How to Simplify Your Digital Life

Something i have added to my phone is a "appened note" shortcut. Its on my home row and it allows me to type the idea or thing first then send it to my notes, work tasks reminder list or my ideas list. It asks follow up questions depending on where I put it but it has completely changed the way I orgianze my idea and keep track of tasks. Adding something like that could fit in perfectly with your notes.

Every time Sara says something like "sorry if that was longwinded" or "no one care about this" I'm like NO this is exactly the content I want!

i feel like im growing with you. thank you for continuing to make videos & being so vulnerable, it helps me feel human

As someone who struggles with ADHD and was overwhelmed from Notion, this video comes for a perfect time. Thanks Sara :)

I used to be a hard-core Evernote user but switched over to Apple Notes in January 2023 and haven’t looked back. And in May of this year I photographed and produced a massive production that we shot over four days in Texas that required 10 talent, multiple locations/productions/catering/travel for crew, etc., and my producer in Los Angeles and myself on the East Coast used Apple Notes to work together and it was perfect. Loved how we could see updates in real time when someone was in it as well as color-coded on who was working/updating the documents. I’m all in on Apple Notes.

I did the same thing this year! I switched fully to Mac after 10+ years of professional career with Windows (3D, Motion Graphics, Film Editing, etc). I'm very happy. Blender, Davinci Resolve and all other programs I use run perfectly fine on Mac! Love it.

Finally, someone said it! People spend more time setting up their Notion home screen than actually using it to organise their workflow.

I actually really liked that you talked about the private part of your life that made you change the Note App. I think that in this way you managed yo explain and give a suggestion to someone in similar situation! It's not just a basic review of both apps listing the features, but rather talking about using these in real life! loved it!

Productivity Dietschy content on a Monday is always welcome!!🔥

I ran into this after finishing school and winded down the side-hustles that I used to try to make soooome money during that time. I went from big Notion setups for each course, notes (including scanned pdfs of everything handwritten, code snippets, LaTex), labs, assignments, to-dos, external resources all meticulously organized, separate databases for photography work, tracking Uber stuff (I drove for Uber as well), fancy calendar apps to keep track of the dozen+ calendars I used for everything, "getting things done" apps, mail apps to juggle too many e-mail accounts... then I graduated, got a normal job, and... I realized Notion and all the other infrastructure served me well before, but, I really didn't need any of it anymore. Work-related stuff lives in work systems (Jira and stuff), and personal stuff is pretty much just all just stock Apple stuff (notes, calendar, reminders). Done.

I've struggled mightily with Notion as well. Spent a few hundred dollars on templates that looked awesome but were more confusing than my brain could handle. I've always used Apple Notes as a quick dumping ground for ideas and written there a lot. Only recently have I started to try to organize it in a PARA structure to be more organized. Thanks for the great ideas!

That slack sound triggered me 😂 I love this video! I’ve recently started to use Notion for my hobby game dev project, I am trying to keep it simple so I actually use it. I only use it for documents and todo lists. And those todo lists are very simple: A page for collection of tasks, and tasks are just simple todo items with checkboxes. I am using a kanban board to divide backlog, in progress, doing and done. And those are divided by priority, highest ones are on top. For my life, I am using the Apple Reminders app. It is so powerful and simple with groups, tags, smart lists etc. I can also add tasks easily with Siri. I can’t wait for AI so I can say stuff like “remind me to get cat food today. no actually add that to groceries list and remind me tomorrow afternoon”. I am not a native English speaker and this will help me tremendously.

So proud of you for slowing down and reorganizing your life in more ways than one! Tbh I didn’t know you could make your Apple notes into folders lol my notes are about to be way more organized!! 😅

I love your videos, they’re so personable, and conversational. Something I’m trying to naturally portray on my recently new channel. Learning a lot. You’re so engaging. Super great and totally agree with simplifying life! STOP - GO SLOW - & FIGURE THINGS OUT! Love it ❤

Sarah you should definitely make more videos about being a creative and a parent at the same time!!! It is such a valuable subject that I don't think is talk about enough 😅

Wow, I can’t believe how much this resonates with me!

This video is so good. I've been subbed and known of you for years, and just so happened to be trying to organize simplify my digital life. So crazy how much I related to what you were talking about lol great vid

This was super helpful, as I've been trying to eliminate my creation/organizational pain points. Simplicity is key. I fully live in the ADHD OS category. It's nice to know I'm not alone. Thanks for this!

OMG, this was the video that I needed! Not about using Apple Notes part, but more about reasons why to not use Notion. For about a year after I started my current job as a SOC Engineer, I’ve been using Microsoft To Do and OneNote, so I can keep my ADHD head organized for the most part (but, unfortunately, social anxiety and other mental issues are still keeping me away from actually developing some sort of interest in something). And it has so far been pretty good. Yep, that makes me more tied to the Microsoft ecosystem (cause I use Windows on my computers, both work and personal), but it is probably one of the alternatives if you want cross compatibility between different platforms and devices and don’t want the complexity of an app such as Notion.

There is something so right about the family vibes that you have going on with your channel. Not knocking the non-children types. It just feels...like that the world needs more of.