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 the Productivity (and Technology) News Podcast© 2025
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  • Can You Work Efficiently Using Only Your Smartphone?

    Can You Work Efficiently Using Only Your Smartphone?
    Mar 27 2025

    This week, Augusto and Ray focus on the future of work. We discuss the pros and cons of working exclusively from your smartphone and the reasons why some women are disproportionately affected by the end of remote work. Additionally, we talk about burnout and strategies for managing our workloads and maintaining a healthy work-life balance given the impossibility of ever being fully caught up. Listen for all the news and more on this week’s Anything But Idle.

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    Ray Sidney-Smith

    Augusto Pinaud

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    • Working entirely from my Phone
    • You’re never going to be caught up at work
    • ‘Time Affluence’ Is a Different Way to Think About Wealth
    • The end of remote work doesn’t work for women
    • Gretchen Rubin Guide: Make Organizing Simpler
    • How Can I Avoid Burnout at Work?
    • Apple Intelligence isn’t just bad, it’s making Apple worse
    • RCS messaging will get end-to-end encryption on iPhone
    • Message threads are coming to WhatsApp
    • Calibre 8.0 Can Now Convert EPUB E-books To Kobo KEPUB
    • Listening to music alone comes with hidden benefits
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  • Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024

    Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024
    Jan 19 2024
    Anything But Idle is currently on hiatus but Ray Sidney-Smith ( https://twominuterule.com) and Augusto Pinaud ( https://productivityvoice.com/) are occasionally doing episodes for commentary on major news/events in the world of personal productivity and related technologies. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://anythingbutidle.com for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you’d like to continue discussing any news from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024 Ray 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. Headlines & Show Notes | Commentary on Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2024 Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Summary (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 ...
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  • How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan

    How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan
    Jul 25 2023
    How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week. Each week, Ray Sidney-Smith ( https://twominuterule.com) and Augusto Pinaud ( https://productivityvoice.com/) review and provide commentary on the week’s news in the world of personal productivity and related technologies. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://anythingbutidle.com for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you’d like to continue discussing any news from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes | How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Headlines Part A Work stress: Strategies to deal with burnout and work-related stressHow to Better Manage Your TimeLab #26: How to Create that Winning Feeling Every Single DayThe Power of Music: Transforming Mood and PerformanceProductivity Habits Trusted By The World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs Headlines, Part B Shiny Frog Releases Bear 2.0Apple 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 exploitApple releases iOS 16.6Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar | TechCrunchGoogle Calendar now allows users to take paid appointmentsGoogle’s AI-powered notes app is now called NotebookLM, and it’s launching today9to5Google: Google One VPN switching from broad to local IP addressesWhatsApp 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-BeingJobs will be transformed by A.I. through productivity boost, says Harvard professor Tsedal NeeleyOpen Offices: Collaboration Heaven or Productivity HellWhat Is Productivity Anxiety? 5 Strategies to Overcome ItEmployers wake up to the power of a staff napHow to Manage Performance Issues | Corporate Wellness | Employee Well-BeingCombat 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 attentionHarvard psychologist shares 9 toxic phrases ‘gaslighters’ always use—and how to respond10 Things You Should Almost Always Buy Used5 Signs You Are Sabotaging Your Inner PeaceApple Releases Safari Technology Preview 174 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements All the Reasons You Might Not Want to Join ThreadsBest Office Monitors 2023: for enhanced productivity Raw Text Transcript | How to Start a New Job With a 30-60-90 Day Plan Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello, 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 0:11I’m Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:13And we’re your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 123, how to start a new job with a 30-60-90 day plan. And we’re recording this on July 24 2023. Each week of this year, I cover the productivity and related technology news headlines of the week. So you know what’s going on in the world of productivity. And so with that, let’s get into our headlines of Augusto. What’s our first story this week, Augusto Pinaud 0:37on the first story come from the economic times. And he says strategies to deal with burn out and work related stress. And so it’s a good article talks about the hustle culture talk about things that I don’t do, but I understand and work for people, you know, like said, clear boundaries, I I don’t do that I have never done that I have never understood that part of the work life balance, I havea balance. But at the same time, the article talks about self care. And that’s something that is ...
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