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Thanks from Brazil! I'm biology's teacher and will use this mode to present my slides in classes.

Wow this taskpaper functionality is really cool. Thanks for the very helpful biscuit. I'm no writer but i enjoy your channel a lot.

When, perhaps, I was Formerly More Important I might have used OmniFocus, albeit I made a similar method(s) to keep up head on straight and Get Things Done. But now Officially Unimportant, I don't have the need. But I did listen to the whole biscuit, because you are, for me, a cheap trip to England every week. Thank you.

Too big? I guess a lot of people here have never read on an iPad. I think the scribe is a perfect size if you want the pages you’re reading to actually look like a book. Also great for pdfs

Thank you for sharing this hack ❤❤

In spite of myself, I somehow remain “on the fence” about picking one of these up. Recent software updates (currently in beta) have expanded the monitor capabilities and enhanced the overall UI and physical keyboard experiences (at least that’s what reviewers say), expanding the efficacy for we writers and our screen spanning/navigation/typing needs. Also, as an individual with disability, I’m even more tempted to justify the purchase as an accessibility device in lieu of not being able to get around. The device has now been released in your neck of the woods now, no? Have you had a chance to visit your local Apple Store to give it a test drive?

Duct tape is "The Handyman's Secret Weapon" according to Red Green.

Thanks!

Great content. The sound however could be better. Anyway, always a pleasure

I couldn't join last night because I had to go to bed long before the 3 a.m. start time. So, I have watched the entire hour after the fact - with tea and biscuits. It was a worthwhile, enjoyable time. Thanks for doing these. Anyway. I wanted to say that I enjoyed the automation bits, but I really, really related to the email advertising ourselves part of what you talked about. This is something that hits me really squarely in the heart at the moment, because I either have to use speech to text or make use of Whisper Transcribe, make corrections in a suitable writing app, and then copy and paste into email or whatever social media app I'm using. When I do it this way, it works fine and I'm able to correct things before they get seen. However, using speech to text ... well. Today I made a correction and inserted the word would, W-O-U-L-D. After I saw it was correct, I saved the edit, but unbeknownst to me, it 'fixed' my change to "Wood". Completely different meaning and completely out of context with the rest of my sentence. The writer in me just cringed, it upset me so much. It's more than just little mistakes. Luckily it was only in a family chat on Discord. My kids forgave me and said, "We know you're using voice to text. We understand". I have to be so careful with email and social media. Whenever there's an option for recording and sending voice, I use that instead. There are good tools and there are bad tools. I think that's the same with AI. Some are really sh*t and some are really good. Keep the good and what works for you. Forget the rest. Thank you so much for making the live talks available for us people who aren't always able to join in real time. I would have loved to have participated.

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Thanks for the video. Is there an option to create folders in the clipboard manager to allow you to easily keep related clips together? That would be really helpful. And what if you have some clips that you use repeatedly and just want to keep them forever. Is there any way to do that? Obviously having that ability combined with folders would be awesome! Appreciate any info. Thanks.

I'm a writer who just discovered your channel by complete chance because I was looking up videos for typing on an iPad screen. I just looked up your other videos out of curiosity and you now have one more subscriber! Awesome channel!

Thank you for this video! I was looking for something like this (tips and tricks for typing ON SCREEN) but all that kept coming up was videos about separate keyboards. This was an excellent video!

Yes it’s beta..but they are late to this functionality and there are plenty of services who do a great job (Quillbot, for one). You need to keep a close critical eye on summaries and rewrites, as you point out. I would not waste my time testing half-baked Apple pies.

Does the iPad version have the focus typewriting mode for screenplays? I just downloaded the free trial on Mac and I’m able to have a minimal distraction experience if I click Control + Command + F

Hmm - copilot does all that? I have yet to be impressed.

It os still a beta 1….and we all know the “speed” that Apple works…i project that the AI will be fully operational at end of Q2 2025…..

Sounds like the replies from the email company were being drafted by AI and not fully reviewed so maybe let Apple Intelligence correspond with them for a bit. That said, I fear basic comprehension skills are declining rapidly because of increasing reliance on AI-driven tools.

The email summarization is about ready to bring me back from android. I manage seven addresses and it really is tiresome to not be able to skim.

I will never download a BAY- (long a) TA version until fully vetted by you. This was very interesting. The email summary particularly. I don't know if can catch humor nuance, we shall see....because you do it so well. I would not want to miss a moment of it.

Great Video! Can we have a collaboration?

Thanks! BTW 13:12 in the second edition of his GTD book David Allen replaced the term "processing" with "clarifying".

The word processing program has been my springboard because I have a strong modern-day typewriting skill which is keyboarding skill that I used on card punch and data terminals and on the microcomputer today. I enjoy using my Dell OptiPlex with Microsoft Office 2021 Professional. I call my microcomputer my Keyboard because it is my powerful typewriter. Microsoft Word was really my mainspring; then Microsoft Access became my favorite program because I work on that database program more than a word processing program. Using the microcomputer makes working with business documents flexible and nifty, better than a conventional typewriter. I like printing my documents onto paper with my Canon color laser printer. The computer printer became the solution for replacing the word processing machines like the IBM Displaywriter, Wang, and Xerox. Your show is right up my niche.

William, I think you can also search for an application and drag the result to have a second app on the screen

Thank you this was brilliant

Useful tips, thank you!

I love typing like this on my iPad! The gesture support is great and I’m actually a little faster typing on the screen than a physical keyboard. It’s the whole point of the iPad really, everything you need is in this magical slab of glass. Apple have muddied the waters by focusing on profit and selling expensive accessories rather than using what’s already there.

This has been the most helpful video yet. I thought I knew everything there was to know about my iPad pro 2024. Ha Ha on me. Thank you!

2 highlights for me. One was the select feature on the slidey trackpad, which I didn’t know about. Selecting text on my iPad has been an issue for me till now. The other was ‘that flicking thing’. Type that in narrow caps 😂

What lurks in Mac details few know! That mousepad feature solves a lot of problems for me. And undo might even save my reputation. Unless, of course, that ship has sailed.

I knew none of these. NONE. I will be watching you at the wheel again soon to start making these my own. Thank you.

Is there away it get the iPad to stop asking for verification? Every so often it says to enter the password for verification. I screwed up the last time and my Apple ID was locked. I managed to fix it. Is it like this with the Mac too? If so, can you still use the Mac and get software and app (the apps that are already on it) updates without signing in with an Apple ID? I don’t use the cloud or any online services at all.

I absolutely loathe the use of AI in writing. With people (non-writers, non-translators, etc.) at my job comparing my work to that of algorithms, it's all doing my head in. Artificial intelligence can be used for so much good, but I worry we're using it indiscriminately.

Do Google books have the same price?

Do you think Amazon will ever make an e-reader in colour?

Thanks, super useful info! I think I’ll set up a writing mode, a research mode and a general work mode, with varying levels of “allowed to contact me” permissions!

Default Folder X make my macbook slow (M1 Max), does not work all the time

William, I gave up on your video at the 4:30 point, once I found out what it was about. It's not that I thought you weren't doing a fine job. It's just that you were covering a topic I am not interested in. I accept your challenge and suggest the following title for your video: "Comparison: File Management Software for MacOS". The topic I am interested in is methods for organizing / structuring folders. This is something that any of the file management softwares that you covered could implement. I listed below what I consider to be the 2 important points about this topic. If you think the topic and points are worthy, please do a video on them. Point #1 - In all my research about and personally testing organizational structure for folders, I've only identified 5 methods. They are: * By Topics (Art, Equipment / Parts, Family, Food, Investing, Medical, Politics, etc.) * By Life Roles (Business Owner, Employee, Son, Spouse, Father, Tutor, Chef, Volunteer, Etc.) * By Tiago Forte’s PARA Method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) * By Type of Note (Articles, images, instructions, invoices, maps, receipts, etc.) * By Days of the Week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) Point #2 - A good organizational structure for folder needs to adhere to the MECE requirement. MECE is a method of grouping information (like notes) so that the groups (like folders) are mutually exclusive (ME) and collectively exhaustive (CE). In other words, the groups (folders) do not overlap and nothing falls through the cracks. The MECE methodology is commonly used by consulting firms. When most people start out developing groups (folders), they aren’t likely going to conform to the MECE method. As weeks and months roll by, a person typically will add more groups (folders). At some point in time, the person has so many groups (folders), it becomes more and more of a challenge for a person to remember the structure of his/her groups (folders) and to find the group (folder) where he/she previously put a specific item (note). It is common when adding a new item (note) that it is realized that it could logically be added to more than one group (folder). This will make it even harder to remember in the future which group (folder) it was it put in. The MECE method helps to minimize, if not completely eliminate, those problems. There are, of course, many different variations of MECE folder structures. Here is one as an example. It is based on a user’s roles. * Family * Spouse * Son * Father * Brother * Worker * Full Time Job * Part-Time Job * Church Volunteer * Avocations * Genealogy Researcher * Chef * Author * Coin Collector * Investor The above structure reduces the chance that a file might be placed in more than one folder. Here a link to a video on MECE: ruclips.net/video/hKBt0R3v7Ec/видео.html

I’ve tried most of them, but Fover is new to me. It has a great feature that I haven’t seen in other apps: the tracking folder. This feature provides very fast access to files, helping me clean up my desktop without much effort - I can finally see my wallpaper!

And you tidied your real shelves behind 😂. What app did that for you ?

Interesting software. Managing documents can be a nightmare without some good tools. Perfect name, by the way, because the hidden meaning is crystal clear. It can be no accident "Anger File Management" is a rigorously complete anagram for "Mangle? Fine, rename tag." A message of hope for these modern times of file congestion. A little organization, perhaps more thoughtful tagging, and what was once primordial data puree takes form. As always, as they say, critical info for writers great and (like me) small.

I rather liked Anger File Management. Reminds me of my daughter Tanya, who, when she was at her closest to being a rebellious teen, liked to listen to what she called "anger music." Not sure I can define that, but it might be fun to listen to anger music while doing anger file management. Other terms for the same thing? I fear these are no better, but here goes. Records Management Software. File Tracking Software. Hierarchical File Storage Systems. Relational Data Storage Systems. Administrative Data Management Software. Some combination of the above? Or just stick with Anger File Management. I think I like that one. I have a folder on my computer named Oubliette. I'm sure you can figure out what I use it for. Later, ~ Michael

Great video, I knew about a couple of these but Default Folder X is a new one on me and it does look good and I'll take a serious look at it, thank you. Today I am one of the few people who uses iCloud Drive successfully on my Mac and iPad with shortcuts to tidy things up and that has worked well, but I have heard some horror stories about it when it goes wrong. As for a title.... Your Desktop Can’t Be the Junk Drawer Forever!

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How about "Who's The Boss Of Your Files?"

File. Management. Headaches. I so fail at this. Truly I was pretty good at file management on a PC. I cannot say that on a Mac. This was helpful to know there are headache remedies out there. Thank you.

Thanks William, I learnt a lot from this video. Really appreciated

Hi William, A nice video that helps explain quite a bit about the publication creation process, rather than acting as a tutorial for Affinity Publisher. I've passed a link to this video to my daughter - she's very competent with Affinity, but she's not so familiar with the practicalities of laying out a publication for human beings to read - so well done. There are a few important things that you may like to consider clarifying in future videos. I'm sure you have probably discovered these features, but they could be easily added to an edited version of this video. The first thing is using Affinity's guides option (View/Guides). This allows you to set up column guides on the master pages - just select the number of columns you want and the job is done automatically. This will remove the need to drag out a centre guide from the ruler, and eliminates having to guess the gutter width between columns. Another option is to create full width text frames and use the Columns option in the context menu at the top of the screen to add text columns within the text frame itself. I think it may be worth pointing out the text styles (TSt) tab on the right of the interface. This allows for quick styling of paragraphs of text without having to step through the publication making the adjustments manually. I'm surprised that you didn't quickly mention the baseline grid option that ensures consistent and perfectly aligned line spacing across spreads - particularly useful where you may be using different font sizes in headings and subheadings. I was also wondering why you chose to use image placeholders to create page background colours - I would have thought it better to use the rectangle tool from the shapes panel!! Anyway, just my thoughts based on my experiences of using Affinity Publisher, and my experience of publishing in general (I too worked for BBC Publications in the past - many years ago - maybe we were working there at the same time?).

Happy you showed me MindNode, as I've been looking for a tool to help me plan and be creative. Installed it, and now I love it. Using it on all my devices! Thank you!