my heart to watch them doing it. I’ll say this though, the the idea behind a something that can fundamentally capture audio, capture the various photos to say, you know, someone pulls up their camera takes a photograph of a slide that I’ve done, I might have up on screen, and is also taking some lightweight notes. This is the part that I think from a productivity perspective can be really powerful, because it can, it can, it knows all those three pieces of data have come into the phone in that time signature in that time period. And so it can then go ahead and bring those those pieces together and potentially provide me with more rich information than before. And I think that’s the real thing that I hope Samsung does.

Art Gelwicks 22:45
And if we keep Samsung notes in its proper context, it is not designed to be an Evernote, it’s not designed to be a OneNote. It’s not designed to be a notion or anything else. It is a very powerful competitor to like an apple notes or a Google Keep. And it’s designed. Remember, for the S Pen, that’s what they want you to use it with. That’s its base structure. So when you go to type with it typings. Okay, but that’s actually not the fastest way to enter information into Samsung notes. So when you start to see it doing things like cleaning up your handwriting, well, what they didn’t mention is when they clean up your handwriting, there’s a tap button that converts that handwriting from handwritten to text. And we’ll do it right on the page, and then you move on. Well, that’s a single tap. And that’s exists now. So if you’re able to have cleaner handwriting, you get better text or handwriting to text conversion. So this naturally dovetails into this process, what you do with that text, that’s completely up to you. It’s a good Passover tool, though. And I think it’s a good dynamic tool at the platform level. So I’m

Ray Sidney-Smith 24:02
just gonna make mention of this because they talked about it, Android Auto got some updates within the Samsung ecosystem, you know, they’re providing some message summaries, replies and some smart actions within the within the car ecosystem. I

Art Gelwicks 24:14
have to say as as an Android Auto user, I actually installed a third party heads up display in my in my car to connect to Android Auto, them showing the one button reroute based on a new address gets sent to you through a text message. That’s a nice feature. Being able to one button send your ETA. That’s a nice feature. Those are the kinds of things that when we talk about AI in quotes, that’s the type of artificial intelligence that is useful, because it’s just enhancing the experience. It’s not trying to out think me, it’s assisting me and that’s a perfect opportunity to have that as well. that and they didn’t they talked about it, but they didn’t show it, I want to see it the way to get a summary of a group chat. Okay. Now, as a person who has like seven people in his family in one group chat and can’t follow any of it, if you give me a feature that will give me a summary of that at any given app, just take my money, right there. So I like that idea. Yeah,

Ray Sidney-Smith 25:24
I think anything, keeping your your eyes up on the road and, and being able to facilitate a more seamless driving experience is really fantastic. And I appreciate both what Apple is doing and what Android Auto is doing. So CarPlay and Android Auto are both really doing great jobs there. It’s good to see Samsung, kind of add these new features. And I hope when it comes to across the board to all of the Android Auto vehicles. So before

Art Gelwicks 25:50
we move forward, I do want to highlight one thing they talked about with the voice recorder app, its ability using AI, to pick up different voices during a recording and create a text summary based on the different voices. So if you imagine having a meeting and you’re sitting there with five people, you can take the phone, hit record, throw it in the center of the desk, and at the end, get a summary from everybody, based on who was talking. That’s like zoom level functionality. That’s the kind of thing we expect through virtual meetings. But now you can have that in the meat space that you’re operating in, that I want to play with, I think I’m sure it’s gonna have some issues. It’s all based on mic quality and ambient sound and things like that. But just having that as an option. That’s a big step. Yeah,

Ray Sidney-Smith 26:44
be curious if you can, I’m not sure if on your Samsung Galaxy phone right now, you can sideload, the Google Recorder app. But basically, the Google Recorder app does exactly that. And I’ve had it for several years now. And it’s phenomenal. So if this voice recorder app is anything like what Google has already created, where it just it knows who the speakers are automatically, it’s, it’s Trent, it’s transcribing in real time. And then of course, it’s, it’s then synchronized to recorder.google.com within your account, so used to authenticate into your Google account. And now you have those synchronized, you can download the source file, you could download the transcript. And so the Google Recorder app is basically what Samsung has caught up to. And I was really glad to see them bring that to the Samsung S 24 series. And hopefully it becomes legacy compatible for prior S series phones. Because it is, as you said, it’s such a benefit to be able to take your mind off of notetaking so that you capturing every word and every concept, and you can just experience something and still capture what was being said. There’s something to be said about that. And I really find that to be useful. Oh, absolutely. So so moving right forward to what I thought was kind of the most important and most interesting piece was Samsung’s partnership with Google, kind of in two parts. So we have circle to search. And then we had the quick share for Android partnership. So obviously, Samsung and Google have partnered on many things over over over time, this one seemed to be fairly special to Samsung, they spent a lot of time and brought Google on stage to talk about it. And so circle to search just for everybody’s edification here is the idea that anywhere on the screen, you are now able to basically twit a small gesture from the bottom of the screen, trigger your Google lens, basically, you circle something on screen, and then it automatically and I mean, just you have to watch the video, the speed at which it is doing this is phenomenal. And of course that’s you know, internet connectivity, and you know, all kinds of other things going on. But but it was really fluid, you circled a pair of glasses, you circled a dress, you circled a car, and Google lens comes right up. And the Google search shows you what you searched by just circling the image. And so I can think of all of the the times in applications where this will just speed up the search experience for people and solidify, I think solidify Google’s place in search in the future. This is a really powerful piece.

Art Gelwicks 29:20
This is one of those fascinating things because we’ve talked about multiple times in the past. How does Google transition from text search to visual search primarily, or voice search primarily, because we’re moving away from heavy text search? I mean, we’ve got a device in our pockets that is eyeball based. So when you look at something like Google search or circle to search, this to me is fascinating because one it works with anything that is displayed on your phone, whether it’s a live image, whether it’s a video image that you paused, whether it’s a photo that you took now or in the past, doesn’t matter. And it’s a granular part of that image. And they stress this. From a privacy and security standpoint, if let’s say you have a family picture, and in that family picture, there’s an antique table, and you want to know more about that table, so you draw a little circle around that table or you scribble over it, you know, they’ve got like, four different gestures for it. Only that image of that table is sent for the search, it doesn’t send the whole image, it only uses what it absolutely has to as part of the security component. So it’s one of those things that I think, yes, it is an extremely interesting feature. It’s not limited to S Pen, because we say circle the search, we think, okay, maybe it requires the stylus know, if you watch some of the, because everything that was on waiting for the release, all the YouTubers have released all their stuff, and everybody’s demonstrating with their their finger finger searches. No, I just liked the fact that it doesn’t care what you’re searching for. Sometimes we’ve had the ones that are like product searches, like it’ll indentify the products in an image, or they know that I saw demonstrations today where somebody had vacation photos, and they were trying to identify a store in the vacation photo. So they circled it and it went and it looked it up and it found it, that would be arduous, trying to do it manually. Here, it’s almost second nature. So everything now becomes a link to more information, which is really where it needs to be.

Ray Sidney-Smith 31:40
That’s,

Art Gelwicks 31:41
that’s huge.

Ray Sidney-Smith 31:42
Yeah, I think I think the, the, the stage before, this was the ability for you to hum lyrics into Google and for it to go ahead and identify that and tell you the song, that kind of thing. Or tell you the you know, you recite a couple of lines of a particular book, it’s going to tell you the book. Now being able to add this to visual search in such a fluid way. I think it’s really, really the next generation of that kind of being able to search everything right. And if Google’s ultimate mission, right is to organize the world’s information and make it usable, and accessible. The idea here is to is to continue and extend with partners to make sure that happens, certainly on the Android brand devices. And I think this is a fantastic moment of Google doing that. And I don’t spend enough time lauding Google for things, you know, being a Google fan, right? Well told, but I criticize them more than I do anything else, because I want them to be better. And and this is one of those cases where I saw this demonstration, I saw what Samsung and Google did together. And circle, the search is a fantastic tool, I’m really pleased with them. It looks like it works. It works out of the box, it doesn’t seem like it requires you to really think too much about how to do it. And it just does its job. And and that’s what you want from search, you want search to get out of the way and give you what you are trying to navigate toward. And and so I’m looking forward to seeing more of that, especially in a home assistant search, where you might say, Hey, Big G, you know, and do a search and just a lot more fluid with regard to navigating between the mobile device and voice search. And then of course, visual search on top of that. So I can take a photograph of something, and for it to automatically just do what I need it to do without. And this is where AI can really be powerful here to make sure that we’re we’re getting moving forward on those pieces. All right, there’s

Art Gelwicks 33:42
there’s no question. You were talking about? The other one quick share.

Ray Sidney-Smith 33:47
Yeah, let’s do it.

Art Gelwicks 33:49
Google AirDrop. Yeah, that’s what it is. Okay, so let me let me just clarify to anybody who isn’t familiar with what quick share is, and I just kind of gave it away there. If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, there’s a thing called AirDrop where you can send whatever a file media image over to another phone device, another iPad. Samsung has had quick share for a while. And you can share between Samsung devices. And I use it a lot. I use it quite a bit. And it works really well. It is consistent. It’s bulletproof. There isn’t a lot of configuration or anything. It just kind of works. In the middle of this. Microsoft tried to do something and it’s still doing something with a drop function in their Edge browser. So it’s like, oh, okay, wait, we have something now. That’s a second one. Well, Google and Samsung, supporting quick share as the standard for all Android devices, that meaning that Google is saying that we will use this to allow any Android to send to any other Android. That’s huge that gets rid of this whole issue. You Don’t have to text people images anymore, you don’t have to email the images anymore, you can use a tool that is basically bullet proof for that transfer. And it’s about time, but to see that kind of throwing behind it, honestly, did not see that one coming did not see that quick share would be one of those big things, but as an advocate, and as a user for it. Oh, that’s fantastic. That’s great that they’re doing that.

Ray Sidney-Smith 35:27
So it sounds to me and clarify me if I’m wrong there, they’re bringing, they’re bringing the nearby share features of Android underneath quick share, and quick shares, basically, coming to the all all encompassing tool for all of the pieces. Fantastic. Yeah, like, a lot of times, you’re just like, I just want to give you this file. Right. And, and all of the rigmarole that is required for you to be able to do so this really flattens the, the playing field on the Android side. And so I think, again, this goes to Samsung and Google understanding their competition, they understand the need for them to be able to continually collaborate, and it kind of is a it’s an olive branch, I’m, I might be reading too much into this, but it’s a it’s an olive branch to Microsoft. In a lot of ways, it’s Microsoft an opportunity now to embrace quick share, and kind of get rid of some of their legacy, you know, features on the windows 10. side. And, and, and Windows 11. side. So I’m hoping I’m hoping that they they see this as an opportunity to really help the entire ecosystem outside of the Mac OS, and iOS and iPad OS, to really have a strong function for being able to share files, again, securely, conveniently. And, and just seamlessly, right, you want it to be a seamless experience for people. So

Art Gelwicks 36:59
and here’s, here’s where I think the game changes significantly as because it’s not going to take long for somebody over on the Apple side of the fence to write an app that will allow you to receive and send based on this quick share. I don’t want to call it a protocol, but quick share standard, because you don’t have to follow the apple rules of sending and receiving through AirDrop. Now it’s basically like a messaging app. So I would expect in fairly short order to see somebody or multiple apps over on the Apple side, to start to tie all these pieces together. Now, to be able to send things through all of this now, there’s still, you know, there’s security and controls and file sizes and things like that. But just to give you a practical example, over the summer, I shot a video that was close to a gig, used quick share to send it to my tablet, edit it and send it back to my phone for then publishing out. It just never had to go to the cloud. Net didn’t have to worry about Wi Fi connectivity or anything else all happened locally. It is absolutely a great way to handle this kind of interchange. So yeah, it made me really happy to see that.

Ray Sidney-Smith 38:11
Yeah. And so I alluded to this earlier, when I talked about the photo emoji, but the whole idea now is that the Galaxy line of phones is bringing online in the s 24 series, photo editing and video editing, editing capabilities that are supposed to be professional level. And again, high level processing being done right there locally on the device. So that you can really have great images and great, you know, moving images video produced right there on the phone, akin to, again, you know, they’re competing with Apple’s notion of using your iPhone as a cinematic camera, in a lot of way, they want to really help bolster their opinion there. So they’re giving us new a quote unquote AI, photo editing capabilities, right, they showed that wonderful, you know, option of being able to circle a person and drag them up closer to the, to the basketball hoop, which again, is an outright lie. Clearly they weren’t that high. But you know, whatever. They’re making fake images. But you know, but but the actual the example that I liked was where the person was in the image, and they had kind of their own reflection behind them and you kind of wanted to get the reflection. And and it was really well done just that that’s a great example of just like you want to clean your image. You don’t need that reflection of the person behind them. And they kind of clean that image up and I think more of that is going to be really powerful and impressive. The two

Art Gelwicks 39:46
things that were interesting about that particular example is one the system who made the recommendation, do you want me to remove this it recognize that that was a clutter aspect of the photo. The second part is is something they mentioned across the board. At any time AI monkey’s around with an image, they are putting a watermark on the image. And they are putting a mark in the metadata of the image that it was aI edited. So, deep fakes are not going to be as easily accomplishable tampering with images, you know, is an image believable, well, it’s been retouched. And here at least there’s some clarity and they recognize upfront, we need to be honest about this. So I was happy to see that they were doing that it’s not perfect by any stretch, but at least it’s an effort. Now

Ray Sidney-Smith 40:33
I felt I felt like it was the right choice to be to apply it looks like two little stars, you know, larger star in a small kind of feels to me like Microsoft co pilots logo a little bit. And so that little superimposed image in the in any anything that has been AI altered, is is the right choice, I think it makes a lot of sense that they that they watermark it in that sense, and it just gives everybody a greater greater just feeling and feeling a sense of security there. With regard to what is real and what is not. Let’s let’s talk a little bit about the hardware itself, they have come out with a number of so they have three models of phone so that everybody is aware. So the s 24 line comes out with the s 24. The s 24 Plus, and the s 24. Ultra. And man, the s 24. And the s 24. Plus, they just they look familiar.

Art Gelwicks 41:31
Like I look familiar.

Ray Sidney-Smith 41:34
They, yeah, they’re basically iPhone bodies with.

Art Gelwicks 41:40
So there they are, there’s, there’s no, there’s no subtle way to state that there’s no way to hide that. I mean, they are identical in look and feel to the the Apple phones and honestly, I’m okay with that. I don’t have an issue with that. Because if that were a bad design choice on Apple side, and then Samsung imitated it, then yeah, I’d have a problem with it. But it’s a good design, it’s a solid design they’re using, if I recall correctly, those ones are using an aluminum outer border, it’s only the Ultra, that is using a titanium border as reinforcement, which again for that one make sense because the ultra doesn’t look like an apple, it is clearly the wreck. It is the monolith yet again. And it is a flat monolith, they’re finally getting rid of that lovely curved edge. And honestly, as a S Pen user, they can’t do that soon enough, because that just drives me nuts.

Ray Sidney-Smith 42:50
I don’t know why they ever have the curved screen with the S pen, it didn’t make much sense. I think it was just and so I’m glad to see it gone. I’m glad to see the flat design, I’m glad that the s 24 Ultra at that price point has the titanium edges, right, you’re going to have a little bit Jeopardy with the device, especially if you’re going to want to have that again just live on a little bit longer to have the the corners of your device be able to take a little bit of a beating that the corners of the s 24 and the S 24 Plus are not going to hold up up to as well. But you can clearly see Apple you know design elements in that we’re talking about a Snapdragon eighth Gen three processor inside of it. That’s across all three of them. The sizes of the screens go from 6.2 inch FHD to 6.7 Q HD, and then 6.8 Q HD on the Ultra. So we’re incrementing up in terms of the screen size, battery sizes are going from 4k Milla ampere hours to 40 905,000. So you’re not getting that much more battery out of the the plus to the Ultra. But hopefully there’s some

Art Gelwicks 44:04
Well, they did call out. Yeah, they did call out the fact that they’re going to leverage their AI processing to help optimize battery usage. So I would expect a bit more. I also expect a bit more of a drain on the battery because they’re talking about these displays going up to 2600 nits, we’d have crazy if they did that brightness in a dark room. You could read by the freakin thing. I mean, that’s just crazy brightness. But supposedly it’s smart enough through not only visual sensors, but three different tier layers of visual response to provide the correct display intensity in any given environment. So I’ll be curious to see what the real world battery life estimates are. I run an S 23 Ultra. And honestly, I’ve never had an issue with its battery. I mean, I can go full day and a half two days without having a problem and I live on the thing so I don’t think there’s really gonna be a problem. I did want to touch on little bit though on the glass, they highlighted an improvement in the glass on the ESP 23 Ultra, what they’re calling Corning Gorilla armor. It’s it’s an upgraded version of the gorilla glass that supposedly, and these are their estimates, it’s three times better than the latest version of the Gorilla Glass. And it has four times more scratch resistance, which I think is great. But the thing that they called out that I don’t remember them ever calling up before, is it’s supposed to reduce screen reflection, by up to 75%. That, to me is a big thing when you’re talking about, you know, again, the black slab of glass reflections around you are what really take away from it from that experience. But if it if it loses that reflectivity, now, it makes that screen look that much brighter, that much darker that much contrast here. So that’s to me, that’s a good thing. Yeah, I

Ray Sidney-Smith 45:55
think, you know, we saw this in at CES, you know, where they were, they were really touting the idea of having a glare free, you know, displays. So in the television space. So I think using the same kind of technology to be able to reduce glare is always going to be powerful. Let’s talk about these cameras. So they okay, they decided to go to a 12 mix a 12 megapixel ultra wide effect 50 pixel wide 10 mix, megapixel 3x telephoto and a 12 Mega megapixel front camera. So that’s standard across the s 24. And the s 24. Plus, when we when we move over to the s 24. Ultra, we get the extra 5x 50 mega pixel telephoto lens. And so somewhere along the way, they figured out that people weren’t using your your camera your phone has what’s your I think yours is 10x telephoto, and so they dropped.

Art Gelwicks 46:55
Well, and but they have a rationale for what they did. And this, this is the rationale. And it makes perfect sense when you play around with the zooms on these, that changed to a 5x 50 megapixel. What that allows them to do is to do a full zoom in at 50 megapixels, and then pull into just the center down to 12 megapixels without losing any image quality. So you pick up the equivalent of that 10x Zoom, without having that digital rendering version of the zoom. So that combination of lenses, combined with the system being smart enough to use the right lens at the right time. I think that’s an excellent combination. And they justify it, they said look, that mid range of people zooming into about 5x is usually where they’ll zoom into 10x, you got to be pretty far away from something to justify using 10x. A lot of times, what you would do is you would do a 5x and then, you know, pinch and expand. And that breaks up the image quality. But if you’re doing that five exit 50 megapixels rather than 12. Well, now I can instead of pinching to expand, I can crop to reduce and pull that forward, back to the 12 megapixels with what I had before. And I have a great quality of the image itself. So I think I mean, the s 23 Ultra and the S 23 line, their resume is just mind boggling. I’ve played with it in various locations. And it just floors me how good it is. And they use the obligatory Kpop concert demonstration to show how good it is. But they’re not kidding. I mean that is a that is a quality piece and they were focused around this is This is that kind of iterative growth of putting out the lenses putting out that functionality in the camera. And then listening to the user base and observing how the user base is using it and then modifying the camera structures in the hardware accordingly. Not trying to create this incredibly new different thing pop up lens, whatever. No, it’s just that iteration that makes it that much better. So I think this is an excellent step in the right direction for them. But if somebody is expecting to get like a 500 megapixel 30 times optical zoom on the back, yeah, that’s not there because 99.9% of the population doesn’t need that.

Ray Sidney-Smith 49:31
Yeah, I think I think I was just gonna underscore the thing that you said which is that they are paying attention to their users. And that’s really important for Samsung to both showcase. It’s good for people to be aware of the one change in the ultra from the other specs is that their megapixel, their their wide lens is 200 megapixel over the 50 megapixel wide lens is on the 24 and the 24 plus. So there you’re getting definitely a bump up in terms of capabilities on the number of of line CES and the megapixel density on those on that wide lens. And I think, you know, it’ll time will tell us whether or not that makes sense. But I think it makes sense that they paid attention. And they and they really watch what was happening on users devices and made those adjustments. Items. I

Art Gelwicks 50:19
think, just one last thing to call out, if you take the three devices and put them side by side. This is clearly another statement of Samsung saying s 23 s 23 plus s 23 Effies, s 24 s 24. Plus, those are the general population devices. The Ultras are just that those are the pro devices. Those are the high ends, we’re putting the big guns in there, putting the heavy duty stuff in there. And visually, they look like completely different phones. Functionally, they look like they’re different phones, even though they work the same. So to me, I think, again, as a longtime note user, and since I killed the note line, this again is another statement of saying, Hey, this is the big boy on the block. And everything else learns from this. So yeah,

Ray Sidney-Smith 51:12
so memory and storage wise, they’re starting out at 128 gigabytes going up to 256. It’s eight gigabytes in terms of of RAM on the devices. Curious on the s 20. Fours. What what that means, but I’m guessing that a lot of this is being pushed down to the different chips, and so doesn’t need as much on the primary. I’m not sure they’re

Art Gelwicks 51:39
the eight, the eight gig of RAM. I don’t think it’s an issue. I can’t see anybody who’s getting an ultra getting 128 gig of storage. If they do, they’re just asking for aggravation. If you’re gonna if you’re gonna buy the big, big joy, give him space to play. So

Ray Sidney-Smith 51:57
yeah, it starts at 256 for the plus and the end the ultra so they don’t even give you 128 there Yeah, you gotta go with the big 612 gigabytes of of of memory on the 24 Plus, and the ultra going up to a terabyte on the ultra half, half a terabyte on the plus. So you’re given quite a bit of storage space. Obviously you have the the KNOX cloud they’re calling it Noxon, Citrix. Now, let’s talk a little bit about I’ll actually cover pricing. So pricing, preorder started today, January 17 2024. It’ll be available June 31 2024. And that is across all of the three phones that they announced today. And of course, we’re going up in increments. So the es 23. Fe is coming out at 600. The s 23 is now 700, the s 2424 Plus and ultra 800 1013 $100 starting out, so it gives you lots of good reasons to enter the market. And I feel like for their flagship phones, this makes a lot of sense. And so And

Art Gelwicks 53:03
since we’re talking about things you could keep for seven years now, if you spread that price out, okay, you’re talking if you take an $800 phone, and I can make it run for seven years, well, technically, it’s $100 year phone, now we’ve got a different conversation. Right,

Ray Sidney-Smith 53:18
exactly that that s 24 you’re starting out on the baseline, that’s 800 you can spread that out, it’s 110 ish dollars over the course of that timeframe. So very, very reasonable people to be able to get a really nice phone that works for them. The I’m going to I’m gonna let’s let’s talk about Knox matrix, privacy and security dashboard issues. Because I think that’s for us to kind of circle back to then we could talk about this announcement around Samsung health, because I’m very skeptical. Let’s let’s talk about the KNOX matrix. Oh,

Art Gelwicks 53:56
did you so I’m, I’m a NOx user I have. And just to explain what NOx is. Nox isn’t a separate encrypted partition. I’m not going to do this justice. You can google for the details. But it’s a separate encrypted separate encrypted partition on your phone that allows you to store applications data, whatever and it requires separate authentication on the device to be able to access that now. Knox matrix, if I’m understanding this correctly, takes that encrypted data, synchronizes it to the cloud and then allows it to synchronize down to other devices. So for example, s 23 Ultra that I have and I’ve got an S eight or s eight plus tablet. Right now if I have Knox running on the two devices, if I put something in Knox on one, it’s not available on the other with not Knox matrix. It is. So think about a highly secured, encrypt Did storage that replicates across your devices? That’s really useful that takes Knox to the next level of making it a viable use platform, especially on these mobile things that can disappear that easily. I mean, it’s it’s a very simple thing with something like NOCs, if you take a picture of a receipt, you take a lot of times people like, for example, medical cards, or insurance cards or social security card, you don’t want to leave that in your gallery photo gallery. You don’t want to stored as a file, you don’t want to park it in Google Drive, you don’t want to. So where are you going to put it? Well, if you park it in something like Knox, in the device that you’re keeping, at this point, if you lose that device that’s gone. Because it’s a single device solution, Knox matrix makes it no longer a single device solution allows you to span across your devices. So I think it’s a it’s a good logical growth of how Knox works as a tool and as a platform. And I think, when we talk about these, this could be what kind of finally kicks knocks to the mainstream to get people to start using it and start using it more effectively. Because I really think they should. I mean, it’s a much better solution. I’ve started migrating a lot of the private information that I would park in secure cloud based services over to this, because you see how those secure cloud based services are struggling so much with breaches and things like that. There has never been to my knowledge, and please comment if I’m wrong, but there’s never been a Knox breach that I know of.

Ray Sidney-Smith 56:47
That’s fantastic. And hopefully there won’t be. Because, you know, really, Samsung’s reputation is on the line here as to their capabilities of security on the platform. And I do trust Samsung to be able to make that work. So, so that’s NOx matrix and this whole piece, and it’s just a kind of, unless you wanted to talk about anything else, they talked about Samsung health. And I wanted to close out the show, because they announced a new product, very vaguely. But they they talked about some interesting pieces about utilizing Galaxy AI on and with the Samsung health. And so I’m a former, you know, Galaxy watch where and I, of course, the pixel watch line, because I have a Pixel phone. And so it was interesting to see how Samsung kind of had their flavor of Samsung health. What are your thoughts being a Samsung health user? With these new features? I, I

Art Gelwicks 57:52
use Samsung health every day, all day long. I have it on my watch. I use it constantly. I do things like checking EKG, checking, heart rate, checking stress, water, all the all the things, check all the boxes. So does this help? I like the idea that AI in quotation marks will help with the interpretation and aggregation of that data. I like the fact that they’re talking about doing things like monitoring heart rate while you sleep, because currently it doesn’t do that. And that that’s a really useful thing. And they they brought up the point of sleep apnea and, and stress how much of a thing like yeah, good use good use case, they talked about a medication tracker, a reminder of, oh, that’s fine. That’s an app. And then they brought out this thing called My vitality score. Okay. I appreciate the fact of coming up with something like this, but unless you’re gonna have some really thick transparency on what this score is, how it’s composed, what it’s based out of what it impacts how you react to it, it’s just going to be another made up medical number. So I’m not sure how that’s going to come across. But I highly want to reserve judgment until I see this stuff in place in inaction. Samsung health seems to run just up to the edge of being useful. And then kind of trips over and over and over again, gets brutally close, but it’s not quite there. And they talked about things like booster cards with tips on better health. Okay, guys, you’re just filling in air now. If they are able to start using the AI capabilities in this to provide some better insight and some better learning, then it’s worthwhile, then I think it’s gonna be good. And again, I’m running a galaxy watch for the six has better sensors in it if they continue to build on those sensors, and we start to see new sensor sets for feeding data. And that’s really where all this, this benefits, more data we feed it, the more it has to work with. And then they highlighted the device and turn up the lights.

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:00:14
Yeah, so they announced the Galaxy ring, which is basically a competitor, competitor to the aura, potentially even competitor to the whoop band that some app competitive athletes wear. And so this is a health tracking device, akin to the Apple Watch, or to your Samsung Galaxy, watch four or the pixel watch where it’s tracking health data is tracking metrics. And it’s capable of then feeding that into Samsung health. They gave virtually no information on its round.

Art Gelwicks 1:00:50
It’s round, it’s got a hole in the middle. I was always said, that

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:00:55
was baffled. They don’t tell us when it’s going to be released. They don’t tell us any details about what it’s going to what the what number of sensors are going to be in there, what it’s going to track. I’m, I’m almost, you know, convinced that they have a 5050 chance of putting the product out. Like it could it could happen. So,

Art Gelwicks 1:01:13
so I so I got a question. And in the pre show, I was chatting back and forth with a Gousto. And he goes, Why would you have a ring? If you have a galaxy watch? And it’s a very valid question, if you have the watch. Why? What would the ring provide for you not knowing anything about the sensors that are on the ring or anything like that it’s life anything like that? That’s what we have to find out? What where does the Venn diagram of the watch and the ring intersect? Because remember, with the ring, you can’t have things like oh, I don’t know, a display. There are only certain sensors that you can have available. So Now granted, it’s all the time consistent recording. So there’s a lot more data you can aggregate. And if you can move some of the data capture from the watch to the ring, so that it’s not an duplication, but they’re, they’re compatible. Now you may be able to provide a much better set and I know people who who can’t sleep with a watch on they don’t you know, they don’t do that I do. But I do for the sleep tracking. If I didn’t have to do that, well, maybe that’s not a bad thing. But since we only know it’s a round piece of jewelry, this is all speculation we have no idea timeline or anything else. I think this may be I think it’s gonna come out. And I think maybe 12 People will buy it. And I’m not gonna be one of them. Because I got the other stuff.

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:02:49
I think I think this does this navigates the the very, very small place between non watch wares, right? If you’re, if you’re not a watch where then this solves that problem. And I can very much see this being a solution for those folks that are that are not aura ring, you know, compatible just because they don’t know, or a brand. Samsung is well known, they’re trusted. And it’s going to work, hopefully, both across Android and iOS, just utilizing an app, it’s probably not going to be as strong in terms of data collection. But really, the ring will still capture the data based on the sensors that it has, which means that it can do some really good stuff there. You’re right, there are opportunities where I’d like to take my watch off and go to sleep and wearing the ring for that problem. Also, it means that you know, some mornings I wake up and I have you know, kind of a watch shaped indent in part of my face. Because I will sleep on the wristband or I’ll sleep on the watch face that will drain the battery. And and Google has done really a good job of stopping as actually protects against that for the most part. But I still doesn’t stop me from having you know, sometimes an imprint of a face when I wake up and it takes it takes a little while for that to disappear. So you can’t really roll out of bed into it into a Zoom meeting with a with an imprint on your face. So I think that the ring solves for that problem, especially if you need to charge your watch overnight. Right? So there’s there’s that issue where oh gosh, I didn’t charge the watch, it’s not going to go ahead and capture the data. If you have the ring on, then it solves that problem because it’s going to last you over in that sense.

Art Gelwicks 1:04:38
And I would I would agree with you if it took that long to charge the watch. But thing is you can charge the watch in 45 minutes, not even you can get it back to 50% from almost dead and the time it takes to you know, shower, shave and brush your teeth done move on. So it’s not a difficult reason or it’s not a good act. Do you say, Well, you know, I can’t have it for an extended period of time. Like I said, some people just can’t wear watches. Some people haven’t, you know, there, there is an audience for the thing. I can’t help but think, though that they would be better served, releasing a device like their old Samsung Gear, fitness trackers, then putting in cars that you know, this thing is going to hit like a $299 price point, it probably, you know, I’ll speculate that I don’t know what an aura ring goes for. But I’m sure it’s, it’s in that neck of the woods. So now I got a device that is much easier to lose physically, then a watch, and it is much lower functionality. So I now here’s where I would like to see it do. And this is again, this is me just totally speculating. One, put a temperature sensor. And that actually works to have your O to sensor and three, have your EKG be able to do your EKG reading on it. If you can do those basic ones. Now you’ve got something that makes a lot of sense. Oh, and the one thing that none of them can do yet, when they figure out how to make it measure blood sugar gameover, if they can, if they can make that ring, measure blood sugar, and get FDA approval for it. Yeah, they’ll they’ll sell those things faster, and they can make them because that’s one of the perfect reasons to have it on all the time. Yeah, that’ll be heavier,

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:06:35
that’ll be Galaxy ring version 10,

Unknown Speaker 1:06:37
they can’t, it’s got to be a while,

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:06:40
you’d have to have very big ring to hold the battery to be able to do some of those to be able to power those sensors. That’s,

Art Gelwicks 1:06:48
that’s what I wonder. And again, somebody somebody who either has an aura, I don’t know, if you have an aura ring. I know somebody who actually just got one. So I’m going to talk to her about what her experiences with it. I have never worn one or used one. But I just can’t I can’t help but think it’s such a limited piece. So

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:07:09
yeah, don’t have an aura ring. I have contemplated it many times. But I’ve always felt as though my watch was capturing all the data that I needed to. And it was capturing more limited data, and therefore just didn’t really fit my use case. So but they’re getting better. I mean, the newest or rings are more and I’m hoping the Galaxy ring does well I honestly do, I hope that it does actually start to capture more data, if it can pull an HRV. If it can pull an SPO. Two, at the very least, then you’re given quite a bit of good information. You know, these devices are struggling to do continuous heart rate monitoring out the box, right. So this is this is a real problem, just because of battery life. So if we can figure out the battery problem, then we get a real opportunity to go ahead and expand upon the sensors and the capabilities of those pieces.

Art Gelwicks 1:08:04
So just out of curiosity, here I’m looking at. Let’s see, looking at the patent related to it. Supposed to, yeah, everything we talked about sleep apnea, blood, oxygen changes, maintaining heart rate, those are kind of nice things for for a ring type device. Because you could go if that’s all it’s going to measure, then yeah, it makes perfect sense. And it doesn’t have to be we think about a ring as something you’re wearing all the time. It may be an intermittent, intermittent device, it may be the thing you put on when you go to bed. Exactly, that’s and that does that measuring set, well, now you’ll have the watch to deal with or anything else. It’s like, okay, that may be and then you can let the watch sit in charge overnight. So it may be a very good, complementary device, rather than competing. So let’s

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:09:01
say so I also like complementary in the sense that like, if you get a weird reading on the watch, because there’s a malfunction, the ring can also reading and tell you, Hey, you’re not having a heart attack, you’re just working out. Right. You know, it’s, you know, there have been circumstances where people get weird readings from from a watch. And so having that other device to basically say, hey, no, that’s actually not the case. You know, that can be really, I think, comforting for people, especially, you know, you don’t want to distress somebody, you know that they’re having a medical event, even though it’s not ice telling you that you’re having some kind of medical event when you’re not. So it, I think there’s I think there’s a space here for this.

Art Gelwicks 1:09:38
And the more I think about it, it can actually be an extension set of sensors too. So if we think about for example, if you’re wearing the ring on your right hand, you had the watch on your left hand, well now you have a separation where you can do the body mass calculation without having to stand there with your two fingers on the watch. You can just say measure it, and it can measure it On its own, you can spread out the heart rate measure, and it can, you know, do water calculations, I think because it has an extra set of sensors to work with. And maybe that’s what this becomes, again, is an extension of the sensor set, rather than just a dedicated piece. I’d be curious to see.

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:10:19
Yeah, we’ll only see once they get it out into the world, and we actually see it being used in a large scale population among the 12 people who buy it. So

Art Gelwicks 1:10:30
alright, we’re about that one.

Ray Sidney-Smith 1:10:31
I know I know. We are coming to a close for this commentary on the Samsung Galaxy unpacked January 2024. event. Thank you art for joining us here for my pleasure. Thank you very much. All right, everybody, we are going to close out. As you all know, you can follow us on socials. If you’re inside personal productivity club, you’re where you need to be, feel free to follow along with us there. We’re currently not putting out new episodes on a regular basis. But I think this is kind of fun for a Gousto. And I want to do so when I are available. And these large scale events are happening to kind of poke in and do these special episodes. We’re going to do that for now until we’re able to come back and have enough time to do Anything But Idle justice in a full time perspective. So you can follow us on social you can see the links and so on and so forth in the show notes once those are out, but either way, I want to thank you for listening and watching along for the Anything But Idle productivity news podcast. Until next time, here’s to your productive life.

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How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week.

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In this Cast | Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan

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Headlines & Show Notes | How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan

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Headlines Part A

Work stress: Strategies to deal with burnout and work-related stress

How to Better Manage Your Time

Lab #26: How to Create that Winning Feeling Every Single Day

The Power of Music: Transforming Mood and Performance

Productivity Habits Trusted By The World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs

Headlines, Part B

Shiny Frog Releases Bear 2.0

Apple Pulls iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 Rapid Security Response Updates Due to Safari Bug

Apple re-releases Rapid Security Response iOS 16.5.1 to patch security exploit

Apple releases iOS 16.6

Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar | TechCrunch

Google Calendar now allows users to take paid appointments

Google’s AI-powered notes app is now called NotebookLM, and it’s launching today

9to5Google: Google One VPN switching from broad to local IP addresses

WhatsApp vs. Telegram: Which Is the Better Messaging App?

First look at the Onyx Boox Tab Mini C

Tool of the Week

Scrivener for iOS

Featured Story of The Week

How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan

Announcements

Evernote layoffs announced after sale of company; relocates to Europe

Evernote undergoes major layoffs, shifts operations to Europe

Fifteen Years of OmniFocus for iPhone and the iPhone App Store

Celebrating 15 Productive Years of OmniFocus

Amazon is going to have a hardware event in September

Notes

How to Support Employees with Anxiety and Depression | Corporate Wellness | Employee Well-Being

Jobs will be transformed by A.I. through productivity boost, says Harvard professor Tsedal Neeley

Open Offices: Collaboration Heaven or Productivity Hell

What Is Productivity Anxiety? 5 Strategies to Overcome It

Employers wake up to the power of a staff nap

How to Manage Performance Issues | Corporate Wellness | Employee Well-Being

Combat hustle culture before it takes a toll of your work productivity

Is your team engaging in productivity theatre? Warning signs and what to do about it

Five-minute rest all it takes to kick-start attention

Harvard psychologist shares 9 toxic phrases 'gaslighters' always use—and how to respond

10 Things You Should Almost Always Buy Used

5 Signs You Are Sabotaging Your Inner Peace

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 174 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

All the Reasons You Might Not Want to Join Threads

Best Office Monitors 2023: for enhanced productivity

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How Productive is Joining Instagram Threads, and the Productivity and Technology News This Week

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In this Cast | Joining Instagram Threads

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Headlines & Show Notes | Joining Instagram Threads

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Headlines, Part A

49 Life Lessons In 49 Years Of Living - Productivityist

When In Doubt, Change Everything

Change The Way You See Yourself

Why A Positive Attitude Attracts Success

Headlines, Part B

Wish List: Keep apps from being offloaded

This iPhone trick will make sure you never miss your morning alarm again

What’s the best To-do list app?

A Tour Of My New OneNote Book Journal

Samsung will unveil its new foldables on July 26th

Google Calendar is getting a big upgrade that will save you time

Google Calendars redesign for tablets and Chromebooks finally rolling out widely

How to Convert Images to Editable Text in Microsoft Word

How to Make Your Own Printable Calendar Using Canva

How to migrate your Facebook post and media to Google Docs and Google Photos

Early Prime Day Deals: Kindle Paperwhite Kids Edition Kindle Scribe Fire HD 8 discounted

New Updates to Amazon Kindle Scribe Make It Peoples Favorite

New Tools of the Week

Sidekick

Dictation. Google Keyboard add-on for iPhone, Siri.

Nuance Dragon Anywhere for iOS

Featured Story of the Week

Threads now available to download: Meta’s microblogging alternative to Twitter

How to add and manage multiple accounts in Threads Meta's new Twitter rival

Twitter warns it could sue Meta over copycat Threads app

What I am Reading and Enjoying

Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement

Leonardo da Vinci: Inside a genius mind

Notes

Why You're So Unhappy

TestFlight Now Supports visionOS Apps

Vision Pro accessories from CASETiFY will let you personalize and protect your device

iPad keyboard maker Brydge revived under new ownership; details on unpaid salaries and unfulfilled orders unknown

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 173 With Safari 17 Features

Facing the Sirens of Flow & Breaking Hyperfocus

How to Better Manage Your Time

Scientific Daily Routine Everyone Should Do

The relationship between homeworking during COVID-19 and both, mental health, and productivity: a systematic review

5 Mental Health Rewards Of Embracing Minimalism, According To A Psychologist

Five Strategies for Being More Productive

What is the TikTok 5-to-9 trend and how does it increase productivity?

Creating A Cosy And Functional Employee Area - Boosting Staff Productivity And Satisfaction

What to Do When You Can't Fall Asleep May Surprise You

How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There's a Test You Can Take

Minimalism vs. Consumerism: The Benefits of Choosing a Simple Life

Why Do We Still Work While on Vacation?

Toxic Productivity

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education

Sleep Deprivation Sometimes Relieves Depression. A New Study May Show Why

Write More in Less Time. 6 Strategies To Increase Your Output

Onboarding vs orientation: Your questions answered | Trello

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Remembering Your Notes, and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week

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In this Cast | Remembering Your Notes

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Headlines & Show Notes | Remembering Your Notes

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Headlines, Part A

The forced return to the office is the definition of insanity

Business Insider: In the age of remote work, employers are quiet-quitting on employees

Fortune: Forget ‘quiet quitting’. Now frustrated employees are ‘loud quitting’—and the resignation trend is even worse for business leaders

Headlines, Part B

Unboxing Amazon Fire Max 11: Review

Onyx launches compact pocket PC with eye-friendly color ePaper screen

Android Police: Android is changing its brand identity once again

Introduction to reminders (Todoist)

12 Week Year in Todoist

Oculus cofounder sees the future in Apple Vision Pro

Apple Glasses won’t face competition from Google Iris smart glasses

How to manage your notes with OneNote & Google Tasks

How to add notes to site passwords saved in Google Chrome

Tools of the Week

Glasp / Hypothesis

A Trusted Productivity System for Life

Nozbe

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

How to Remember What You Type With Digital Note-Taking

WHAT I AM READING AND ENJOYING

How to Do Great Work

Notes

Dr. Julie Gurner (Part 1): Caring Deeply, Challenging Directly [The Knowledge Project Ep. #169]

What To Do About Busy Work?

The Real Reason You Feel Stuck

Leveraging Fear

Apple increases iCloud storage prices in the UK and other markets

Cron launches Notion integration

Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen

Google Chat is getting new tools to help you reply to messages faster better express yourself

Evernote - why I love(d) it, how it almost acquired Nozbe and what’s next for your “external brain”?

The Business 2023

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community. Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:13And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 121. Remembering your notes, and the productivity and technology news this week, we're recording this on July 5 2023. I hope you all in the states enjoyed a Happy Independence Day weekend, hence the late recording date. But of course, each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the world of personal productivity and its related technologies. And so with that, I'm going to have Augusto lead us into our first headline this week. Augusto,

Augusto Pinaud 0:44the first article came from 14th. And this is going to be a short section today covered by three articles. The first one is the forced Return of the office is the definition of insanity. And being a person who don't want to go to an office ever again. Since 2004. Okay. I agree. Okay,

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Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week.

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In this Cast | Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS

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Headlines, Part A

Transforming Your Home Office: Designing A Productive And Inspiring Workspace

Overcoming Laziness: Applying The Kaizen Philosophy For Personal Growth

When You Feel Overwhelmed Do Less Better

Is Financial Stress A Threat To Productivity?

Workation: Balancing Work And Vacation For Optimal Career Performance

Headlines, Part B

This is Chromebook X: Googles new standard for ChromeOS

Google’s Pixel Tablet is officially available

Google Pixel Tablet review: It’s all about the dock

Google Domains is shutting down, and its assets are going to Squarespace

iPadOS 17 will make your iPad Pro a Computer

Omni Roadmap 2023 — Post-WWDC Update

Amazon’s ‘Hey Disney!’ experience comes to all Echo devices

How to Find and Replace Outdated Windows Drivers

Tools of the Week

Sona

Greenlight

Featured Story of the Week

OneNote on iOS is about to get a big boost for organizing notes

Announcements

Apple releases iOS 16.5.1, iPadOS 16.5.1, macOS Ventura 13.4.1, and watchOS 9.5.2 updates

Rumors

Paul McCartney says AI helped finish one last Beatles song – here’s an update on what that means

Generative A.I. Can Add $4.4 Trillion in Value to Global Economy, Study Says - The New York Times

Notes

How to Manage the Work Time of Your Employees Effectively?

How Our Minds Shape Reality

Episode #212: Dave Edwards interviews David Allen

Why I Quit Beast Mode and How I Traded Burnout for Peace and Balance

How to Overcome Procrastination: A Neuroscience Based Approach to Get More Done

15 Books on Procrastination To Help You Start Taking Action

How to be more productive at work

Can You Be Productive Working Only 45% Of The Day?

Smart drugs fall short as cognitive function enhancers

Rethinking Smart: Cognitive Enhancers May Diminish Performance in Those Without ADHD

How to Incorporate Zen to Done Productivity Method Into Your Everyday Life

For companies sticking with remote work, the rules are becoming clear

Podcast #905: Become a Morning Workout Person

Start Optimizing Your Stress

Stress Testing Your Productivity System: Three Tips for When Your Productivity System Fails You

Time, Nature, and ADHD – a Podcast Discussion with Take Control ADHD

Microsoft updates Windows 11 system requirements and CPU support list

Apple Podcasts gets upgraded search functionality

First Look at Early VisionOS Apps

These Google AI apps are going to be amazing on Apple’s Vision Pro

Apple Vision Upgrade Program would be the perfect option for this tech

Vision Pro: What features were killed and what could still be coming

Apple patches two actively exploited security flaws with iOS 16.5.1 and more

Apple Releases macOS Ventura 13.4.1 With Security Fixes

Apple Releases iOS 16.5.1 With Fix for Lightning to USB Camera Adapter Bug

Apple releases iOS 16.5.

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Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week.

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In this Cast | Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works

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Headlines, Part A

Boring To-Do Lists? Not If You Study Leonardo da Vinci

Declare 'Backlog Bankruptcy'

Can You Be Productive Working Only 45% Of The Day?

Your Expectations Dont Just Influence Your Destiny They Determine It

Headlines, Part B

Amazon Fire Max 11 review: not the productivity tablet you’re looking for

15-inch MacBook Air hands-on: My dreams have finally come true

iOS 17 will stop your Android friends from ruining your group texts with their green bubbles

The green bubble problem is about to get even worse

Anker debuts new Soundcore Liberty 4 NC earbuds with 60-hour battery and $100 price tag

How to use the awesome new Data Extraction Smart Canvas feature in Google Sheets

How to create a Gantt chart in Google Sheets with the new Smart Canvas Timeline view

All the New Features Coming to Your Pixel Phone With the June 2023 Feature Drop

Google Meet On-the-Go mode will automatically take away distractions if you're not stationary

Lenovo Smart Paper now available in the UK and the Netherlands

Old Kindle Paperwhite turned into a WeatherBoard to display weather information

New Tools of the Week

h264ify

New! Automate Google Tasks With Pleexy

Featured Story of the Week

Paul Graham says remote work ‘does work initially,’ which is why it ‘fooled’ leaders who have since ‘changed their minds’

Announcements

iOS 17 to Enable Recurring Apple Cash Payments for Kids Allowances and Other Shared Expenses

Microsoft no longer supports Windows 8 and soon neither will Google Drive

Google Drive is ending app support for Windows 8 and 8.1

Notes

'Smart' drugs may inhibit performance and productivity in users without ADHD

Rethinking Smart: Cognitive Enhancers May Diminish Performance in Those Without ADHD

Try 'Task Batching' for a More Productive Week

How to be more productive at work

Traffic congestion and the employee psyche - Jamaica Observer

Brain Food: Big ambitions Low expectations and High Standards

Generative A.I. Can Add $4.4 Trillion in Value to Global Economy, Study Says - The New York Times

3 key Vision Pro features that Apple rivals will have a hard time copying

Best Buy Expands Upgrade+ Program to iPad Pro and Apple Watch Ultra

Apple Card Monthly Installments Term for Apple Watch to Change From 24 Months to 12 Months

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 172 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Here's How Web Apps Work in macOS Sonoma

You can finally buy a Matter smart lock

Chrome adding full Google Password Manager UI complete with desktop shortcut

ChromeOS 114 brings some new goodies but Im here for the Emoji picker

Oura Ring users can now share sleep scores with friends

Google Photos on the web gets a huge photo editing boost

Every smartphone should be a flip phone, starting right now

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Apple Announcements from WWDC and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week.

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In this Cast | Apple Announcements from WWDC

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Apple Announcements from WWDC

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Headlines Part A

If You’re Not Getting Better, You’re Getting Worse

There Is a Good Way To Make a To-Do List and There is a Better Way

How to Address Productivity Paranoia

Start Each Week With This Digital Decluttering Method

Headlines Part B

Google can search for books in your local library

Google Workspace gains passkey support

Remarkable revises the PDF experience and a robust highlighting system

The Best Magic Keyboard & Apple Pencil Alternative

Hands-on: Are these budget iPad accessories viable alternatives to Apple’s own offerings?

Apple bought the AR company behind the tech in Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart’ ride

Apple Acquires AR Headset Firm Mira Behind Mario Kart Ride at Super Nintendo

WhatsApp finally lets you fix typos in sent messages

Create a Simple Wardrobe Catalog on Your iPhone

Motorola’s new Razr+ has me dreaming of a foldable iPhone

Tools of the Week

Greatness App

DayOne

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

WWDC 2023 Recap: Everything Apple Announced Today

The features that didn’t get discussed onstage at WWDC

Miss the event? Replay the WWDC23 keynote right here

Apple Maps is finally getting offline navigation

iOS 17: How to download and use offline maps with Apple Maps

Siri gets a bit smarter but Apple Home is still lagging behind

Journal is Apples new journaling app for iOS

Apple’s new ‘Journal’ app will help you kickstart a daily diary habit

The Best New Features in macOS Sonoma

The evolution of Apple iOS from 1.0 to 17

With M2 Ultra Mac Pro, Apple Completes Apple Silicon Transition and No Longer Sells Intel-Based Macs

iOS 17 Lets You Share AirTags With Others

System Requirements for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and macOS Sonoma

Apple Announces New 'NameDrop' Contact Sharing Feature Coming in iOS 17

FaceTime is coming to Apple TV

tvOS 17 brings FaceTime and video conferencing to Apple TV 4K

Apple Makes Developer Betas Free to Download and Install

Announcements

Learn OmniFocus Turns Nine

Notes

Meta Announces Quest 3 Ahead of Apple's Rumored AR/VR Headset

The Meta Quest 3 is a $499 mixed reality headset with full-color passthrough

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 171 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Oppo MR headset announced just days before Reality Pro – but only for developers

Little Ape e-note can be the best learning aid your child can have

Multitasking Is Making You Worse at Everything

Low Goals: 7 Unexpected Advantages

How to set realistic doable goals

How to Improve Your Attention Span

The latest threat to workplace productivity: Employee finances

These Are the Signs You're Overstepping at Work

20 Experts’ Smart, But Simple, Tech Tips For Everyday Users

Productivity Dysmorphia

The Robots Are Here: What Will It Mean for Job Security?

Is The 3-Drink Theory The Key To Productivity?

Good Stress Is Still Stress

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Notion Projects Arrives to Help Organize Projects

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HEADLINES, PART A

Unveiling the long-term effects of regular prolonged screen exposure

How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research

Technological changes in hybrid working benefits psychological safety in the workplace, experts have said

Things in Life I Underestimated for Way Too Long

How to Tame Those Gazillion Ideas

HEADLINES, PART B

New Microsoft Mac Admins community now available for IT pros using Microsoft products on Apple devices in the enterprise

Amazon sending out emails highlighting its Send to Kindle from Microsoft Word feature

Google Messages Magic Compose beta brings AI to your RCS chats but with some limitations

Googles Magic Compose beta is here but it sends your messages to Google

How to Use Google's AI Search Experience Right Now

You Can Finally Share Your Screen in WhatsApp on Android

Logi Dock review: conference calls have never been so cute

Google Keep reminders wont show on Calendar anymore the perfect productivity trifecta ruined

Final Cut for iPad is a step in the right direction, but it highlights iPadOS limitations

BodyGuardz launches Apex ceramic iPhone screen protector, claims ‘virtually unbreakable’

Lenovos big new tablet is beautiful and proves that ChromeOS is Googles better desktop OS

New B&N Nook Glowlight 4 Plus appears in a product page at company retail store

Honor Magic VS review: foldable perks foldable quirks

New Tools of the Week

Wavebox

Novaplus A7 Pro Stylus Pen for iPad, Real Time Battery Display, 1.4mm Tip Exchangeable with Apple Pencil, Tilt Function, Palm Rejection, Magnetic Design. Precise Writing/Drawing

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

What are Notion Projects?

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Google’s ChatGPT rival just launched in search. Here’s how to try it

Apple, MLB announce July “Friday Night Baseball” schedule on Apple TV+

NOTES

Meta Announces Quest 3 Ahead of Apple's Rumored AR/VR Headset

The Meta Quest 3 is a $499 mixed reality headset with full-color passthrough

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 171 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Oppo MR headset announced just days before Reality Pro – but only for developers

Little Ape e-note can be the best learning aid your child can have

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Headlines Part A

7 Positive Effects of Taking Time Off for Mental Health
Are productivity hacks holding you back? The surprising truth about effectiveness
15 small routine changes that’ll have a huge impact on your productivity

Headlines Part B

I wish Google Search and Assistant accepted mixed bilingual input for voice queries
Google rolls out new side panel for customizing Chrome
Amazons Kindle Scribe is getting limited handwriting-to-text conversion
Amazon launches its biggest tablet, the $230 Fire Max 11
Amazon Fire Max 11 is the company’s biggest tablet yet, aims at the iPad 2022

TOOL 1 (Ray)

Mimestream (Mac)

TOOL 2 (Augusto)

MOFT.US PRODUCTS

Wall Stand & Snap Pad
Flip Laptop Phone Mount

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

Microsoft’s Copilot will be your AI personal assistant in Windows 11

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Microsoft Build 2023: all the news and announcements from the developer conference
- Watch the Microsoft Build 2023 keynote in under 10 minutes
Microsoft releases new Windows Backup app for Windows 11
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns June 5, 2023
Microsoft 365 Copilot is COMING – Here’s What It Can Do…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is coming to Microsoft Edge
Todoist adding start time and duration fields
This new laptop replaces the physical screen with a 100-inch virtual display

RUMORS

ChatGPT Is Already Obsolete
Apple Invites XR Media Outlets to WWDC Keynote for the First Time

NOTES

Spark +AI launches: a new era for Spark arrives with AI-powered email which elevates your writing, and ignites productivity
How To Track Time Spent On Tasks
The Challenge of Social Discoordination
Smart Help 7 Questions to Ask Before Helping
4 Ways To Increase Employee Engagement At Work
Sonys new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen streams PS5 games
How to Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Plex Media Server
Nvidia RTX GPUs are coming to two upcoming Chromebooks
Netflix is making it easier to find saved shows and movies you still haven’t watched
Editable WhatsApp messages are coming to help you fix silly typos
Brain Food: Perfectionism

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Hello personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today’s show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith. And we’re your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 116. AI comes to Windows, and we’re recording this on May 30 2023. I hope everybody had a wonderful Memorial Day holiday those of you who celebrated Carol states, of course, each week, Augusto. And I cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what’s going on in the world of personal productivity and it’s related technologies. With that, let’s get into our headline, what’s our first headline this week.

Augusto Pinaud 0:45
So our first headline of the week, it says seven positive effects of taking time off for mental health. And he’s come from psychology today. And I’ll talk to you know, improve mental well being productivity, physical health, work life balance. But more than the seven positive effects, it is important to remember that we are not machines, and that we need to take this breaks, and we need to take this time off, or we need to take these health days. And as a productivity coach and consultant, one of the things that I heard often is I don’t have the time to take a day or two days a weekend. And I understand it. So if you don’t have those times, then you need to figure it out. Maybe look at this less list of seven things and figure out how do you do a smaller increments of this, you know, as somebody teach me, early in my career, I was complaining about no no have enough time to write? And he said, Well, describe me your writing routine? Well, my routine required two or three hours of work out, of course, I never have that window. Personally Well, how about your right in 15 minutes increments? Impossible. And that was my first reaction, I think is the same thing in this cases, you know, we think taking the time of need to be this long day, weekend, longer period of time. But the reality is it not it can be that small fragment of time. But regardless, you can take those 24 hours, or you can only take eight minutes. It is very, very important. And it has very important effects.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:40
I really liked the idea of a mental health day and I will probably start thinking about it. You know, I’ve of course heard it over the years people people saying they were taking them. But from a greater productivity perspective, having that time off. And not being predicated on a federal holiday or being predicated on a weekend would kind of be more useful to me like saying, I’m going to take off a Tuesday or a Wednesday, and take that just like you would for a recovery day from the gym, kind of taking that recovery day for mental health and wellness perspective. So I really liked that concept. All right, on to our next story Augusto.

Augusto Pinaud 3:23
Our productivity hacks holding you back, they sort of praised this or pricing true about effectiveness. That’s the title of the article come from business leader magazine. And it was a very nice article, you know, and come with certain things. You know, that may sound basic, but you do understand what the writer called is sewn of job genius. So what is that time that you work the best? And I know she said something very interesting, say, you know, optimizing your calendar. And so you know, email tells you what other thing you should be working on your to do, tells you what you think you should be working on. And that reality lives in the middle. And that middle is your calendar. And the calendar really is what shows you where are you with that and where are you going to go, you know, and aside of that talks about hey, taking time to reflect and planning and I have said over the years many times the more busier you are, the more time you need for this reflection and planning time because the less time you have to stop to pick the wrong thing to do the wrong activity. It also talks about setting systems and I agree, I disagree. On the way she put it in the you know setting system not a series of hacks and I believe the hacks are very important but setting the system it is important and finally say In this I love, it’s just a set of expectations with others creating a user manual to me. And that’s something that I have never put on those terms, but that have done for many, many years and set the expectations from people very, very clear. This is what you can expect, this is what you can connect me, these are the hours that I will not respond to you, and be upfront with all those things. So people know what to expect, and what are they going to get from you?

Raymond Sidney-Smith 5:34
Yeah, so I think I also disagree with the terminology of calling anything hacks, you know, I don’t think that really makes much of a difference to what she’s really talking about here. It’s a good, you know, it’s a good title, you know, to kind of get you to click on the article. But the techniques themselves I think, are useful. I think the I think the the ultimate goal here is to be able to create a cohesive personal productivity system, that is one that fits you a design that works for you, right, like, your system is your system, it’s personal. So what works for me is not going to necessarily work for you, it may inform and help you understand what might work for you, but it’s not the one that you should adopt, you know, full sail. So the goal here is to be able to figure out the, the mechanisms that you can use the tools, strategies, techniques, that combined become something useful for you. And I think many times we forget that piece of it. I have a user manual myself. So I really appreciate that concept. And so you know, I have a whole manual and I have a an estate manual, basically, should I not be able to manage my own home, you know, and life, these are the things that need to be managed, you know, without me being able to make those decisions. And I liked the the five page playbook she created. It’s kind of a GTD system that she has informed through her own her own productivity system. And this works for her right, it wouldn’t work for me. So as I was reading through it, I was like, no, no, no, scratch that. No, no, yes, maybe yes, yes, no. And so it was really nice, though, to see somebody else really itemize and, and just kind of, you know, explicate her entire system in in a very succinct, clear way. And I think we should all do that in some way, shape, or form, because it really helps us galvanize what things we actually use and what we don’t use. And I think that’s very, very helpful. Yeah,

Augusto Pinaud 7:43
and for I have discussed in cross platform, I have discussing ProductivityCast, what I call my technology card, and the technology cards at the end of the day, part of that manual is very subcomponent of this of this manual, where I discuss and cover for me, this is for nobody else. What is the technology in my world? And what are the plays? They do? Why do I use them? How do I use them so that way when I need to think or want to upgrade or look for cool things, like every week, because of the show, okay, that may make the list. It’s a very easy now comparison, I can pull that list and say where this is going to fit and move on.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 8:28
All right, on to our next story.

Augusto Pinaud 8:30
Well, our next story is from hacks spirit, and it’s 15 routine changes that will make a huge impact on your productivity, you know, wake up earlier, and I love wake up earlier, I have I have two kids, I have a wife of a dog. And I love that time before anybody, it’s up that I can. And I do different things depending on the day, I have learned that not everybody wake up early, and it’s fine. What I discovered for me is I need to wake up every day at the same hour, it doesn’t matter if it’s Saturday, Sunday, Monday, what may change is the activity that I do Sundays, for example, I tend to read more those hours than then get productive, but it is important to understand what works for you create a to do list, you know, prioritize your task. And obviously, the two of you two of us, you know are big into getting things done and that’s the system that we use for that embrace the power of saying no, eliminate distractions and you know, 10 More, Go and read the article, but to remember, as you read the article, some of the things may sound very cool. Some of the things will be like and some of the things will be a no and it’s fine. Okay, doesn’t matter. What all these things are just ideas, ideas that you should or can consider to make your system better. And some of them are going to work incredibly well. And some of them are going to be awful. And it’s fine. What is important is that you are you identify what is what you are looking to do, you know, when I begin working, or waking up early, I wrote about it. And I used to say that I belong to our club, okay, that was the guy people who get the work, you know, have dinner, and then I started reworking again at 11:30pm or midnight and working to three in the morning, and I did that for years, then suddenly, one day discover, well, what if I go to bed at eight or nine or, and then wake up at four. And I discovered that because I was fresh, I was way more effective, but it was trial and error. Okay, at that time, if you will have told me, Well, you will do better in the morning, I will have use colorful words until you’re insane. Okay, now, I wake up every day that earlier and I enjoy that silence.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 11:15
Yeah, I think it’s a good article. You know, again, it’s, it’s providing you with a bunch of little, you know, interventions that you can utilize some techniques that you can utilize as well. I think all of those things are useful and helpful as you make your way along. Alright, so, with that, we have reached the end of our personal productivity articles. For this episode, we’re going to take a break for a word from our sponsor, then we’ll be back for our productivity technology articles this week.

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 12:54
Welcome back, everybody to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Okay, so let’s move our way on to the technology articles this week. What’s our next headline?

Augusto Pinaud 13:05
This next article you found that was on Google inbox? I don’t follow that, that you’re the one who follow that. But its title. I wish Google search and assistant accept makes bilingual input from voice queries. And I understand I that article hit close to home I speak English I speak Spanish and trying to read Portuguese and it is painful. It doesn’t matter if it’s Google, or is Milan a? Or is the madam s? Why why they can you cannot dictate the one I’m going to say that do it better is mme a, when you do it, you can go and set up an Spanglish version that kind of understand you on both languages. But then, but why? Why this is not possible. Get it? I understand the articles talking about Japanese and English, maybe that’s additional complexity, I don’t know. But it will be so cool to be able to dictate and tell to these people in the language that is coming to your mind, instead of trying to say on a hold on this thing will not understand that let me translate what I want to say and then lose the momentum.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 14:17
No, I purposefully found this article for you. Augusto I have nothing else to say about it. I think that it’s just important for I think, you know, the powers that be and anyone who is in that in that space to recognize that that multilingualism while it’s not as a part of the American culture, right, you know, other than some other countries where most people speak multiple languages, the United States, most people speak one language is still a huge problem for us all and it actually limits us in our ability to be you know, you know, great, you know, in some way, shape or form as a country. If we can’t if we can’t speak to people in the culture and language in which we’re trying to operate. So

Augusto Pinaud 15:01
yeah, for my friends in Europe who has big more than one language, you know, English and the local language and maybe another one, it is a massive pain because now you need to define, okay? Should I configure this system in this language or this other language, and I can do this, then most of my day is speaking English. But there is a moment where you’re mentally tired, okay? And the pronunciation, let’s say degrades, okay? To be really kind with myself, it will be very nice to in that moment helped gel to that to the system what you want in the language that you want. Anyways, Google’s rolling out a new side panel for customize Chrome. So you will get now a panel and you will be able to get more prettier customization a little bit better customizations. Hopefully, for the users of Chrome and the customizations, I don’t, I don’t use much of it. I like the color, I use two or three of them. And I like the fact that if I look at them on the top of the bar on the color, I know exactly when which company I am working on. But other than that, I don’t customize it that much.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 16:16
Yeah, so So for folks who are kind of unaware of what happens when you currently go to customize the new tab of space, you are, you are basically popped into a pop up window, right, so there’s a window that kind of comes up in front of you. And you can edit your background, various shortcuts, you know, the shortcuts that are displayed on that new tab, you can identify which cards you want to show. And then of course, of course, color and theme. That’s also available when you click on the profile image in the Chrome toolbar. And so you click on that and click on the little pencil icon, it will just display another, you know, customization profile customization option. But that new customize this page button, which is the little tiny pencil icon that appears in the new tab window in that bottom right hand corner, you’re able to then go ahead and in the newest version will basically give you a side panel for those customization options. So it’s literally just a change in how the new tab, customization options will display. That’s it. So there’s not anything changing necessarily. It’s just the way in which they’re going to display those items, which I think is probably a little bit cleaner than the way in which the pop up window currently appears. All right, onto our next story.

Augusto Pinaud 17:37
Oh, our next two stories are all about Amazon. The first one is and it would love to hear about this, you know, Amazon Kindle Scribe is getting limited handwriting and text conversion. And I said this when Amazon announced this device, Amazon is one of the few companies who have the patience to lose profit on a line long enough to really introduce features that then others can run and make millions. But they are proven this they are making this device come into the mainstream people getting the idea. And it is interesting because the more this device, you know, it’s getting into the noise, okay, and people is getting into people’s ears. What I have heard is not people getting the scribe, but he’s people wondering about handwriting is people wondering if they will be able to do this or that if they buy a device with handwriting capabilities, and take notes and all this. So that said it is very interesting that you Amazon again, in Amazon fashion, they continue improving. Now you can take notes and pages, you can collect more things. So have you had the chance to play with this? I know you have a scribe so I’m curious,

Raymond Sidney-Smith 19:08
I have not had a chance I’ve not seen the update come across my scribe yet. But I’m really looking forward to it. The limitation is that you do need to do this outside of the notebook, right. So you have to actually, you know, click on the Share menu, and then and then there’s will be an option to convert to text and quicksand. Or there’s an option to convert your text and email. So it’s not like you’re in the notebook and you’re automatically able to go ahead and do that or all good notes where you can circle the text and automatically turn it into text, right? That’s not going to be necessarily maybe the the Scribe is just not powerful enough to basically do that while it’s still inside of that notebook environment with everything loaded up, I don’t know. But it would be much more fluid. Obviously, if you can select the text that you’ve written and automatically turn that into text. I presume that’s going to be there there for you. Is your iteration on that feature. But so far, I think that’s, that’s a, it’s a great movement forward. And I think I’ve probably said here on Anything But Idle that I don’t want that option in the past. And then in the past couple of weeks, I realized that I do want that option. So I stand corrected from the fact that I think that it actually wouldn’t be really helpful. Because after you do write a lengthy set of notes, in handwriting, you do actually want to sometimes sometimes not always, but sometimes want to turn that into text. And, and I’ve taken that text now and run it through OCR engines, and it just isn’t doing the job well enough, because I’ve had to export it out of it, and you know, all of that machination, that kind of, you know, degrades the the ability for OCR to work, so be really nice to be right there in the tool, and an on the scribe tablet. So looking forward to seeing this develop. All right onto our next item, which is

Augusto Pinaud 21:00
Amazon launches, defier, Max is at $230 tablet. And they are trying to make basically a larger, they are trying to compete now with the iPad size, the note eight, the Samsung Galaxy Tab eight, okay, that 11 inch size, that it is, it is a fantastic size I so it’s very compelling. If it’s not because I should learn from the podcast that I do, and we had this discussion not about this device, but about the device in cross platform with with art Gelwicks. The reality is I should buy this device just to have it in the desk. But I The problem is, is going to be on the power. And I’m going to be very frustrated. And I think that’s where Amazon is making a mistake, in my opinion, they are trying to compare this device with the iPad, they’re trying to compare this device with the galaxy, tab eight. And it is not it is going to be an underpowered device comparing to those. And it is not going to provide you the same experience. And I think they were doing much better on the primary strategy of this or device, even if you are the keyboard and all that. But it’s not going to compare, it’s not going to try to compete with other those machines that are simply faster, they have a better processor, etc. So that’s the only thing on which I think they’re wrong. That said, I think the price point, it’s right. And for many very basic users is going to be a fantastic machine. For many all parents, it is fantastic. Now you give them the Amazon TV, you give them the Kindle books on a size that they can carry. And they can also do email and a couple of basic things. So it has a perfect place. It just, I’m not sure about the marketing, and try to compare it with the iPad, not for any other reason that is on their power.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 23:13
Yeah, I think I think what they’re trying to do is saying that this is the cost effective version of the iPad, you know, setting people up for understanding that this is a lower powered version. And that’s what makes it more affordable. I mean, even with the keyboard, the keyboard folio, kind of the attached Pogo pin keyboard is still comes out to only 329, something like that $330 USD. That’s a remarkable, you know, good, remarkably good price for a tablet of the 11 inch size with a keyboard and stylus. And a lot of people are going to buy this, right. So you know, there’s going to be a lot of folks who buy this. And that’s what makes it an iPad challenger, I don’t think any of its specs, put it anywhere near an iPad, but it’s going to challenge the iPad in terms of of sales. And, you know, this is coming out just on the heels of the pixel tablet that Google just announced at IO. So we have the pixel tablet, this is nowhere near the iPad or the Samsung Galaxy tabs. You know these are these are not meant to compete with them on on a spec perspective, it’s meant to compete with them on a products sold perspective right there, you’re gonna see a lot of people purchase these biomax elevens purely because they’re inexpensive, and they can put them into the hands the kids or into grandma or grandpa and and they’re gonna get they’re gonna get a decent device, right, it’s going to do everything they need it to do. Maybe it’s not going to do it as well. It’s not going to have as many fancy features, you’re not going to get centerstage like on the iPad or anything else like that. But you’re gonna you’re gonna get a decent tablet, and it’s going to do the job. It’s gonna last a year or two, and then you’ll rinse repeat and buy another one. And that’s kind of what people have been doing with these with these pieces of technology. All right, on to Our next story

Augusto Pinaud 25:01
to do is is adding start time and duration. They announce in Reddit that they are starting to work in these two features that, according to them is one of the two features that people have asked and ask and ask for them. I didn’t know about Duration field, I was only focused user for many, many years and duration was never, I feel that I care for start time, I get it. But duration, I don’t know. But anyways, it apparently according to do is, is the two or two of the most requested features. So they’re coming if you’re asked to do is user, they are coming soon to you.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 25:46
Yeah, I find it remarkable only because my task manager of choice has always had it. So the fact that it never had it, and they refuse to kind of add the features after the fact. You know, it was purposeful. I mean, they chose not to put those those items in. And now that they are, that’s good good on them. But I’ve always had an actually always completed the Duration field. Remarkably, I don’t always use the start field for things unless they are of a project nature. And that’s only because my saved searches don’t really apply most of the time for a start date. But I think that it’s good to have I mean, like, you know, there are certain circumstances where you want to be able to understand that a task is not going to last just, you know, I’m gonna sit down and do the task and check it off, it may last over the course of several days, that you might be doing little bits of that thing until it’s done. And this gives you that ability to kind of to not only track that over days, but also to understand that I’m going to spend six days, five minutes each, so that’s going to be 30 minutes, and it tells me the duration of the time over those over that course of days. Or, for me I like to time budget. So during my weekly review, I’m actually going through and that Duration field is being utilized. Because I can see in the course of a week, how much time I’ve allotted for the coming week. And if I look at my calendar, and it shows me that I have five free hours in a week, you know, to work week, but I have 16 hours of work? Well, I need to reconcile that before the week begins. Right. And and sometimes I do sometimes I don’t because I presume that you know, there’s going to be a meeting that that falls off here, there’s going to be an event that I’m not going to go to here, and then I’ll ultimately have that time. But that’s that’s, that’s a that’s finessing the system. And you need to know your own system really well over the course of time in order to be able to make those kinds of judgment calls. It’s it’s kind of a very advanced kind of GTD thing to say, oh, yeah, well, I’m gonna I’m going to leave this overbooked knowing that there’s going to be some attrition in my calendar, which I know that I only budgeted my calendar 60%. So I know this 40% left, but I always still try to make sure that in that timeframe, I have enough time to do the tasks that I have listed. So you sometimes will know there’s a little bit of wiggle room, and you might have a stretch goal of getting a little bit more done than you decided to do. But knowing that duration really does help me in a lot of ways. So I, I particularly find it useful that to do this is adding that, and it’s another, you know, just adding it to the list of things that create parity with other Task Managers, that makes me think, well, if I needed to go to Todoist, now I could write and that’s a really nice feeling.

Augusto Pinaud 28:27
So our next one, or unless new from the side is a new company called a space stop. And basically they create a laptop, who use AR VR glasses, and can give you until 100 inches of virtual display. I understand this should be maybe more on the Announcements, remorse area, okay, because all the announcements coming or rumors that are for next week on Apple launching something like that, but I put it in here because this will be an interesting change. And if we start seeing this, this will be very interesting, you know, as I look at my office, I would love to you know, remove everything out of that just put the glasses that anyways I’m wearing all the time I now see you know 100 inches of screen and that will be beautiful. So, if the company is already selling some of them is use their own operating system. You can use Word and some of the classic things but taken mine right now at least is their own operating system. But as we see these things, if they really catch up in the market, we may see more and more you know, the the VR glasses companies are trying to get with video games and all that to this concept of you know, put your glasses and play the video game this way. So this is just a company who has taken to work For

Raymond Sidney-Smith 30:01
Yeah, I see the evolution as as interesting. It’s novel, I think the the approach that they took, which is to create their own laptop, as opposed to focusing explicitly on the headset is, is definitely an interesting kind of step in a direction. I don’t know if that’s going to be market viable. But I will say that, I think that the next phase for us is some kind of augmented reality where our screens do become versatile, right, we won’t just have a screen that’s attached to our laptops, maybe we do have a pair of glasses that we can put on Allah, Google Glass or something like that, where it’s not fully obstructing our vision, but just augmenting it by by placing the screen in front of us. Google already has a bunch of work going into their health technology that are, you know, basically little lenses, you know, contact lenses that you put in and some glucose monitor. But I can see that technology really fast forwarding into applying and adding augmented reality, you know, technology into it. So it’s just a matter of time. You know, for those folks who don’t wear glasses, it would be it will be a weird change, to have to put glasses on in order to be able to work and that kind of thing. But we’re gonna see a lot of different versions of this coming forward. I mean, we’re going to have to see whether is it a projector that they’re going to put in your laptop and project onto the onto a wall? Is it going to be augmented reality from through a pair of glasses? Or is it going to be something else? And I think we will start to see many different form factors kind of playing here. And I think ultimately having the choice is good. Because we’ll we’ll we’ll be able to see what people use, what works for people, what doesn’t work for people, and kind of go from there. All right, moving right along from our technology stories this week into new tools of the week, a good one, I come across plenty of personal development, time tasks, project management, and productivity, collaboration tools, and services every week. So in new tools of the week, we bring you each one that we think you might like. And so for the first item is a tool called mind stream. And mine stream is interesting because it runs on the Mac. And I’ve been playing around with it, because the the idea behind the mind stream app is that is a native MacOS Gmail client. And as most of you know, I run my entire company and my personal life inside of Google workspace. And so all of those things are in there. And so the idea of having a Gmail client that’s separate from the browser that can work as fast as Gmail is very difficult. So what the folks that live stream did is that they are using the Gmail API. So you basically get everything that Gmail provides. That includes search, you have no idea how difficult it is to do Gmail search correctly, but they are doing it because they’re using the Gmail API, you can use everything that you normally do in Gmail search, including advanced operators, you can do all you can see all your inbox categories. So if you’re using primary inbox, or if you’re using priority inbox, and the social promotions, updates and forums, categories, you’ll see all of those labels, you can you can basically use everything that you use in Gmail, and it provides us like overlay, which gives you the ability to have multiple accounts and profiles. So you can say I want to have a personal profile or work profile. And these three email accounts are associated with personal these two accounts are associated with work. And they’re all organized inside of that space. And you can also then do a unified inbox. So you can see all of those email inboxes interlaced into one screen. So you can process your inbox to zero very, very quickly and easily if you’re a GTD or like I am and Cousteau. So that’s really nice. I also like the email feature, click Compose feature. So they have all of those email composing features built right into it. It’s really nice, it’s seamless. Again, it’s fast. And, you know, I just I found it to be really nice. I you know, it’s not something that I will probably use all the time, just because I’m predominately on my Windows machines and my Chromebooks these days, but when I open up the Mac, it’s nice to have a Gmail client specifically dedicated to the computer so that you can open it up and just get started. Right, it’s just really nice to do all of that. Plus it’s, it’s Mac OS specific, right? So everything that you do on the Mac, you know, from focus mode to system notification management and being able to dock it and just keep it there and your dock all of those things are there and just very, very seamless. There is a 14 day free trial and then after that, I think it’s 50 bucks a year. So it’s pretty nominal. I think they give you like a first year discount. So you got you know, like $30 for the first year $50 each year after, but you know you can try it with That 14 day free trial and see if it’s something that you like, and if it’s something that would work for you. But like I said, I’ve been very impressed with it. And I’m not usually impressed with Gmail clients. But this one has been pretty phenomenal. And they’re doing a great job. I hope they bring a Gmail client to Windows. But I know that I know that Rakesh and their Mac focus, so I won’t I won’t push on them like, like we do with what’s the name of the other? What’s the Mac? Focus? Yes, like we do with the Omni focus folks who eventually bent and did put out a Windows version I think

Augusto Pinaud 35:36
they finally for

Raymond Sidney-Smith 35:39
Yeah, what’s your tool this week.

Augusto Pinaud 35:41
So I have two tools. They come both from a company called muffed M O Ft. Told us. And the two I have is one is a wall Stan. And basically, it’s a kind of an origami thing that you can put on the wall and then put your iPad on your phone in there, I have one here in the office, I have one in the side of my bed. So I can put things in there. It’s a very, very nice device. And the other one is called the flip laptop. And basically is a stick with a magnet on the bottom where you can put then a sticker on the back of your case, the iPad or the laptop, and then you can put the phone or if you have the MagSafe in my case, on the top, you know or in the side so that way you can put the phone next to the iPad, I use both things i It’s they are very, very useful. The links are going to be in the show notes. And but if you like to have a place to put your phone, a place to put your tablet when you want to do work against your desk if you’re working in so well. Those two are incredible, incredible tools.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 37:02
Fantastic and with that, that takes us along to our featured story of the week, which is that AI is coming to Windows, specifically windows 11, I believe. But what did you learn about Microsoft, and the launch of copilot?

Augusto Pinaud 37:18
So it’s been interesting because I with all these AI personal assistant or the owl assistants as my dad, my dad calls me can you explain to me all this owl assistants on to what? They all assistants, I have no clue what you’re talking about? Well, I’m reading the copilot, OWL the Google what is it? How do you mean the AI personal skill, that thing that took me a while to figure out the translation anyways. We are trying right now to make our own flavor of each one of those and you have charged up T and you have Microsoft coming to them Google there is a rumor that Apple will come to theirs. And I don’t think jet. A lot of people understand how beneficial these things are. And eventually they will get there. And we will see it’s going to be in a certain way similar to the browser’s war. Okay, where you start seeing these browsers coming in and you’re going to find what is the AI that fits really your needs your style, because the AI is only as good as the questions you are asking. And the reality is, as you will Microsoft and Google and Apple and others will do their only way or their own way to make these questions, gives you a result give you something coming back. So it is going to take time. But I am very curious. I’m not a big Microsoft product. I get it. I think I will trust more AI from Google than from Microsoft. But that’s me.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 39:15
Yeah, so I think this is probably very exciting for Microsoft to be able to put this out. So this this basically is two things in one one is that if you have seen Cortana lately, please put it in the last and bound. She’s been missing for some time. And that’s been on purpose. Right? Microsoft has been slowly but surely deprecating parts of Cortana. And what is now called copilot in this particular iteration. There are many different co pilots in the Microsoft world. And this copilot is baked into Windows 11. It’ll start to preview in June. And the idea is is that you’ll have basically a kick out side panel. That is a chat focused on A you know, AI assistant, and similar to Cortana, it will, it will be conversational, it will be able to do things for you. And it will also probably be generative, meaning that it will be based somewhat on the open AI chat, GPT model, whatever the latest model is that at that time right now, we’re GPT, four. So it’ll probably be at that, at that level, when it launches in June, a less opening, it puts out a later model that. So the concept is, is that instead of interacting and engaging with the Start menu, or the windows, you know, button, or using keyboard shortcuts to navigate to certain things, you are now going to basically open the side panel or have the side panel open on a consistent basis, and start asking it to do things. And this is a little bit different than saying, I want to open up a Word, Microsoft Word and write a document, what you’re going to do is you’re going to ask open AI, that is you’re going to ask a co pilot, which is running on top of chat GPT, you want to ask the the co pilot to basically come up with a work product, right? And you’re going to give it the parameters, and then it’s going to decide on potentially what applications you need in order to be able to do that. So is it going to open up a search? Is it going to open up teams? Is it going to open up Word, Excel, PowerPoint, you name it and bring those things to the surface, you’re now interacting via conversation with regard to the assistant versus opening up applications. And we’re using the assistant necessarily, inside of that tool, one by one, this is going to be a huge kind of brain change for a lot of us, right? Because we’re used to going into a software, doing a thing going into the next software and doing a thing. And this copilot should, over time be able to do many things simultaneously or in very close succession to be able to facilitate workflow automation in a way that we haven’t seen before. I’m really looking forward to this being available on all operating systems. And always, especially for newer generations where this will become the primary vehicle by which they operate. Will I always operate via AI, being that I grew up with a keyboard and mouse and then kind of graduated to a touchscreen, maybe not. But for younger people who will have only known the ability to have a conversation with a computer, and it being the thing that taps the buttons and makes the the ones and zeros, the bits flip, you know, then it just becomes a new way for it to be able to organize and be more productive, I think it’s going to be very powerful. I think it’s gonna be very interesting. Of course, getting us to this far is a parlor trick, right? You know, this is not something that we haven’t already had. This is just putting a clean interface, a new interface on top of technology that I believe we’ve already had the capability of doing that is Microsoft, Apple, Google and the other major technology companies, what will be very interesting to me is in the next four to five years, whether or not they can go, you know, this is say this is maybe 70 to 80% of the way toward, you know, I hate using the term artificial intelligence. But in this particular case, some forms of machine learning, natural language processing. And otherwise, we bundle those things together. Now we need to see whether or not we are getting to a point where we can get across that threshold to some true intellect, right? Something that can actually go beyond where we are with regard to these these tools ability to communicate with each other. And to create something that is truly artificially intelligent. Right now, it’s just really artificial feature. It’s like a flip phone. That’s really, really fast, right? We’re dealing with with flip phone technology right now in the AI space. And what we would really like to get to is the smartphone level of all of this. And I think even then, it’s not a replacement for a human. You know, it’s potentially a replacement for particular roles in companies. So there are going to be jobs that are lost in this process. But there potentially will also be jobs that are created. And I think that the important part is that we figure out how to utilize this for our own productivity purposes. So I’m really looking forward to seeing how copilot works. But it works just as well as as the pom and the embedded AI within Google workspace and seeing how those things kind of facilitate one in the cloud and one here on the desktop operating system. All right, do we have any other items Gousto that we want to let our audience know about?

Augusto Pinaud 44:45
Number one announcements. We have a couple you know Microsoft bill 2023 Is there there is a link if you want to see a short you know under 10 minutes Kenan resigned of the of the keynote also on the also announcement Microsoft and released a Windows Backup app. And to my knowledge, this is the first time that they do something like that, you know, they are seem to be trying to make their windows integrate closer to what Mike has been doing for for a long time. And, and for what I understood is, you know, in Microsoft way I’d similar to what it was or what it is time machine, where the will do the backups and you will be able to restore. Finally, next week, next Monday, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference returns, we may not talk next show, because we’ll be on Monday unless we decide to move it to Tuesday. But we will otherwise we’d cover in the week after all the things about the show. So this, this humble fan will be very ready to see. And, you know, in the rumors, this is the first time you know, there has been tons of rumors about Apple announcing some possibility of VR or AR glasses. And they seem to have invented or invited sorry, XR media outlets to the conference and to the keynote. So that just put more fuel to that room or that that device is coming. And that makes for all the news of this week.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 46:29
Fantastic. All right. Well, thank you Augusto, as always for being here on Anything But Idle and helping out to make the show happen. With that we’ve covered the productivity and technology news this week. If there is something that we missed, feel free to head over to anything but idle.com forward slash community that will take you to personal productivity club to join our private or whatever community dedicated to the Anything But Idle listeners can go ahead and let us know there, of course in the show notes that’s on the website, so anything but idle.com. Forward slash 116 will be this episode’s notes. Each episode number is related to the forward slash for the domain. So anything but idle.com. Forward slash 116 is for this episode 115 is for the last episode, that kind of thing. There you’ll find the show notes, those have links to all the stories or tools of the week, extra stories, rumors, and as well. It also has on that page, a text transcript that you can read and download in PDF. And of course, if you have any questions, feel free to just come on over to anything but idle.com forward slash community and post a question there in the feed. We’ll be happy to go ahead and let you know. You can always join us here, typically Mondays at 6pm. Eastern US Eastern for the live stream where you can interact with us live. Of course we’re coming to you the day after because of the Federal holiday. But typically we’re recording these on Mondays at 6pm. Eastern with that. I hope you enjoy the rest of your week. Have a productive week and we’ll see you all next time on Anything But Idle here’s to your productive life.

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In this Cast | Google May Delete Your Inactive Google Account

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Headlines & Show Notes | Google May Delete Your Inactive Google Account

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HEADLINES, PART A

The No. 1 workplace distraction that kills productivity, according to Microsoft

If someone displays these 12 traits, they’re a master of time management

Some Thoughts on Becoming Self-Actualized

Digital Detox: What is it and why do you need it?

HEADLINES, PART B

New podcast episode: Me And My Evernote With Ray Sidney-Smith

America is entering a Forever Labor Shortage

Amazon Debuts New Alexa-Powered Echo Speakers, Budget Wireless Earbuds

Amazon introduces a quartet of new Echo devices

New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds

Google One VPN will now let you quickly see your IP address and network information

Windows 11 users can now link their iPhones and use iMessage from a PC

Verizon hits reset on its 5G Mix and Match plans with new streamlined myPlan offerings

How to hardwire your home without ethernet in the walls

Tools of the Week

A full Windows PC in just a click

Cron for Web

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

Google May Delete Your Inactive Google Account

Your digital life isn’t as permanent as you think it is

About Inactive Account Manager

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The End of Drobo

1Password passkey support launches on June 6

RUMORS

Fed up of being nagged to upgrade to Windows 11? We’ve got bad news…

Will Amazon Release a New Kindle Oasis in 2023?

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In this Cast | Google Announces New Pixel Fold Aiming for Productivity Market

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Headlines & Show Notes | Google Announces New Pixel Fold

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How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor

How and When To Use Music To Boost Productivity While Working

'Swedish Death Cleaning' Can Improve Your Life Right Now

Tom Hanks used this productivity hack while writing his first novel

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’

Zoho launches Ulaa browser to boost privacy, security, and productivity

WhatsApp now available on Wear OS for beta testers

Mozillas setting up shop on Mastodon and trying to reinvent content moderation

How to Protect Your Apple ID With Security Keys

Upgrade to the new Pixel 7a from Google

Bard AI may be coming to Pixel phones with a dedicated widget

Google announces Chromebook app streaming for Pixel Xiaomi

5 Cool Folder Tips You'll Love Using on Windows

How to Send Big Documents to Your Kindle

Papercast partners with Solotech to set up e-paper public transit information system in North America

Review of the Mudita Harmony 2 an E INK Alarm Clock

The new mmhmm desktop is easier than ever

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 114. And we're recording this on May 15 2023, ah work each week of Gousto. And I cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. With that, let's get into our headlines. Augusto, what is our first headline this week?

Augusto Pinaud 0:38So it happens when you forgot to put the Do Not Disturb thing anyways, our first article is boosting your attention span. And how can you train your brain to manage distractions. And so very interesting articles, you know how to manage your demons, how to manage handle your environment, you know, and

as a person very prone to distraction, I have been working at home for the last 10 years, I have two kids,

I have a wife that now works at home. So interruptions is something that happens and boosting that attention span is critical for me, because otherwise nothing gets done. And from getting people coming into the office and

teach them and train them into before you come and be loud and talk do you need to signal can I talk to you? And as the show was starting? Somebody was walking into my office on I needed to signal you need to text?

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In this Cast | Evernote Collaborative Editing

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Evernote Collaborative Editing

4 Reasons You’re Not Taking Action (And What to Do About It)

Systems vs Flexibility: Why Rigidity is The Enemy of Modern Success

Do You Set Shadow Goals? Here is Why You Should

Is It Time to Rethink Your Routines?

How To Make Time For Things That Matter by Connor Swenson

Turning away from Anxiety-Based Task Systems & Announcing Waves of Focus

iPad Pro clone at iPad 10 price: Is OnePlus Pad tempting with these features?

The OnePlus Pad is an impressive tablet for its price

M2 iPad Pro vs iPad Air: What’s the better choice?

Statcounter: Microsoft Edge is no longer world's second desktop browser

Apple's Safari Again Overtakes Microsoft Edge as Second Most Popular Desktop Browser

Global smartphone market continued to fall in Q1; iPhone the only exception

Amazon Matter update brings iOS setup, Thread for Echo, more

T-Mobile sees another data breach compromising social security numbers and more for small group

Exclusive interview: 1Password CEO talks about the future of password managers with passkeys

Microsoft Teams now lets small businesses charge for appointments webinars and more

Microsoft seemingly used a Windows update to interfere with Chrome's 'Make Default' button to push its own Edge browser

Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

Google is giving users more control over tab-sleeping Memory Saver feature in Chrome

I shouldnt be this excited but you can now react to Google Docs comments using emoji

Heres whats in the now available Google Chrome 113 release

Google TV update hibernates your apps to save storage space implements performance tricks

New Google Photos movie editor for Chromebooks rolled out [U]

Google Translate for Chrome

Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator

WHATSAPP HAS RELEASED A NEW EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FOR IOS USERS, ANDROID USERS WILL BE JEALOUS

Evernote Releases Real-Time, Collaborative Editing

New Tools of the Week

Wisdolia

What’s in my travel tech pouch?

Waterfield SF Bags

Announcements

Apple Shares Mother's Day Gift Guide: Here Are 8 Ideas Under $100

New York Police Department Encourages Car Owners to Use AirTags to Deter Theft, 500 Free AirTags Available

Rumors

Google Pixel Fold Marketing Images and Specs Leak Ahead of June Launch

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Headlines & Show Notes | AI Will Either Take Your Job or Make You Happier

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Too Much Free Time? Blame Solitude or Lack of Productive Activity - UCLA Anderson Review

Should we trust Apple with mental health data?

Guiding the Natural Rhythms of Work and Play

Find Your Unique Ability and Ikigai w/ Ali Nasser (TPS453)

BMW brings its Digital Key Plus feature to Samsung Galaxy and Pixel phones

Microsoft Edge is Leaking the Sites You Visit To Bing

Microsoft Now Rolling Out iMessage Support on Windows With Several Limitations

Bipartisan Senate bill would require parental consent for teens to use social media

Motorola Unveils Co-Branded Lenovo 'ThinkPhone

Meta Records Almost $4 Billion Loss On Metaverse In First Quarter

Purdue University goes all-in on Apple Wallet student IDs, will no longer issue physical cards

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 168 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite saves the day for Utah college kids trapped in 500-foot deep canyon

A new speed milestone for Chrome

Complete overhaul of Thunderbird email client due in July

Discover more than 800 free TV channels with Google TV

Google Meet finally supports 1080p video calls

Proton launches an end-to-end encrypted password manager

Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter alternative, is now on Android

How endoflife.date Can Help You Find Out When Your Tech Support Will End

Kobo takes on the Kindle Scribe with improved Elipsa 2E e-ink tablet

Vivaldi 6.0 Web Browser Introduces Tab Workspaces and Custom Icons

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:05Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. Welcome, everyone. I know it's been a while. So this is episode 112. And we're recording this on May 1 2023. Each week, we cover the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. So let's get right into it Augusto. What's our first headline or set of headlines this week,

Augusto Pinaud 0:48The first set of deadlines are all about the four day working week. So Blue Zones has an article talking about four days work weeks are making people happier, according to some of the studies that they're quoting on the article, and they took about 83 companies 900 people, and there were two things interesting, at least for me in here, one is going to the four day work week, they find out that there was really no significant impact on the bottom line,...

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Headlines & Show Notes | A New Version of Outlook

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World's largest test of four-day work week begins in U.K.

No need to be online: Is Asynchronous work the key to productivity? | PS News

How to Choose the Ideal Number of Work Hours

If we’re so busy, why isn’t anything getting done? | McKinsey

Action is Everything — Joseph Wells -

There Is No Blueprint For Grief

7 Simple Steps to Skyrocket Your Energy Levels

How to Successfully Balance a Full-Time Job and a Side Hustle Without Burnout

iPhone and iPad users can now download Google TV from the Appstore

PWAs on a Chromebook may soon support multiple in-app tabs

Google Drive Revolutionized With Copy/Paste Function

Google Drive will now show you your files location at a glance

Chrome 102 has arrived check out whats new and improved

ChromeOS 102 arrives with better note-taking, accessibility improvements and more

Things You Never Knew Your Chromebook Could Do

You need to try Bionic Reading on the Amazon Kindle

Barnes & Noble introduces a cheap e-reader to compete with the Kindle

Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls - The Verge

Google Chat adds warning banners to protect against phishing attacks

How YouTube built a better way to connect your TV and phone

Business & Finance Segment

The Worldwide Personal Development Industry is Expected to Reach $67 Billion by 2030 - ResearchAndMarkets.com | Business Wire

Featured Story of the Week

Heres how Microsofts new One Outlook email app will work

Other News

WWDC 2022 - Sketchnote Summary 🎨

Apple in talks to buy EA gaming, Disney and Amazon also potential suitors

Google Assistant is finally available on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

What are commitment contract tools? Beeminder and stickK let people put money on the line and pay up if they fail to complete their goals. - Protocol -

You're taking a big chance running macOS or iOS betas on your production hardware

Onyx Boox Nova Air C review: color E Ink on an ambitious tablet

Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura

Do you use a case to protect your e-reader?

Employee Maliciously Complies with Boss' Absurd Productivity Expectations - Memebase - Funny Memes

Good e-Reader Radio Send to Kindle EPUB Old Kindles drop support for buying books new e-readers

Everything you need to know about the Kindle losing Store Access

First Look at the iReader Ocean 2

Android Central: Google Assistant is losing some features that you may have never used

How to Make Remote Collaboration Work for You | PCMag

PWAs on a Chromebook may soon support multiple in-app tabs

What Is Bossware? Is It Tracking You At Home?

The Top 5 Apps for Making Presentations at Work

How to Take Control of Your Life When Life Feels Hard

Time Blocking 101: How to Actually Master your To-Do List

12 Powerful Self-Affirmation Tools to Boost Your Motivation Daily

Employee burnout: The financial impact to businesses and how to tackle it

Jason Goldsmith talks about Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career

Brain Food: Negotiating with Yourself

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Michael Sliwinski, Nozbe CEO

Michael is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Nozbeis web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:19

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:21

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 109109. For June 7 2020. We're going to be doing commentary on Apple's worldwide developer conference, 2020, Keynote and all the things they talked about. Of course, each week, Gustavo and I read and review the productivity and Technology News of the Week. This is a special episode only because we are going to be talking about the keynote from Apple and what they announced there and really how it is going to impact your personal productivity. And to do that we have a another I mean, Augusto is our resident Apple fanboy, but we have another such person who can actually help us digest and really do the synthesis and analysis of what Apple is saying from the stage. And that is Michael Slowinski he is He is the founder and CEO of NOSB, where they have two productivity apps that emerged into one and now they have nose B, which helps both individuals be productive, and teams be productive. And so really excited to have Michael here. He's a speaker. He's an author of two best selling books and a podcaster himself. And so welcome to Anything But Idle, Michael.

Michael Sliwinski 1:33

Hey, guys, again, thanks for having me. And I do appreciate this opportunity to geek out with you guys.

Augusto Pinaud 1:40

We love them ship we bring the objective fan to this.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:48

And at least you have someone who is a an objective person generally who is who is not a fan. I say that with with due respect to Apple, I don't I think that they do great product. But you know, like I'm not I'm not in your camp. And so I think it is really good to hear from you all the excitement and vigor with which you bring these topics to the table. So we're going to work our way through the keynote and what they announced. And let's just start off with what was your immediate impressions of the presentation? This seems like a pretty typical sort of standard Apple event now in a virtual environment.

Michael Sliwinski 2:30

I think I think the best the best part is that, you know, the I mean, I was physically in at WWDC, two times in the past and doesn't 1960 I believe. So.

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Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at GelwicksTech.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Use These Strategies to Dominate Your Scattered Brain

I Multitasked And Lived in Distractions for 8 MonthsHeres What I Learned

Featured Story of the Week

Microsoft Build 2022: news and updates from Microsoft’s developer conference

Microsoft is testing Android 12.1 and other improvements for Windows 11

Microsoft Teams Live Share takes meetings beyond simple screen sharing

Microsoft Gives OneNote Boatloads of New Designs and Features

Windows 11 is getting an easy way to restore apps to a new PC

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:14

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:16

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 108108. This is being recorded on June 1 2022. This is about our reactions to Microsoft build 2022. And of course, the productivity and technology news of the week, each week of this show, and I read and review, watch, listen, we do as much as we can to consume the productivity and technology news to then be able to digest it and review it for you here in the show. This show is going to be all about Microsoft builds. So we're going to be really talking mostly about our reactions to what was announced at build. But in order to do that we have brought on to the show, of course, Art Gelwicks Art Gelwicks is our Microsoft aficionado. He is also the founder of Gelwicks Tech. And so with that I'm going to bring art onto the stage and welcome him to the show. Welcome art.

Art Gelwicks 1:10

Hey, guys, it's Microsoft time. That's as close to Mighty Morphin Time as I'm gonna get. So

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:17

I'm excited. I'm glad you're excited

Augusto Pinaud 1:20

to be excited after what I saw.

Art Gelwicks 1:22

This time of year. Announcements time is a fun time. It's just like in the fall when all the hard work comes out. This is a little bit more geeky, but hey, it's still new stuff is always fun to look at.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:37

Absolutely. So we're gonna start off with a couple of productivity articles that we brought, we want to bring to folks attention. And then we will get into the hardcore Microsoft build 2022 news and updates. So Gousto what is our first productivity article this week?

Augusto Pinaud 1:55

My computer crash.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:59

We hear you we see you.

Augusto Pinaud 2:01

You see me but my computer doesn't work. Okay. The first one is used as strategies is a Lifehacker article and is use your strategies to domina...

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Headlines & Show Notes | How Do Google Docs' New Auto-Generated Summaries Work?

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It took returning to the office to realize how working from home changed me

Whats the Secret to Happiness?

Supercharge Employee Productivity In The New Hybrid Workplace: Teach Them How To 'Drive' -

Stop Procrastinating and Tackle That Big Project -

Googles finally straightening out its legacy free G Suite mess

The Google News Progressive Web App is getting a massive Material You redesign to match mobile

Google Photos can now directly delete within albums gets new date overlay

Apple embraces Googles Live Captions and introduces similar feature for iPhone iPad and Mac

Amazon releases new Kindle update which solves many bugs

Amazon's new Fire 7 tablet finally has a USB-C port

Productivity Resource of the Week

Skiff Mail is taking on Gmail by betting on privacy and crypto

Amazon Drive

Featured Story of the Week

How Do Google Docs' New Auto-Generated Summaries Work?

Announcements

Microsoft Built is this week and next week we will have Anything but Idle 108 with Art Gelwicks

Other News

Period Productivity: The Art Of Working With Your Cycle, Not Against It - Zoella -

Sugar and Mental Health

Is there a better way?

One Week's Worth of Mental Health Days Will Increase Productivity at Work, According to a New Study | abc10.com -

What Not to Do When You Slip Up at Work

11 Ways To Boost Workplace Morale As A Leader

The InkPlate 10 e-paper display now available worldwide via Crowd Supply

E Ink clock shows time and a host of other info

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community, welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And I'm a goose qubino.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 107107 for May 23 2022, how do Google Docs, new autogenerated summaries work? And, of course, the productivity and technology news this week, each week Gousto. And I read watch listen to as much productivity and technology news as we consume. And we review and discuss the best headlines of the week for you. So with that, let's get into our productivity headlines. Gousto what's our first headline this week?

Augusto Pinaud 0:48

Okay. Today, our first article, sorry, I lost, I lost myself in my notes. That is great. The first article is from Yahoo News. And it's I took returning to the office, it took returning to the office to realize how working from home change me and you and I have been discussing this for the last two years, you know, it's not coming back what we were in that December 2019 is no more. And what we are now is we have two options we stay which wh...

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Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at Gelwickstech.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Why a Remote Workspace Will Set You Up For Career Success

How to Create a Productive Remote Work Schedule

How to Create a Work Wellbeing Plan

The Top Tech Essentials You Should Take on a Business Trip

Apple Google and Microsoft will soon implement passwordless sign-in on all major platforms

Google Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Pixel 6A Just Months After Parodying Apple

Amazon working on a new Kindle with Note Taking Functionality

Apple Patent Suggests Future iPad Could Transform Into macOS-Like Experience When Attached to a Keyboard

Business & Finance Segment

Remarkable raises new round of funding with $1B valuation

E-Ink iPad Rival 'reMarkable' Sells More Than 1 Million Devices

Featured Story of the Week

New Chromebook features announced at Google I/O 2022

All the New Android Features Announced at Google I/O

Wear OS is finally getting a Google Home app for smart home controls [Video]

Revamped Google Wallet officially revealed Pay gets Virtual Cards for better checkout protection

Google sends Apple a direct message about iMessage at IO

Android tablets might finally get that iPad-beating update

Google I/O Highlights for Apple Users: Sneak Peek at Pixel 7, Pixel Watch, More

Google could soon introduce a seamless cross-device experience

Announcements

🚩 Introducing: Card Tracking!!! Postable

New in HEY: Received an email with a ton of attachments? Boom! Now you can download them all-at-once with just two clicks.

Help MeisterTask Improve. Take Our User Survey!

⚛️Fresh off the #GoogleIO announcement: A new, beautifully-designed Todoist for Wear built with Jetpack Compose is now available to test for all Experimentalists.

Find Out if You're Part of Apple's $14.8 Million iCloud Settlement - CNET

Microsoft Build May 24 to 26

Other News

Zap Drafts Has Arrived

Productivity Boosters: My Top Five Developer Tools Worth The Money

Googles changing its performance reviews to waste less time

How to track your menstrual cycles on a smartwatch

Google Keep is getting ready to add text formatting almost a decade after launch

The new Lenovo Duet 3 is available on Lenovo’s website

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 145 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Apple's Merger of 'iCloud Documents and Data' Into iCloud Drive Now Complete

Ulysses 26 brings modernized WordPress integration and more blogging tools

Ulysses Gains Permanently Visible Writing Stat Counter and Optimized Publishing Flow

Testing Out Apple's Self Repair Program With an iPhone 12 Mini Battery Fix

Apple Cash replaces Discover with Visa for new virtual debit card accounts

The 8 Best Remote Work Tools to Boost Your Productivity

Its not as bad as you think it is

Brain Food: Longevity

Self-Help Is Important. Other-Help Is Too.

3 More Productivity Tips I Learned Working at Google You Should Already Be Using

Overwhelmed at work? This approach always works for me.

Upskilling: Four Simple Steps Toward Upgrading Your Work

Top 10 Stressors in Life (And How to Cope with Them)

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Headlines & Show Notes | Apple DIY repair service is now available in the US

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The P.A.R.A. system and the importance of folders

How to improve your memory

It's official. Remote work has zero negative impact on your productivity

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Zoom PWA gets proper blurred and virtual backgrounds, Sharing audio from a Chrome tab

Workspace: Storage management tools rolling out for Admins

Pixel Watch is now the official name of the Pixel Watch

The latest version of color E Ink brings us closer to the perfect tablet

New tempered glass offers e-paper experience on the iPad Mini

An update about Send to Kindle

Business & Finance Segment

Industry 4.0 by 2050 - MarketScale -

Opinion: iPad sees year-over-year sales decline – I blame iPadOS for that

Productivity Resource of the Week

Lunatask

Ayoa

Featured Story of the Week

Apples DIY repair service is now available in the US

Announcements

The Happier App Won the Prestigious Webby Award!

Subscriptions on a budget: How much to pay for Adobe, Notion - Protocol -

Other News

Google Workspace gets new Dynamic Groups capability

New options for removing your personally-identifiable information from Search -

Google Chrome 101 arrives with password notes feature in tow

Boox OS update introduces these new features and functionalities

Use the Microsoft Edge Secure Network to protect your browsing

Google Docs receives dropdown chips and table templates making Smart Canvas even smarter

Kobo has made improvements to Store Apps and Web Reader

Your Google Nest Hub will soon show your Fitbit step count calories burned and more

1Password 8 for Mac comes with Universal Autofill and a big redesign - The Verge -

Google warns Chrome users browser has been hacked

Clever Stabilized Web Browser Makes Reading on iPads Easier for Users Dealing With Hand Tremors

Google Calendar appointment scheduling with booking page coming to more Workspace tiers

Our 100th version of Firefox is here

How a Migraine-Friendly Workplace Can Lead to More Productivity - Health News Hub -

Clay Wins Two Webby Awards for App to Strengthen Personal and Professional Relationships -

Worker output fell 7.5% in the first quarter, the biggest decline since 1947 -

Google Tasks finally supports recurring tasks natively, like a proper to-do list app

Microsofts new One Outlook email client for Windows is starting to leak out

Amazon Kindle Book Purchases Are the Next Google Play Billing Casualty

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How to Use Block Scheduling to Revamp Your Workflow

Your boss thinks you have no long-term future at your job if your camera or mic are off during Zoom meetings – Fortune

To Keep Workers, Flexibility Is More Important Than Money | Time

You can now try 1Password’s customizable redesign on your iPhone and iPad - The Verge

Microsoft brings Autofill support to Authenticator to help you create strong passwords

Todoist + Akiflow

You can now open Google Drive images directly in Picsart for web-based photo editing

Google Workspace customers will now be able to create Dynamic Groups

Outlook Tasks vs. Microsoft To Do: Which Is Better?

Business & Finance Segment

Memex went closed source while it figures out funding

Productivity Resource of the Week

Google Finally Announces the Switch to Android App

Cellular Data vs HotSpot discussion (Boox Nova Mention)

Featured Story of the Week

Gmail and Google Chat will let you choose which contacts can nudge you through iOS Focus Mode

Announcements

NYyou Library Offers Free Banned e-reader Books

Other News

That's right ⁠— we're on an ambitious plan to build an open smartphone that puts Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) at the core of our ecosystem 🌲🌲🌲

A new iOS to-do app wants to get rid of the stress of completing tasks (Bento)

Why Balance Between Energy & Productivity Matters in Your Day | by Francesco D'Alessio | The Bento Method | Apr, 2022 | Medium -

A life of Productivity Podcast: Podcast: A few ways to work with intention

Unlimited Google Photos Storage for $15 per Month Through T-Mobile

How To Decorate Your Office To Boost Productivity -

New Chromebook user? Learn to use Chrome OS with this simulator

How to Make Your Current Home Work for You (When Moving Isnt an Option)

Google's Arduino-Powered Little Signals Offer Stress-Free Notifications

Googles AirDrop competitor is reportedly getting a big upgrade

Kobo makes a number of bookstore improvements

Pixel At a Glance widget finally gets new functionality from March feature drop

How to Respond to an Unreasonable Request -

A neuroscientist debunks the biggest productivity myths | BBC Science Focus Magazine -

Why I Wrote a Book About Momentum

Upcoming California Bill Proposes a 32-hour Workweek for Companies with Over 500 Employees -

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Headlines & Show Notes | Microsoft’s pen-first notetaking app Journal

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Snakes and Ladders

How Managers Can Use Time Tracking Data to Improve Their Teams Productivity

Clearing Out Mental Clutter

We’ve added a customizable swipe action on mobile that’ll make Spring cleaning your to-dos even easier 🧹. Select complete, schedule, and now…delete 👋!

Apples newest subscription service is an IT management package for small businesses

Youll soon be able to use Google Meet directly in Docs Sheets and Slides for face-to-face editing

Google delays when legacy G Suite users have to pay - 9to5Google

Productivity Resource of the Week

Oku

GoodNotes

GoodNotes is free to try on the App Store! Your first 3 notebooks in GoodNotes are now free.

Featured Story of the Week

Microsoft’s pen-first notetaking app Journal graduates from a Garage project into a fully supported app - The Verge

Microsoft Journal

Microsoft Journal Blog Post

Announcements

Apple officially announces all-online WWDC 2022 for June 6; iOS 16 and more expected

Some Chromebook cameras not working after a recent Chrome OS update (Updated)

Other News

Galaxy Z Fold 4’s fingerprint sensor won’t be under the display

New Google Docs feature lets you provide feedback in an entirely different way

Emoji Reactions coming to Google Docs on the web

Google is adding a privacy settings walkthrough to Chrome

Google Maps will start estimating tolls and display more details to help you find your way

Microsoft will let IT admins send Windows 11 desktop or taskbar messages

Podcast: How to define productivity

Huawei MatePad Straddles E-Reader and Tablet Line: Is Being Half One Thing and Half the Other Viable?

Google Chat takes after Discord and adds inline discussion threads

Google Docs to get Grammarly-like features in selected Workspace and EDU tiers

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:15

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:16

And we're hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 103103. For April 11 2022, Microsoft journal graduates from garage will tell you all about that. Each week, we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And we usually start that off with with the personal productivity articles and podcasts that are, you know, in the blogosphere and audio sphere each week. And then after the break, we come back and we talk about the technology articles, and our featured story of the week and we share some resources of the week. And so with that, let's kick it off with our productivity articles this week at Gousto.

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Headlines & Show Notes | Chrome 100 Arrives

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Remote work vs back to the office? It's more complicated than you realise

Work-Life Balance Vs. Work-Life IntegrationWhich Holds More Benefits?

The Pyramid of Leisure

Google Docs is getting more Markdown support

Overcast Redesign Enhances Podcast Navigation with an Emphasis on Playlists and Recent Episodes

What to expect from Microsofts Windows 11 hybrid work event

Modos Paper Laptop will be the first laptop with an E Ink display

Featured Story of the Week

Chrome OS 100 brings new Launcher design to Chromebooks - The Verge

Chrome OS version 100 rolls out today with a redesigned app launcher | Engadget

Google Releases Chrome 100 for iOS and Desktop With Updated Icon - MacRumors

Chrome version 100 arrives with refreshed logo in tow - The Verge

What’s New in Chrome 100, Available Now

Google announces ChromeOS 100

Announcements

Apple iOS and iPadOS 15.4.1 and MacOS 12.3.1 Update NOW!

Zoom reminds everyone it will soon kill off its Chrome app in favor of the shiny new PWA

Other News

OmniPlan 4.4 Adds Localizations, Scheduling Fixes

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 142 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:15

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 102. April for April 4 2022, Chrome 100, version 100 arrives, and the related productivity and technology news of the week, of course, each week of gusto. And I read and review and discuss the productivity and related technology news headlines. And so we get started with the productivity blogosphere, and the audio sphere, the podcasts, blogs, whatever, of the week, and then after the break, we come back and we do the tech episode, the tech articles for the episode. And so let's get started with the productivity articles episode, what's our first story this week.

Augusto Pinaud 0:54

So the first story that we have this week come from CD net, and his remote work versus back to the office and solid, more complicated network like that his title and, you know, the article talks about there are more elements, you know, than just working to the office or not working into the office, and, you know, the travel and the implications that that will have in life. And I was discussing last week about how, you know, when we did the pandemic change, as I call it, okay, January, February, March 2020, depending on where you were in that transition, a lot of people went from being in the office, whatever was their normal to now being at home and trying to be productive. Okay. And, oh, we discussed that at that time,

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Headlines & Show Notes | Apple Releases Universal Control

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This CEO's Remote Work Policy Is Only 10 Words. It May Be the Best I've Ever Heard

Why Am I Too Tired To Sleep (And What To Do)?

Ambition is Overrated. Slow productivity isn’t enough. It’s… | by Karla Starr | Feb, 2022 | Forge

How two years of working from home changed workers around the world

Two years later, remote work has changed millions of careers

Google Docs update lets you draft emails and send them to Gmail with a click

Create externally friendly booking pages with appointment scheduling in Google Calendar

Microsoft updates Outlook Teams and PowerPoint to be hybrid work ready

Why the iPad Pro Isn't Worth the Extra Money

Kobo Libra 2 e-reader on sale in the United States

Amazon opens first Whole Foods equipped with cashierless technology

FDA clears the first iPhone app for delivering insulin, rollout starts this spring

Business & Finance Segment

In Q4 2021 Apple led the Wearable Device Market beating out Second Place Xiaomi by almost 4X Shipments

Notion announces a new integration marketplace

Command E Joined Dropbox

Productivity Resource of the Week

Rows

Bomber Zip Pocket Notebook Belt

Featured Story of the Week

Universal Control is Apples most impressive new feature in years

How to use Universal Control on Mac and iPad

Announcing Top 10 Female Experts 2022

Announcements

A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn

Gyroscope FREE is back

The Fair Repair Act is headed to the Senate for debate

Google I/O goes online again conference set for May 11

Todoist - Old Outlook to stop working, update to the new outlook plugin

Michael Hyatt & Company Changing Name to Full Focus

How to Get a Second Batch of At-Home COVID Tests for Free

Other News

How to Use Collections on Microsoft Edge

Personalization Hub adds auto light and dark wallpaper switching Google Photos more

Google DNS vs. Cloudflare DNS: What's the Fastest DNS?

JXL (JPEG XL) is a new image file type youll see more of and Chrome support is now working too

Google Home app gets much-needed redesign with interactive buttons

Gmail on Android getting new notification icons to differentiate between Chat and Spaces

How to unofficially save and recall your Chrome Tab Groups using the built-in Bookmarks system

Zooms new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog

Google Photos updates its library and sharing tabs to make photos easier to find

How to keep track of friends and family members birthdays on Google Calendar

Onyx BOOX Nova Air C is a 7.8 inch color e-reader that is coming out soon

Google Docs gains Gmail draft capabilities for Workspace customers

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 141 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Google Wants to Turn Your Old Mac into a Chromebook With Chrome OS Flex

Google prepares ‘ChromeOS’ rebrand to drop the space

5 Reasons to Adopt the Best Personal Productivity System

How to Decide What to Work On

How to Promote Employee Engagement and Productivity in a Remote Setting | Inc.com

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Apple Announces New Devices, Anything but Idle’s 100 Episode and the Productivity News This Week

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Dr. Frank BuckJulie BestryTrevor LohrbeerArt GelwicksFrancis WadeFriends of the podcast who joined us on our 100th episode! Thanks for your support!

Headlines & Show Notes | Apple Announces New Devices, Anything but Idle’s 100 Episode

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How to Practice Self-Care as a Busy Entrepreneur

Brave Talk

New Microsoft Defender preview now available for Windows Android and iOS

Microsoft Google and Mozilla to Work Together on Better Browsers

Clipchamp is Microsofts new video editing app for Windows 11

Onyx Boox improves PDF Rendering Speed

Business & Finance Segment

Asana incurs Q4 loss

Productivity Resource of the Week

Threadit

Peptoc – 707-998-8410 (Yep, an analog resource for motivation, as part of the idea of practicing self-care. It’s a phone hotline of sage, upbeat advice from kindergarteners.)

Auto Screen Capture

Hihello.me

Featured Story of the Week

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Apple Event, Peek Performance, March 8, 2022

Announcements

We’re posting our poll again to vote on the Top Female Productivity-Organization-Technology Experts for Women’s History Month. Click here to vote.

Other News

Ikenna Method

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Butter

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00

Hello personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 100. For March 14 2022, Apple announces new devices, Anything But Idle turns 100 and the productivity news this week. Each week we review and discuss the productivity and related technology news headlines of the week. And this week, we have a whole bunch of friends on the podcast joining us today for the show and so bear with me while I get everybody up here and introduce them onto the stage. And so first and foremost, we have Frank Buck, Dr. Frank Buck is currently ranked number one in the time management category by global gurus top 30. Welcome to the show, Frank.

Frank Buck, EdD 0:55

Glad to be here guys.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:57

Next up we have Julie bestiary. She is a certified professional organizer, a productivity coach, and she's in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and she's the owner of best results organizing. Welcome on.

Julie Bestry 1:09

Thank you and congratulations.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:14

Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Trevor labia. He is the founder of day optimizer. It's a time management Progressive Web App. And it helps you create daily plans that align with your priorities. Welcome on, Trevor,

Trevor Lohrbeer 1:28

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Headlines & Show Notes | Progressive Web Apps Are Taking Over

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How the Stoplight Review Method Helped Me Cut Dozens of Meetings, and Made My Team Very Happy | Inc.com

Secret of highly productive people

Google Maps Apple Maps and smartphones are at the forefront of modern war

Five Signs That Youre Ready for a Coach

How to get work done when you're not feeling it

Nomad Base One review: The most premium MagSafe charger around

Embed linked Google Forms charts into Google Docs Google Slides and Google Drawings

Huawei MatePad Paper with 10.3 inch screen and HarmonyOS is out soon

Introducing New Tools and Features in the Happier App.

Business & Finance Segment

Zero Systems gets $12M Series A to bring automation to professional servicesApple dominated the tablet market in 2021, despite iPad shortages amid supply constraints

Productivity Resource of the Week

Meetback.io

Lumen

Featured Story of the Week

Desktop users have installed Progressive Web Apps 270% more over the past year

Announcements

Apple announces Peek Performance event on March 8

We’re posting our poll again to vote on the Top Female Productivity-Organization-Technology Experts for Women’s History Month

Other News

How to use the Accessibility features on iPhone and iPad

Apple issues fifth macOS Monterey 12.3 developer beta

How to make the most of iCloud's collaboration and sharing tools

Heres how iOS 15.4s new LGBTQ Siri voice will sound on your iPhone

LinkedIn debuts its own podcast network

Apple patents Magic Keyboard with integrated Mac inside to bring macOS to any display

Exercise trains your fat to help you age well

Google Spaces will now let you set descriptions and guidelines and assign manager roles

Define and manage Chat Spaces space descriptions and guidelines with a new manager role

Google Workspace Migrate is now generally available

Google Search on desktop tests adding widgets for weather and other Discover-like cards

Life Is Up To You: 8 Choices That Will Make Your Life Better

7 Books That Make You A Better Human

Podcast #782: Anxiety Is a Habit Heres How to Break It

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:15

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 99 099. Can't believe that just on the precipice of 100, and this is for March 7 2022, progressive web apps are taking over. And of course, the productivity news this week. Each week, we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And so with that, let's get into our articles for the personal product...

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Google Drive Gets Search Chips

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What I Learned During My Three Days Offline

Want to Be Happier, Healthier, and Wealthier? Science Says Start Seeing 'Future You' the Right Way | Inc.com

Procrastination is Not Your Enemy

The death of offices and the rise of remote work could mean someone with your title makes 20x more than you

Struggling To Get Things Done? Paper Dolls Advice & The Task Management & Time Blocking Virtual Summit 2022

Google wants Chrome to become your preferred password manager

Chrome could soon give you greater control over bothersome compromised password warnings

Barnes and Noble is bringing audiobook support to their Nook App

Barnes and Noble will releasing a new e-Reader soon

Bring More Work Together In Trello: New Workspace Calendar, Saved Views, And Dashcards

Productivity Resource of the Week

Ex-Googlers resurrect Google Inbox interface as “Shortwave” email – Ars Technica

Fantastical BUSY/FREE

Featured Story of the Week

Google Drive Search Chips now generally available for all

Google Drive just got a huge upgrade — and it will save you a ton of time | Tom's Guide

Announcements

Task Management and Time Blocking Summit

Other News

Google Updates Smart Canvas for Workspace: 10 New Features to Try

The new Kindle Home Screen is tied to user accounts not the Kindle itself

Cameyo joins Chrome Enterprise Recommended Program

E INK has attained Dark Sky Certification

First Look at the Bigme Carve Color 10.3 Kaleido Plus E-Note

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 98 for February 28 2020, to our last day of February, for those of you listening to the podcast, of course, as your first day of March, but today's episode is Google Drive gets searched chips, and the productivity and technology news this week, of course, each week, Augusta and I read and review the headlines across productivity and technology related news. And we come up with this shortened list that we share with you and discuss. And so we start off with the blogosphere and the podcast world. And so Augusto, what are our stories this week, our first story this week in the blogosphere and audio sphere. The

Augusto Pinaud 0:55

first one is a story of a nightmare. A sorry, no, no wrong article is come from Ratatouille, and he says what I learned during my three days of life. And I mean, for many people that will be a horror story, not begin their phone not having access to their stuff online. The reality is, there are more bad habits as the author share in ...

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Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs, and the Productivity News This Week

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs

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This CEO Lets His Employees Work Whenever They Want—From Wherever They Want

Why the Rise in 'Polywork' Is a Desperate Reflection of the Job Market

Belonging Not Burnout

New! Comments: Start Distraction-Free Conversations on Shared Documents

Google just surrendered its update authority to Samsung

Google auto-enabled 2SV for over 150M people leading to 50% decrease in compromised accounts

Pixel tablet renders too ambitious or realistic?

Google Calendar simplifies managing tasks you never got around to

Microsoft OneDrive now available on the Remarkable

Productivity Resource of the Week

Daylite

Mind42

Featured Story of the Week

The Verge: Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs.

Chrome OS Flex versus CloudReady: here are the main differences

Announcements

Task Management and Time Blocking (Announcement)

Other News

Samsung S22 Ultra doubles iPhone 13 Pro RAM, Galaxy tablets now up to 14.6-inches

Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra features a familiar design and built-in S Pen

Samsung reveals the Galaxy S22 and S22+: Improved cameras and more durable designs

Apple Announces 'Tap to Pay' Feature That Will Allow iPhones To Accept Contactless Payments

Apple: ‘An Update on AirTag and Unwanted Tracking’

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 140 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

The iPad can learn from Samsung

Google to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android Phones

Keeping you safe online with Google and beyond

What fruit are you? By DebLee

Apple Announces ‘Tap to Pay’ on iPhone, With No Extra Hardware for Reading Cards

Fantasticals new update focuses on making scheduling easier

Samsungs Galaxy Watch 4 will track your sleep with cartoon animals

Pocketbook Basic Lux 3 e-reader Review

How does the new Kobo Sideload system work?

How to Make Extremely Elaborate To-Do Lists in Google Sheets

Google is closing one of its least-loved Workspace apps | TechRadar

Update Zoom for macOS to fix the mic indicator bug

Fast Company: Google Workspace adds pageless view, Maps, and Gmail drafts

Chrome Unboxed: Google Docs adds Summaries and Pageless formatting features

Google Drive’s new filters that make search easier are rolling out to everyone - The Verge

YouTube Music for Android gains convenient Downloads app shortcut

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 97. Can't believe it 97. This is February 21 2022.

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Google One VPN is now compatible with the iPhone and iPad

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Top 50 Writing Tools: The Ultimate List

Morning Routine for Entrepreneurs: How to Kick Off Your Day Feeling Driven

How I Manage 3 Jobs 5 Pseudonyms 7 Dogs & A High Publishing Rate

Organizing Is Easier After Minimizing

Why You Should Stop ‘Gamifying’ Your Health and Fitness

Finally, Android Users Can Turn iMessage Reactions Into Emoji

Google's solution to the green bubble iMessage problem is insanely great | Macworld

Google says Android tablets are the future, starts staffing up new division | Ars Technica

Google Just Gave 3 Billion Users A Reason To Keep Chrome

What Is Google Currents?

Apple Releases watchOS 8.4.1 With Bug Fixes for Apple Watch Series 4 and Later

watchOS 8.4.1 is out with Apple Watch bug fixes

Developers can now offer iOS apps that are hidden from App Store search

Nozbe Teams is the new version of Nozbe

Business & Finance Segment

iPhone Mac Services and more set all-time revenue records in Q1 2022

Google touts quarterly sales record for Pixel phones after 6 & 6 Pro launch

Productivity Resource of the Week

Blackbox - Select. Copy. Paste & Search - Chrome Web Store

Podcastle iOS App

The Podcastle iOS App Is Here, and It Does Not Disappoint

Featured Story of the Week

Google One VPN is now compatible with the iPhone and iPad

Google One VPN rolling out to iOS users who have 2TB or higher subscriptions

VPN by Google One comes to iOS

Announcements

✅ 🎬 Celebrating 15 years of Nozbe with a special announcement

The 2022 Omni Roadmap with Ken Case

Task Management and Time Blocking Podcast (Announcement)

Other News

The Quickest Way to Cancel Spotify Premium and Delete Your Account

Wordle Sold to The NY Times. And That’s a Good Thing. I agree with Kottke’s take on things. One of the reasons I stoppe...

Omni Roadmap 2022: OmniFocus 4 Highlights

Sunsama's Mobile App is now available for Android and iOS

Sunsama’s Android

Sunsama’s IOS

Google could soon limit WhatsApp chat backup size on Drive

Apples latest updates break Wallet on Apple Watch Bluetooth on Mac

Bluetooth bug wiping out battery life for some macOS Monterey 12.2 users

Gmail in Workspace integrated view is coming

WhatsApp plans emoji message reactions for iPhone

Quitting Spotify: How to move your library and playlists to Apple Music

Domestic abuser busted in the act of putting an AirTag on a car

Apple News distributes its first daily local newsletter

Face ID works while wearing a mask in the iOS 15.4 beta

Android Auto is getting a completely revamped visual interface with Coolwalk update

Google adds prominent contact info for National Domestic Violence hotline in Search

Gmail features you might not know existed

Google tests adding Lens to desktop Search on the web

How to send and receive text messages on your Chromebook with Google Messages

Jerry Michalski on collecting, connecting, and curating two decades worth of information (Ep5) | Thriving on Overload

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | What Beats a Four-Day Workweek?

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From the Great Resignation to the Great Renovation 6 Personal Factors That Impact Productivity Why You Should Think of Relaxing As a Skill, Not a Reward Fear of Success Anonymous 7 Reasons Returning to the Office is a Good Idea How to Boost Productivity at Work by 73 Percent: Ban Meetings 3 Days a WeekHow to Reinstall Windows 11 Without Deleting Any Apps iOS 15.3 now available to iPhone users, here’s what’s new Google Assistant will now cease talking if you simply say 'stop'Filter query generator by Doist Apple Fixed iCloud Bug Causing Syncing Issues for Third-Party Apps Apple tells developers it’s rolling out a fix for iCloud syncing issues impacting third-party apps Google Docs users can now insert text or image watermarks to protect their workmacOS Monterey: SharePlay, Universal Control and other new features

Business & Finance Segment

Apple Reports Q1 2022 ResultsiPhone Becomes Top Smartphone in China for First Time in Six Years Dutch regulator fines Apple €5m in dispute over dating app payment rules1Password CFO says it’s not going to compete with OktaScratchpad, a productivity workspace for Salesforce, raises $33M | VentureBeatCollaboration platform CloudApp raises $9.3M to enhance workplace productivity | TechCrunchIf you use Venmo or Credit Karma, this company might owe you money Plaid must pay $58 million to users of Venmo, Robinhood and other apps

New Tool 1 (Ray)

Kanbanote

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

Unsplash for iOS — Internet’s source of freely-usable images on your phone

Bonus

Volley - asynchronous video app (Thanks, Michelle!)

Featured Story of the Week

What Beats a 4-Day Workweek? A 10-Month Year | Inc.com

Announcements

Samsung Galaxy S22 Unpacked event date is now official

Other News

Microsoft Teams can now turn your iPhone into a walkie-talkie Apple now lets developers create custom offer codes for subscriptions How Remote Work Is Devastating New York City’s Commuter RailsUpdate Safari Immediately Microsoft Is Bringing Android Apps to Windows 11, Finally Making Good on Its Promise Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 139 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements CloudReady v96.2 now available! The Curious Case of Dropbox and macOS 12.3 CTL debuts Works with Chromebook wireless keyboard and mouseChrome OS 97: 5 new feature flags you should try right nowThe Best Internet Filter for Kids

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Google gives up on beating iMessage now it wants Apple to join Android and the Productivity News This Week.

You will hear on the audio that we refer to episode 093, but this is episode 094. It was a typo on the Show's Agenda.

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In this Cast | Google gives up on beating iMessage now it wants Apple to join Android

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Google gives up on beating iMessage now it wants Apple to join Android

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The Right and Wrong Way to Journal

The (102)5 Method Will Help You Get More Done in a Day

Breaking the Cycle of Burnout in the Workplace

What Is the Link between Exercise and Productivity?

A Quick Guide to Planning Your Year

Block Those Notifications or How to Better Protect Your Attention Span

LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage alongside more expensive pricing plans

Notion: We added a way to navigate between database pages Open any database page, then click the buttons at the top left to hop to the previous or next page. Works in all views!

Report: Google Pays new focus is becoming a comprehensive digital wallet

Microsoft releases Windows 11 Build 22538 with Voice Access updates and lots of fixes

What Is Google TasksBoard? How to Use It

Dropbox Releases Apple Silicon Version of Its App to Beta Testers

Business & Finance Segment

1Password Unlocks $620M Round, Reaches $6.8B Valuation – Crunchbase News

1Password continues strong enterprise push, raises new investment at $6.8 billion valuation

Productivity Resource of the Week

Note Yourself

A note-taking app that works like iMessage shouldn't work, but it does

Eagle Creek PAC it - Pouches

Featured Story of the Week

Google gives up on beating iMessage now it wants Apple to join Android

Google is wrong. Apples iMessage is actually a failure

Google Exec Pushing RCS Adoption Says He's 'Not Asking Apple to Make iMessage Available on Android'

Announcements

G Suite Legacy Free Edition users are being required to upgrade to Workspace in July

Other News

Apple loses second key chip engineer this time to Microsoft

iOS 15.2.1 is released with critical HomeKit security fix

macOS 12 Monterey: New Public Beta has been released heres how to get it

OWC miniStack STX review: External storage and a Thunderbolt hub under your Mac mini

How to Track Your Sleep With Google Nest Hub: Sleep Sensing Explained

Chrome 98 Beta adds desktop screenshots improvements to PWAs and more

Chrome OS 97 is rolling out beginning the new 4-week update cycle for Chromebooks

Microsoft makes updated Notepad and Media Player available to more Windows 11 users

Android Auto will get Lyft integration and let you watch Youtube while parked

Fossil promises Alexa is coming to its smartwatches soon

New Year's Resolutions Are Notoriously Slippery but Science Can Help You Keep Them

Echo 2 Smartpen - Livescribe Smartpen – Livescribe Inc. (US)

Workspace Organizer 'Rambox 2.0' Launches with a Revamped UI and New Features - It's FOSS News

Google is preparing a new Chromecast device powered by Google TV

How to look your best on a video call

The Case for Writing Longhand: ‘It’s About Trying to Create That Little Space of Freedom’

Microsoft Releases Office for Mac Update With Full Apple Silicon Support in Excel

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 138 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Augusto Pinaud

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How can I increase personal productivity at home and at work?

5 Ways To Reinvigorate And Level-Up Your Home Office

Omicron has exposed corporate leaders’ lack of vision about remote work

Progress Isn't Linear

The Case for Slow Work

The 5 Areas of Personal Growth (And How to Improve Them)

This to-do list app is the first created and published with Swift Playgrounds 4 on iPad

Telegram Updated With Message Reactions and Several Other Features

What e-readers have Google Play?

Lenovo's ultrawide 17-inch laptop has an 8-inch screen next to the keyboard

Tile is working with Lenovo to help you find your lost laptop

Business & Finance Segment

Apple's $3 trillion valuation is the least interesting news about the company

Online whiteboarding platform Miro raises $400M to power the future of work | VentureBeat (Business & Finance)

Productivity Resource of the Week

A3383 videobarb600 - AnkerWork

Apple Notes

How (and Why) to Switch to Apple Notes

13 Things You Didn't Know Apple's Notes App Could Do

Featured Story of the Week

Google planning Apple-like integration between its products to compete

Google will spend 2022 trying to match Apples ecosystem integrations

Announcements

Momentum Kickstarter is Live TodayWhat Life Can Be Like When You Get Organized Digitally!

Other News

Lenovo Legion Y700 vs Apple iPad Mini 6: New leaked images show real-world size comparison of the compact tabletsClassic BlackBerry Smartphones Are Officially Dead Getting Into the Habit of Using OmniFocus Walmart is expanding its direct-to-your-refrigerator deliveriesGoogle pushes Android users to update Microsoft Teams to prevent now-fixed 911 bugSigning into Youtube on your TV is now easier than ever thanks to your phoneCES 2022: Chipolo Launches Find My-Compatible Wallet Tracker Chrome 97 Can Erase Stored Data on Every Website You Visit Google announces major improvements to Android Better Together at CES 2022Lenovos new smart clock swaps the Google Assistant for AlexaMore improvements that Google Play Books should make to its web app this yearSlack Free vs. Premium: Is It Worth Upgrading?

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community. Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Sidney-Smith. And we're your your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 93 0934 January 10 2022. Google is looking to Apple's ecosystem playbook in 2022. And, of course, the productivity and related technology news this week. So welcome, everybody, to those listening and watching live and to those listen...

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Ray Sidney-Smith

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Headlines & Show Notes | DRAFT

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Want to be happier? Science says buying a little time leads to significantly greater life satisfaction || Buying things won’t make you happier. But research shows that buying time can, as long as you do it the right way.

Micro-Resolutions

If Youre Not Skipping Some Tasks Youre Making Life Harder

CEO on what works with remote work

Another Seattle startup trying 4-day workweek in bid to enhance productivity, well-being and culture

LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare

Google Drive is converting all of your messy duplicate files into shortcuts instead

Google Plays Best of 2021

Apple unveils the winning apps and games in its App Store Awards 2021

Swift Playgrounds 4.0: First Look

Five of the most innovative E Ink display projects

Business & Finance Segment

Asana, Inc. (ASAN) Reports Q3 Loss, Tops Revenue Estimates

Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors

Productivity Resource of the Week

TasksBoard | Desktop app for Google Tasks

Muse 2

Featured Story of the Week

LastPass is going to become an independent company

Other News

KPMG Report Gives Big Thumbs Down on Long-Term Remote Working

Brain Food: Run Your Own Race

Apple Introduces New MacBook Upgrade Program for Business Partners

Google takes aim at Microsoft 365 with small but important update

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 137 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Zoom executive says hybrid work will continue to drive growth after the pandemic

These FDA-approved eyedrops offer an alternative to reading glasses

Apple patches Log4Shell iCloud vulnerability, described as most critical in a decade

Workplace productivity platform with Colorado office raises $425 million

Building a Better Planner App

Fast Company: Get More Done: 10 Secrets of Today's Most Productive People

TechCrunch: The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education

Copy link to highlight in Chrome may soon expand to include sharing images and video

Youtube PWA with offline videos for Chrome OS a success could see wider rollout in the future

How to Create an Effective Personal Development Plan

New Chromebook launcher will sort your apps and results into categories while you search

12 Hidden Google Messages Features You Should Be Using

How To Stay Motivated For Making Healthy Lifestyle Changes

Microsoft introduces Teams Essentials for small businesses

Report: Google Pixel Watch coming in 2022 | TechRadar

I Tried a Calendar That Uses the Idea of Death to Boost Productivity

Google is making its first in-house smartwatch that could launch in 2022 - The Verge

Google delays its workers' return to office yet again

Avoid calendar clashes with a new breed of scheduling apps | Computerworld

Tables in Google Docs are being completely reworked with easier management more tools

7 Ways Google Home Can Help Make Your Workday More Efficient

Google TV Is Getting 300 Free Live TV Channels: Here's How

Google Tasks created in Calendar are more useful now that they can be set to repeat

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In this Cast | Fluid Framework Brings Us Microsoft Loop

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Fluid Framework Brings Us Microsoft Loop

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The Power of Never Giving Up

Tackling Hard Tasks

How to keep your hybrid workforce engaged

Grammarly rolls out full set of features to iPhone and iPad users

Google Workspaces Updates: Set aside time for focus in Google Calendar

You can now ask Google to remove images of under-18s from its search results

Google Messages working on ability to send MMS video using Google Photos

Productivity Resource of the Week

Listenlater.fm

Narro

Liberate

Featured Story of the Week

Microsoft Loop is a new Office app for the hybrid work era

Announcements

11/17 5:30PM #ProdChat Live: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1LyxBovXeypKN

Other News

The all-new Tasks by Zoho Mail: For an enhanced and evolved workspace

Daily Mail: Microsoft pushes its own 'metaverse' with 3D virtual avatars for Teams

The Verge: Sonos’ voice assistant might work alongside Alexa but not the Google Assistant

NYTimes: Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns

5 Linux Tablets and Projects You Can Try Today

One million WordPress sites at risk of attack

Kobo Forma on sale in Canada and US

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community. Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. I'm the group's and we're your hosts for Anything But Idle today is November 8 2021. And this is episode 91. The fluid framework brings us Microsoft loop. So welcome to everybody who is watching live Welcome to those who are listening to the podcast afterward. Of course each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. We usually started off by going through the blogosphere and the podcast just sphere and talking about the articles and episodes that we have heard out there. And so of course, Augusto, let's get started with our first story this week.

Augusto Pinaud 0:48

Our first story is an article from Coplin talking about the power of Never give up. And I'm going to let you start because I'm dealing with technology. Sorry,

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:01

no problem. And, and so I think this is really good to like set goals. And also thinking through it's just a refresher on that concept that if you have kind of an annual planning process, I use a plot process that I developed over the years called the Reflect, ACT, PLAN, an act guide, and it's something that I created for myself. And so you know, you're welcome to use this concept. But the idea here is that you take the 30 days of the month, you choose whatever month you want in a year, and each day you reflect on a different aspect of your life.

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In this Cast | The Checklist Contains My Manifesto, and Google Contacts Keeps Getting Better

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019, 2020, and 2021. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

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The Project-Driven Life

Do You Have Trouble Moving Projects Forward?

Create a Place for Everything That Matters

A new ASUS Chromebook CX9 just appeared and its the device youve been looking for

First Look at the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 5

Youtube reveals who will be leading its Podcast initiative future of Google Podcasts uncertain

Zoom now has auto-generated captions available for free accounts

Productivity Resource of the Week

Routine--tasks + notes app

Parallels 17

Chrome Tab Search

Featured Story of the Week

Google Contacts begins evolving and becoming more useful as a CRM

Announcements

Productivity platform provider ClickUp valued at $4 billion after raising $400M round - SiliconANGLE

Other News

How User Manuals Foster Team DevelopmentGoogle Fis 5G coverage expanding over the coming months especially in these 8 states5 Warning Signs Your SSD Is About to Break Down and FailHow To Believe in Yourself and Boost Your Self-ConfidenceThe Psychology of Motivation: Why Is Motivation So Powerful?10 Things To Do When You're Angry At Yourself (For Your Mistakes)The Weird Way to Fight OverwhelmTen Unexpected Areas of Life Impacted by MinimalismFour Essentials For Developing Your LeadershipHow Can Drawing Be Beneficial To Our Productivity And Focus?

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community. Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 90 090. For November 1 2021. The checklist contains my manifesto and Google Contacts keeps getting better. We couldn't choose a title, so we just shoved them together. Anyway. Welcome, everybody. Each week, we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And this week, we have a special guest, we have Dr. Frank Buck joining us. Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy.

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In this Cast | Will Android Work Profiles for Google Workspace Help With Work-Life Balance?

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Augusto Pinaud

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How you can use Google Calendar Time Insights to track your productivity 2021 Tips - BollyinsideThree Ways To Boost Productivity With Autonomous MotivationHow to Trick Your Work-Obsessed Brain Into Taking Actual Leisure TimeHow to Be a Productive Perfectionist Using an Adaptive ApproachThe Secret to Being More ProductiveHow To Journal Your Goals And 11 Key Goals To Write About

Google Docs gets unholy @ menu where you can insert formatting, pictures... literally almost anythingGoogle Meet rolls out new audio and video locks for hosts – TechCrunchGoogles smart home platform and tools are now fittingly named Google HomeYou can now read Comixology comics on the Kindle app and e-readersFirst Look: Google Calendar Chromebook productivity experiment officially appearsMicrosoft Outlook Extension Now Available for Google Chrome

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Dr. Frank Buck Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019, 2020, and 2021. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Productivity Resource of the Week

Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards

Plantiful

Featured Story of the Week

Google will make it easier to separate your work and personal life on Android

Announcements

Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years Brain Pickings Reborn

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6 Tips to Stop Procrastinating Your LifeHow RescueTime joined the four-day workweek for fun and profitWhats in My Weekly Review And PlanThe top online learning resources to boost your careerMental Health Costs the Economy Trillions. 3 Ways CEOs Can Change the Culture.Businesses prioritizing mental well-being to see improved productivity - Jacksonville Business JournalThis Took a While: Google Drive Updated with Apple Silicon Support7 Chrome Extensions for Google Meet to Supercharge Your MeetingsAlphabets Wing is bringing its drone delivery service to Dallas-Fort WorthBe still my heart LG just entered the Chromebook gameHow to use Apple Music's new mood playlistsFacebooks digital wallet finally launches... without Diem cryptocurrency5 Tips to Use Google Tasks EffectivelyElgatos app that turns iPhones into webcams gets AR Snap Lens supportPixel 6 smartwatch: Best alternatives to the still absent Pixel WatchBrave Browser Gives Up on Google Goes for Privacy-Focused Search EnginemacOS Monterey Release Candidate 2 is now available for developersGrovemade desk tray review: Premium desktop organizationThe little-known web browser that beats Chrome for productivityParallels Desktop 17.1 brings full Windows 11 support to macOS MontereyChrome's RSS follow button is now available to all Android usersApple joins Blender Development Fund macOS back as supported platformArs Technica: You may soon be able to answer phone cal...

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In this Cast | Commentary on Apple Unleashed

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Michael Sliwinski

Michael is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, Nozbe Teams - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe Teams and Nozbe are web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:08

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:10

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 88. And this is our commentary episode our special episode regarding the apple unleashed event that happened a few days ago. So each week of course, we read and review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. But when major productivity and related technology events happen, and it seems that they happened quite frequently this week, we bring you the special commentary episodes to give you the latest latest on what's happening out there in that world. Today we've got two special guests for the special commentary episode. Our first guest is Michael Sliwinsky. He's the CEO of Nozbe. Mike is a Michael is a productivity guy. He's the He's the founder of the software company, where they have two productivity apps. One is known as B teams and Uber functional to do app for small and medium teams. And then nos be a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both nosb teams and nos B are web based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker. He's the author of a few best selling books, and a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife, Lena, and they have three daughters. Welcome to the show. Back to the show. Michael.

Michael Sliwinski 1:22

Hi, thanks. Thanks for having me,

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:23

of course. And next up, we have Art Gelwicks. He's a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump. And he's the host of the being productive podcast. He's no stranger to the show. And he is also on the cross platform podcast with a Augusto. And of course he joins us on ProductivityCast each week. Welcome to Anything But Idle art.

Art Gelwicks 1:46

Morning guys, how you guys doing? Good, good,

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:48

good. All kinds of fun today. It's a full house. So let's get into the apple event. What happened at the apple event? What did you appreciate? We started off with the Apple Music and app at the apple air pods announcements,

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In this Cast | Commentary on Google Pixel Fall Launch

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community, welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. And I was to bring up and we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 87. I've got that right this time, the Google Pixel for launch event, our commentary episode on that, of course, each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. But when these major events happen, and we've had three of them happen this week, we bring you these special commentary episodes to discuss you discuss with you, you know, what basically happened at those events. And today, of course, we brought onto the show, again, Art Gelwicks, to talk about what happened at the Google Pixel fall event, Art. Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump calm, and he's the host of the being productive podcast. He joins gousto pinout as a co host of cross platform. And then of course, he joins us weekly on ProductivityCast. And so Anything But Idle art,

Art Gelwicks 1:00

Hey, guys, long time no see,

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:06

we're spending Good, good amount of time together,

Art Gelwicks 1:08

they got to spread out these announcements better, they're killing us with this. I mean, there's so much stuff in one, I was not ready for this, all of this stuff that hit at one time. Not that I'm complaining, I love having all kinds of cool toys to look at. But Good grief.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:23

So this was the pixel fall event on October 19. And of course, at this event, the keynote and the product announcements really were for the long awaited, but mostly known about made by Google smartphones, the pixel six and the six Pro. And so what did you think about the event? Kind of, you know, generally? And what was the What did you feel like, you know, was good about the event bad about the event. And then we could talk about some of the particulars regarding the pixel six, the six pro and of course, the announcement of pixel pass, which is Google's first kind of subscription service for the pixel phones specifically.

Art Gelwicks 2:05

Yeah, the event itself, I thought was, if you look at it in the context of all the events that happened, I'd say it was one of the better ones that's happened recently, they did a very good job of laying out exactly what they wanted to cover and how they wanted to cover it. They didn't lose sight of their messaging during the presentation itself. They made it very inviting, why they felt the need to actually do it in the Google Store was, I don't know, that kind of alluded me a little bit. But you could tell from the beginning, that they were all in on the main parts of these new phones, the tensor chip,

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In this Cast | Commentary on Samsung Unpacked Part Two (October 2021)

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00

Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:09

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:10

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 86. And we are coming to you to talk about a productivity technology event that is technology event proper, which is that the Samsung Galaxy unpacked event, the part two of that event, the October 2021 event happened. And so to do that, to have that discussion, that commentary, we have invited onto the show, Art Gelwicks of course. And so Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump calm, and he's the host of the being productive podcast. He co hosts the cross platform podcast with Augusto Pinaud. And of course he joins us on ProductivityCast podcast each week. Welcome to Anything But Idle art.

Art Gelwicks 0:57

I'm telling you every it sounds like I need to step up and actually do some work. So because that's that litany, I just sound like a slacker. I mean seriously.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:08

Well, it's great. Thanks

Art Gelwicks 1:09

for having me.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:10

Yes, of course. Great to have you on the show to talk about this Samsung Galaxy unpacked part two. And so a brief event. But notwithstanding they announced a few things.

Art Gelwicks 1:23

It was like a mini It was like a mini event.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:26

Yeah, exactly. So so let's get into kind of the primary thing they announced was the Samsung Galaxy z flip three, the bespoke edition, a favorite word of mine, bespoke. And so tell us a little bit about what you thought about the bespoke edition of the Z flip three,

Art Gelwicks 1:44

it the whole package of the event was all about personalization. Not only was the flip three talked about for bespoke, and I'm gonna dig into that, but also the galaxy Watch has a split, bespoke option now. And what that really is talking about is this is Samsung's unveiling of their customers supply chain, manufacturing on the fly, for lack of a better term. And if we focus on the Z three, flip the Z flip three, I'll always get that wrong. What you can literally do is go into the Samsung site and choose the color configurations that you want for the device. Do you want a black, you want a gray? Do you want a yellow Do you want a salmon color, I forget the exact color combinations they have. But you can pick and choose them. And then they will build the device to your spec for that it doesn't change the internals, you don't get to choose a better camera or a bigger battery. It's all about the look of the device.

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My morning routine isn’t guru approved – and that’s what makes it perfect for me

10 tweaks to your morning routine that will transform your entire day

Opinion: Four day work week could improve productivity - The DePaulia

Aussie companies begin offering 4-day weeksKotaku: Eidos Montreal Announces Workers Switching To Four-Day Weeks

How to Optimize Your To-Do List to Be More Efficient

What Happens When Your To-Do Lists Take Too Much of Your Time?

Psst! Now you can securely share 1Password items with anyone | 1Password

Google Calendar events now let you launch Docs to create meeting notes with one click

HP Chromebase 22 All-in-One review: Chrome OS rotation innovation [VIDEO]

Why did Kobo release Audiobook enabled E-Readers?

Not just Apple Watch — next AirPods could monitor your health, too

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150M Google accounts will be safer by end of year thanks to 2-step verification auto-enrollGoogle is about to turn on two-factor authentication by default for millions of users

Announcements

Apple Unleashed eventPixel Fall Launch eventSamsung Unpacked Part 2 event

Other News

Life Optimizers New Tagline: Live a Fulfilling LifeApple offering Apple Card 0% financing to those who made checkout error HP Chromebook X2 11: Hands-on and first impressions of the newest Chrome OS tabletSix years after launch Youtube Music for the web finally gains native cast supportT-Mobiles Google partnership now includes an exclusive cloud storage planEnthusiast builds E-Ink Magic Calendar using Raspberry Pi7 Tips and Tools to Communicate With Clients and Teams in Real-TimeSMART Goals 101: Examples Templates and WorksheetsChrome Journeys and Side Panel will help you compare search results and continue tasksWhat Its Like Becoming a First Time Manager Working 100% remotelyBouncing Forward With ResilienceHow to Customize Your Google Account With "Google Illustrations"September 2021 - Udemy Workplace Learning Trends ReportI coined the phrase 'productivity dysmorphia' to describe how I couldn't see my own success. This is what I've learned about dealing with it. | Markets Insider

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 85 or October 18 2021. Google turns on two factor authentication for almost everyone. Each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. With that,

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Steve Jobs's 3-Point Formula for Leading Effective Meetings Was …

I Was a 'Master' Procrastinator. Here's the Simple 5-Step Method I Used to Quit the Habit | Inc.com

A 'Big Four' firm will allow 40,000 employees to work from home

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CrossOver 21 is now available: how to use it to run Windows apps on your ChromebookAmazon Announcements for September 2021Nokia set to launch its second Android tablet ever on October 6Apple unveils new features in iWork suite of productivity apps - Apple

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Microsoft Teams gets Phone features, Operator Connect serviceMicrosoft promises big changes for Skype

Announcements

Apple Watch on Preorder on Oct 8 and on sale on Oct 10

Other News

Google halts plans for Google Pay-based banking service - The Verge

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:18

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:20

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 84 08 for Skype, and Microsoft Teams get enhancements. And so welcome everybody to those who are watching live. And to those who are listening or watching after the fact Feel free to engage and comment and we'll be happy to respond to you as we make our way through the news. And so of course, every week we cover the productivity and related technology news of the week, we start with our blogosphere articles, articles from the blog and news world out there. And then we do our tech articles after the break. And so gousto What's our first blog article this week?

Augusto Pinaud 1:00

Our first article is from Inc and Steve Jobs three point formula to effective meaning. And they start out in the article saying well, this is star with the base of a Steve Jobs and then we add a bunch of other people. But

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:17

let's cover let's cover the three things. So the three things are meeting should have three to five people, they should be 30 minutes or less. And they should cover three topics. And so those are kind of that's the rule of threes that they're talking about here.

Augusto Pinaud 1:31

Correct. And, you know, I say this reading this and remember my days of middle management. I was laughing at this. And he says yeah, you know, as many things with Steve Jobs,

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Why Context Switching Is Sabotaging Your Productivity (and What You Can Do About It)

Unrushed: How to Feel More Spaciousness in Your Day Instead of Time Scarcity

The Daily Scrum Process for an Entrepreneur

The Rise of Planner Apps. A hybrid to-do list/calendar app making… | by Francesco D'Alessio | Aug, 2021 | Medium

The worst advice about working from home

Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite line with new backlight, bigger screen Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 5 available on October 28thCNN: Europe will require USB-C chargers. Apple isn't happy

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Google Calendar events now include a way to start group chats with attendees

Other News

Here’s everything Microsoft announced at its Surface event How Remote Work Affects Your Productivity And Wellbeing (Backed By Data)4 Things The Most Organized People Do Every DayWhat Are Process Goals? (With Examples)Use the 4-7-8 Method to Fall Asleep Almost Instantly

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

And we're hosts for Anything But Idle. Today is September 27 2021. And this is the episode Google Calendar ads, Google Chat. And so of course, every week we read and cover the news of the week. And we start off with our productivity articles from the blogosphere. Agusta, what is our first article this week.

Augusto Pinaud 0:37

So the first article we have is from make use off and it's titled Why context switching is sabotaging your productivity and what you can do about it. And really what they talk about context switching is fast switching, you know what happened when you're working on something, and then you get a distraction, you get a beeping, you get a notification, and then you move on trying to do the famous multitasking that the only thing that produces multi failure, at least from my experience, but and I agree it's a great article, it's a short article to read. And I love the beginning of the article says When is the last time you get 30 minutes on uninterrupted time. And this is something I work a lot with, with clients, you know, they don't get interrupted time and sometimes our own fault, because instead of having our devices work for us, we tend to work for our devices. Or when you look most people do not have take the time to decide which notifications are important. Which notifications we're really want to get, they just instead open. You know the flow of notifications to anything. I I have said for years, I don't check email on my iPhone, I check email on the iPad, I carry the iPad with me 99% of the time sorry,

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In this Cast | Commentary on Microsoft Surface 8 Special Event

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Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Hello, personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast, of course. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. Couldn't find a button there, and we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 82. Correct me if I'm wrong. So is this episode 8282 82. Look at that. And we're coming to you for a special commentary episode, in response to Microsoft's product event yesterday. And so what we're going to do is we are going to introduce our guest, Art Gelwicks. You know him as the productivity blogger at the idea pump, and he's our friend of the various podcasts, Art Gelwicks. How's it going?

Art Gelwicks 0:47

Hey, guys, I'm getting rained on here right now. But doing well.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:51

Yeah, we can. We can hear that. We can hear the pitter patter.

Art Gelwicks 0:54

It's coming down pretty good. So hopefully it stays on the outside of the house. so

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:00

fantastic. So let's get right into the event. There were supposedly eight product announcements, I tried to capture all of the product announcements, I think I got all eight. And so talk to me about the event. What did you think about the event? What were the things that stood out for you? Initially?

Art Gelwicks 1:18

Well, watching the event I right away, I'll say it was short, from beginning to end. I think the total duration was, what, 45 minutes. So they didn't drag a lot of the stuff out?

Augusto Pinaud 1:30

Well, actually, it was three of the four because the event could have been really

Art Gelwicks 1:39

six. Okay. So yes, that is one of the first takeaways is that, and unfortunately, I don't remember the gentleman's name, but the first speaker does tend to dry out his speech a bit he it, it has a very Bob Ross kind of vibe to the initial part. So

Augusto Pinaud 1:57

I was watching it on YouTube, I couldn't watch it live. And I was doing to x and I came two or three times to check that the 2x was actually working. Yeah, it's

Art Gelwicks 2:06

his his pacing could use a little little bit of a goose up. I mean, when you when you compare it to some of the other events, when you compare it to the Samsung in the apple there there, it was definitely lower key than you would normally expect. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just kind of a thing. So from a messaging standpoint, and a targeting standpoint, they stayed on topic. I mean, they didn't dig into Windows 11, or Microsoft 365, or anything like that. This was a hardware event. And that's what they talked about was hardware.

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Headlines & Show Notes | Microsoft Windows Goes Password-less

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Schedule Time for Self-Reflection

Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: Which Is Better for Productivity?

Why A “Time-Crunched” Mindset Backfires—and How Leaders Avoid It

The New Yorker: The Frustration with Productivity Culture

The Power of Imagination: A Lesson From David Yonggi Cho

Catching the waves of creativity

iPadOS 15 Allows Apps to Use Up to 12GB of RAM on High-End iPad Pro, Up From Just 5GB Apples jab at Chromebooks in their iPad keynote is misleading and a little flatteringNew Microsoft Office is coming: Release date, pricing and major changesNew Microsoft Office 2021 sides on October 5Gaming accessories that can also be productivity accessories from IKEA

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Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac

Featured Story of the Week

Microsoft accounts can go passwordless, making “password123” a thing of the past

Announcements

Microsoft Event: 9/22/21ABI 082 Microsoft Special Event: California Streaming with Art Gelwicks Introducing the GoodNotes Community: A Notes-Sharing Platform to Get Inspired and Study BetteriOS 15, iPadOS 15, TVOS15 and WatchOS 8 released today.Ah Smell the Roses | GTD

Other News

Kobo Forma is on sale for $219 in the US4 Remote Work Lessons to Boost Your Productivity in the Future TooGmail Material You redesign widely rolling out on Android [Updated]151 productivity apps for remote work

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode us at 1081. On September 20 2021, Microsoft goes Microsoft Windows goes password lists, and of course the productivity and technology news this week. Each week, we bring you the productivity blogosphere news first and then we go into our productivity technology headlines. And so Okay, so let's get into our headlines for the first part of the show. What productivity article Do we have up first?

Augusto Pinaud 0:46

So the first article we're going to discuss is scheduled time from self reflection from ions, messy desk, and I told you it was the beginning, we talked about this show and I talked relentlessly about self care. And I mentioned self care consistently. And this is what this article is, you know, take an honest look at the search and questions How do we feel about today, what I have achieved, what I have enjoyed what I have done, to look after me what I have done anything that I regret, what I have thrown my values, and I have been myself, and it is really,

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Michael Sliwinski

Michael is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, Nozbe Teams - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe Teams and Nozbe are web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

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Hello, productivity, personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today we are going to do a commentary on the apple a special event California stream, and it's going to be me, it has to be not. And also we are going to have our apple expert and friend, Michael solinsky. Michael, it is the a no have nots. B is a productivity guy. He is the founder of nurse B and not B teams. They are functional to do app for small and medium teams. The project management now is a project management and collaboration tool for busy professional both not B and not B teams are web based tools for all major platforms. Michael is also speaker, author, and a few bestselling books podcaster on a blogger, and he's happily married to his wife, Elena has three daughters. So welcome, Michael. Hi. Hi, I think so we can make that shorter. Yeah, I

Michael Sliwinski 1:07

need to shorten it down. Yeah. So I'm happy to be here. And I'm happy to be you know, talking about iPhones and the new gadgets that are coming. So we'll talk about all that. Yeah, I'm a big apple enthusiast. I think I give Apple too much money. Hopefully, hopefully, it's being offset by the fact that people are getting our nose be apps on the iPhone and they, you know, pay us this way. So maybe this will fund my, you know, gadgetry.

Augusto Pinaud 1:40

Hey, that's that's that's the life. So we need to continue to figure out ways to continue doing that. So let's begin with what was your full impression of the show before we get into the details of all the offerings and what they see what you thought about the show.

Michael Sliwinski 1:59

So I mean, the show was, you know, full of California. And, and but the most important thing, I think was the fact that they were not really major upgrades to the, you know, to the phones and to the watches and to anything apart from the mini, because mania was really a big a big, big jump. But apart from that there were just small upgrades. But it all, like we'll talk about that. But there were like all small upgrades in many small places, which make the whole experience of the device just significantly better. Like every every year, so every year,

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Headlines & Show Notes | Can Google do Everything?

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Google Calendar will break down how much of your work is spent in meetings

How to measure productivity

Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk - GeekWire

The Framework Laptop is the future of laptops — and that’s why I’m buying one

Lenovo is rebooting its Chromebook Duet with a 13.3 ... - The Verge

Here's how you can install Cursive – Google's new note taking app – right now

Google One adds a 5TB storage plan for $24.99 per month

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Featured Story of the Week

Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displaysGoogle’s rename of ‘Rooms’ in Chat and Gmail to ‘Spaces’ is now underwayGoogle Workspace goes all-in on hybrid work with Playspace acquisition | Android CentralThe Gmail app takes calls now, too, because Google wants it to do everything - The VergeGoogle debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode' | VentureBeat

Announcements

Apple Event: California Streaming on 9/14/21ABI 080 Apple Special Event: California Streaming with Michael SliwinskiMicrosoft Event: 9/22/21ABI 082 Microsoft Special Event: California Streaming with Art Gelwicks Locast Shutting Down After Losing Court Battle With TV Networks

Other News

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 131 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Google brings Samsung 5G modem tech to U.S. market with new Pixel phone -sources | ReutersMicrosoft acquires video-editing software start-up ClipchampApple CSAM controversy continues; Snowden chimes inAsana beats expectations for Q2, reports record revenue | ZDNetApple announces first states for Wallet drivers licenses, IDsMozilla wants to make its password manager obsolete with Firefox 93 Beta (APK Download)Notion acquires India’s Automate.io in push to accelerate product expansion – TechCrunchGoogle Drive rolls out a nifty feature for offline access to everyone | Android CentralGoogle search is finally officially getting dark mode on desktopWinZip is expanding its roster of Windows productivity apps in a big way | Windows CentralSwiftKey's latest beta works a lot faster with ... - Android Policehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/upshot/the-winners-of-remote-work.htmlYahoo Finance: Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams features to deal with the hybrid work explosion

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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Headlines & Show Notes | Introducing... Release Notes

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TestFlight 3.2 beta - Aug 24

Use the beta version of TestFlight for Mac to test your Mac apps. You can invite registered Apple developers to download this beta version and use it to test your apps on macOS Monterey beta 5. We’d also appreciate your feedback on TestFlight for Mac, which you can provide through Feedback Assistant.

Asana

Company Goals tab: The Goals view now contains two tabs: Company Goals and Team Goals. View your company’s mission and goals, choose which team Goals you want to view, and filter by goal owner or status.Easy access to Do Not Disturb on Desktop: Stay in flow while working on Asana’s Desktop app by accessing Do Not Disturb settings from the upper righthand corner. Multi-select tasks on iOS: Multi-select tasks and perform bulk actions like updating due dates and custom fields from your My Tasks on iOS. Get Asana for iOSNew Academy course: Asana for Admins: Our new course in the Asana Academy helps Asana Admins manage their organization’s account with more ease and control.

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Google Tasks and Microsoft To Do Integration

Extensive integration with two of the most popular task managers: Google Tasks and Microsoft To Do. This version adds new action steps which can create individual tasks, or add each line of draft as a task, to lists in either Google Tasks or Microsoft To Do.

Evernote

Announcing the filtered notes widget - Aug 24

A new widget that unlocks Home for many power users like you and a recap of the recent features we’ve rolled out that will help you do more of the things that matter most.

Zapier

Timing Timing is an automatic time tracking app for macOS. With it, you can get a full overview of your productivity, see what you worked on and when, then review your time whenever you like. Learn more about using Zapier and Timing together.

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:13

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 78. And we're recording this for September 6 2021. Introducing release notes. So of course each week, Augusto Pinaud, and I review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. But this week, we're taking off for the US Labor Day holiday. And so instead, we're covering notable productivity software releases over the past month as an introduction to a new segment we're going to be doing in our regular shows that we're going to be c...

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In this Cast | Microsoft Ends Chromebook Support for Office Android Apps, Back to School

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Dr. Frank Buck.

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019, 2020, and 2021. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

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Going back to the office means giving up lucrative WFH side hustles for many employees

Remote Work May Now Last for Two Years, Worrying Some Bosses

10 aspects of remote work employers and employees disagree on | Entertainment News | wfmz.com

How 3 Small Businesses Create Culture in a Remote-Work World

Did Google Discover The Secret to Making a Dream Team?

T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Apple TV Plus

Zoom Updated With 'Raise Hand' and 'Thumbs Up' Gesture Recognition on iPad

Work management platform Trello introduces no-code automation features | VentureBeat

Google Tasks is about to make it even easier to sort through your most important to-dos

Microsoft Teams will no longer see any updates on iOS 13 or older | TechRadar

Google Podcasts web app now syncs your Queue and listening progress across devices

Introducing Canvas for Zoho CRM, the CRM design studio. - Zoho Blog

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Semantic Scholar

Twelve South HoverBar Duo for iPad / iPad Pro/Tablets | Adjustable Arm with Weighted Base and Surface Clamp Attachments for Mounting iPad

Hemingway Editor

This Week's Theme... back to School

Featured Story of the Week

Microsoft is killing its Office app on Chromebooks

Microsoft ending Chromebook support for Office Android apps in September (Update: Google statement added)

Other News

CloudReady v92.3 now available!

Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant - The Verge

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 77. for August 30 2021. Microsoft ends Chromebook support for office Android apps, back to school, and more productivity and technology news this week. Of course, each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And to do that this week,

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'Workcations' Are a Total Scam

CNBC: Here's how the best teams run their meetings, according to a CEO who is 'obsessed with productivity'

Eliminate The “30, 60 And 90” Tradition To Increase Productivity, Sanity And Time

Survey: 90% of Americans Want Less Meetings at Work to Enhance Productivity

This Is Why You Think Procrastination Is Beyond Your Control - The Good Men Project

What Is the Flowtime Technique? How to Boost Your Productivity With It

Zoom Gains Focus Mode to Help Reduce Distractions in Virtual Classrooms

Comment: Samsung and Google’s new Wear OS gives the Apple Watch much-needed competition

Google Lens for Desktop takes a cue from Android by adding region search capabilities

Microsoft Teams update eliminates a major productivity killer | TechRadar

MindNode's Outlining Feature Now on iPhone and iPad

Computerworld: The best new Chrome OS feature you aren't yet using

Productivity Resource of the Week

Snapseed - Apps on Google Play (August 23)

Pixelmator Pro

Featured Story of the Week

Google Tasks redesign adds tabs to let you quickly switch lists on Android iOS

Other News

Firefox 91 Update Strengthens Online Privacy With Enhanced Cookie Protection Google will not include a charger with the Pixel 6, following Apple and Samsung Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 130 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements New YouTube Music, Google Maps apps for Wear OS won’t be released on older watchesHow to Compare Documents in Google DocsFacebooks updated data transfer tool can port events to Google CalendarCould desk‑scaping boost your productivity? - ShinyShinyHow to be an effective leader according to Googles classic questionnaireThe Verge: T-Mobile data breach exposed the personal info of more than 47 million peopleThe Washington Post: The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom, a game-changer for the economy

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 76. On August 23 2021, Google tasks redesigned and productive uses of photography, plus the productivity and technology news this week. Welcome to you who are watching us live. And of course, welcome to those of you who are listening to the podcast or watching video after the fact. So each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And so we are going to cover the productivity art...

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The end of the office

The Top 9 Ways to Boost Productivity With a Smartphone

Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money

4 Things to Do When You Feel Burned Out And Tired of Life

How To Maintain Psychological Safety In A Hybrid Workplace

Psychological Safety Scoring Method for Teams: Psychological safety

Want to Wake Up Early? Don’t Make It a Habit | by Nir Eyal | Aug, 2021 | Forge

Apple Introducing New Child Safety Features, Including Scanning Users' Photo Libraries for Known Sexual Abuse Material

Apple will scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imageryCraig Federighi Acknowledges Confusion Around Apple Child Safety Features and Explains New Details About Safeguards

The new Parallels 17 officially lets you run Windows 11 on your Mac

Parallels 17 Brings Windows 11 and macOS Monterey Virtualization Support, Improved Graphics, M1 Optimizations, and More

Looks like we're finally getting a high-end Android tablet that's not from Samsung

Lenovo Tab P12 Pro to feature SD 855 SoC 8 GB RAM

WhatsApp gets new ‘View Once’ option for sending photos and videos that disappear after opened

HP announces new detachable and all-in-one Chrome OS computers

The Verge: Google Meet users have more options to add co-hosts, limit screen sharing, and mute others

Productivity Resource of the Week

AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running

Game Pigeon

Featured Story of the Week

‘Cursive’ is Google’s new PWA for notes on Chromebooks - 9to5Google

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 75. for August 16 2021, the show entitled Google cursive for notes on Chromebooks Take a chill pill, and more productivity and technology news this week. So just as a note for everybody, we are rearranging the episodes a bit going forward. In case you notice things are a bit different than usual, we're hoping this new agenda will be more useful and entertaining to the live show viewers and podcast listeners alike. In essence, we're still testing. But generally, we'll be covering our stories of the week in two segments going forward, kind of flipping it, we'll do our articles from the productivity blogosphere, periodicals and news media first,

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Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:07I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:09And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 74. The commentary episode, our special commentary episode on the Samsung Galaxy unpacked August the 11th event, and we're recording this on August 12 2021. Of course each week, we read and review and discuss the productivity and related technology news headlines of the week. But when major productivity and related technology if that's happened, of course, we bring you these special commentary episodes to give you the latest on what's happening. And so today, we've brought you brought a special guest to do our special commentary episode. And we have Art Gelwicks Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump.com and host of the being productive podcast, cross Platform Podcast, of course, he joins the gousto myself and Francis Wade each week on ProductivityCast. Welcome to Anything But Idle art. Hey, guys,

Art Gelwicks 1:03if they keep doing these unpack things, I'm just going to have you introduce me as Mr. Samsung. We'll just go with that.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:12Yes, so we had an a packed unpacked event yesterday. And let's get started with the show. Augusto, what did you think about the show in terms of its production value and your overall impression? And we'll go from there,

Augusto Pinaud 1:29you know, I've been saying on the last shows that Samsung has been grabbing the apple playbook and copying it. And I will say on this one, maybe even improve it in the sense that they are not secretive. I mean, there was nothing that came on the show that we're saying who Wow, we did not expect this one. No, not really. We knew almost every detail. But they came organize. They came with message, the clear message they wanted to send for product that people at least the geeks had already chance to look and to think and to read. So that also allow people to be more focused on ...

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Headlines & Show Notes | Google Meet is now a Progressive Web App and Left-Handed Productivity.

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Left Handed vs Right Handed Productivity

Hands-on: You can now run Windows 365 on iPad, and Microsoft even has an app for it

This is the Pixel 6

Google Slides Sheets and Drawings add Smart Compose to make commenting faster

Hands on Review of the iReader XS Kindle Oasis Killer

Google gently pushes Apple to adopt RCS by pointing out the poor security of SMS fallback

Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes | TNW

Wellbeing support boosts productivity, survey finds | David Sapsted | Relocate magazine

Bill Gates Always Reads Before Bed. Science Suggests You Should Too

How To Set Weekly Goals To Change Your Life

5 Simple Steps to Creating a Productive Daily Schedule

More Flexibility with Your Work Schedule? One Challenge No One Has Mentioned.

7 charts Asana customers love to use for real-time insights

7 Tactics For Dealing With Annoying Coworkers Who Talk Too Much

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

Amazon.com : Lapdesk Left Handed NNEWVANTE Adjustable Laptop Table for Bed Breakfast Serving Tray Fold Flat w' Tilting Top Drawer Leg Lock : Office Products

Intolive-live Wallpapers

Featured Story of the Week

Google Meet is now a progressive web application making it easier to access

Announcements

Anything but Idle 074: Galaxy Unboxed with Art Gelwicks on Thursday at 6:00pm

Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App

Other News

Episode #117: David Allen interviewed by Doug Goldstein

Podcast #729: How to Fight Internet-Induced Numbness

Amazon acknowledges 3G Kindle shutdown offers new incentives to upgrade

Google remembers Voice exists adds new missed call and caller ID features

How-To Geek: What Is Google Tensor, and Why Is Google Making its Own Processor?

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 73. Google meat is now a progressive web app and left handed productivity. We're recording this on August 9 2021. And of course, each week we cover and discuss the productivity news headlines of the week. But of course, to start us off, we usually have a little theme that we discussed before we get in...

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In this Cast | Apple Shipping more tablets than anyone, and Enhancing Productive Output…With a Beer (or Two)

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Headlines & Show Notes | Apple Shipping more tablets than anyone, and Enhancing Productive Output…With a Beer (or Two)

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Google Tasks comes to more Workspace tiers to increase user productivity

EasyBusy: Drastically Improve Your Productivity the Fun Way! by EasyBusy LLC — Kickstarter

Gboard's clipboard suggestions are getting smarter and smarter — They automatically detect links, dates, times, and numbers

Google Chrome to get built-in desktop screenshot tool w/ Lens support

Why People Like Working From Home

Is Notification Overload Reducing Productivity?

The People Who’d Rather Quit Than Give Up Remote Work

The 10 Best Tools to Stay Mentally Sharp at Work

New Tools of the Week

Untappd – Drink Socially – Free iOS and Android App

Drizly

Smart Launcher 5

Featured Story of the Week

Apple Shipped More Tablets Than Samsung and Amazon Did Combined Last Quarter

Announcements

Security update for Drive (Thank Dr. Frank Buck for sending email)

Password management platform 1Password raises $100M as business booms

WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One | TechCrunch

Automattic, owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com, buys podcast app Pocket Casts - The Verge

x.ai (standalone) scheduling tool is shutting down

Other News

R2-D2 is officially a Tamagotchi digital pet now, two decades too late

7 Best Goal Planners To Get in 2021

Google remembers Voice exists, adds new missed call and caller ID features - The Verge

Chromebooks dominate worldwide PC market with 75% annual growth: Lenovo led the total PC market, with growth of 23% and 24.7 million units shipped.

Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED

Employees want more AI to boost productivity, study finds | VentureBeat

Revealing Signs Your Employee is Suffering from Job Burnout

Apple’s return-to-office plans may not reflect new reality, say academics

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 72. And it is August 2 2021. Apple is shipping more tablets than anyone and enhancing productive output with a beer or two, we're going to discuss that we're recording this, as I said on August 2 2021. And each week, we read and review the productivity and technology news and articles of the week. And to do that this week, we've invited Art Gelwicks.

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In this Cast | Verizon Is Switching to RCS, and Helping Parents Be More Productive

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Headlines & Show Notes | Verizon Is Switching to RCS, and Helping Parents Be More Productive

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How being a parent appears to harm your productivity, when it's actually doing the opposite — BeingDads; Can I Be a Good Parent and a Productive Person?

Parents Share Their Productivity Tips For Home Working With Children

Apple Music's Spatial Audio Feature Doesn't Work With Built-In Speakers of iPhone XR, iPad, or iPad mini

Zoom introduces third-party apps for meetings and new Events feature

Zoom added games to play during meetings. Here's how to do itZoom it is getting Games

Google Tasks is easily the most underrated Google app | Android Central

Microsoft Teams users are set for a serious productivity boost | TechRadar

Google's Redesigned Universal Emojis Are Coming to Android Gmail and Chrome OS

Amazon Pharmacy

The Plan vs. The Day

Google (GOOGL) Wants Employees To Return To Office Despite Productivity Gains - Bloomberg

Google Wants Workers To Return To The Office Ahead Of Schedule: This Looks Like A Blow To The Remote-Work Trend (April 2021)Google wants employees to return to the office, despite increased productivity from working from home

What type of personal assistant should you use?

The Toxic Culture of Self-Help

New Tools of the Week

Productivity Timer: Work for 30 Minutes, Play for 5 Minutes -- A Fun and Effective Pomodoro Routine by Abergel Learn more:

Air fly by TwelveSouth

Featured Story of the Week

Verizon is also switching to Android Messages as default for RCSAll Three Major U.S. Carriers and Google Adopt Rich Communication Services, But No Sign of Apple Interest

Announcements

Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked is happening online on August 11th Coda Raises 100 MillionGoogle Fixed issue bricking Chrome OS Devices

Other News

Podcast app Pocket Casts acquired by WordPress․com owner Automattic Sold out: Some Steam Deck preorders won’t ship until September 2022 Apple releases Safari Technology Preview 128 with updated tab interface "Backup by Google One" Is Google's New Unified Android Backup SystemGoogle Drive rolling out the ability to block users that share spam [Updated]

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 71. Verizon is switching to RCS thank God and helping parents be more productive. We're recording this on July 26 2021. And so welcome to those of you who are joining us live. And of course,

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In this Cast | Microsoft Windows in the Cloud, How to Treat Yourself Effectively, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

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Headlines & Show Notes | Microsoft Windows in the Cloud, How to Treat Yourself Effectively, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

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Apple and Samsung laptops leading global growth, says Trendforce

Ring's end-to-end encryption rolls out globally

All the Features Worth Knowing About in the New Google Drive for Windows and Mac Valve takes on the Nintendo Switch with its own portable gaming PC

Is It Really Possible to Have a Four Day Workweek?

Survey: Nearly Half of Business Owners Say Remote Work Is Hurting Productivity

What To Do When An Important Team Member Quits Or Goes On Leave

Virgin Galactic has opened a sweepstakes offering a trip to space

New Tools of the Week

tl;dv - Welcome to the new meeting culture.

Jump Desktop

Featured Story of the Week

The Verge: Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365Microsoft unveils Windows 365, a Windows 10 PC in the cloud

Other News

New GTD partners in five countries - Getting Things Done®It's time to end the 40-hour workweekAT&T says it will bring mmWave 5G to seven US airports this yearChrome Tab Groups and Bookmarks may become one and the same which makes senseGoogle is capping Meets formerly unlimited group video calls to an hour for free accountsClubhouse Partners With TED to Release App-Exclusive TalksChrome OS Files app will soon be able to open .7z .iso .tgz and other archivesGoogle Keep will now let you use designer-created background images for your notesNew e-paper is as color-rich as LCD and feels like E InkThe New Doodle: Scheduling made easy - Doodle Blog Hello from the new Toodledo team! | Toodledo Blog Apple is working on Apple Pay Later to help you buy things without paying for them yetChromium OS Integrates CloudReady Installer

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 70. Can't believe it's 70 episodes in Microsoft Windows in the cloud and how to treat yourself effectively. We're recording this on July 20 2021. And so welcome to those of you who are watching live. For those of you who are watching after the fact Hello as well on the podcast or on video streams. Each week, we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And to do that this week, we have invited Art Gelwicks Art Gelwicks a, you know as the productivity collaboration consultant blogger at th...

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Google Drive for Desktop Gets an Upgrade, The Power of Simplicity and the Productivity and Technology News This Week

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In this Cast | Google Drive for Desktop Gets an Upgrade and The Power of Simplicity

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Google Drive for Desktop Gets an Upgrade and The Power of Simplicity

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Facebook to launch its own podcast platform next week

Amazon Appstore copies Apple’s Small Business Program – with a twist

Microsofts new Office UI now available for testers

Google Home gets redesigned Wi-Fi Devices tab w/ old Wifi app features [Update: iOS]

Best Collaboration Tools for Business

6 new features on Android this summer

The [Checklist] Method: How to Supercharge Your Life

The Paradox of Motivation

How Kickstarter's 4-Day Week Can Improve Work-Life Balance and Output

Clinging to an 8-hour workday? Research suggests 5 hours is better | The Seattle Times

How to Have a Productive Week

Five Stages of Working With Accountability Partners

Penny Zenker, Priority and Decision-making Research (The Priority Report)

Penny Zenker is a focusologist, international speaker, business strategy coach and best-selling author.

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

Reclaim

Clockwise

FE File Explorer for iOS

Featured Story of the Week

Google Drive for Desktop adds Google Photos upload and multi-account switching

New Google Drive for desktop app w/ Photos starts rolling out - 9to5Google

Other News

Home Working Is Here to Stay, Survey of U.K. Companies Shows - Bloomberg

Loom And Trello: Add Video To Asynchronous Work

New Day at Amazon as Bezos Officially Steps Down

Andy Jassy officially takes over as Amazon CEO from Jeff Bezos

Google Chat will now automatically suggest quick sync groups based on your Calendar

5 Most Effective Ways to Overcome Procrastination while Working from Home

A Wholesome Approach Against Procrastination

Chrome is taking steps to untangle your sacred bookmarks from the Reading list

The 12 Best Deep Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web

The Cure for Burnout

Onyx Boox Nova Air is going to be released soon

Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter work week. The results will (not) shock you.

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. And I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

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Managing Your Photos, Elon Musk on Starlink and the Productivity and Technology News This Week

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In this Cast | Managing your Photos and Elon Musk on Starlink

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Managing your Photos and Elon Musk on Starlink

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Lenovo Announces Five New Tablets at MWC 2021

Parallels to bring Windows 11 to Macs - 9to5Mac

AT&T joins T-Mobile in switching all Android phones to Googles Messages app for RCS

Galaxy MWC Virtual Event Official Replay | Samsung

Remote Work Is the New Signing Bonus

I Conquered My Snooze Button. And It Changed My Life

The Practice of Truly Enjoying Time Off

Past Present and Future: Use Time Perspectives to Live Better

The genius of subtracting habits: To make your life better try less before more

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Reflect

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Elon Musk discuss Starlink Internet at MWC 2021 - Livestream

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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 127 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

The 18 best motivational podcasts that could change your life

iOS 15 beta hands-on: A surprisingly complete preview

Clutter, clarity, and chronic illness: Marie Kondo-ing my kitchen - The Counter

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:13

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And we're hosts for Anything But Idle. Today's episode is number 68. Elan musk on starlink at Mobile World Congress, managing your photos and more productivity and technology news this week. We're recording this on July 5 2020. And so those of you who are celebrating Independence Day today or yesterday, Happy Independence Day or Fourth of July for those of us who colloquially call it the day in which we celebrate. But yeah, each week, we review and discuss the productivity technology news headlines of the week. And to do that, we usually kick it off with a theme of some kind. And so what I thought we would do this week is talk about managing your photos. And today, I mean, everybody has a pretty decent camera in their pocket, and everybody has a cell phone, and or most people have cell phones today. And that means that we take a voluminous amount of photographs. And like everything in our lives, kind of akin to how GTD talks about consistent management of these areas of our world, right consistent capture consistent clarifying, consistent organizing, we have to sort of think about consistently managing all these different areas of our world. And I think photos is one of them, where these were memories like precious memories that that potentially could be lost, or just, you know, mismanaged in ways that allow you not to find it. And I'm really curious about ways in which you think of these. So people should think about photo management and managing thei...

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In this Cast | Windows 11, Being Flexible and Productive

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Headlines & Show Notes | Windows 11, Being Flexible and Productive

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Telegram for iOS updated with group video calls, screen sharing, animated backgrounds, more

Save the Files You Need More Easily With Import Folders

Your recently closed Tab Groups in Chrome will soon appear in Tab Search for easy access

Google Contacts rolling out new people pages optimized for Workspace

Is Your Desk Holding Back Your Productivity?

These 3 Superpowers I Learned From Working with Beyoncé Supercharged My Productivity

Americans aren't just quitting they are retiring at record rates too

New Tools of the Week

Shortcutter (Android)

Paprika App

Featured Story of the Week

Microsoft unveils Windows 11 with macOS-style Dock, new commission-free app store, more 5 really exciting new features in Microsoft’s boring Windows 11 update Android Apps Are Coming to Windows 11

Other News

Apple Lowers Prices of AppleCare+ Plans for M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Apple WWDC21 - Sketchnote Summary 🖌 Todoist Experimental FeaturesHow Evernote built its to-do list feature — and why it took a decadeGoogle Chat gains improved search functionality with interactive filter chipsHow to Use Zoom on Your Amazon Echo Show🌎 🏝 9 facts & myths about remote work (on Nozbe blog) Ethical Anti-Design: The Road to No-Nonsense Productivity

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I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. Today's episode is episode number 67. Windows 11 being flexible and productive and more productivity and technology news this week, we're recording this on June 28 2021. Each week, we read and review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And we'll usually start that off with a little bit of a discussion around a theme. And I just pulled from last week that this last week, we had international Yoga Day. And so I figured we could talk about flexibility and productivity, how to be flexible and productive. And so to start things off with gusto, I just wanted to kind of pick your brain on what you think about having, say, slack in your personal productivity system, how do you create a little bit of kind of elasticity in your personal productivity system so that you can stay on track even when things you know have given given take on either end of projects?

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Okay, I'm going to ask Curiously, since I was going to ask you to answer in a completely different way. But, you know,

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In this Cast | Google Workspace for All

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Headlines & Show Notes | Google Workspace for All

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Microsofts new Fluid Office documents are coming to life in Teams OneNote and moreSnap removes speed filter linked to reckless driving lawsuitsGoogle Meet turns on noise cancellation for more users by default to reduce distractionsKrisp (premium noise cancellation software)Google Chrome Will Return to Showing Full URLsFaceTime on iOS 15 Alerts You If You Try to Talk While Muted Asana adds video messaging because this meeting could've been an email Qatalog: Productivity software overload is killing workers’ productivityRemote Work Is Changing the Way We Do Our Jobs—For the Better Spin SucksFocus Mode and Contextual ComputingA Common Mistake in Weekly Reviews Productivity startup Time is Ltd. raises $5.6M to be the Google Analytics for company timeGmail Templates | HTML Email Templates | How to Set up Email Templates in Gmail - cloudHQGrammarlyGoogle Workspace soon to be available to everyone via an individual subscription

Extra News

CloudReady v90.1 now available! Microsoft Viva InsightsWhat Is the Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox?Google Meet is adding a Companion Mode to help with hybrid work meeting equityMicrosoft Edge Beta Is Coming to Android

Announcement

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast today shows brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:11And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:12And we're hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 66 Google workspace for all National Safety month and more personal productivity and technology news this week, and we're recording this on June 21 2021. Each week, we read and review the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And this week, we are going to start off the show with a theme as we always do, this week's theme is going to be all about safety first, because it is National Safety month. And I thought it'd be interesting for us to talk about what safety is and how we think about safety in the context of productivity. And so I will start off with the fact that humans are risk taking creatures that's actually really good for our productivity, we have become not apex predators, but we certainly have become, you know, top or near top of the food chain on the planet, because of the fact that we are risks risk taking creatures, but we do that within a sense of calculated risk. And so like thinking about this, the reason why children actually grew up to be like, balanced individuals is because they take a little bit of risk. And then they look back at their mom and dad. And they they see that their safety, and we call that psychological safety,

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In this Cast | Notion Synced Blocks, How the Outdoors Impacts Your Productivity

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Headlines & Show Notes | Notion Synced Blocks, How the Outdoors Impacts Your Productivity

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Facetime on the Browser

iOS 15: Here’s everything new in FaceTime

New for Pixel: Starry night clips, Pride wallpapers and more

Chrome will soon let you perform a Privacy review similar to its Safety check

Chromebook notifications to be reworked with intelligent grouping and new UI

Google Duplex expands its usefulness by letting you book restaurants on your Nest Hub

Google Meets video backgrounds begin rolling out to web and mobile

Disconnect between workers and leaders about returning to the office

🏝 🌎 Why Nozbe has no office and how we work (on Nozbe blog)

Hybrid work model: The psychology behind leaders resisting it | Fortune

Jeff Bezos reveals he has a very surprising morning routine

The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon

Less distraction more focus: Introducing new features designed to help you align attention with intention

872 Ways to Improve Productivity - Business 2 Community

Taking to Task with Francis Wade

Francis Wade is the author of Perfect Time-Based Productivity and the host of the upcoming Task Management and Time Blocking Virtual Summit in March 2020. He has lived in Kingston, Jamaica since 2005 and is an avid content creator, newspaper columnist and cyclist.

New Tools of the Week

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Notions New Synced Blocks Feature is a Gamechanger

Announcements

Microsoft to unveil redesigned Windows 10 later this month - The software giant today announced that it would be taking the wraps off this Windows 10 redesign at a virtual event on June 24.

Apple releases iOS 12.5.4 for older iPhones with ‘important security updates’

CrossPlatform Podcast with Augusto Pinaud & Art Gelwicks. Live on YouTube every Thursday at 4:00pm EST.Extra things and more on PersonalProductivity.Club and your favorite podcast platform.

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iCloud+ to Let iCloud Mail Users Personalize Their Email Domain Name Microsoft Outlook on iOS adds voice dictation for emails, search and calendar invites Google Photos starts rolling out advanced photo and video editors on iOSWacom adds Intuos Drawing Tablet to Works with Chromebook lineup

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The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon

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In this Cast | Commentary on Apple WWDC 2021 Event

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Augusto Pinaud

Michael Sliwinski, Nozbe CEO

Michael is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, Nozbe Teams - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe Teams and Nozbe are web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community, welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:14

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17

And we're on camera now, and welcome to Anything But Idle. This is Episode 64. And we're recording this on June 8 2021, in honor of the Apple Worldwide developer conference that is ongoing for 2021. The keynote was yesterday. And so we are doing our commentary episode, a special episode today to do that. And of course to do that we are bringing back on the show, Michael Sliwinski . He is a productivity guy. He's the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps Nozbe teams and Uber functional to do app for small business and medium teams, and Nozbe a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe teams and Nozbe are web based tools with apps for all the major platforms. If you can think of the the OS there's an app for it. Michael is also a speaker, author of best selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He's happily married to his wife Evelina, and they have three daughters. Welcome to Anything But Idle Michael.

Michael Sliwinski 1:13

Hi, thanks for having me again.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:15

Yes, welcome back, as always to talk about Apple all things Apple, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna sit back and let you to take over the show at essence. So So talk to me, what what did you feel like was good about the show this time around about the keynote? What was the biggest thing that kind of stood out for you in Apple's WWDC keynote,

Michael Sliwinski 1:38

I think the biggest thing as a theme is that they kind of caught up with the pandemic. And with us working from home and being from home, like all the improvements to FaceTime all these, you know, sharing and all that stuff, like all these improvements, is they like, they were kind of, you know, kind of a late response to what happened the previous year, I mean, it's better late than never, because I hope this will be this will mean that people who will be working from home and will stay working from home or in hybrid mode will have just better tools. So, for me, this was like, the main theme, and this was like the main show, you know,

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In this Cast | Evernote Tasks and Moving Productively

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Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

Headlines & Show Notes | Evernote Tasks and Moving Productively

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How To Declutter When You Move

Chrome OS may be going back to a smaller app launcher design that resembles the origina

Google Messages integration on your Chromebook just got a new namel

The upcoming ASUS Chromebook CX9 will feature an industry first for Chrome OS

Amazon Echo Security Features for When You Leave Home

Hands on Review of the Smartbook V5 Color e-note

Gmail for Android iOS now lets you quickly change your Google profile picture

“Software is eating the world, and cars are next on the menu.”

Mobile Technology and Home Broadband 2021

15% of US adults are now mobile-only internet users – Pew Research

Why Emotionally Intelligent Minds Embrace the Rule of 'Writing in Reverse' | Inc.com

Use These New Google Calendar Features to Optimize Your Remote Work Hours

Can a no meeting policy work for you? | HR Morning

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

NAIC Launches Home Inventory App

Amazon Alexa

Featured Story of the Week

Evernote launches Tasks feature on iOS and Mac to help boost your productivity

Evernote Mac and Windows Video

Announcements

Anything but Idle 064: Commenting on WWDC with Michael Sliwinski at 12 noon on June 8.

What can I gain with Jeff Siegel and Augusto Pinaud on Personal Productivity Club

Asana Focus and Flow Summit - June 9th 2021

Microsoft to unveil redesigned Windows 10 later this month - The software giant today announced that it would be taking the wraps off this Windows 10 redesign at a virtual event on June 24.

Other News

Google Cemetery — Learn from Google's 100+ biggest failures

Nearby Share arrives as Chrome OS 91 begins rolling out

How to Find the Best Online Prices Using Microsoft Edge

For Better Video Calls — Lean Back! | by Rafi T | ILLUMINATION | Jun, 2021 | Medium

Scribd is now available on Apple Watch

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. Today is June 7 2021. This is Episode 63 Evernote tasks and moving productively. As you can imagine,

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Headlines & Show Notes | What Have You Been Reading Lately?

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Lossless Streaming and HD Streaming

Apple Music adding lossless streaming to entire catalog at no extra cost, Spatial Audio support with Dolby Atmos Amazon Music Unlimited plans now include HD streaming at no extra cost

Big changes to 1Password in the browser: biometric unlock, dark mode, and a new save experience

Microsoft will truly, finally kill off Internet Explorer in June 2022

Zoom Adds Support for Center Stage

New iPad Pro Updates! Stay in Frame as You Zoom, See More People in Gallery View Zoom Adds Support for iPad Pro's New Center Stage Feature

Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities - Apple

Kobo's 10.3-inch Elipsa is the company's biggest e-reader to date | Engadget

Google Docs now supports placing images above and behind text

Microsoft Teams Is Now Available for Personal UseMicrosoft Teams Launches For Friends and Family With Free All-Day Video Calling

The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time

10 Signs of a Toxic Workplace - The Good Men Project

The Secret to Managing Your Schedule isnt about Your Calendar

Study Shows People Working From Home Are Having Sex, Dating, Taking Naps And Doing Side Hustles On Company Time

WeWork's CEO said people who are most comfortable working from home are the 'least engaged' with their job

Building an infinite canvas for your thoughts with Julia Pierce, Director at Scapple

New Tools of the Week

Google Cultural Institute

DarkNoise

Featured Story of the Week

You can now quickly present Google Docs Sheets and Slides to ongoing Meet calls

Announcements

What can I Gain? With Augusto Pinaud and Jeff Siegel. Come and explore this question from the health and fitness as well as productivity perspective.

Other News

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 125 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements OF 4 for iOS and iPadOSNew Pixel 6 leaks reveal big changes Google is about to make For the first time I was able to call my 23-year-old son Used Windows 10 on my new 12.9 iPad (2021) Google wants to help automatically fix your compromised passwords with Duplexhttps://www.droid-life.com/2021/05/12/a-samsung-galaxy-watch-4-running-wear-os-they-keep-saying/Slate is launching an audiobook storeMicrosoft starts rolling out its Webinars feature in Teams | ZDNethttps://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-its-webinars-feature-in-teams/Windows Built-in Ransomware BlockerGoogle Chrome is bringing back RSS feedsThis is Microsoft’s vision for the future of meetingsTo-Do List, Reminders and Calendar Apps to Help You RememberReclaim just raised $4.8M in seed funding!How to Sync Todoist With Google CalendarGoogles Fuchsia OS will officially roll out to first-gen Nest Hubs soonSlack is fixing one of its most irritating featuresSamsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE unveiled — and it undercuts new iPad Pro | Tom's Guide

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Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Google hits the highlights of its I/O keynote in official 9-minute recap [Video]

Google I/O 2021: Being helpful in moments that matter

Google Assistant adds Your apps settings menu for Android

Google I/O Keynote shows Chromebook Phone Hub getting a great new feature

Google Unveils Smart Canvas a Fusion of Docs Sheets and Slides

Google Workspace introduces Smart Canvas features to radically transform collaboration

Google Workspace turns to ‘smart chips’ to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together

Googles new Material You design language is coming to Chromebooks too

Google I/O 2021: 9 new Chromebook features on the way

Whats New in Chrome OS at Google I/O makes a great case for developing for Chromebooks

What Googles renewed interest in Wear OS and its Fitbit acquisition mean for you and your data

Google Is Fixing Wear OS by Merging It With Samsung Tizen

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:02

Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:14

I am Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:15

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 61. We're recording this on May 24. And we're calling it Google IO 2021 conference commentary or commentary on the Google IO 2021 conference. So welcome, everybody. And we are going to in lieu of our normal covering all of the stories we cover each week in the productivity and technology news space, we're gonna actually just do Monday morning quarterbacking of the of the IO conference today. And to do that we have brought Art Gelwicks, to join us to do that show. And so Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the ideapump.com, so you should check out the ideapump.com . He's also the host of the being productive podcast, as well as he joins us on ProductivityCast each week. And so welcome to Anything But Idle.

Art Gelwicks 1:06

Hey, guys, how you doing?

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:08

Pretty good art pretty good.

Art Gelwicks 1:09

So ready. First, some Google goodness.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:14

This was a pretty, this is a pretty in depth, Google IO, I think 2020 was a little light because of the pandemic and supply chain issues. And just the general chaos around everybody working from home, and so on and so forth. This time around, they chose to do a hybrid event where they had people joining virtually, but they had some people on site for the keynote to be physically th...

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New smart-home tech alliance is ‘Matter’ ↦

How to Turn Your Old Samsung Phone Into a Smart Home Device

Google Pay is adding international money transfers

Chrome’s first major iOS update in months adds three new widgets

Google Assistant Can Now "Broadcast" to Your Smartphone Too

It turns out Googles handwriting recognition for Chromebooks needs no network to work

Google Announces New Docking Stations Designed for Chromebooks

NYTimes: How to Power Up Your To-Do List

The workflow tweak that can skyrocket your productivity

The Seven Sins of Memory

The Present Is Your FriendDont Resist It

Managing distributed teams: How to lead with cross-culturalempathy

Wellbeing at Work: How to Transform the Worst Part of the Day

New Tools of the Week

NextErgo Standing Desk | Electric Standing Desks | Office Desks

AirDesks

Why don’t they teach this in School? With Dr. Frank Buck

Dr. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019, 2020, and 2021.

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Feature Story of the Week

Google Is Going to Make 2FA the Default for All Users

Announcements

May 19 at 6:00pmEDT: Personal Productivity Club: Curated Calm: A relaxing Yoga Class for All Ages and Abilitieswith Matthew Glynn. For more information click here

May 20 at 7:00pm EDT: How do you make improvements in your task management if you are already a productivity nerd? Some people return to the stuff they originally learned but there's a better way: to do an in-depth assessment of your current system...not the components, but the whole thing...all at once. That's why I'm having a webinar on Thursday night - 7pm Eastern at https://live.remo.co/e/self-assessment-the-way. Come practice your skills at making system-wide improvements in some interactive exercises. For more Information click here

May 25th at 6:00pmEDT: Personal Productivity Club: Tasks Based Collaboration in Remember the Milk and Todoist with Dr. Frank Buck and Augusto Pinaud. For more information click here

Other News

The CDC Just Approved the Pfizer Vaccine for Kids 12+ (and Everything Else You Need to Know)

Brydge Debuts New Air MAX+ Keyboard With Trackpad for iPad Air and iPad Pro

App for first responders has helped quadruple out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate

Meet the new laptops with Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake H-series chips – BGR

Samsung won’t attend MWC in Barcelona this summer

Microsoft starts rolling out its Webinars feature in Teams

CloudReady v89.4 now available!

New Gmail with Google Chat tabs rolling out for free accounts, here’s how to turn on [Update: iOS]

Windows 10x Canceled. -Rumors

Original Apple retail store architect Art Gensler dies at 85

New Multi-Calendar Integration with Google and Outlook

Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5

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This week, Augusto Pinaud and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the importance of Keeping Mentally Healthy to Stay Productive. Then, they cover the productivity and technology news this week! And,how you can now directly view office files in Microsoft Edge! Enjoy!

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Headlines & Show Notes | Keeping Mentally Healthy to Stay Productive

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Introducing the Elements Tool: Save and Reuse Stickers, Diagrams, and Text Across all Your Notes

38 advanced Mac keyboard shortcuts for productivity | Popular …

Apple Watch Likely to Gain Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring

Google Meet and Chat Will Come Preinstalled on Chrome OS Soon

New ways to save, commute and manage money with Google Pay

Typewise wants to revolutionize smartphone keyboards, but is it actually better than Gboard?

Chromebook sales continue to surge in Q1 of 2021 up 275%

The Best Random Advice Youll Ever Receive: 29 Ideas To Make Your Life Infinitely Better

Manage Your Entire Life on One Whiteboard

The Four Levels Of Personal Productivity.

The best subscription service costs $25 a month

A New Understanding of Effort

New Tools of the Week

Woebot

Point - Fitness Insights

Priority Report with Penny Zenker

Penny Zenker is a focusologist, international speaker, business strategy coach and best-selling author. Before her 31st Birthday, Penny founded, developed and sold her first multi-million dollar business while living in Zurich, Switzerland. Later at the worlds 4th largest Market Research company, she managed business unit turnarounds and was a Tony Robbins business coach helping entrepreneurs around the world to double their businesses.

Penny’s book The Productivity Zone was an instant Amazon Best Seller and her TEDx, "The Energy of Thought", has gained attention around the world. Her engaging, inspiring interactive talks teach people to think and act more strategically. Penny has been featured on NBC News, Forbes, Inc, ESPN, and Wharton Business Radio among others.

Featured Story of the Week

You Can Now Directly View Office Files in Microsoft EdgeGoogle Docs will now show edit history and contributors when you highlight text[White Paper] LibreOffice Technology, the only software platform for personal productivity on the desktop, mobile and cloud - The Document Foundation Blog

Announcements

Curated Calm - May 19, 2021 - https://focusatwork.co/curatedcalm

Other News

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 124 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Surprisingly unproblematic KB5001391 update brings speed boost to Windows 10Floss personal productivity app Getting Things GNOME (GTG) 0.5 released

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In honor of National Teachers Day (May 4th), we have Dr. Frank Buck joining us to discuss how to teach productivity to your coworkers, family and friends! Also, we discuss how the Amazon Kindle Fire productivity bundle may be just what your kids need for back to school. Plus, we cover the productivity and technology news of the week!

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In this Cast | Teaching Productivity to Your Coworkers, Family and Friends

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Augusto Pinaud

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019, 2020, and 2021. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Headlines & Show Notes | Teaching Productivity to Your Coworkers, Family and Friends

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How to Get Notified of Price Drops on Google Android

Google Chrome 91 Will Make It Easier to Attach Files to Emails

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 taskbar widget starts rolling out

New iPad Pro doesn't support previous Magic Keyboard

Apple says the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will work with the old Magic Keyboard, but ‘may not precisely fit when closed’Set up and use Magic Keyboard for iPad

The Power of Identifying Your Nonnegotiables

Wanting More Time for Your Meaningful Work

Find a To-Do List Strategy That Works for You

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your To-Do List

Clausewitz on Overcoming the Annoying Slog of Life

New Tools of the Week

Duolingo

Amazon Kids+ (formerly FreeTime Unlimited)

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

AmazonSmile: All-new Fire HD 10 tablet, 32 GB, Olive + Bluetooth keyboard + 12-month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription (auto-renews): Kindle Store

Announcements

Similarities and Differences between Remember the Milk and Todoist on PPC on Tuesday May the 4th at 6:00pm EDT You Can Now Register for Microsoft Build 2021 - The developer conference will be held virtually from May 25 through May 27.Samsung Unpacked 2021iOS - iPadOS 14.5.1 & MacOS Security Update 11.3.1

Other News

Burnt out: is the exhausting cult of productivity finally over?Tips For Leaders On Running Successful One-On-One MeetingsRemote work really does make us more productiveFive Days in the Office? For These Startups, the Future of Work Is Old SchoolWill working from home last forever? Not for law, finance, and other industries.After Heart Attack, British Man’s Post Resonates on LinkedIn - The New York TimesNYTimes: How to Navigate the Postpandemic Office🚨 What really happened at Basecamp - PlatformerMore on Basecamp

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Samsung announced four new laptops on April 28, 2021, at its Samsung Galaxy Unpacked April 2021 event! Augusto Pinaud, Art Gelwicks and I discussed the features that will help Samsung users be most productive in this special commentary episode of Anything But Idle.

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Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. And I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:13

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 57. And it's our commentary on the special event hosted by Samsung, the Samsung unpacked galaxy unpacked April 2021 event, and we're recording this on April 21 2021. And to talk about this show that they put on and the laptops that they announced, we have Art Gelwicks our Samsung afficionado joining us today, Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's also a blogger at the idea pump calm. And he's the host of the being productive podcast. And of course, he joins us on ProductivityCast regularly. And so welcome to the show art.

Art Gelwicks 0:57

Hey guys, how you doing today?

Augusto Pinaud 0:58

Good morning,

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:59

doing well doing

Art Gelwicks 1:00

well here?

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:02

Yes.

Art Gelwicks 1:04

This is good as a cup of coffee. Almost.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:06

All right, let us jump into and unpack the unpacked. And what did you think about the production value of the event now that we've had nearly a year of pandemic focused entertainment virtually? And what was the most interesting thing you thought about the show, and then we'll get into the particulars about the announcements.

Art Gelwicks 1:31

I like the fact that this is the third unpacked event they've done this year. They've been consistent in the design, consistent in the narrative and the pacing, it was an hour they stuck to an hour, you kind of knew what you were getting, you know, it's like watching an episode of TV, you knew what 45 minutes in you were through the big stuff. And they were starting to wrap up the story. So they I believe they got their messaging across very clearly, they were very good at getting the core message across. And we'll talk about that quite a bit. There was one underlying message, which I think is going to become the bigger narrative as we finish out 2021 and move into the next couple of years, they've really doubled down on one core concept.

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This week, Augusto Pinaud and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the importance of managing your personal information. Then, they cover the productivity and technology news this week! And, Augusto talks about the 2021 iPad Pro! Enjoy!

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Headlines & Show Notes | Managing Your Personal Information

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Apple Music Tops Spotify With One Cent Paid Per Stream

Best Buy Gains Apple Business Chat Support

Samsung opens Galaxy Upcycling beta to turn old phones into IoT gadgets

Lost AirTag can be read by any other NFC-enabled iPhone or Android device

Apple’s AirTag tracker respects privacy and foils stalking

Your Chromebook launcher can now give you quick answers and save you from opening tabs

Google Meet visual redesign incoming with auto-exposure tools speaker highlighting more

5+ Unusual Places to Find Free Reading Material and Ebooks for Kindle

Forbes: Survey Finds Email Fatigue Could Lead 38% Of Workers To Quit Their Jobs

Data validates future of work looks quite different than pre-pandemic - TechRepublic

New Microsoft Outlook Settings Give Everyone a Break Between Meetings

The Productivity Funnel

Chrome will now let you link to specific text on any web page with link to highlight

NEW TOOLS OF THE WEEK

Timeflip2

Graphic

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

iPadPro Supercharged with M1

Announcements

iOS & iPadOS 14.5 released

Samsung Event: Galaxy Unpacked Wednesday April 28 10:00am EST

4 tools to help managers connect with remote teams | MIT Sloan

Lifetime deal on this mind mapping software, thanks to Peter/PPC) Zen Mind Map | Exclusive Offer from AppSumo

Other News

CloudReady v89.3 now available!

Amazon Launches the Kindle Vella Platform for Publishing Serialized Stories

How to Test Drive Google Chrome's New 'Memories' Page

Use Google Maps in the quick access side panel

Zoom just got a whole host of funky upgrades

This is your brain on Zoom - TechCrunch

Put macOS on the iPad, you cowards - The Verge

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast, today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And I’m Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:18

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. Today is April 26 2021. And this is Episode 56. Managing your personal information. Each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news of the week. And so today, we're going to be talking about the iPad Pro. And that'll come during our featured story this week. But first, we're going to be talking about managing your personal information. And of course, for those of you who are not old enough to remember PDA, personal digital assistants, they were like smartphones, but dumber. And they used to manage all of our basic information, we got these devices, and they had phone Contacts, Calendars, notes and tasks,

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This is a special episode to cover the first Apple special event of 2021, Spring Loaded, that happened on April 20, 2021. We had the pleasure of inviting Nozbe CEO, Michael Sliwinski, to the show to discuss the Apple product announcements!

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In this Cast | Commentary on Special Apple Event, Spring Loaded

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Augusto Pinaud

Michael Sliwinski

Michael is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, Nozbe Teams - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe Teams and Nozbe are web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

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Apple CardPodcast SubscriptionsPurple iPhoneAirTagsApple TViMaciPad Pro

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. And I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:18

And I am Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:18

And we're your hosts are Anything But Idle. Today we are doing a special show. This is Episode 55. And it's a commentary on the apple event that Apple special events spring loaded. That happened yesterday on April 20 2021. Today is of course, April 21 2021. And, of course to talk about Apple's spring loaded event, we have the pleasure of having Michael Sliwinski, who is the CEO of Nozbe. Michael is a productivity guy. He's the founder of He's the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, those B teams and Uber functional to do app for small and medium teams. And then Nozbe, which is a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both knows B teams and knows B are web based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Basically, everywhere you think you need to work is where knows these at Michael's also a speaker. He's an author of a few best selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He's also happily married to his wife, Evelina, and their three children. And so welcome to the show, Michael. Hi. Great

Michael Sliwinski 1:22

to have you. Good to have you here. Great to have that you have me here. Again, as I warming up. So as the as the local fo commentator and Apple geek at Apple fanboy.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:35

Yeah, I'm always delighted to have both you and gousto together so that I can actually have Apple fanboys. Oh, yeah, he helped me feel better about Apple. And, you know, I've adopted fairly a number of Apple technologies over the over time because of you guys. So I appreciate that. What we're going to do today is cover the apple event.

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This week, Augusto Pinaud and Ray Sidney-Smith discuss the importance of managing stress (and more importantly, distress) regarding your personal productivity. Then, they cover the productivity and technology news this week! And, Happy 10th Birthday, Goodnotes! Enjoy!

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In this Cast | How Stress Affects Your Personal Productivity

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Headlines & Show Notes | How Stress Affects Your Personal Productivity

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Follow Reddit in FeedlyReport: Twitter Considered Buying Clubhouse for $4 BillionFCC Asks People to Use FCC Speed Test App to Measure U.S. Broadband AvailabilityGoogle Chrome Will Soon Let You Quickly Find and Restore Closed TabsGoogle Assistant can now find/ring silenced iPhones as Duplex expands to online food ordersNew: My Tasks makes it easier to organize your work yourway

HandMirror

Genius Scan 6.0

GoodNotes 10 Years

Announcements

Apple Event Tuesday April 20 10:00am PSTSamsung Event: Galaxy Unpacked Wednesday April 28 10:00am ESTFounder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81

Other News

Apple: Moving iMessage to Android will hurt isThe New York Times: My Ridiculous Dating System Totally Works!Podcast #699: The No-Nonsense Guide to Simplifying Every Aspect of Your Life10 Benefits of Minimalism

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And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 54 how stress affects your personal productivity. And we're recording this on April 19 2021. Each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And this week, our theme is how stress affects your personal productivity. And so what I wanted to do was for us to start off the conversation with just a little bit of discussion on how stress works. And so so I think I'm hearing a little bit of feedback if you want to just turn. And so I wanted to just kind of talk a little bit about the way in which stress affects personal productivity. And so that we have kind of an idea or an understanding as we go forward in the way in which we have the discussion. So first, stress is both a category of thing right which we have stressors in the world. And so we can have things that are stressors that are positive and negative stressors, we call those us stressors being positive stress, and distress or negative stressors. And then we of course,

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It’s been said that Productivity is a form of Art, so we’re going to chat a bit about art, productivity and being productive, then on to the productivity and technology news of the week. This week’s featured story covers T-Mobile big 5G Home announcement.

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In this Cast | How Art Impacts Your Personal Productivity

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Headlines & Show Notes | How Art Impacts Your Personal Productivity

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13 Ways to Be A More Productive Artist

iOS 14.5 Adds New Siri Voices, No Longer Defaults to Female

Todoist have updated their plans, and renamed Premium to Pro

Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences

Day One Journal Text Messaging via SMS | Day One

Samsung launches ‘iTest,’ a new web app for turning your iPhone into a Galaxy device

All-New NOOK 2021 Lenovo Tablet Unboxing

Google is quickly working to integrate Neverware CloudReady into Chrome OS 90

7 Exciting New Features Coming in Chrome 90

Chromebook Files app adds an option to prevent synchronization over mobile data

How Employers Could Be Spying On You While Working From Home [VIDEO]

The post-pandemic world: 34% of remote workers say they'd rather quit than return to full-time office work

How to Beat Procrastination - Harvard Business Review

NY Times: We have all hit a Wall

TechCrunch: Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz

The Guardian: The evidence is in: working from home is a failed experiment

New Tools of the Week

Pleexy

Conotes

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

T-Mobile officially debuts 5G home internet with no data cap or contract from $60/month - 9to5Mac

T-Mobile launches wireless home internet (The Verge)

Announcements

CNBC: Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software

How to Schedule a Meeting in Microsoft Outlook

Cisco Webex Updates Put People Over Productivity - SDxCentral

WhatsApp begins testing chat migration between iOS and Android

Woven is shutting down on May 28, 2021

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. And I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:16

And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. Today's show is Episode 53 how to how art impacts your personal productivity. And we're recording this on April 12 2021. Each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. But before we do that, we usually have a theme for the show. And today's theme is all about how art impacts your personal productivity. And so I'm just going to open this up to dialogue here and go with a question around the idea of what do you think about kind of the discussion around the art and science of personal productivity? I'd like to talk a little bit about how artists approach personal productivity as well.

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April is Financial Literacy Month, so we’re going to chat a bit about how to be productive around managing our finances, then on to the productivity and technology news of the week. This week’s featured story covers Google’s new AI document scanning app, Stack.

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In this Cast | Managing Money Productively

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Headlines & Show Notes | Managing Money Productively

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What Is Google Meet Global Dialing? How to Use It to Call Over 100 Countries

How to Setup Google Meet Breakout Rooms in Google Calendar

Casio unveils its first G-Shock smartwatch with Wear OS

Google Assistant is getting a killer upgrade that gives you a second brain

Google is testing Memory, an upgrade for Assistant to ‘save and find everything’ - The Verge

How to remove the Google Chrome Reading List on Mac and Windows

T-Mobile Switches to Google Messages as Its Default Messaging Experience

Samsung Cloud is closing down - so migrate your photos and files now

Rocketbook Axis: Smart, Reusable, & Customizable Notebook by Rocketbook — Kickstarter

The Verge: Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps

Taking Lecture Notes On A Laptop Might Not Be That Bad After All – Research Digest

Don’t Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: Replication Finds No Immediate Advantage to Writing Notes by Hand – Association for Psychological Science – APS

The New York Times: Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same.

Nonprofit AF: We need to talk about our toxic obsession with productivity - Generocity Philly

How To Give Your Manager Feedback Without Sounding Like A Jerk

The Most Common Cause of Procrastination (and How to Stop it)

How Much Screen Time Should Kids Have And Why?

New Tools of the Week

Cheddar - Sync your budget to Google Sheets

YNAB (You Need a Budget)

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

Google’s Area 120 incubator releases a powerful AI document scanner for AndroidGooglei Launches Stack, a Document Scanner App for Android

Announcements

Paper Doll Models the Spring 2021 Organizing ProductsTim Cook invokes Steve Jobs in company-wide memo celebrating Apple’s 45th anniversary - 9to5MacFDIC Money Smart

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

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And I'm Augusto Pinaud

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And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 52 managing money productively. And we're recording this on April 5 2021. April is Financial Literacy Month. So happy Financial Literacy Month, I'm happy post Easter, Happy Easter, I guess because it is an octave. So your your during the festival, so those of you who are celebrating Easter, Happy Easter to you all, we're gonna chat a bit about how to be productive around managing our finances. And then we'll move on to the productivity and technology news of the week. And this week, we're going to feature our story.

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Happy Holi to those celebrating and happy belated Spring Equinox! Now’s a perfect time of year to think about cleaning up your productivity systems as the weather changes (to spring here in the northern hemisphere and to fall temperatures for those of you in the southern hemisphere). In addition to the productivity and technology news of the week, we covered our featured story this week, which was all about understanding what Microsoft Viva will mean for employees.

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In this Cast | Spring Cleaning Up Your Productivity Systems

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Spring Cleaning Up Your Productivity Systems

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Google just made Wi-Fi way better than Bluetooth — here’s how | Tom's GuideGoogle Chat adds granular notification controls so you can reclaim your sanityGoogle and Microsoft Team Up To Fix Compatibility Issues Between Browsers Microsoft Teams Displays Now Support Custom Backgrounds And Live Reactions For Meetings - OnMSFT.comCortana on Android and iOS Tells Users It Will Be Discontinued SoonHackers used compromised websites to infect iOS and other operating systems Grammarly's Tone Detector Is Now Available on Android and iOS

Google just made Wi-Fi way better than Bluetooth — here’s how | Tom's GuideGoogle Chat adds granular notification controls so you can reclaim your sanityGoogle and Microsoft Team Up To Fix Compatibility Issues Between Browsers Microsoft Teams Displays Now Support Custom Backgrounds And Live Reactions For Meetings - OnMSFT.comCortana on Android and iOS Tells Users It Will Be Discontinued SoonHackers used compromised websites to infect iOS and other operating systems Grammarly's Tone Detector Is Now Available on Android and iOS Unsubscribe from emails, instantly - Unroll.MeCalendly

Understanding Microsoft Viva, Features, Timelines and Pricing

Announcements

Reflector 4 Updated with Modern UI and M1 Mac Support MacBook Owners' Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Against Apple Gets Class Action Certification Apple releases Pages, Numbers, and Keynote updates with precise editing controls, updated media browser, more - 9to5Mac

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast today's show is brought to you by ProductivityVoice and i'm Ray Sidney-Smith

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and I am Augusto Pinaud.

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We're your hosts for Anything But Idle this is episode 51 it's called spring cleaning up your productivity systems and we're recording this on march 29 2021 so happy holi to those who are celebrating happy belated spring equinox and really now's a perfect time of the year generally to think about cleaning up your productivity systems really as the weather changes for those of us in the northern hemisphere we're having spring for those of you in the southern hemisphere you're having fall upon you and so in addition to the productivity and technology news of the week we're going to cover this week our featured story which is all about u...

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Happy World Water Day, and in honor of that, we thought we would have a conversation about The Myth of Hydration. In addition to the productivity and technology news of the week, we covered our featured story this week, which was about the new Google Chrome Profiles experience.

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In this Cast | The Myth of Hydration

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | The Myth of Hydration

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Chromebooks Turn 10!

Chromebook turns 10: Looking back and moving forwardNew features for Chromebook's 10th birthdayGoogle Introduces New Features to Celebrate 10 Years of ChromebookChrome OS is getting a big redesign for its 10th birthday

Google Announces Major Google Chrome Performance Improvements

Use your Chromebooks tab groups with windowed web apps to take your productivity to the next level

You can now snooze Google Calendar notifications in Chrome

PSA: Google Tasks now works in landscape mode on Chromebooks and it makes all the difference

Google links Android phones to Chromebooks with new

How to Use Your Samsung Phone As a Desktop

Google's new Chromebook update shows that laptops of the future are going to look more like our smartphones

Phone Hub feature - The Verge

Peloton Sessions Let You Schedule Workouts With Friends

Apple wants you to 'follow' podcasts rather than subscribe

Apple Releases New '3C39' AirPods Max Firmware

Report: Future Apple products to use randomized serial numbers starting in ‘early 2021’

How to Make Alexa Swear

You Can Now Make Voice and Video Calls From WhatsApp for Desktop

Microsoft Edge Now Boasts Vertical Tabs and Faster Startup Times

Forget iPad Pro 2021 — Xiaomi is working on a super tablet | Tom's Guide

New Katsu Chromebook detachable tablet expected soon

Microsoft Edge will adopt the same four-week update schedule as Google Chrome

WhatsApp exodus shines light on Microsoft's mishandling of Skype | Windows Central

Bitwarden adds secure text and file transfer to its arsenal

Technology has turned back the clock on productivity

Email and Slack Have Locked Us in a Productivity Paradox | WIRED

Johnny Decimals

How to manage your inbox: Try using the brilliant 'short email' from a web designer

Will work from home outlast virus? Ford's move suggests yes

Myfitnesspal

Streaks

Chrome Profiles

Chrome profile: Your Chrome profile stores your browser settings, bookmarks, extensions, apps, and saved passwords. Your profile is stored in a separate folder on your computer, so if anything goes wrong with Chrome, your information is savedChrome Profile Google Support

Announcements

GTD Podcast: Episode #96: Sharing GTD with Kids

Rocketbook Axis Launch 03/30/2021

Safari Technology Preview 122

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 122 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Samsung Awesome Event

Samsung Announces Three New Affordable Galaxy A Phones

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The first major electronics announcement event of the year, Samsung Awesome Galaxy Unpacked March 2021 event announced two new phones to the Galaxy line. Ray Sidney-Smith, Augusto Pinaud and Art Gelwicks as we discussed the event and how the smartphones announced will impact your personal productivity and the market.

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In this Cast | Commentary Episode for Samsung Awesome Galaxy Unpacked March 2021 Event

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

Headlines & Show Notes | Commentary Episode for Samsung Awesome Galaxy Unpacked March 2021 Event

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:12

I am Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14

Hey there, there I am. How's it going everybody? We are recording on March 18 2021. And this is Episode 49. We're doing a commentary episode a special episode in between our normal monthly weekly episodes for the Samsung awesome galaxy unpacked March 2021 event. Each week, of course, we review that and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. But in between those when the special electronics events happen, we put these special episodes out. And to do that today, we have brought Art Gelwicks Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump calm. And he's host of the being productive podcast, as well as he joins us on weekly, the weekly productivity cast podcast. And so welcome to the show Art.

Art Gelwicks 1:08

Hey, guys.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:10

How's it going? How are you doing today?

Art Gelwicks 1:12

I'm doing all right.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:14

Good, good. Good. All right.

Art Gelwicks 1:15

Talk about Samsung stuff.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:19

Wonderful. So the Samsung event, while they called it awesome. I think that's hyperbole. They they did announce the launch of two of their phones within the galaxy line, the a 52 and the a 72. And so what did you let's let's start with the event itself. What did you think about the event as a whole? And then we can get into the particulars of the devices that they announced?

Art Gelwicks 1:51

I didn't actually get it. Go ahead and gousto cuz you got to watch it. I didn't actually get to watch it.

Augusto Pinaud 1:55

I did. I did. And, and the preparation for the show. You know, Samsung has come on every show they have done in the last year. So really well prepare is fancy. It's the studio work did all that part was really, really well done. I mean, the show the videos, everything has been, you know, to the standard was Samsung has shown from the first day. I'm so I'm going to stop there.

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We’re continuing our Women's History Month celebration, by announcing the results of our poll this past week, with the top 10 female productivity, organization and technology experts! Also, we’re joined again by Julie Bestry and Deb Lee joins us for the first time. Enjoy!

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In this Cast | Productivity and Luck, and Top 10 Female Productivity, Organization & Technology Experts (Part 2)

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Julie Bestry

Julie Bestry, Certified Professional Organizer and Evernote Certified Consultant in Chattanooga, TN.

Deb Lee

Deb Lee is a Digital Productivity Coach and Evernote Certified Consultant in the DC Metro area.

Headlines & Show Notes | Productivity and Luck, and Top 10 Female Productivity, Organization & Technology Experts (Part 2)

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Barbara Hemphill - Insider Secrets To Organizing Your Overflowing Book Collection in 2021 | realtor.com® Ciara Conlon - How My Positive Morning Routine Completely Changed my Life Claire L. Evans - n/aDeb Lee - Work From Home Productivity Tips » D. Allison Lee Grace Marshall - Personal Productivity - The Conversation Gretchen Rubin - A Little Happier: The Memory of a Delicious Night of Sleep, Four Hundred Years Later. & Interview: Claire Messud Judith Kolberg - Interview with Judith Kolberg Julie Bestry - Flow and Faux (Accountability): Productivity, Focus, and Alex Trebek Julie Morgenstern - Creating Quality Time... No Matter What's Going On — Julie Morgenstern Laura McClellan - How to Choose and Use a Planner - TPW336 Laura Stack - True Performance: Five Ways to Avoid Fake Productivity Laura Vanderkam - Plan tight, then plan light Lisa Woodruff - Happy Birthday Sunday BasketMel Robbins - Productivity hacks to jumpstart your dreamsMichelle Gunn - 257: Capture Workflow : GTD Virtual Study GroupStacey Harmon - A Different Take on Using Evernote to Become Massively ProductivePenny Zenker - Are You Really Multitasking Or Just Switch-Tasking? With Dave Crensha‪w‬

Additional Nominees

Aleasa Word - Clubhouse Connects Humanity Not Just PeopleMarie Kondo - Are you tired of Marie Kondo’s ‘does it spark joy’ question? Here are 5 other ways to declutterMegan Hyatt Miller - Upgrade your Habits, Change Your Life

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

Google Chromebook SelectorSorted3TinkerTool: DescriptionBasecamp

Featured Story of the Week

Productivity and Luck, and Top 10 Female Productivity, Organization & Technology Experts — Survey Result.

Grace MarshallPenny ZenkerStacey HarmonDeb LeeJulie BestryJulie MorgensternMel RobbinsJudith KolbergBarbara HemphillLisa WoodruffLaura StackMichelle GunnGretchen RubinLaura McClellanClaire L. EvansCiara Conlon

Announcements

Samsung will hold its next Unpacked event on March 17th Nozbe Teams Personal UpdatesEpisode #96: Sharing GTD with Kids

Chromebook turns 10: Looking back and moving forwardNew features for Chromebook's 10th birthdayGoogle Introduces New Features to Celebrate 10 Years of ChromebookChrome OS is getting a big redesign for its 10th birthdayPSA: Google Tasks now works in landscape mode on Chromebooks and it makes all the differenceGoogle links Android phones to Chromebooks with new Phone Hub feature - The VergePeloton Sessions Let You Schedule Workouts With FriendsApple wants you to 'follow' podcasts rather than subscribeApple R...

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This is International Women's Day and also Women's History Month, and it is Episode 47. We're going to be talking about the top 10 female productivity organization and technology experts, Ray and Augusto discussed top 10 female productivity organization and technology experts. Enjoy!

Vote for your favorite female productivity, technology and/or organization experts! We'll announce the top 10 on this upcoming Monday's show!

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In this Cast | Top 10 Female Productivity, Organization & Technology Experts

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Julie Bestry

Julie Bestry, Certified Professional Organizer and Evernote Certified Consultant in Chattanooga, TN.

Headlines & Show Notes | Top 10 Female Productivity, Organization & Technology Experts

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Apple App Store: 9 Awesome Apps Developed by Women

Elevating Women in IT: A celebration of female pioneers and how you can help close the gender gap

Five #BlackGirlsWhoBlog to follow now

Product Hunt FemTech

Canva Acquires Background Removal Tool Maker KaleidoThis totally upgradable laptop is more eco-friendly and powerful than a Macbook Pro | TechRadarApple now shows iPhone and MacBook repairability scores in France TechCrunch: Hackers release a new jailbreak tool for almost every iPhoneYouTuber creates ‘world’s first’ Apple Silicon iMac using M1 Mac mini parts [Video] Create a space for yourself in Chrome Microsoft’s new Outlook calendar board view looks a lot like TrelloSecurity researcher recommends against LastPass after detailing 7 trackers - The VergeMillions of VPN users have personal details stolen | TechRadarMarch Pixel Feature Drop: Underwater photos, Gboard Smart Compose, more - 9to5GoogleMicrosoft is building a new web-based Teams desktop app

Where do your goals come from? | A Life of ProductivityThe problem with work-life balance Why we need a virtual commute (Microsoft 365) — Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icHrRFl8QO8

Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another serviceApple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

P10 Assessment (Penny Zenker)

WYD? — What are you doing nowWyd? — An iOS widget to encourage you to do one thingFocus Mate - Virtual Co-working for AccountabilitySound of Colleagues

Announcements

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 121 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Microsoft Ignite 2021CloudReady v89.1 now available!

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One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. We all know Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, for his more than 60 children’s books that he both wrote and illustrated. With such a prolific and storied life, Ray and Augusto discussed for his birthday (March 2nd) what Dr. Seuss can teach you about productivity. Enjoy!

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In this Cast | What Dr. Seuss Can Teach You About Productivity?

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | What Dr. Seuss Can Teach You About Productivity?

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The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work (And Why You Should Use It Too)

Chromebooks getting big upgrade to catch up to MacBooks and PCsChrome OS will soon have a dedicated way to access your emojiGoogle Chat on the web may soon be much more usable thanks to a Gmail-style redesignThe Verge: How to get more space in your Google storageGoogle Recorder web app arrives early set to bring Pixel audio backupsGoogle Docs is adding a new badge for unread comments so theyre easier to locateAnker beats Apple to market, new iPhone 12 MagSafe-compatible battery pack now available Hackers are already targeting Apple's M1 Macs with malware | EngadgetMicrosoft Garage announces Journal, a new ink first note-taker with AI super powersE INK and Sony have developed new e-notesHands on Review of the Bigme B1 Pro Color e-Reader and E-noteWacom One Stylus Pen Review

How To Create A Daily Schedule To Organize Your DayTime-Blocking Not Working? Try These 8 Productivity Techniques Instead Podcast 276 | The UnfollowingHow to Overcome 'Zoom Fatigue'Cant take a nap? Try S2R instead.

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

How to leave LastPass and move to another password manager - The Verge

BitWarden1Password

Announcements

President Obama and Bruce Springsteen debut podcast on Spotify Kosmotime :: Asana IntegrationKosmotime :: Asana on Anasa BlogApplications Open for Apples Entrepreneur Camp for Female DevelopersJason Fried and I Explore A World Without Email

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:30Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by productivity voice. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 1:46I am Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:47And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. I think it is Episode 46 what Dr. Seuss can teach you about productivity. And we're recording this on March 1 2021. And as you can see, Augusto is currently in transit. Maybe just moving along there while we have our conversation, so I'm going to I'm going to be having him focus on the road as opposed to on us, but we're gonna make our way through the show notwithstanding. So, each week, we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And this week, we have our theme, which is Dr. Seuss, and productivity.

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Happy National Random Acts of Kindness Day, and in honor of that, we thought because of "holiday" we would have a conversation about productivity and kindness, and how those two things work together. In addition to the productivity and technology news of the week, we covered our featured story this week, which was about the new Trello experience.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019 and 2020. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Headlines & Show Notes | Productivity and Kindness

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Going Beyond The Board: A Whole New Trello Is HereThe VergeEngadgetMicrosoft Teams Recieves Two New Productivity and Tracking Apps PocketBook launches 7.8-inch e-reader with new color E Ink screen - The VergeBrydge unveils multi-touch support for its iPad Pro+ keyboard, new 10.2-inch iPad case Apple TV now available on Chromecast with Google TV Google Fuchsia OS could run Android & Linux apps 'natively' - 9to5GoogleThe Google Phone. Built for business.Google Announces Unified Google Drive App for All UsersTasked beta 5.12.0 adds native JSON and HTML readingThis unofficial client brings Google Assistant to Windows and Mac desktopsGoogle Chat prepares to migrate regular users from Hangouts with Consumer BetaNew Study Says Android Users Make Better Partners Than iPhone UsersResetting After a Busy SeasonHow To Reinvent Yourself Even If You Feel You CantHow to Do the Things You Keep AvoidingA Thing of the Past: The 9-5 workday | The Daily CampusDell Technologies Remote Work Readiness Index Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ)Random Acts of KindnessSmart Import for TrelloSmart Import - Product Hunt LinkSmart Export for Trello

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by productivity voice. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:10I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:11And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. So I'm going to say Happy belated, national, random acts of kindness day as well as technically today is Happy National Margarita day. So if you have a margarita, I'm both jealous and enticed. But this is Episode 45. entitled, productivity and kindness, and we're recording this on February 22 2021. Each week we cover and discuss the productivity and technology news of the week. And to do that this week, we have brought with us Dr. Frank Buck, most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global gurus has ranked Dr. Buck number one in the world in the time management ca...

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In honor of Presidents’ Day (US), we discussed the Eisenhower matrix (named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower because of his “use” of the matrix, where really it was Stephen R. Covey and Rebecca and Roger Merrill who formed his principle into the matrix). In addition to the productivity and technology news of the week, we covered our featured story this week, which was about time management myths!

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast Podcast

Headlines & Show Notes | Important, but not Urgent

Resources we mention,

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Stories of the Week

What to do with old/dying AirPods – replacements, recycling

The Podswap

Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues

Microsoft unveils Employee Experience Platform, Microsoft Viva | TahawulTech.com

Microsoft Viva announcementMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft ToDo Adds iOS Widgets

COVID-19: 10 apps that could boost work-from-home productivity - TheCable Lifestyle

Employees Believe Mobile Devices Play a Key Role In Productivity

My Life. My Work. My Phone.

The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office | WIRED

Productivity techniques for ADHD

Debunking 3 popular time management myths

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

Cuckoo — Cuckoo is a productivity timer for remote teams. Keyma.sh — A competitive online multiplayer typing game. Windy - Weather appChromebook Screen Saver - on ChromeOS - Settings: Personalization: Screen saver

Announcements

NaturalVision 2020 Summit

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 120 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:15

Hello, and welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast today's show is brought to you by productivity voice. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:26

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:27

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. Happy US Presidents Day. This is Episode 44. Important but not urgent. And we're recording this on February 15 2021. And of course, each week we cover and discuss the productivity news headlines of the week. And to do that we have brought today, Art Gelwicks. You know, Art, he's been here on the show before Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump calm. And he's the host of the being productive podcast, as well as he joins us each week on ProductivityCast. And so welcome to Anything But Idle art.

Art Gelwicks 1:05

Hey, guys, how you doing?

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:06

Good, doing really well doing really well. And so today, in honor of Presidents Day, I thought we would talk a little bit about Eisenhower, that is not just the president, but the matrix,

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This week on the show, we discuss pet productivity, covering some tips for caring for your pet companions productively with pet lover and branding expert, Isabel Pinaud (find her on Instagram @brandyourweird).

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Isabel Pinaud

Isabel Pinaud is a productivity geek, bookworm and all around weirdo.

Through her business Brand Your Weird, she encourages quirky entrepreneurs to embrace who you are and then uses the psychology of design to help them create a brand that attracts their ideal client without giving up their personality. In other words, no cookie cutter businesses allowed.

She’s also a dog mom, animal lover and owns a brick & mortar pet shop, hence why she’s here with us today to discuss pet productivity with us today.

Instagram: @BrandYourWeird

FB Page: @BrandYourWeird

Free FB Group: Brand Your Weird

Clubhouse: @IsaPinaud

TikTok: @IsabelPinaud

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Stories of the Week

ASUS Chromebook Flip CM3000Check out these Chrome Web Store Gems to stay productive and entertained at homeYou Can Finally Save Articles to 'Read Later' in ChromeHow to enable your Chromebooks new Scan featureSave All Your Transcripts From Google Meet With This Neat AppYou Can Now Schedule Meetings in Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Edge's Collections Are Getting a Handy UpdateNebo in 2020: The Year in Review ReMarkable 2 review: You'll never need paper notebooks againiPadOS 14.5 beta 1 adds a horizontal boot screen! Cozi Family Organizer | Must-Have App For FamiliesHusky Adjustable Height Work Table Review 2021The Best Home PrintersMoving Chat History from Other Apps to Telegram

'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' Is Real, According to Psychologists | GlamourIts Time to Reclaim Your MindYou Should Always Pre-Schedule Your Emails Small Victories: 4 Reasons To Celebrate Small WinsWhy do managers feel they have to micromanageHow to Respond When Team Members Put Themselves DownHow to onboard new starters in the COVID-eraApples iCloud Passwords extension for Chrome on Windows is now available

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

RoverChewy

Announcements

Some people make a big mistake after getting coronavirus vaccines – here’s what they’re doing Jeff Bezos To Step Down as Amazon CEO

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Wellness Productivity with Jeff Siegel, plus ChromeOS 88 Brings Smart Display Features - Anything But Idle - February 1, 2021

This week, we invited Health Coach Jeff Siegel to join us to talk about wellness and its impact on personal productivity. Of course, we also covered all the productivity and technology news of the week, including ChromeOS 88 getting smart display features, and more!

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In this Cast | Wellness Productivity

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Jeff Siegel

Jeff Siegel is a health coach, dynamic eating psychologist, and meditation teacher. He helps men take control of their health and wellbeing by training in movement, mindfulness, and mindset. If you want an approach that is scientifically grounded, spiritually informed, and always super practical, Jeff’s your teacher.

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Stories of the Week

How to Set Up Google Calendar's 'Offline Mode' (additional link)Microsoft Gives the Surface Duo a Much-Needed Update Microsoft Announces Some Fantastic New Features for Edge in 2021iOS 14.4 Enhances Handoff Between iPhone and HomePod Ease Access With Omni AutomationEverything you need to know about E INK Kaleido 2Bugs Allowed Hackers to Hijack Kindle Accounts With Malicious Ebooks - VICEHow to Install YouTube as a Progressive Web App on WindowsLearn more about Progressive Web Apps (PWA's)Introducing the One by Wacom the first fully compatible graphics tablet for ChromebooksNow You Can Buy Coca-Cola Preloaded With Coffee So You No Longer Have To Mix It in YourselfLeveling Up: Your Guide To Picking Tools That Grow With YouBuilding The Future of Work—TogetherDavid Mellinkoffs Productive Lack of ProductivityHeres What To Do When You Are Getting Exhausted At WorkChrome OS 88 turns your Chromebook into an impromptu smart displayNozbe is celebrating 14 years old! Congratulations to Michael Sliwinski and his team!

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

Beeper is coming to bring iMessage and 14 other chat apps to non-Apple devicesApple Watch Streaks

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Augusto Pinaud 0:11And I'm a goof to burnout.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:13And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 42. And we're going to be talking about wellness productivity, along with all of the week's news, and we're recording this on February 2 2021. Each week, we cover and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. And today we have a special guest for the first part of our show, to talk about wellness, productivity, it is National Heart Month, as well as National Black History Month. And so happy National Black History Month but for National Heart Month,

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How to Have Fun and Create Serious Play at Work, Home Launches in Evernote, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

This week, we discuss the importance of fun and play at work, the launch of the new Home feature in Evernote 10, and more productivity and technology news!

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In this Cast | Play at Work

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.

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Stories of the Week

Google’s Fitbit acquisition is officialPeloton users can now make their own custom workout routines President POTUS special PelotonPocket Casts is up for sale nearly three years after acquisition by public radio consortium World’s first iPadOS-style Linux distribution introducedMindNode’s Newly-Editable Outline View Adds a Terrific New Dimension to the Mind Mapping App’s Mac Version The 7 Best Apple Pencil Alternatives Compatible With Your iPad and iPhone Samsung is expanding S Pen support to more devices How to Quickly Calm Your Mind and Refocus When Youre StressedAstro Slide 5G Transformer | IndiegogoWattpad is being sold to the Korean company NavarHow the pandemic could redefine our productivity obsession - BBC WorklifeHow a $55 Christmas gift turbo-charged my productivityProductivity Is About Your Systems, Not Your PeopleHow to negotiate a permanent work-from-home arrangementFour Office Trends CEOs Should Have on Their Radars in 2021 > CEOWORLD magazineGuest column: Employers must prioritize work-life balance for remote workers to remain competitive - Nashville Business JournalEvernote HomeGetting Started With Evernote masterclass (Jan/Feb 2021)

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Extra Stories

Save to Google Drive extension updated to replace Chromes PDF print and upload capabilityHow To Log Your Daily Activities And Manage Your Time BetterMedium has just purchased ebook company GloseHisense A7 First Look An E INK phone with a giant screenOxford study: The health benefits of exercise are limitlessUnderstanding Microsoft Productivity Score - UC Today

New Tools of the Week

HabiticaMindNodeRotation Control for AndroidGeyes Foldable Keyboard

Announcement

SaneBox & Partners Present Productivity Gold For 2021 ($200+ in savings)

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In this episode 040 of Anything But Idle, we discuss semantics--how words matter in personal productivity, virtual Consumer Electronics Show 2021 and some of the productivity-focused product announcements, and the rest of the productivity and technology news of the week.

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In this Cast | How Words Matter in Personal Productivity

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Francis Wade is the author of Perfect Time-Based Productivity and the host of the upcoming Task Management and Time Blocking Virtual Summit in March 2020. He has lived in Kingston, Jamaica since 2005 and is an avid content creator, newspaper columnist and cyclist.

Trevor Lohrbeer

Trevor Lohrbeer is founder of Day Optimizer, a web app that helps freelancers and entrepreneurs create a daily plan that reflects their priorities using guided workflows designed around neuroscience principles. He splits his time between Asheville, North Carolina and Berlin, Germany, and enjoys running, writing and swing dancing.

Headlines & Show Notes | How Words Matter in Personal Productivity

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Virtual CES 2021 Announcements & Semantics on Productivity

The Best Apple-Related Accessories at CES 2021Satechi releases Dock5 Multi-Device Charging StationLenovo Launches New Range of ThinkBook Laptops for 2021Asus’ new Chromebook CX9 offers military-grade durability - The VergeNetgear Introduces One of the First Wi-Fi 6E RoutersMicrosoft launches new Surface Pro 7 PlusSamsung and Whisk Partner With Tastemade to Conquer Your Meal PlanningAnker Unveils $130 Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro Earbuds to Compete With AirPods Pro

Stories of the Week

Samsung's Galaxy Upcycling turns old phones into IoT devices Biogen Launches Study to Find Out if Apple Watch and iPhone Can Detect Declining Cognitive Health Google and Microsoft chat accessibility in tech Google, Alphabet employees unionizeGazelle is Shutting Down Its Mail-In Trade In BusinessApple could have new services in development, such as ‘Mail +’ or ‘Podcast +’ (Mail + is the one I'm interested in as a productivity-related service, especially with their recent stir-up with Hey.com)Nest Hubs and Assistant-enabled speakers are receiving a Guest ModeThis Yale professor has a simple formula for sticking to your resolutionsHow to install the newest version of Firefox on your Chromebook (2021)Ring Doorbells Now Support End-to-End EncryptionSignal, the encrypted messaging app and WhatsApp alternative, explained - VoxIt's OK to Delete People on Social MediaAgainst Productivity in a Pandemic | The New Republic

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

New Tool 1 (Ray)

Hemingway

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

Scanner Pro (iPhone & iPad)

Scanner Pro for iPhone and iPad gets redesign, auto OCR, pivot to freemium

New Tool 3 (Francis)

SaveMyTime

New Tool4 (Trevor)

Tusklist App

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Perfect Time-Based Productivity: How to rescue your peace of mind as time demands increase

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In this Cast | Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2021

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast podcast.

Headlines & Show Notes | Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2021

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If you want to watch the entire event, here it is: Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2021 Livestream.

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by W three c web services. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:10And I'm a bootstrapping up.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:11And we are your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 39 039. And we're recording this on January 15 2021. Today we'll be talking, we're

Augusto Pinaud 0:23talking about the Samsung event.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25What did I say? Do jobs get the sun and get to completely froze? Oh, my computer froze. So Samsung, the galaxy live event and Samsung unpacked live event. And yeah. So today we have our delegates joining us. And he's our Samsung aficionado. And so our galaxy is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump.com directive podcast each week. And so welcome to anything but idle art.

Art Gelwicks 0:56Morning, guys. Good morning. Good. I thought Monday's were early. But this is even earlier for some reason. And it's the same time.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:05It's rough. I think it's rough on a Friday morning that you you know having to go live that early. But either way, we had the Samsung Galaxy unpacked live event. And they announced what I believe was four or five products, and what our products today for our audience. So they can understand really the context of how they're going to be able to be more productive with the products that Samsung has announced if they are so I know that I'm very interested in your thoughts. Your thoughts are about the Samsung's S Pen and S Pen pro that they announced yesterday. And what and so they came right out of the gate, tm ro introduced himself to the stage, he gave a little bit of a pep talk. I didn't find anything in that building. That was like a hint to anything. He just was basically telling people that 2020 taught us that we were going to be on mobile, and they wanted to give us those capabilities. And so they have been innovating in that space. What did you hear? There was

Art Gelwicks 2:09there was a theme I heard right away. And I heard it repeated numerous times during the launch event about personalization. I mean,

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Organizing Your Office Desk, Asana and Productivity News of the Week - Anything But Idle - January 11, 2021

Happy (Belated) Clean Off Your Desk Day! In honor of the "holiday," we talked about the importance of a clean desk and some organizing tips for you. In addition to organizing your office desk, we cover Asana in the financial news, and all the productivity and technology news we could fit in today's show!

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In this Cast | Organizing Your Office Desk

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Alexis Haselberger

Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops and online courses. Before starting her coaching practice she spent 15 years running business operations and HR in early stage start ups, where there was always more to do than people to do it and burnout was rampant. Her pragmatic, yet fun, approach helps people easily integrate practical, realistic strategies into their lives so that they can do more of what they want and less of what they don't. Alexis has taught thousands of individuals to take control of their time and her clients include Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, Upwork and more.

Matt Plummer, CEO of Zarvana

Matt Plummer is a former operations manager and strategy & management consultant who got tired of sacrificing his personal life to work long hours without moving up in his career as quickly as he wanted. So he began a journey to greater productivity and ended up cutting his hours by over 30% and managing 3-4 projects in the time others managed two. This experience led him to start Zarvana, where he helps other ambitious professionals achieve the same results with workshops, coaching, and an online learning platform.

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AirdeskProductive (And Realistic) Ways To Optimize Your Space For Remote WorkWrike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNbknu1mvJY GTD Inbox Processing with David Allen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ULWQ_tnM8 How David Allen Gets Things Done

Stories of the Week

A new app allows teachers to use their iPhone or iPad as an overhead camera on ZoomYouTube surveyingpremium membersUse Trello to Prioritize and Self ManageGoogle Messages Web gets Reactions! All the new Google Assistant and Google Home features launched in 2020 | Chrome GeekZoom meeting fatigue: How to maintain productivity in the grind of WFH | Employee Benefit NewsHobbies promote personal growth | National LifeProductivity advice for calm and focused 2021Acer unveils AMD Ryzen-powered Chromebook Spin 514This is the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2How To Train Yourself When You Lack Attention To DetailsMicrosoft Rolls Out New Navigation Tool for Mobile Office AppsDell Launching Monitors With Integrated Microsoft Teams ButtonHow to Enable Tab Groups in Microsoft Edge | Chrome Geek

New Tool 1 (Ray)

Varidesk

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

Scrivener

New Tool 3 (Alexis)

Cluster

New Tool4 (Matt)

Apple Watch Sleep App

Featured Story of the Week

Saving the best for last, our featured story of the week is...

Asana: Strong Growth, Still Not Fully Priced

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Announcements

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 118 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Your Todoist 2020...

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This week, we discuss goals planning for the new year, in light of the changing circumstances. What are your goals for 2021?

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In this Cast | Goals! Episode—What Are Your Goals?

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Derek Reinhard

Productivity in practice seems to be where everyone looks this time of year. Books are great, tools are great, resolving to actually do what is important is where we fall down so often. Derek has been working personal and organizational productivity practices since the ‘80’s. He spent 20 years in the United States Air Force as a pilot and an operations planner. He is certified in Knowledge Management and a PMP (Project Management Professional). Recently retired from federal service, he has written two brief “how to” books on using GTD with the Bullet Journal and with Goalscape.

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019 and 2020. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Headlines & Show Notes | Goals! Episode

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This Week's Theme... Goals! Episode—What Are Our/Your Goals? Goal Planning

Give up on "becoming a better person" in 2021Self Improvement? Not In This Man’s House

Stories of the Week

Google brings tab search to Chromebooks with Chrome OS 87How to block out distractions to boost productivity on your Chromebook this yearThis E-Ink Monitor Is a Dream Come True for Coders and Writers Kindle Lending Library to close on January 4th 2021 - Good e-ReaderAmazon Acquires Podcast Startup WonderySamsung officially confirms Galaxy S21 event for January 14thWhy the Hybrid Work Model is the Future of Remote Work?Microsoft hacked Prioritize Your Tasks and Master Productivity Using the Eisenhower Matrix - The Good Men ProjectNew Year resolutions with iPhone: How to acheive your goalsApple loses copyright battle against security start-up CorelliumHow to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Mac

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

New Tool 1 (Ray)

Subtask

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

Among Us

New Tool 3 (Derek)

Evony (for fun)

Goalscape

New Tool4 (Frank)

WeTransfer

Announcements

2021 Updates for Emergent Task Planner Almanac – Dave Seah

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News in Preview 2021: What's to Come in Productivity and Technology Next Year?

On this week's show, we close out the current year with a news in preview 2021 discussion. What's to come in productivity and technology next year? Listen to the episode to learn what we and our panelists think.

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In this Cast | News in Preview 2021

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast podcast.

Frank Buck, EdD

Dr. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus has ranked Dr. Buck as #1 in the world in the “Time Management” category for 2019 and 2020. From band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker, welcome to Anything But Idle, Frank.

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Stories of the Week

The No Voice Assistant: You Can Now Text Alexa | MakeUseOf How to not go crazy when working from homeChromebooks may be getting a big upgrade to the max number of virtual desks allowedAmazon facing charges for firing activist employee, report says - CNETIntel falls on report Microsoft will design own chips for PCs, serversZoom Allegedly Wants to Compete With Google and MicrosoftClickUp hits $1 billion valuation in $100M Series B raise | TechCrunch

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

New Tool 1 (Ray)

OthersideAI | AI-Powered Email Assistant

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

Uno Task

New Tool 3 (Art)

Taskito

Bundled Notes

New Tool 4 (Frank)

PhotoScan by Google

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello, everybody and welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast and this is the live show. So hello and welcome to our personal productivity enthusiasts and community. Today's show is brought to you by WCC web services. I'm Rick Sidney-Smith. And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 36. The news in preview for 2021 episode and we're recording this on December 28 2020, just a few days shy of the New Year. Each week we cover and discuss the productivity news headlines of the week. And to do that we have two panelists, which we invite to the show and we're gonna talk about all things in the personal productivity and technology space. Today we have Art galax and Dr. Frank buck are galax is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He is blogger at the idea pump and host of being productive podcast, as well as being on the ProductivityCast podcast with us to pronounce and myself and Francis Wade. And so welcome to anything but idle Frank. Art.

Unknown Speaker 1:00Hey guys, how's it going?

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:03Yes, yes. And then we have Dr. Frank buck, most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives.

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Best Productivity and Technology Stories 2020

This is Episode 035, recorded on December 21, 2020, and we discussed the best productivity and technology stories of 2020.

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Augusto Pinaud

Jay Miller

Jay Miller is a Developer Advocate at Elastic, based in San Diego, Ca. A multipotentialite, Jay enjoys finding unique ways to merge his fascination with productivity, automation, and development to create tools and content to serve the tech community.

Headlines & Show Notes | Best Productivity and Technology Stories in Review for 2020

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Top Stories and "Best of" Articles for 2020

Google Reveals the Most Popular Search Terms for 2020

The 32 Best Productivity Apps To Get More Done in 2020

The 15 best productivity apps of 2020

Google Design’s Best of 2020 - Library - Google Design

Apple's five best moments of 2020 - TechRepublic

Template Round-Up: The Most Popular Trello Boards of 2020

MacStories Selects 2020: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year - MacStories

Stories of the Week

Google Developing Own Processors for Smartphones & Chromebooks | Tom's Hardware

Gmail will now let you edit Office documents directly from email attachments - The Verge

Google acquires CloudReady OS to make PCs Chromebooks - 9to5Google

Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds - The Washington Post

Family Sharing of In-App Purchases and Subscriptions Is Now Available - MacStories

Samsung plans to ditch power adapters just 3 months after mocking Apple over the same - 9to5Mac

Todoist launches new Google Assistant integration to make keeping up with to-do lists easier than ever

BIC: Acquisition of Rocketbook, the leading smart reusable notebook brand in the U.S.

New Tools of the Week

Gone

Momentum Dashboard

Hook Productivity

Announcements

Vote for Dr. Frank Buck for Time Management Guru, Top 30, 2021

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by W3C Web Services. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:10And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:11And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 35. And we are going to be covering productivity and technology news and review 2020. We're recording this on December 21 2020. And each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. And to do that we usually bring on some panelists and today we have one panelist to help us talk about all things in the personal productivity and technology space. So today we're bringing Jay Miller onto the show, Jay is a developer advocate at elastic based in San Diego, California, a multi potential potential light, I'm hoping I'm getting that right. Jay enjoys finding unique ways to merge his fascination with productivity, automation, and development to create tools and content to serve the tech community. Welcome to anything but idle Jay. Hey, glad

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Productivity and Technology Holiday Gift Guide 2020

Starting an Anything But Idle tradition, Ray and Augusto reviewed all the various productivity and technology holiday gift guides they could find. Then, we invited some productivity and organization experts on for a virtual roundtable on what gifts they would recommend to buy your loved ones, coworkers, and yourself for the holidays.

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast podcast.

Matt Plummer

Matt Plummer is a former operations manager and strategy & management consultant who got tired of sacrificing his personal life to work long hours without moving up in his career as quickly as he wanted. So he began a journey to greater productivity and ended up cutting his hours by over 30% and managing 3-4 projects in the time others managed two. This experience led him to start Zarvana, where he helps other ambitious professionals achieve the same results with workshops, coaching, and an online learning platform.

Joseph Varghese

Joseph Varghese is a Certified NeuroStrategist and peak performance coach and his clients call him "The Breakthrough Engineer."

He is passionate about empowering others to stay focused, driven and living their highest potential. For 18 years, he's been immersed in the science of peak performance, productivity, and gamification and he has become a thought leader in the area of peer accountability.

Since 2005, Joseph has been leading Success Circles a peer-momentum accountability community for entrepreneurs and coaches. In it members huddle up, one-on-one and in teams to win the game of life, work, and play.

Headlines & Show Notes | Productivity and Technology Holiday Gift Guide 2020

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Our Selections for 2020

Macbook Pro M1Macbook Air M1Lenovo Chromebook DuetGoogle Pixel StateLuxafor Indicators and TimersApple Watch Portable ChargerExternal Portable MonitorLogitech k480Amazon HaloPilot Metropolitan (fountain) penParker JotterFisher PenKuru Toga Auto Lead RotationBook of the MonthAnalog3x5 LifeEsington GlassZugu Case Apple Pencil HolderHoldme - Side Mount Phone or Tablet Holder Kasa Smart Home BulbsMural.coClickUp

Holiday Gift Guides and other sites from around the Personal Productivity Web

Apple Announces AirPods Max Over-Ear Headphones With Noise Cancellation, Priced at $549It’s Here! The TPS Productivity Gift Guide, 2020 Edition (TPS327)The 7 Best Adjustable Standing DesksThe 10 Best International E-Commerce Sites for Stuff You Can't Find on eBay and AmazonThe 2020 Productivityist Holiday Gift GuideThe Best Wi-Fi Extender and Signal BoosterHow to Soundproof Noisy WindowsThe 13 Best Personalized GiftsThe 11 Best Gifts for Coffee LoversThe 15 Best Holiday Tech Gifts for Under $200Top 15 Gift Ideas for Men [2020] | Art of ManlinessHoliday Gift Guide 2020: elegant Apple gift ideas for women | AppleInsider

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2020 Apple MacBook Air Laptop: Apple M1 Chip, 13” Retina Display, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage, Backlit Keyboard, FaceTime HD Camera, Touch ID. Works with iPhone/iPad; Silver

Uni Kuru Toga Roulette Model Auto Lead Rotation 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil, Silver Body (M510171P.26)

Parker 1953170 Jotter Ballpoint Pen, Stainless Steel with Chrome Trim, Medium Point Blue Ink, Gift Box

2020 Latest Lenovo Chromebook Duet 2 in 1 Tablet I 10 1" FHD (1920 x 1200) IPS Touchscreen I MediaTek Helio 8-Core P60T I 4GB RAM 128GB eMMC I ARM G72 MP3 Chrome OS + USB C Toggle

2020 Apple MacBook Pro with Apple M1 Chip (13-inch, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD Storage) - Silver

Portable USB-C External Monitor, WIMAXIT 13.3 inch Tempered Glass 1080P IPS HDMI Screen with VESA Mount for Laptop Computer Phone Xbox PS5,Switch Pi 4B,Working Second Display

Apple Pencil 1 & 2 Holder Sticker - Peel N Stick Elastic Stylus Pocket - ZUGU CASE (Black)

Fisher Space Pen Bullet Pen - 400 Series - Matte Black w/ Clip - Gift Boxed

Amazon Halo Band – Measure how you move, sleep, and sound – Designed with privacy in mind - Black + Onyx - Medium

Apulat Strong Neodymium Magnet; Used to Attach a Phone, a Tablet or a Second Screen to Your Laptop or Computer Monitor; Use The iPad as an Additional Display for Your MacBook; for Office or Portable

Logitech K480 Wireless Multi-Device Keyboard for Windows, macOS, iPadOS, Android or Chrome OS, Bluetooth, Compact, Compatible with PC, Mac, Laptop, Smartphone, Tablet - Black

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Salesforce Buys Slack for 27 Billion USD, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

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In this Cast | Salesforce Buys Slack for 27 Billion USD

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Frank Buck, EdD

Dr. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus has ranked Dr. Buck as #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019 and 2020. From band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Francis Wade

Francis Wade is the author of Perfect Time-Based Productivity and the host of the upcoming Task Management and Time Blocking Virtual Summit in March 2021. He has lived in Kingston, Jamaica since 2005 and is an avid content creator, newspaper columnist and cyclist.

Headlines & Show Notes | Salesforce Buys Slack for 27 Billion USD

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Stories of the Week

What you need to know about Amazon Sidewalk | AppleInsiderAmazon Kindle now has 8GB of storage instead of 4GB Amazon Rolling Out ‘Type with Alexa’ Feature in iOS AppApple Releases Its $129 MagSafe Duo Charger | MakeUseOfApple Shares Top 20 Most Downloaded Games and Apps of 2020 Telegram Beta Becomes First Third-Party App to Use Announce Messages With Siri How Team Routines Can Make You More Resilient In The Face Of UncertaintyIntroducing the New Evernote for AndroidHow Not To Lose Focus While Working (Backed By Science)How to Become More CuriousThe Verge: Five new Android features coming this winterBilingual speakers feel pain more in language they identify with10 home office upgrades for a happy home officeHow to take a coffee napGoogle illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges - The VergeChrome OS 87 is here with Tab Search, BT battery level and moreSubscription-Free Alternatives to Apple's 'Best of 2020' AppsApple and Google share their Best of 2020 lists for the App Store and Play Store The Best of Google's 'Best Android Apps and Games' List for 2020Samsung reportedly won’t release a new Galaxy Note in 2021Video details ARM Windows virtualization on M1 Macs, nearly 2x faster performance than Surface Pro X Microsoft Scales Back the Privacy-Invading Productivity ScoreHow to Better Manage Your Life Admin.What Astronauts and Submariners Can Teach Us About the Necessity of Team Routines

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like. We invite our panelists to share a tool, too!

New Tool 1 (Ray)

Clippings.ioReadwise.io

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

FE File Explorer iPad

New Tool 3 (Frank)

Woven

New Tool 4 (Francis)

Invideo

Featured Story of the Week

Saving the best for last, our featured story of the week is...

Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal - TechCrunch

Announcements

Productivity Book Group - Group reading and discussion of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (March 2015 Edition) by David Allen, starting on January 7, 2021. Learn more via https://productivitybookgroup.org/community.

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Best Windows 10 Laptops of 2020, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

On this episode, Augusto and Ray cover the week's productivity and technology news along with a discussion on MakeUseOf's best Windows 10 laptops of 2020.

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Headlines & Show Notes | Best Windows 10 Laptops of 2020

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Stories of the Week

Apple releases iOS 14.2.1 with bug fixes for iPhone 12 mini, text messaging, more

What's New in macOS 11 Big Sur: Our Full Feature Roundup

Craig Federighi: Native Windows on M1 Macs is 'Really up to Microsoft'

Alphabet CFO explains how Google fixed a dip in productivity during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for iOS add Microsoft Office editing

Google Message end-to-end encryption

Google Meet attendance reports come to Workspace tiers

Chromebook PDF annotation will soon be possible in the new media app

Google Assistant Arrives on the Fitbit Sense and Versa 3

Asus announces new Chromebox 4 with 10th Gen Intel processors

PayPal launches its answer to GoFundMe

Quirklogic releases first firmware update for the Papyr - Good e-Reader

Remember the Milk now supports Apple Silicon

How To Feel Awake In The Morning: 7 Easy Tips

8 Totally Free VPN Services to Protect Your Privacy | MakeUseOf

The Manager’s Guide to Todoist

The Steward Mindset: A Key Mindset to Maximize Your Personal Growth

The new dos and don’ts of effective meetings: Data from 1,000+ business leaders on what makes meetings work

How to Break Free from People Pleasing and Speak Your Mind

New: Connect distributed teams at scale

8 Things That Can Help You Get More Hygge This Winter

13 books to read when you’re in a career rut

Happy 25th Birthday, GIMP -- you make Linux a viable Windows 10 alternative

Try This If You Can’t Stop Working At Night

Are You Missing This Essential Foundation for a Good Life?

Microsoft Edge Receives a New Copy-Paste Feature to Take On Chrome

How to disable Edge’s new URL copy and paste feature - The Verge

Microsoft Teams Takes on Zoom With Free All-Day Video Calling on the Web

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

New Tool 1 (Ray)

Brain.fm

New Tool 2 (Augusto)

Sidekick

Featured Story of the Week

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The 7 Best Windows Laptops of 2020

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:03Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by W three consulting. And I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 32 and recording this on November 30 2020. Each week we cover and discuss the productivity and technology news for the week. And so with that, let's get into the headlines. gousto What is our first headline this week we're going to go thro...

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Google Pay and PayPal Reinvigorate the Mobile Personal Finance, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

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Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at The Idea Pump, and host of the Being Productive podcast joins Augusto, Francis Wade and Ray each week on the podcast, ProductivityCast.

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the “Time Management” category for 2019 and 2020. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Headlines & Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

This Week's Theme... Thanksgiving / Gratitude

How to Do Thanksgiving This Year, With Andrew Zimmern

How to Host a Virtual Thanksgiving

The Third Step on Everyone’s Gratitude Journey where Many Stumble | Leadership Freak

Stories of the Week

My experience of the Weekly Review Habit. : gtd

The task of least regret | A Life of Productivity

Apple updates iWork for Mac with new icons and macOS Big Sur compatibility

Apple Launches an Embeddable Web Players for Podcasts

Apple Drops App Store Fees to 15% for All Developers Making Under $1 Million From App Store

GeForce Now arrives on iPhone, iPad and brings Fortnite too - 9to5Mac

Zoom Update – Share Multiple Programs – iPad Notebook

It’s Time to Break the VPN Habit — Neverware

Samsung’s new Smart Monitor works with wireless DeX, Apple AirPlay, native apps

The Remarkable has a vibrant hacking community | Good e-Reader

Here is a first look of the Onyx Boox Poke 2 Color e-reader | Good e-Reader

3 ways procrastination affected my life — and how I've overcome it

How to schedule your day to reach peak productivity - Timeular

When and How to Use Subtasks - The Asana Blog

Our Favorite Updates to Chrome 87 and Firefox 83

Introducing Google News Initiative Conversations

Gmail for iOS adds home screen widget as Chrome makes multi-window support on iPad official

Starting Next Year, Chrome Extensions Will Show What Data They Collect from Users

Google teams up with Citibank on mobile-first accounts

Three quarters of workers across the globe struggle as lockdown mental health pressures hinder work productivity - HR News

Alexa Routines Now Work on Amazon Fire TVs | in MakeUseOf

Oxford study finds that video games make people happier

Being wrong can actually be your fastest path to achievement

Letting Go Is Not Something You Do | The Minimalists

10 high paying jobs in the US (and the companies hiring for them now)

New Tools of the Week

Rally

LettuceMeet - Easy Group Scheduling

Neverware - CloudReady

Google Photos

Microsoft Edge

Featured Story of the Week

Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and morePayPal Now Lets All US Users Buy, Sell and Hold Cryptocurrency

Announcements

Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies ($24.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time, Free Wiley eBook

https://betanews.com/2020/11/18/apple-m1-mac-mini-discount/

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/11/02/motivation/

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Michael Sliwinski, Nozbe CEO

Michael is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, Nozbe Teams - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe Teams and Nozbe are web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

Headlines & Show Notes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwdkGKmZ0I One more thing. Apple Event - November 10, 2020

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Remote Work Productivity Wars Continue, Remember the Milk Adds Support for Zapier, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week

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Augusto Pinaud

Amie Devero

Amie Devero is an executive coach and strategy consultant, the founder of Beyond Better and the host of the Beyond Better community. Keynote speaker, workshop presenter and a member of Forbes Magazine Coaches Council, Amie also sits as an advisory board member of two start-up accelerators as well as on the boards of directors of several private companies.

Her book, Powered by Principle: Using Core Values to Build World-Class Organizations is available worldwide in two editions.

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at The Idea Pump, and host of the Being Productive podcast joins Augusto, Francis Wade and Ray each week on the podcast, ProductivityCast.

Headlines & Show Notes | Remote Work Productivity Wars Continue

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Amie mentioned her blog post, The Cost of Disengaged Managers.

Stories of the Week

Google One Now Includes a VPN on 2TB and Higher Plans | MakeUseOf

Google Workspace Updates: Replace your background in Google Meet

Google Messages starts rolling out message scheduling for some users

Freewrite Traveler Review

(7) HEY on Twitter: "NEW FEATURE: Name tags are here!

Join the beta testing program – Todoist

The best Chromebooks in 2020 - The Verge

The Art of Taking a Break So You Will Be Productive Again

Why maxing out your bandwidth is why you feel unproductive

Apple's Dark Sky Weather App Gains Improved Location Search and Other New Features - MacRumors

Apple Announces November 10, 2020 Online Media Event - MacStories

Switching Your Default HomePod Music Service to Pandora - MacStories

Spotify will finally let you stream music from an Apple Watch without an iPhone – BGR

Apple Releases iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 With New Emoji, Control Center Music Recognition, Intercom, Wallpapers and More - MacRumors

The Raspberry Pi 400 is the extra PC you never knew you needed – BGR

To Avoid Burnout, Know Your Minimum Output Level | by Darius Foroux | Oct, 2020 | Forge

Five ways to overcome negativity at the workplace and boost productivity

Staying Productive on Distracted Days - Study Hacks - Cal Newport

Stuff the monkey says — Introducing Remember The Milk for Zapier

New Tools of the Week

RescueTime: Automatic Time-Tracking Software

Use Screen Time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Notion Template Gallery

An Online Visual Collaboration Platform for Teamwork | Miro

Announcements

My New Planner + The Time Block Academy - Study Hacks - Cal Newport

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Apple Is Building a Search Engine to Rival Google Search - Anything But Idle - November 2, 2020

This week we cover a bunch of Apple news, including our featured story this week, that secretly (but not so much now) Apple is building a search engine to rival Google Search. Listen in our panel discusses logical fallacies that impact your productivity, a few new tools this week, and more productivity and technology news you can use on this episode of Anything But Idle.

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Augusto Pinaud

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019 and 2020. His career path took him from band director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Chris Keller, Appigo

Chris Keller is a long-time productivity enthusiast as an individual worker and also as a manager of the Todo Cloud productivity application which is one of the earliest in the market. He leads product, and strategy for the company in addition to marketing, strategy and independent software project management under the AppDevv company. Needless to say, Chris wears multiple hats to get stuff done.

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Stories of the Week

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 115 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Apple References Unreleased 2020 16-Inch MacBook Pro in Boot Camp Update

Apple One Launches

Apple Invites Developers to Get One-on-One Guidance From Engineers Ahead of Apple Silicon Mac Launch

Apple Pay With Express Transit Mode Now Available in Chicago

Apple Bear update: wiki export feature

Microsoft will force Internet Explorer users to open some websites in Edge

Microsoft now rolling out full iPadOS trackpad support to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel apps

Windows 10 update removes Adobe Flash Player for good - CNET

Luna Display for Windows by Astro HQ — Kickstarter

Lee Kun-hee, Who Built Samsung Into a Global Giant, Dies At 78

7 Cognitive Biases That Make Us Suck at Time Management

Creating a Productivity Dashboard in Ulysses for Weekly and Daily Planning

The War of Note-Taking Apps. A look into the battle of 2021 and my… | by Francesco D'Alessio | Oct, 2020 | Medium

OmniFocus for the Web Adds Support for Custom Perspectives

Introducing dark mode for Newton Mail | by Maitrik Kataria | Oct, 2020 | Paper Planes

Just Your Type—Keyboard Shortcuts To Help You Accomplish More

Ari Meisel is shutting down operations...?

Apple develops alternative to Google search | Financial Times

New Tools of the Week

Augusto and I come across many personal productivity tools and services each week. In this segment, New Tools of the Week, we each bring you a tool we think you might like.

Coda

Locast

PDFBear

TodoCloud

ParseHub | Free web scraping

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Windows 10 Comes to Chromebooks, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week - October 26, 2020

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Each week, Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud invite two personal productivity / organization experts to review the past week's news in the world of personal productivity and technology. This week, in addition to our Halloween theme, we dug into the productivity and technology news, including our featured story this week that Microsoft Windows 10 is coming to Chromebooks!

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In this Cast | Windows 10 Comes to Chromebooks

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Julie Bestry

Penny Zenker

Headlines & Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

YTMusicUploader: Automatically upload your music library to YouTube Music Google Play Music transfer to YouTube Music Apple Releases 14.1 Software for HomePod With Intercom and HomePod Mini Support - MacRumors Apple Music TV is a 24-hour stream of music videos, shows and events | Engadget Apple removes its 'TV Remote' app from the App Store as iOS now has an integrated Remote - 9to5Mac New Google Sheets Smart Fill feature aims to make your spreadsheets less tedious to fill out Mastering attention management for increased productivity Prioritization Matrix: Organize Allthethings Your Team Does Connect Todoist and Twist With All Your Favorite Apps Integrations | Todoist Twist: Clear & Organized Team Communication A Better Note-Taking System for Your Scattered Brain | by Ria Tagulinao | Oct, 2020 | Forge The Best Productivity Planners 2021: Personal & Business Organizers - Rolling Stone Planners and business organizers to improve life - Planner Pads Low-Code Apps Based on Spreadsheets Simplify Digital Business Transformation Ch-ch-changes: An all-new Loom - Loom Blog A walk-through of Loom’s branding/design transformation processCalendar View, Toggl's New Calendar Feature - Toggl Blog Evernote iOS app removes URL scheme support - General Discussion - Drafts Community Understanding the device limit – Evernote To become more productive, stop hustling | A Life of ProductivityBarnes and Noble Nook Services are still not restoredNOOK SupportTimeular 3.5 - effortless time tracking without limits - Timeular1Password for Linux Beta now available on Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, and moreYou Can Now Listen to Podcasts on Spotify Using Google AssistantAcer unveils Chromebook Spin 513 laptop and Chromebox CXI4 desktopElon Musk’s 2 rules for learning anything fasterMake It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning: Brown, Peter C., Roediger III, Henry L., McDaniel, Mark A.Make It Stick - Productivity Book GroupMicrosoft releases first build of its Edge browser for LinuxWindows 10 Insider Build 20241 Adds Some Great FeaturesThe Irony of the Google Antitrust Suit - The Atlantic

New Tools of the Week

Hold | Block Distractions Charty – Create charts from ShortcutsFocused Task - Open source mac menubar app that helps you do deep work | Product HuntGitHub - RStankov/FocusedTaskPlatstack | Save. Organize. Share. Explore.

Featured Story of the Week

Windows 10 Arrives on Chromebooks | MakeUseOf

Errata/Announcements

Use Google Voice with classic Hangouts - Computer - Hangouts Help Accomplish Anything with Evernote | November 19 | General Assembly

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Feedly Now Manages Newsletter Subscriptions, and More Productivity and Technology News This Week - October 19, 2020

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Each week, Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud invite two personal productivity / organization experts to review the past week's news in the world of personal productivity and technology. This week, our featured story is one of Ray's favorite online reading management tools, Feedly now manages newsletter subscription management, and we discuss all the rest of the news this week.

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In this Cast | Feedly Now Manages Newsletters

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at The Idea Pump, and host of the Being Productive podcast as well as ProductivityCast podcast.

Matt Plummer, CEO of Zarvana

Matt Plummer is a former operations manager and strategy & management consultant who got tired of sacrificing his personal life to work long hours without moving up in his career as quickly as he wanted. So he began a journey to greater productivity and ended up cutting his hours by over 30% and managing 3-4 projects in the time others managed two. This experience led him to start Zarvana, where he helps other ambitious professionals achieve the same results with workshops, coaching, and an online learning platform.

Headlines & Show Notes | Feedly Now Manages Newsletters

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This Week's Theme... Cybersecurity Awareness (in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month)

Ray's Top Three Tips to be cyber-secure...- Use a password manager- Update your software (OS, browser and apps)- Think before you click on a link- BONUS: Make backups!

Some additional resources around remote work, cybersecurity and data privacy:

New Report: Security Threats and Productivity Challenges Rise Due to Disconnect Caused by Remote Work"The remote work wake-up call: What we all need now"The new working-from-home reality requires business leaders and companies do everything they can to set their employees up for success.Increasing productivity and managing the WFH challenge10 Best Productivity Apps to Keep Your Mojo Going Even at Home"How to boost productivity and motivation as we adjust to working in the time of COVID-19"If you aren’t positive and supportive, your team won’t be either — and productivity and motivation could plummet.What are tips for increasing employee engagement and productivity virtually?Employee Privacy: A Priority For Your Business | AvastThe Right to Privacy, Surveillance-by-Software and the “Home-Workplace” – Philippa CollinsRemote working increases workers’ productivity, says survey"Coronavirus has shown why we need a four-day working week"Companies desperate to cut costs have temporarily ended the five day week. But evidence shows we should scrap it forever

Stories of the Week

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Apple live-broadcasted one of their notorious Apple Special Events on October 13, 2020, Hi, Speed! Listen to the Anything But Idle panel to learn what happened and what was announced at the Apple Hi, Speed! Special Event and how it will affect your personal productivity!

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Michael Sliwinksi, Nozbe

Michael Sliwinski is a productivity guy - he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe, where they have two productivity apps, Nozbe Teams - an uber-functional to-do app for small and medium teams and Nozbe - a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. Both Nozbe Teams and Nozbe are web-based tools with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR0g-1hnQPA&t=3420s

Apple’s October 13, 2020 Keynote: By the Numbers

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity and technology news and commentary show. Today's show is brought to you by WCC web services. And with that, I am Raisa D. Smith. And we're your hosts for anything but idle, today's show we are actually going to be covering. So this is Episode 24. And we're going to and this is being recorded October 14 2020. So welcome to everybody who is watching the live show each week, we cover and discuss the personal productivity news headlines of the week. But sometimes the tech giants, the powers that be have these special events that require us to come and come to you kind of in between our normal shows to discuss what happened. And that's what we're doing today. Today we're going to be covering the special event Apple hosted yesterday, October 13. It was called high speed that they broadcasted live. And in order to do that, we're bringing a special guest panelist today. Today we are bringing to you, Michael solinsky. He is the CEO of nos B and he's the CIO. nosb is a company that has two productivity apps, nos B teams and Uber functional to do app for small and medium teams, and nos be a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals. So both nosb teams and nosb professional, are web based tools, with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker. He's an author of few best selling books, a podcaster, and a blogger. And he's also happily married to his wife of Alina and their three daughters. And so welcome to the show, Michael. Hi. Thanks for having me. Wonderful. So I apologize, I'm playing broadcaster here. And so it's I'm playing with all the different pieces, bringing people up and down on the screen. And switching screens was a little bit of a challenge for me here. But here we are talking about high speed. And so the show was kind of broken up into four to five different parts. And gousto. Tell us a little bit about the show.

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To start off our new format for the show, we are covering all the past few weeks news, especially the announcement of Google Workspace (taking over for G Suite)! We invited Dr. Frank Buck and Zarvana CEO Matt Plummer to join us on this maiden voyage of Anything But Idle's live show!

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Augusto Pinaud

Frank Buck, EdD

Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. Frank Buck makes organization easy so you can increase productivity, decrease stress, and enjoy life. Global Gurus ranked Frank #1 in the world in the "Time Management" category for 2019 and 2020. His career path took him from band to director to principal to central office administrator and now to productivity coach and speaker.

Matt Plummer, CEO of Zarvana

Matt Plummer is a former operations manager and strategy & management consultant who got tired of sacrificing his personal life to work long hours without moving up in his career as quickly as he wanted. So he began a journey to greater productivity and ended up cutting his hours by over 30% and managing 3-4 projects in the time others managed two. This experience led him to start Zarvana, where he helps other ambitious professionals achieve the same results with workshops, coaching, and an online learning platform.

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This Week's Theme...Mental Health Awareness

In honor of World Mental Health Day (10.10.2020) and Mental Illness Awareness Week (last week), we're dedicating this episode to Mental Health Awareness.

Global Study: 82% of People Believe Robots Can Support Their Mental Health Better Than HumansResources for those in need of mental health assistanceMental Illness Awareness WeekSAMHSA’s National Helpline – 1-800-662-HELP (4357)SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)NIMH (National Institute for Mental Health) - Mental Illness/Health ResourcesCheckPoint.org Global Mental Health Resources

Hemingway App

Ulysses 21 Brings Revision Mode to iPhone and iPad Alongside Updated Design - MacStories

How Nebo 2.7 helps students achieve their full potential | by MyScript Nebo | Oct, 2020 | Medium

Facebook Portal Now Supports Zoom | MakeUseOf

Google launches Meet breakout rooms for small group discussions | Engadget

Panda release notes 1.0(992) - improvements, and fixes for all kinds of things - Updates - Bear Beta

Obsidian Release v0.9.2 - Announcements - Obsidian Forum

Obsidian Made Simple Course

Studying with the Flash Cards feature – GoodNotes Support

Introducing the New Evernote for Windows and Mac | Evernote Blog

Say goodbye to hold music

Stuff the monkey says — New for Remember The Milk on iOS 14: Home Screen...

New Facebook headset on a Quest to transport users to virtual workplaces

Templates Gallery (Notion)

Release Notes - MindNode

OmniFocus Release Notes - The Omni Group

Set your price for Pro extended through October - IFTTT

Email is broken and this company has a plan to fix it | WIRED UK

Six trends on the hype cycle for the digital workplace in 2020 | IT World Canada Blog

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Headlines & Show Notes | IFTTT goes pro

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https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/09/google-maps-apple-watch-app-now-available/

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QVdTbJ7IpFw/windows-10-themes-can-be-abused-to-steal-windows-passwords

https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/i-tried-the-5-highest-rated-productivity-hacks-heres-what-happened

https://www.enr.com/articles/49935-unengaged-employees-sap-companies-of-productivity-innovation

https://scientect.com/news/1118565/productivity-apps-market-may-see-a-big-move-by-2026/

https://www.streetinsider.com/Business+Wire/Stress%252C+Burnout+and+Technical+Issues+Threaten+the+Benefits+of+Working+From+Home%252C+According+to+Adaptavist+Study/17310099.html

https://get.todoist.help/hc/en-us/articles/360015960599-Use-Microsoft-Teams-with-Todoist?s=09

https://twitter.com/kcase/status/1303795999735836672?s=09

https://twitter.com/kcase/status/1304114244099555328?s=09

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/09/01/apple-iphone-12-pro-max-design-notch-display-charger-battery-upgrade-iphone-11-pro-max/#440929e82228

https://stacks.rocks

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-tool-for-thought/id1501563902

https://staceyoniot.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ifttt-pro/

https://ifttt.com/explore/introducing_ifttt_pro

Apple Event. September 15th. Time Flies

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 113 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud 0:06

I'm Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:08

and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 22. And we're recording this on September 11 2020. Each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current tools, Research Services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. This week, we're going to be covering a story about if going pro. But first, let's talk about the headlines a gousto. What's our first headline this week?

Augusto Pinaud 0:34

First headline is Google Maps for Apple Watch is now live. In the latest update, there is a big deal, you know that having the map on the watch, and the Apple Watch is really, really cool. But so far, you have been really limited to Apple Maps. So for those people who leave on the Google ecosystem, it's really cool to see that the Google Maps is now going to be able to give you that turn by turn into the watch and give you the those directions. So I think that is an incredible good news for everybody.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:05

Next up, we have a story out of Slashdot that talks about Windows 10 themes, being able to be abused to grab windows passwords. And so this is just kind of a note to folks to be careful of with the d...

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Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Safari 14 Gives Developers Conversion Capabilities for Chrome, Firefox and Edge Extensions

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Survey: Americans Have Experienced Increased Productivity and Work Performance Since the Pandemic, But Their Wellness Has Suffered

Microsoft Word can now transcribe your conversations on the web

GoodNotes Releases Collaboration Update — MacSparky

Spike conversational email app expands to Mac App Store with new download manager and integrated browser

Amazon Halo arrives as new fitness tracker

Asana plans NYSE direct listing in September - Bloomberg (Private:ASANA)

What's New in Todoist: Summer 2020 Edition

Google refines Drive shortcuts with migration set for 2021

Remove.bg

Adding to your life by substracting

‎Via Negativa - not to do list on the App Store

Featured Story of the Week

Apple Reminds Developers That Safari 14 Supports Extensions Ported From Chrome, Firefox, and Edge

Safari Web Extensions

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast I'm Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:07

I am Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:08

and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 21. And we're recording this on August 27 2020. Each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on and the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. And so with that, let's get into our headlines for this week. gousto What is our first headline this week,

Augusto Pinaud 0:30

business wire is bringing a survey title, Americans have experienced increasing productivity and work performance since the pandemic but the wellness has suffered. It is really an interesting survey, you know, and isn't reality that this pandemic has bring a lot of changes and I think at the beginning, a lot of people lose their routines, their gyms, their exercise before and after work and under dynamics for that was the social distances and everything else. It's not a surprise for me that they are saying that they are bringing this issue that the wellness has suffered. But also I think it's a matter of people getting into that new routine first people, for many people was working from home for the first time I'm getting used to that and getting used to be consumed most of the day or all day. Now, people he's getting back to fine how they can get their routines. You know how they can bring equipment at home or do equipment at home or do exercise or at home or whatever. So, I think we are going to see towards the end of the year,

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Telegram messaging app brings video calls to Android and iOS, and other personal productivity and technology news this week!

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community, welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:07

And I am Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:08

And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 19. And we're recording this on August 20 2020. Each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. And so with that, let's get into our headlines. First up Augusto, I see that Apple is extending Apple care plus, tell us a little bit about that.

Augusto Pinaud 0:33

I know Apple this week or early this week announced that they're changing their Apple care plus policies to the United States and Canada, up to one year to purchase Apple care after buying the device used to you used to have 60 days to buy the apple care. Now they extend that to whole one year before you need to buy, extend, extend care or the apple care plus. So that's a great news for anybody buying a new Apple device.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:01

Fantastic. Next up, Microsoft announced their Microsoft Surface duo product, both its price and release date. And we talked about that last week as our featured story. Well, this week, they told The Verge that they were going to be giving three years of Android updates, which in essence is the same as Google and Samsung is doing with their Android devices, which is three years of updates as well. And this is really fantastic. I think this is good parody across the ecosystem, so that Android users know that they're going to buy high end products and continue to get updates. That is not just feature updates. I think that's a good thing. But it's really about the security updates as well, that I'm really always quite concerned about. One thing is that the article noticed noted that the article title noted that it was Microsoft Surface phone, I would just keep correcting everyone that Microsoft is calling the surface duo, a part of its do a product line, it is not calling it a phone. So I just took a little bit of umbrage With you know, the articles, flagrant use of phone the title

Augusto Pinaud 2:05

yeah i think i think Microsoft had a challenging time with phones and I think are wise not to call it a phone let's let's see if they if we break the curse on now we have some

Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:15

to do with news the folks at dualist have launched a couple of new pretty important features on the platform. You want to tackle that gousto in terms of the first part,

Augusto Pinaud 2:27

yeah, one of them is boards and now you have our they have the better access to the board something simila...

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Android-Powered Microsoft Surface Duo goes on pre-sale, and other personal productivity and technology news this week!

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Headlines & Show Notes | Android-Powered Microsoft Surface Duo Is on Sale, and Other

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COVID-19 NEWS

Facebook to Continue WFH Until July 2021

Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

Mozilla lays off 250 employees due to the pandemic

APPLE NEWS

Fantastical Launches New Premium Subscription for Families

Apple Seeds First Public Beta of watchOS 7 to Public Beta Testers

Apple releases iOS 13.6.1 and iPadOS 13.6.1 for all users

Google Maps is getting a big upgrade on Apple CarPlay and Apple Watch

OTHER NEWS

Inside Notion's global expansion plan

NeuralCam Live uses ML to turn iPhones into ‘smart’ computer webcams

Dropbox Launches Password Manager, File Vault, and More Across iPhone and Mac

GOOGLE NEWS

Fossil smartwatch health update coming to Gen 5 models

Android 11 autofill gets better with keyboard input

Google turns Android phones into an earthquake detection network

Google's Bedtime wellness feature is no longer a Pixel exclusive

TOOL 1 (Ray)

Powerful Email Signature Generator for Teams - signature.email

TOOL 2 (Augusto)

Setapp Mac App Subscription Service Expands to iOS

Setapp Now Includes iOS Apps – The Sweet Setup

FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK

You can pre-order Microsoft's Surface Duo foldable phone today

Microsoft Surface Duo Phone Goes on Sale Starting at $1,399

EXTRAS

Microsoft's Xbox Series X arrives in November

Google delays shutdown of support for native Chrome apps

Radical Acceptance as a Tool for Change

The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity: 43 Tips to Be More Efficient, More Effective (and a Lot Happier)

E Ink demos a folding e-reader that can also take notes

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. I'm Agustina, and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 18. And we're recording this on August 13 2020. Each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research services, products, tools, and more in the world of personal productivity. With that, let's get into our headlines. So we have some COVID-19 News,

Augusto Pinaud 0:31

Facebook decide to continue working from home until at least July 2021. That is our first news. And then Atlassian tell employees that they can work from home forever. So they change their policy and now you can work from home indefinitely. And the third news we have for COVID-19 is not as happy news as Mozilla lays off 250 of their employees do To COVID-19, you know, that's 250 it is a significant percentage of the people who are talking about 25% of the Mozilla employees. So that's the the sad news of of the weeks.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:13

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Headlines & Show Notes | Samsung and Microsoft Brings Android Apps to Windows 10 from Note 20 Devices

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LastPass will warn you if your passwords show up on the dark web
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348963/google-chrome-os-windows-apps-chromebooks-features-interview
YouTube Criticized For Ending Its Community Captions Feature
Google’s Remote Work Policy Has 9 Great Tips You Should Definitely Steal Today
Google finally launches Nearby Share to rival Apple's AirDrop
Google Fitbit takeover sparks investigation by EU
What’s new in Teamwork Spaces
FacileThings - July 2020: Here is where we are at
Study examines stay-at-home worker productivity potential
July 2020 Updates. They say to focus on what you can… | by Team Nirvana | Free Your Mind | Jul, 2020 | Medium
Working from home poses serious dangers for employers and employees alike – Fortune
Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021
Full Focus Planner for Kids and Students - currently 10% off

https://landing.michaelhyatt.com/family-ideal-week? Full Focus Planner - Students

Verizon is offering 6 months of to-do list premium for free to new subscribers who are students or teachers
Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » SoundSource 5 Is Sound Control, Reimagined

https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/05/virginia-becomes-first-us-state-to-debut-covid-19-tracing-app-using-apple-and-google-api/

Apple Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Apple Store App With Balloons
Apple’s New iMac Arrives as Phil Schiller Takes a New Role

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/

https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/01/new-unpatchable-exploit-allegedly-found-on-apples-secure-enclave-chip-heres-what-it-could-mean

Day One Releases 5.0 Update for iOS & Mac
Mailbrew -- Bundle your newsletters

Bundle your newsletters

iOS Concepts. The Stretching app.

Concepts App • Infinite, Flexible Sketching

Samsung and Microsoft will let you run Galaxy Note 20 apps on your Windows 10 PC

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith Bruce token, and we're hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 17. And we're recording this on August 6 2020. Each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. This week, we are going to be covering a little bit about the Samsung unpacked event.

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This is special coverage of Samsung Unpacked 2020. This is different than our normal episodes, but we hope to do these special coverage episodes when big productivity and technology events happen.

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Headlines & Show Notes | Samsung Unpacked 2020 Commentary

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Galaxy Note 20 | 20UltraGalaxy Tab S7 | S7+Galaxy Watch 3Galaxy Buds LiveGalaxy Z Fold 2Samsung Members Brand Ambassador Program

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Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 16. And we're recording this on August 6 2020. This is special coverage of our commentary on Samsung unpacked 2020, their event about releasing their product line for 2020. And this is obviously different than our normal episodes. But we hope to do these special coverage episodes when we have big productivity and technology events that are happening around us. So with that, let's get into what happened at Samsung unpacked of 2020 gousto What was the first thing that you noticed about the event, and let's get into the products that they launched,

Augusto Pinaud 0:45

the event was held live from Korea that was quite interesting, but they did a wall of people what they called Samson ambassadors on the background and that was really really nice in all that people there and clubbing and all this, especially on this conditions that we are. The other thing that I saw was they did a really nice introduction, recognizing the conditions and we're leaving and saying how they have been trying to change the world as a technology company without expecting that the world has going to change us. I think that was that was that was a really good day introduction. His page was really really good. So the first product was a note 20 and the note 20 Ultra both devices one of them is 6.7 inch screen the other one is 6.9. The Ultra it's a 120 megahertz screen and they come with the Aspen it's a really nice phone and they are introducing a new color Browns color so they will you will be able to find them in white black and browns.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:51

I really found the demonstration of the products on screen. Very well done. I felt like the maybe The commercial type interludes, were a little bit much I know, they wanted to fill time and show the product in its best light. So obviously showing what amounts to probably their commercials, they kind of had these little interludes. They were fine. I could have stood without them and saved myself, you know, 30 minutes in the presentation itself. And I noticed just before we started recording, this has been watched 5.7 million times the event itself. And so obviously, this is a big entertainment piece. And so I understand why they put it in there. I just know that you know, I, I will inevitably see those commercials around, you know,

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This week, we discuss: Will Google Assistant Push Aside Samsung Bixby on Samsung Devices? and lots of other personal productivity and technology news that happened in the past week.

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In this Cast | Will Google Assistant Push Aside Samsung Bixby on Samsung Devices?

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

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Phone backup and a new storage manager in the Google One app

Google Cloud Claims Another Win With Box Partnership

Google Lens appears in Gboard with 'send to keyboard' - 9to5Google

Google employees working from home until summer 2021 - Business Insider

Nozbe Teams launches today on Product Hunt! – by Michael Sliwinski

Getting Things Done in Nozbe Teams with Nozbe CEO Michael Sliwinski (ProductivityCast)

Amazon Debuts Revamped Alexa App That's Rolling Out to iOS Users Soon - MacRumors

Microsoft Teams | New Meeting Experience - First Look - YouTube

Microsoft is about to solve one of the web's biggest problems | TechRadar

Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

Microsoft (MSFT) earnings Q4 2020

How to Use Airtable, Trello, and Other Apps to Fix Your Life | WIRED

Protect Yourself From the Hack of Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly

CES 2021 shifts to fully virtual experience after originally planning for in-person event - 9to5Mac

This Company's New 2-Sentence Remote Work Policy Is the Best I've Ever Heard | Inc.com

Target and Walmart May Have Just Killed Black Friday as We Know It - Slashdot

Your tax refund from the IRS this year may be a lot bigger than you expected – BGR

Spotify says listener habits are almost back to pre-pandemic levels | Engadget

It’s time to redefine workplace productivity | TechRadar

Council Post: Productivity Tracking: The Do's And Don'ts For Successful Implementation

Carleton Students Create Browser Extension to Help Remote Workers

What Is Intuitive Scheduling? This Hack Could Be The Key To Better Productivity

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore, PhDUnschedule video tutorial and template

Apple starts making first flagship iPhone in India - The Verge

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 111 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements -MacRumors

Why Bowdoin College is giving students iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard instead of Macs for online classes - 9to5Mac

My favorite new iOS 14 feature so far is a hidden iPhone trick you’ll use all the time – BGR

Parallels Simplifies Remote Worker Productivity and Personal Help with Parallels Access 6 and Parallels Toolbox 4 for Windows and Mac

New Tools of the Week

Mimestream | A native Gmail client for macOS

Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.

Featured Story of the Week

Google reportedly negotiating with Samsung to push Assistant over Bixby - The Verge

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What to expect from Samsung's Unpacked event next week | Engadget

Samsung Releases Teaser for Galaxy Unpacked Event on August 5 - MacRumors

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G Suite is giving Gmail a major productivity upgrade in an announcement this week by Google at their enterprise conference, and other personal productivity and technology news for you.

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In this Cast | G Suite Gmail Is Getting a Major Productivity Upgrade

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | G Suite Gmail Is Getting a Major Productivity Upgrade

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[Omni Group] released OmniFocus 3.9 for Mac | Twitter

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 110 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements - MacRumors

How to install macOS Big Sur beta on a separate APFS volume [Video] - 9to5Mac

Launching Camo - Reincubate

Amazon coronavirus work from home policy extended until January 8

Why remote work shouldn't mean micromanaging—and what to do instead | Zapier

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute by Kenneth Blanchard, PhD

Microsoft Launcher's biggest overhaul yet is here | Windows Central

FCC makes 988 the 3-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline | Engadget

National Suicide Prevention LifelineNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline Chat

Introducing OnMail, the first Permission-Based Email Service | by Edison

A BetterBook, a Notebook, But Better by orangered life — Kickstarter

Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft | The Official Slack Blog

Grammarly's advanced features are coming to Google Docs | Engadget

Google experimenting with dual-touchscreen Chromebook - 9to5Google

"Explore” helps you get the most out of Chromebook

How to free up space in your Google Account | Digit

Practice.dev

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Updates in G Suite unify contacts, content, and tasks in Gmail so you can make the most of your time. | Google Cloud Blog

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:01Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community. Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

Augusto Pinaud 0:07I'm Augusto Pinaud.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:08And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 14. And we're recording this on July 23 2020. Each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research technology products and more in the world of personal productivity. And so with that, let's get into our headlines. What is our first headline of the week of gousto

Augusto Pinaud 0:28first headline of the week is a release of OmniFocus 3.9. for Mac. They are unified, the trials and improvement documentation and they have been working into this Omni automation API was the idea of extend the same automation for the Mac as well as the iOS app.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:51Next up is that Apple has released the safari technology preview 110 and what that means is that that's just an essence that The experimental browser that Apple introduced actually four years ago, it gives them an opportunity to be able to test features with developers and with the kind of dedicated Apple community Apple Safari community so that they can see what's going on and what's happening and so on so forth.

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For the first time, Apple hosted its Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2020 (WWDC) keynote virtually (and prerecorded) to open the week of developer-focused events (also virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Augusto Pinaud is our Apple aficionado and leads us through what happened at this year's WWDC!

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In this Cast | Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2020

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

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WWDC 2020: Complete Transcript of Apple's Keynote with iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and More - MacRumors iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 will let you set default email and browser apps - The Verge Apple reimagines the iPhone experience with iOS 14 - Apple Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon - Apple Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with a beautiful new design - Apple iPadOS 14 introduces new features designed specifically for iPad - Apple watchOS 7 adds significant personalization, health, and fitness features to Apple Watch - Apple

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0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community. Welcome to anything but idle. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

0:05I'm Augusto Pinaud

0:06and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is episode eight. And we're recording this on June 22 2020. This is actually special coverage of the Apple Worldwide developer conference. This is different than our normal episodes. But we hope to do these special coverage episodes when big productivity and technology events happen. So that's why we're here to talk about WWDC. And so with that, let's get into what happened today at the Apple Worldwide developer conference, keynote. Just from hearing the chatter around the event. I immediately thought I think this is probably going to be a digital experience permanently I feel like they really just did this really clean pre recorded event and it just seemed to work so well for them. You know, that was my impression Apple really they have been for years now providing the video they did at this time notice a difference on their website, YouTube Apple TV as well. A developer apps and I like you I think they have been they one of the issues on the previous years is that they run out of space so quick, so they can really scale up this if they stay digitally. Plus for the people who who travels and Elise is also such as less of a hassle or, or maybe even more hassle because some of them may be at home and getting distracted. I don't know. But like you and what I'm hearing is this digital experience is going to be here to stay. I'm probably sure that the next keynote, we'll have people but the WWDC DC as we know will be but it was fun to see. They obviously show how incredible Apple is as a marketing machine. They start with a flying emojis around the world was a computer and he was really really awesome at the beginning of the presentation and notice a surprise Tim Cook came after that and before he even start and everything in the apple Park he said well, we need to address racism, injustice and inequality and he talked about the efforts that Apple is doing Apple just recently open 100 million dollar fund to find these issues and and Tim Co...

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This is Episode 003 and we recorded this on May 21, 2020. Each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. This week's featured story is "Notion Changes Its Personal Plan Pricing." Notion, the cloud-based, personal productivity application, that recently raised 50 million USD in funding has now made a dramatic change to its pricing plans (hint: more for free!). Plus, much more productivity and technology news!

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In this Cast | Notion Changes Its Personal Plan Pricing

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

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New Survey Shows 47% Increase In Productivity: 3 Things You Must Do When Working From Home

Prodoscore Research from March/April 2020: Productivity Has Increased, Led By Remote Workers

Google Fi rolling out eSIM support for existing iOS members

Activate Google Fi on an iPhone with an eSIM

Four day workweek might help stop coronavirus spread

Chromium Blog: Protecting against resource-heavy ads in Chrome

Adobe brings Curves to Photoshop on iPad, ProRes RAW support in Premiere Pro and After Effects, more

"Todoist for iPadOS 13.4+ now has mouse & trackpad support! 🖱 * Hover over buttons to watch your pointer morph to match * Right click tasks, projects, labels, and filters to bring up menus * Long press on iOS/iPadOS 13+ to bring up menus too ⏰This is rolling out over 24 hours!

‎New Task - Lists & Remind me! on the App Store

What Edison Mail's Security Disaster Means for Your Email

Apple Releases iOS 13.5 with COVID-19 Exposure Notifications, Face ID Bypass for Masks, FaceTime Setting, and Apple Music Stories Sharing

Coronavirus location-tracking controversy sees NZ compromise

Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids

Announcing Microsoft Lists - Your smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365

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New research: 92% of people work in the evenings and on weekends

'Facebook Shops' launching today, will eventually work across Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp

Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million

Notion's note-taking and productivity app is now free for personal use

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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but I don't the productivity news podcast, I'm Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto PinaudAnd I'm Augusto Pinaud

Raymond Sidney-Smithand we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode Three and we're recording this on May 21 2020. Each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. Then we have our science of productivity segment. After that we we go into our featured story of the week. And with that, let's get into our headlines. So Augusto what is our first story this week?

Augusto Pinaud 0:28So Forbes published an article titled new surveys shows 47% increase on productivity three things you must do when working from home. It is interesting how much struggle for some people has been these coming home and working and the article bring three goodie triggered points for people who have no experience working from home to implement one of the...

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Get Some Google Cloud Training, and Other Productivity News

Episode 002 | May 15, 2020

This week on Anything But Idle, we discuss all the best personal productivity news headlines we've come across, including our featured story this week about Google providing some free training opportunities if you're looking to learn about its cloud infrastructure platform, Google Cloud. There's so much more to Google Cloud than meets the eye!

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In this Cast | Get Some Google Cloud Training

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Headlines & Show Notes | Get Some Google Cloud Training

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Our NEW Website and the Next Chapter of Learn OmniFocus - Learn OmniFocus

What's New?

Amazon Launches All-New Fire Tablets to Keep You Entertained

A simpler, more organized Slack on your phone | The Official Slack Blog

Lowdown - Auto-generate newsletters from Slack community content | Product Hunt

The Keyboardio Atreus by Keyboardio — Kickstarter

WayTools TextBlade - Magnetic Keyboard for iPhone, iPad, Android

Surface Go 2 review: Microsoft's tiny PC is only a tiny bit better | Engadget

Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for iPad Now Support Split View - MacRumors

Google's Read Along App Helps Teach Kids How to Read

Facebook app for iPadOS updated with Split View and Slide Over multitasking support - 9to5Mac

The Dell UltraSharp 49 review begins – first impressions - 9to5Mac

Introducing Status for remote work - The Asana Blog

New Research Reveals Americans, as Both Employees and Consumers, Value Family-Friendly Benefits Over More Costly Perks - Business - Odessa

The Work+Life Report 2020 - Care.com.pdf

Facebook officially releases its 50-person 'Messenger Rooms' alternative to Zoom - 9to5Mac

Box Launches All-New Box Experience to Simplify Work | Business Wire

How to Enable Group Tabs on Google Chrome

Productivity Is Not Working | WIRED

Apple details COVID-19 adjustments in latest Supplier Responsibility Report - 9to5Mac

How coronavirus is changing the way we use digital devices, apps & tools

Google Cloud Training

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Unknown Speaker 0:01Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith

I'm Augusto Pinaud

and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode Two and we're recording this on May 15 2020. How is your quarantine Friday going? Cousteau it is going well, it is going well we have not. We have been staying in quarantine and trying the best to get into a new kind of routine with all this. I hear you I hear you. So each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. Then we have our science of productivity segment brought to you by Zavala, Matt Plummer brings us the science of productivity. And then we go into our featured story of the week before we close out where we provide a little bit more commentary and context for our featured story. With that, let's get into our headlines. First up, we have a new learn OmniFocus website. What is the context on that Augusto? No Tim stringer has done

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Businesses Aren't Ready for Working From Home (But Employees Want It), and More Productivity News

Episode 001 | May 8, 2020

This week on Anything But Idle, we discuss all the best personal productivity news headlines we've come across, including our featured story that talks about how a UK survey noted that businesses aren't ready for working from home (but workers think their productivity is enhance by a whopping 85%!).

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Headlines & Show Notes | Businesses Aren't Ready for Working From Home

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Slack for Android completely revamps app w/ new interface - 9to5Google

Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet - The Verge

The Harms Of “Productivity and Activity Monitoring” Of Remote Workers During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Wunderlist founder announces a new productivity app called Superlist - The Verge

Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and faster performance - Apple

Highlighted: Book Highlighter

How to install the iOS 13.5 public beta on your iPhone - 9to5Mac

Microsoft Outlook for iPhone and iPad adds new ‘Ignore Conversation’ feature - 9to5Mac

Productivity Confidential: Productivity with a Purpose

New Things for Apple Watch - Things Blog - Cultured Code

Phone Call Translator - Translates your voice calls into 29 languages in real-time | Product Hunt

Planner app in Microsoft Teams will become the Tasks app soon, will combine Planner and To Do » OnMSFT.com

COVID-19 Accelerates The iPad’s Appeal As A Productivity Device

A Smart Workplace for the Workforce of the Future

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Businesses Aren't Ready for Working From Home

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith.

I'm Augusto Pinaud.

And we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is episode one. And we're recording this on May 8 2020. Each week, we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. Then we have our signs of productivity segment. After that, we go into our featured story of the week. And with that, let's get into our headlines, a gusto. So let's start off with our first headline, which is that slack completely revamped its Android app with a new swipe based UI user interface. And so now you're able to go ahead and kind of just swipe back and forth. And instead of clicking on the navigation buttons on the bottom, us, in essence can swipe back and forth between quick selections between the the navigation drawer for the different channels and messages, and then swipe to the right for some options and so on and so forth. So it's a it's an interesting Piece I've not quite gotten my own handle on the swipe functions. But it i think is an easy way to jump back and forth between different items. What's Next up on the headlines?

Augusto Pinaud 1:11So the harm of productivity and activity monitoring of remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a really interesting article from tryg Clavell who,

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