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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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  • How Productive is Joining Instagram Threads

    How Productive is Joining Instagram Threads
    Jul 11 2023
    How Productive is Joining Instagram Threads, and the Productivity and Technology News This 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 | Joining Instagram Threads Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes | Joining Instagram Threads Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Headlines, Part A 49 Life Lessons In 49 Years Of Living – ProductivityistWhen In Doubt, Change EverythingChange The Way You See Yourself Why A Positive Attitude Attracts Success Headlines, Part B Wish List: Keep apps from being offloadedThis iPhone trick will make sure you never miss your morning alarm againWhat’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 timeGoogle Calendars redesign for tablets and Chromebooks finally rolling out widelyHow to Convert Images to Editable Text in Microsoft WordHow to Make Your Own Printable Calendar Using CanvaHow to migrate your Facebook post and media to Google Docs and Google PhotosEarly Prime Day Deals: Kindle Paperwhite Kids Edition Kindle Scribe Fire HD 8 discountedNew Updates to Amazon Kindle Scribe Make It Peoples Favorite New Tools of the Week SidekickDictation. 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 TwitterHow to add and manage multiple accounts in Threads Meta’s new Twitter rivalTwitter 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 agreementLeonardo da Vinci: Inside a genius mind Notes Why You’re So UnhappyTestFlight Now Supports visionOS Apps Vision Pro accessories from CASETiFY will let you personalize and protect your deviceiPad keyboard maker Brydge revived under new ownership; details on unpaid salaries and unfulfilled orders unknown Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 173 With Safari 17 FeaturesFacing the Sirens of Flow & Breaking Hyperfocus How to Better Manage Your Time Scientific Daily Routine Everyone Should DoThe relationship between homeworking during COVID-19 and both, mental health, and productivity: a systematic review5 Mental Health Rewards Of Embracing Minimalism, According To A PsychologistFive Strategies for Being More ProductiveWhat is the TikTok 5-to-9 trend and how does it increase productivity?Creating A Cosy And Functional Employee Area – Boosting Staff Productivity And SatisfactionWhat to Do When You Can’t Fall Asleep May Surprise YouHow Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There’s a Test You Can TakeMinimalism vs. Consumerism: The Benefits of Choosing a Simple LifeWhy Do We Still Work While on Vacation? Toxic ProductivityHow to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of EducationSleep Deprivation Sometimes Relieves Depression. A New Study May Show WhyWrite More in Less Time. 6 Strategies To Increase Your OutputOnboarding vs orientation: Your questions answered | Trello Raw Text Transcript | Joining Instagram Threads 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 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. I’m Augusto Pinaud. And we’re hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 122, How productive is joining Instagram threads. And we’re recording this on July 10 2023. 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 its related technologies. And so with that, Augusto, let’s get into our productivity headlines. What’s our first productivity headline this week? Augusto Pinaud 0:39Well, our first article is 49 life lessons in 14 years of living. So happy birthday, Mike guardi. And it is it is a short list. short list of 4090 minutes depending ...
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Remembering Your Notes

    Remembering Your Notes
    Jul 6 2023
    Remembering Your Notes, and the Productivity and Technology News of the Week (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 | Remembering Your Notes Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes | Remembering Your Notes Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Headlines, Part A The forced return to the office is the definition of insanityBusiness Insider: In the age of remote work, employers are quiet-quitting on employeesFortune: 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: ReviewOnyx launches compact pocket PC with eye-friendly color ePaper screenAndroid Police: Android is changing its brand identity once againIntroduction to reminders (Todoist)12 Week Year in TodoistOculus cofounder sees the future in Apple Vision ProApple Glasses won’t face competition from Google Iris smart glassesHow to manage your notes with OneNote & Google TasksHow to add notes to site passwords saved in Google Chrome Tools of the Week Glasp / HypothesisA 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 StuckLeveraging FearApple increases iCloud storage prices in the UK and other marketsCron launches Notion integrationReddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopenGoogle Chat is getting new tools to help you reply to messages faster better express yourselfEvernote – why I love(d) it, how it almost acquired Nozbe and what’s next for your “external brain”? The Business 2023 Raw Text Transcript | Remembering Your Notes 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 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, there is a myth that people work better in the office that there is something that the office will provide, other than distraction and bad coffee. So that’s what the article goes talk about the roadblocks of productivity, and how CEOs are founding this hard balance into let’s try to go back and really what productivity is doing with those. Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:35Yeah, so So this article is, is very well in line with the next two articles that we’re going to be discussing. So I’ll kind of put my piece here and then we’ll go on to the next article and how it kind of leads into it. But I have a lot of thoughts regarding this forced return to the office, I think the article author makes some really salient points here. And this is a this is a fortune article, it’s written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursk, hopefully got that name, right. But this is a is a person who helps tech and finance industry executives drive collaboration, innovation and retention in hybrid work, according to the little bio that’s there. And so this consultant is kind of in that space. And for me, it seems pretty intuitive, that this would be the problem that we see when there is any forced culture change. So ...
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  • Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS

    Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS
    Jun 28 2023
    Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS 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 | 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 Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Headlines, Part A Transforming Your Home Office: Designing A Productive And Inspiring WorkspaceOvercoming Laziness: Applying The Kaizen Philosophy For Personal GrowthWhen You Feel Overwhelmed Do Less BetterIs 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 ChromeOSGoogle’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 SquarespaceiPadOS 17 will make your iPad Pro a ComputerOmni Roadmap 2023 — Post-WWDC UpdateAmazon’s ‘Hey Disney!’ experience comes to all Echo devicesHow to Find and Replace Outdated Windows Drivers Tools of the Week SonaGreenlight 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 meansGenerative 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 RealityEpisode #212: Dave Edwards interviews David AllenWhy I Quit Beast Mode and How I Traded Burnout for Peace and BalanceHow to Overcome Procrastination: A Neuroscience Based Approach to Get More Done15 Books on Procrastination To Help You Start Taking ActionHow to be more productive at workCan You Be Productive Working Only 45% Of The Day?Smart drugs fall short as cognitive function enhancersRethinking Smart: Cognitive Enhancers May Diminish Performance in Those Without ADHDHow to Incorporate Zen to Done Productivity Method Into Your Everyday LifeFor companies sticking with remote work, the rules are becoming clearPodcast #905: Become a Morning Workout PersonStart Optimizing Your StressStress Testing Your Productivity System: Three Tips for When Your Productivity System Fails YouTime, Nature, and ADHD – a Podcast Discussion with Take Control ADHDMicrosoft updates Windows 11 system requirements and CPU support listApple Podcasts gets upgraded search functionalityFirst 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 moreApple Releases macOS Ventura 13.4.1 With Security FixesApple Releases iOS 16.5.1 With Fix for Lightning to USB Camera Adapter Bug Apple releases iOS 16.5.1 with bug fixes for your iPhone Google’s Duet AI can generate custom templates in Sheets Logseq vs Obsidian: find the best note app for productivity needsManage tasks in sprints – Notion ProjectsiOS 17 to Enable Recurring Apple Cash Payments for Kids Allowances and Other Shared Expenses Raw Text Transcript | Microsoft Makes a Big Update to OneNote on iOS 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 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 0:15And we’re your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 120. Microsoft makes a big update to OneNote on iOS. And we’re recording this on June 26 2023. Each week, Augusto and I cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what’s going on in ...
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  • Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works

    Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works
    Jun 21 2023
    Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works 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 | Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes | Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Headlines, Part A Boring To-Do Lists? Not If You Study Leonardo da VinciDeclare ‘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 for15-inch MacBook Air hands-on: My dreams have finally come trueiOS 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 tagHow 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 DropGoogle Meet On-the-Go mode will automatically take away distractions if you’re not stationaryLenovo Smart Paper now available in the UK and the NetherlandsOld Kindle Paperwhite turned into a WeatherBoard to display weather information New Tools of the Week h264ifyNew! 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 ExpensesMicrosoft 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 ADHDRethinking Smart: Cognitive Enhancers May Diminish Performance in Those Without ADHDTry ‘Task Batching’ for a More Productive WeekHow to be more productive at workTraffic congestion and the employee psyche – Jamaica ObserverBrain Food: Big ambitions Low expectations and High StandardsGenerative A.I. Can Add $4.4 Trillion in Value to Global Economy, Study Says – The New York Times3 key Vision Pro features that Apple rivals will have a hard time copyingBest Buy Expands Upgrade+ Program to iPad Pro and Apple Watch UltraApple Card Monthly Installments Term for Apple Watch to Change From 24 Months to 12 MonthsApple Releases Safari Technology Preview 172 With Bug Fixes and Performance ImprovementsHere’s How Web Apps Work in macOS SonomaYou can finally buy a Matter smart lockChrome adding full Google Password Manager UI complete with desktop shortcutChromeOS 114 brings some new goodies but Im here for the Emoji pickerOura Ring users can now share sleep scores with friendsGoogle Photos on the web gets a huge photo editing boostEvery smartphone should be a flip phone, starting right nowNow that Im using Google Tasks a lot more I wish it had a Today view like its competitors Raw Text Transcript | Paul Graham on Whether Remote Work Works 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 0:04Hello, 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 0:17And I’m Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:19And we’re your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 119. Paul Graham, on whether remote work works. We are recording this on June 19 2020. So those of you who celebrate here in the States happy Juneteenth happy Freedom Day. Of course, each week Augusto and I cover the productivity and technology 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, Augusto take it away. What’s our first ...
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Apple Announcements from WWDC

    Apple Announcements from WWDC
    Jun 13 2023
    https://youtube.com/live/9t_bCevMigo Apple Announcements from WWDC 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 | Apple Announcements from WWDC Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes | Apple Announcements from WWDC Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. 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 WayHow to Address Productivity ParanoiaStart Each Week With This Digital Decluttering Method Headlines Part B Google can search for books in your local libraryGoogle Workspace gains passkey supportRemarkable revises the PDF experience and a robust highlighting systemThe Best Magic Keyboard & Apple Pencil AlternativeHands-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 messagesCreate a Simple Wardrobe Catalog on Your iPhone Motorola’s new Razr+ has me dreaming of a foldable iPhone Tools of the Week Greatness AppDayOne FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK WWDC 2023 Recap: Everything Apple Announced Today The features that didn’t get discussed onstage at WWDCMiss the event? Replay the WWDC23 keynote right hereApple 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 behindJournal 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 SonomaThe evolution of Apple iOS from 1.0 to 17With M2 Ultra Mac Pro, Apple Completes Apple Silicon Transition and No Longer Sells Intel-Based Macs iOS 17 Lets You Share AirTags With OthersSystem Requirements for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and macOS SonomaApple Announces New ‘NameDrop’ Contact Sharing Feature Coming in iOS 17FaceTime 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 developersLittle Ape e-note can be the best learning aid your child can haveMultitasking Is Making You Worse at EverythingLow Goals: 7 Unexpected AdvantagesHow to set realistic doable goalsHow to Improve Your Attention SpanThe latest threat to workplace productivity: Employee financesThese Are the Signs You’re Overstepping at Work20 Experts’ Smart, But Simple, Tech Tips For Everyday UsersProductivity DysmorphiaThe Robots Are Here: What Will It Mean for Job Security? Is The 3-Drink Theory The Key To Productivity?Good Stress Is Still StressEpisode #209: Dave Edwards interviews David AllenThe Ten Commandments Of Productivity Mike Schmitz’s Must-Have Productivity AppsAnxiety Sucks, But It Taught Me These 7 Important Things Hybrid work is so valuable for financial professionals that some would quit if asked to return to officeHitting the Books: How music chords hack your brain to elicit emotion Searching Gmail on your phone is (hopefully) about to get way betterIve fallen in love with Google Docs all over again thanks to Pageless view and Smart CanvasBest MacBook trade-in values following the 15-inch MacBook Air launch Apple introduces the 15-inch MacBook Air Google Chat now has Smart Compose to help you autocomplete your sentencesMinecraft officially launches for ChromebooksSteam for Chromebook is being readied for prime time in the Stable ChannelYou Can Finally Share Your Screen in WhatsApp on AndroidApple Vision Pro is Apples new $3499 AR headset Apple Vision Pro: US-only at launch, some eye prescriptions not supported, age requirement, AR hardware preview All the New Android Features Google Just Announced Raw Text Transcript | Apple Announcements from WWDC Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be ...
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