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00:00:00 ◼   ► Gray, I need your help.

00:00:01 ◼   ► - Yeah?

00:00:02 ◼   ► - How do you break a four week sleep cycle?

00:00:04 ◼   ► - Oh, Myke, Myke, I need your help with this.

00:00:10 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:00:11 ◼   ► - Oh no.

00:00:12 ◼   ► Where have you been?

00:00:17 ◼   ► - We'll get to that.

00:00:18 ◼   ► Tell me what's going on with you.

00:00:19 ◼   ► - Well, I mean, I've come back from my hurly day.

00:00:22 ◼   ► My hurly day is over and I'm suffering

00:00:27 ◼   ► from pretty bad jet lag.

00:00:29 ◼   ► I thought that I had mostly gotten over jet lag as a problem in my life. Like it takes

00:00:33 ◼   ► me a day or two and I adjust.

00:00:36 ◼   ► You thought you solved jet lag just as a general problem?

00:00:39 ◼   ► I wouldn't say that I feel like I'd solved it, but it's more that like I've gotten used

00:00:45 ◼   ► to my pattern that if I just do things in a certain way for like a day or two, just

00:00:50 ◼   ► like make sure I stay awake, embrace the fact that I won't sleep the next day, wake up at

00:00:55 ◼   ► a normal time and then I'm good. That's usually how I deal with this stuff. No matter where

00:00:59 ◼   ► I am. Like even if I'm on the West Coast, it just takes me like two days and I can get back into it.

00:01:03 ◼   ► And that's mostly because I tend to live like close to East Coast time in London. You know,

00:01:11 ◼   ► like I'm usually like going to bed at 2am and I wake up, you know.

00:01:15 ◼   ► Yeah, you stay up pretty late.

00:01:16 ◼   ► Yeah. So it helps me adjust relatively well. But this time, this time is not good. Like I've been

00:01:24 ◼   ► home for three or four days and I'm just not sleeping and I feel terrible most of the day

00:01:30 ◼   ► and then like it comes to about seven o'clock at night and I'm wired and ready to go.

00:01:40 ◼   ► You have you have all of my sympathies. Jet lag. Jet lag is the absolute worst.

00:01:46 ◼   ► Surely like how has nobody fixed this problem? Why isn't there like a surefire pill to take

00:01:54 ◼   ► or some kind of beverage to drink that just fixes it.

00:01:58 ◼   ► That is what I want. I feel like there should be some kind of refreshing beverage you could just drink.

00:02:03 ◼   ► And it's like, "Oh great!"

00:02:04 ◼   ► They just give it to you when you get off the plane.

00:02:05 ◼   ► Yeah. Now I'm all set. It turned out all I needed was some electrolytes at the right time.

00:02:11 ◼   ► And now I'm set. But no.

00:02:14 ◼   ► I've heard that one of those Dreamliner planes changes the oxygen level and apparently that's supposed to help.

00:02:20 ◼   ► But I'm not sure if I believe that either.

00:02:22 ◼   ► But see, jet lag is one of those things because the symptoms are...

00:02:27 ◼   ► Like, they're hard to define symptoms and they're slightly different for everybody.

00:02:32 ◼   ► And this then breeds a whole world of home remedies

00:02:38 ◼   ► and just superstitions around what works or what doesn't work.

00:02:43 ◼   ► Just stand on your head and count backwards from ten.

00:02:45 ◼   ► You fixed it!

00:02:48 ◼   ► I have tried so many different things.

00:02:52 ◼   ► And I've just I have found nothing nothing has any consistent success with trying to minimize it

00:02:58 ◼   ► Okay, I guess

00:02:59 ◼   ► Asterisk the only thing I have found that successfully works is simply refusing to acknowledge the time zone of the place that you are in

00:03:06 ◼   ► That works. Yeah, other than that

00:03:09 ◼   ► No, I have I have found no doesn't work for a month though

00:03:13 ◼   ► Like I feel like I would have not really gotten anything useful done if I spent four weeks on London time in

00:03:19 ◼   ► Various places in the US. I feel like I would have I really should have just not made that trip

00:03:23 ◼   ► If that's what I was planning to do, right? Yeah, it's impossible

00:03:26 ◼   ► It's not gonna work out for you Myke. So so I

00:03:30 ◼   ► Have I have nothing to help you with this you were supposed to be my long-term travel guru

00:03:37 ◼   ► Oh, and this is this is the one thing I truly need, you know

00:03:44 ◼   ► Oh is this it? This is the one thing that you truly need and I have failed to deliver

00:03:48 ◼   ► on this?

00:03:49 ◼   ► You didn't help me with laundry really and/or just dealing with emotional trauma. So this

00:03:55 ◼   ► was the one thing that I desperately need from you that I was hoping for a real just

00:04:00 ◼   ► CGP Grey brand life hack and I have received just deal with it and/or don't change your

00:04:08 ◼   ► time which is you know neither of those things neither of those things are

00:04:13 ◼   ► helpful to me now right yeah no I I understand the reason why I was also

00:04:18 ◼   ► asking like I need your help with this is because one I too would like a

00:04:22 ◼   ► solution to jet lag that is simply magical but the other thing is I have I

00:04:29 ◼   ► have also since this summer I have not been dealing with jet lag like I've been

00:04:36 ◼   ► home long enough that jet lag is not a problem, but what I have been dealing with is clearly

00:04:41 ◼   ► my whole sleep cycle is just messed up from an entire summer of strained schedules and

00:04:48 ◼   ► frequent travel. And it's not jet lag, but it's kind of a virtual jet lag when you're

00:04:56 ◼   ► trying to simply iron out your sleep schedule. And this has been the bane of my last several

00:05:04 ◼   ► weeks is just trying to get my brain back into what I know is the optimal schedule for

00:05:10 ◼   ► me for work and for happiness and it's just like I cannot do it. I can feel my brain resisting

00:05:18 ◼   ► getting put back into a regular schedule after two months, three months without a regular

00:05:24 ◼   ► schedule.

00:05:26 ◼   ► And as well for me, the irony is not lost upon the fact that I have returned home with

00:05:30 ◼   ► this terrible sleep cycle in what is probably the busiest two weeks of my year.

00:05:34 ◼   ► These two weeks are the busiest two weeks of your year?

00:05:36 ◼   ► iPhone season.

00:05:37 ◼   ► Oh, of course! I was thinking, I was thinking, why is Myke so busy in early September? But yes.

00:05:45 ◼   ► By the time this episode comes out, the iPhone will have been shown to the world,

00:05:50 ◼   ► or will about to be shown to the world. So by the time most people hear this,

00:05:55 ◼   ► they're either getting ready for an iPhone keynote or have already seen it.

00:05:58 ◼   ► Ooh, that's exciting.

00:06:00 ◼   ► So they're living in a future where we have or do not have face unlocking, we have or do not have

00:06:06 ◼   ► touch ID and a big screen. The people they know, Gray, they lord that over us right now.

00:06:13 ◼   ► We're stuck in the past.

00:06:14 ◼   ► We're stuck in the past.

00:06:15 ◼   ► Although somehow while we're recording the show, it feels like we're already in that

00:06:21 ◼   ► glorious new iPhone future. So while I'm talking to you right now, it feels slightly like time

00:06:26 ◼   ► traveling but it isn't but yes of course for you in particular for a man

00:06:33 ◼   ► who does so many tech and tech adjacent shows this would be the busiest season

00:06:38 ◼   ► and not a good time to have a bunch of jet lag interfering with the rest of

00:06:44 ◼   ► your work. No luckily they didn't have the event or announce the event before I

00:06:48 ◼   ► came home like or that it just didn't overlap like badly. Luckily when

00:06:54 ◼   ► they announced it, they announced it, it was like it's gonna be in two weeks time, so I

00:06:57 ◼   ► was able to just come home and then try and deal with myself and then get back to work

00:07:02 ◼   ► again. So unfortunately I will just, I will just live with my weird sleep cycle for now

00:07:08 ◼   ► and hopefully in October I will have fixed it ready to go back to the US again. So hooray,

00:07:15 ◼   ► hooray for jet lag I guess. Oh no. I've just realised by the time that I get this thing

00:07:23 ◼   ► fixed I'll have to break it again. This is what happens. This is what happens when you have to do a bunch of

00:07:28 ◼   ► travel. It's just it's frustrating and and this kind of thing

00:07:33 ◼   ► really does take a while to sort out. Like getting it getting into I find for me anyway personally like

00:07:42 ◼   ► maybe the number one predictor of

00:07:45 ◼   ► how well a day is going to go is

00:07:49 ◼   ► if I got up at the time that I'm supposed to. Like if you had to take a single data point and

00:07:55 ◼   ► see if it was

00:07:57 ◼   ► most correlated with what I would consider a productive day, that would be by far and away the single data point that would matter the most.

00:08:03 ◼   ► And

00:08:05 ◼   ► it's, it is very

00:08:07 ◼   ► because like unlike so many other things in our working life

00:08:13 ◼   ► sleep is a thing that is like you really have

00:08:18 ◼   ► no control over it. You can't just knuckle down and get to sleep harder than you're trying to get to sleep at this very moment.

00:08:29 ◼   ► And at least for me, if you wake up and your body wasn't ready to wake up, it feels like you have woken up dead.

00:08:37 ◼   ► It's just awful and it's so hard to do anything productive.

00:08:41 ◼   ► I don't know, it's like a thing that is just interesting that at least I find that as time has gone on, like this matters more and more as a thing that is super important and is a thing that I focus on and try to keep on a regular schedule.

00:08:59 ◼   ► But yeah after after the summer it like this is this is a thing that I have personally been

00:09:04 ◼   ► Struggling to get back into a regular schedule for a while

00:09:07 ◼   ► But it's like I can just I can feel my brain just pulling against against the regular schedule

00:09:13 ◼   ► Even though of course like it'd be better for me in the long run

00:09:16 ◼   ► But like it doesn't that doesn't help you in the short run if you could choose

00:09:21 ◼   ► to not sleep

00:09:23 ◼   ► But lose 25% of your productivity

00:09:27 ◼   ► Would you take that?

00:09:29 ◼   ► Wait, I get an additional third of my life back?

00:09:33 ◼   ► Sure, you get all the time back.

00:09:35 ◼   ► Okay.

00:09:36 ◼   ► But you are 25% less productive.

00:09:38 ◼   ► Would you take that deal?

00:09:41 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, that seems like a great deal.

00:09:43 ◼   ► I'm getting 33-- I'm getting a third of my life back, and I'm only losing a quarter of productivity?

00:09:50 ◼   ► That seems like an amazing deal.

00:09:51 ◼   ► Okay, what if you lost a third of your productivity?

00:09:54 ◼   ► So it just ended up balancing out.

00:09:56 ◼   ► Would you take it then?

00:09:57 ◼   ► Okay, so when you say balance out, you mean I get the same amount of stuff done that I

00:10:05 ◼   ► get done now, but I'm also, I never have to sleep?

00:10:08 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:10:09 ◼   ► Yeah, what's the trade-off?

00:10:10 ◼   ► Who wouldn't take that?

00:10:11 ◼   ► But I feel like people enjoy sleeping, right?

00:10:14 ◼   ► This is why I'm assuming.

00:10:15 ◼   ► So there are people in the world that just would prefer to sleep, or just ended up working

00:10:19 ◼   ► out the same, just take the sleep.

00:10:21 ◼   ► But like I would even take the the option where it balances out because I would just end up playing more video games or whatever

00:10:27 ◼   ► yeah, I

00:10:30 ◼   ► mean, I mean, I guess I

00:10:32 ◼   ► Guess I could say in a minor in a very minor way

00:10:36 ◼   ► I enjoy sleep

00:10:37 ◼   ► But that's only because sleep is it gets it's the your brain makes you like it because it's the solution to a problem

00:10:43 ◼   ► I only ever enjoy after it's happened. I never want to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah right now actually

00:10:50 ◼   ► Right now

00:10:52 ◼   ► Saying that I it's half past four in the afternoon might be pretty I feel like I could do

00:10:57 ◼   ► with a good nap right now, but I guess the answer to your question is no like I don't I don't feel like oh

00:11:03 ◼   ► Sleep is the best. It's like I would much rather have the hours

00:11:06 ◼   ► back I don't I don't see sleep as a

00:11:10 ◼   ► recreational activity that is worth a third of my life and I can't imagine anybody would would see it that way

00:11:17 ◼   ► I don't know. I think it has a lot to do with how you like to spend your time, right?

00:11:26 ◼   ► Like part of it is because I would prefer to be working as much as I can when I'm awake

00:11:32 ◼   ► and then spend the rest of the time just playing video games and doing the things that I don't

00:11:37 ◼   ► want to do but not everybody wants to work to that amount. So I guess like if all you

00:11:42 ◼   ► wanted to do was put in eight hours, six hours, seven hours of work a day or whatever it is

00:11:47 ◼   ► that you end up putting in and you're cool with that, like that's the way that you want

00:11:50 ◼   ► to be, then maybe you would want the sleep.

00:11:52 ◼   ► Yeah, but you could still just spend it as recreation time.

00:11:55 ◼   ► Yeah, but I assume that there are some people that enjoy the practice of sleep, right? They

00:12:00 ◼   ► just like getting into bed and cosying up and just going away for a bit.

00:12:06 ◼   ► I don't think that's Cortex listeners. I think the people who listen to Cortex, they're not

00:12:10 ◼   ► people who are big enjoyers of sleep.

00:12:13 ◼   ► I want to know. In the Reddit, I just want to know. Sleep on no sleep. So you got to

00:12:18 ◼   ► tell me. Sleep on no sleep. I'm interested to know this now. If people would like to

00:12:22 ◼   ► sleep or would not like to sleep. I'll tell you what I'll do. I will post in the Reddit

00:12:27 ◼   ► just a simple survey. You can click the link. It will take you somewhere. I just want to

00:12:31 ◼   ► get an idea now. Sleep on no sleep. It will be in the Reddit thread. You'll find it.

00:12:36 ◼   ► And of course, all of the home remedies for how to take care of jet lag. Unsolicited,

00:12:41 ◼   ► Doubtless will be there. You need some sleep, Myke. You gonna take a little nap during the

00:12:44 ◼   ► show?

00:12:45 ◼   ► Yeah, I'll uh, actually I'll see what's next in our document. I'll just get you talking

00:12:50 ◼   ► and I'll pop in towards the end, assuming that I figure I know what you're gonna say.

00:12:57 ◼   ► So I'll just go away. There's a sofa behind me. I'll just go and sit there for a little

00:13:02 ◼   ► bit and then I'll come back when you're done with your frustrations.

00:13:06 ◼   ► I've just come back from visiting my parents. They've moved house and of course setting

00:13:11 ◼   ► Setting up a new house is a big job.

00:13:13 ◼   ► There's lots of things to do.

00:13:15 ◼   ► And one of the things you need to do when you're setting up a house is get a mattress

00:13:19 ◼   ► for the guest bedroom.

00:13:20 ◼   ► Now of course, since my parents listened to Cortex, there was only one choice of mattress

00:13:25 ◼   ► that they were going to get.

00:13:26 ◼   ► The Casper mattress was delivered before my arrival, but as I had never tried one in person,

00:13:32 ◼   ► they saved it for me.

00:13:33 ◼   ► So when I got home, on the very first day, there was no mattress set up for me to sleep

00:13:38 ◼   ► on.

00:13:39 ◼   ► there was a big Casper box in the room.

00:13:42 ◼   ► And together, we opened it up.

00:13:44 ◼   ► It was a genuinely exciting family event.

00:13:47 ◼   ► To open the box, my dad and I arranged the mattress

00:13:50 ◼   ► on the bed, we removed the plastic covering,

00:13:53 ◼   ► and just like Casper promises, the mattress self-inflates.

00:13:58 ◼   ► Within mere moments, it was ready to go.

00:14:01 ◼   ► That night, at the end of a day of long travels,

00:14:04 ◼   ► I crawled into bed onto the Casper mattress

00:14:07 ◼   ► for the first time.

00:14:08 ◼   ► How would a mattress be without springs inside?

00:14:11 ◼   ► How would a mattress be that came delivered in the mail?

00:14:15 ◼   ► Well, I'm here to report that it was good.

00:14:18 ◼   ► You could even say that it had just the right sink,

00:14:21 ◼   ► just the right bounce.

00:14:23 ◼   ► I was very glad that my parents had not carted with them

00:14:25 ◼   ► the old guest mattress that I used to sleep on,

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00:15:48 ◼   ► night's sleep at my parents' house.

00:15:51 ◼   ► So of course, with the imminent release of a new iPhone comes a new release of iOS.

00:15:58 ◼   ► iOS 11 is just around the corner. It's going to be with us soon.

00:16:03 ◼   ► And...

00:16:05 ◼   ► We have, because we're the kind of people that we are, Myke, we've been running the betas for a while.

00:16:11 ◼   ► I told myself, like I tell myself every year, like, "I'm not going to install the beta. I'm gonna wait a while."

00:16:18 ◼   ► But of course I have to give in, so I've been running the beta since the very first public beta that was available.

00:16:25 ◼   ► and I was not able to resist.

00:16:27 ◼   ► And just before it goes public,

00:16:29 ◼   ► I thought this is kind of a good time to talk about

00:16:34 ◼   ► a couple of little frustrations

00:16:37 ◼   ► and also what's going on with the dock

00:16:42 ◼   ► and our home screens.

00:16:44 ◼   ► What do you say, Myke?

00:16:46 ◼   ► Are you there, Myke?

00:16:46 ◼   ► - I mean, anytime you talk about home screens,

00:16:48 ◼   ► I'm ready to go.

00:16:49 ◼   ► You said the magic word.

00:16:51 ◼   ► I'm revitalized, let's do this.

00:16:53 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:16:55 ◼   ► I think it is worth mentioning for a piece of long-term follow-up that you did not get

00:16:59 ◼   ► your wish, right, of the opening of applications via a keyboard shortcut.

00:17:05 ◼   ► Maybe people listen to you, but nobody's put it into place.

00:17:09 ◼   ► I'm pausing here for a moment to think about how much I can say.

00:17:12 ◼   ► I'll put it in vague ways that I can say that I know this has been received and that there

00:17:20 ◼   ► maybe reasons that it doesn't happen that maybe I don't necessarily agree with, but

00:17:27 ◼   ► I don't know. Who knows? Who knows?

00:17:29 ◼   ► Who knows if an email could have been received or sent? No one could know. There is no way

00:17:35 ◼   ► of knowing. Yeah, who knows if like a frustrating non-answer

00:17:39 ◼   ► was received? Nobody. Nobody could know.

00:17:41 ◼   ► Certainly not me. No way.

00:17:42 ◼   ► Anyway, so yeah, I was hoping last time that for just barely, just like the tiniest of

00:17:49 ◼   ► keyboard shortcuts added and that hasn't happened and I don't think it's going to happen in

00:17:54 ◼   ► the next two weeks or week until the final version comes out.

00:17:59 ◼   ► So we can assume that that's definitely not the case.

00:18:02 ◼   ► I think we can feel pretty sure at the fact that we are currently at beta 10, we're good.

00:18:08 ◼   ► This is what it's going to be most likely.

00:18:10 ◼   ► Yeah, I think so.

00:18:12 ◼   ► So around this, one of the biggest changes with iOS on the iPad is the introduction of

00:18:18 ◼   ► dock on the bottom screen. And for someone like me and someone like you who spends a

00:18:23 ◼   ► lot of time working on the iPad, I feel like that dock on the bottom totally changes everything.

00:18:31 ◼   ► It really makes the iPad a very different feeling device to work with than on the previous

00:18:37 ◼   ► version of iOS. And I've been having just some interesting things about how do I arrange

00:18:47 ◼   ► my dock now on my iPad? How do I arrange my home screen on my phone?

00:18:54 ◼   ► And I feel like I'm slowly going crazy because I can't figure out what it is that I want to do,

00:19:02 ◼   ► even though I've been working with this for a long period of time.

00:19:05 ◼   ► So I took some screenshots today, Myke. Would you like to see what my current setup looks

00:19:10 ◼   ► like on my various devices? You know I want to see. You don't have to

00:19:14 ◼   ► ask me. You could send me these messages just on a random day in the middle of the night and I'll be

00:19:19 ◼   ► happy to get them, you know, anytime. If you have your iPad around, I am legitimately curious to see

00:19:26 ◼   ► what your home screen looks like because I feel like I'm very open to trying to figure out how

00:19:30 ◼   ► have people set up things on their iPads and on their various devices. Do you want both or just

00:19:37 ◼   ► one? #MultipadLifestyle. I want whatever you will give me. I'm going to give you three home

00:19:42 ◼   ► screenshots and you can give me back whatever you want.

00:19:45 ◼   ► Okay, so while yours come through to me, I'm going to go and get my iPad from the other

00:19:49 ◼   ► room because I only have one of them with me right now and then I can send them both

00:19:52 ◼   ► to you.

00:19:53 ◼   ► Yeah, you go do that.

00:20:07 ◼   ► Okay so screenshots have been exchanged.

00:20:10 ◼   ► Screenshots have been exchanged.

00:20:12 ◼   ► I have yours, you have mine.

00:20:14 ◼   ► Okay, let me talk about what's going on in my mind here, Myke.

00:20:17 ◼   ► So, in iOS 11, especially on the iPad, the dock is of paramount importance.

00:20:26 ◼   ► It's the way to get to your apps because if you have an app that's on the dock,

00:20:33 ◼   ► you can just drag it from the dock right onto the screen

00:20:37 ◼   ► and so that you can go into the multi-app mode or you can have it hover over,

00:20:41 ◼   ► Whereas apps that are on your home screen,

00:20:45 ◼   ► to me the home screen now becomes like a dead space on your iPad.

00:20:50 ◼   ► There are apps that you can launch, but only if you are already at the home screen.

00:20:56 ◼   ► And there's no way to get to the home screen, to get to an app, to then put it into the multi-view mode.

00:21:03 ◼   ► So because of this, I have decided that on my iPads the home screen is dead to me.

00:21:09 ◼   ► Like I don't want to put a single app

00:21:14 ◼   ► on my iPad home screen because I feel like,

00:21:17 ◼   ► what is the point of this?

00:21:19 ◼   ► All it is is a worse app launcher.

00:21:23 ◼   ► There's no point to this at all.

00:21:26 ◼   ► So I have banned all app icons

00:21:30 ◼   ► from the home screen on my iPads.

00:21:33 ◼   ► It dock or nothing.

00:21:35 ◼   ► You took the nuclear approach.

00:21:36 ◼   ► Well, I actually don't think this is the nuclear approach because I feel like the architecture

00:21:43 ◼   ► of iOS 11 on the iPad so encourages you to use the dock that it feels like a penalty

00:21:53 ◼   ► having apps almost anywhere else.

00:21:56 ◼   ► But here's where I'm going crazy, Myke.

00:21:59 ◼   ► Because the iPhone doesn't work this way.

00:22:01 ◼   ► Oh, okay.

00:22:02 ◼   ► Right, again, I wanted to say where we are in the world right now

00:22:06 ◼   ► Mm-hmm, cuz it might we don't know yet, right?

00:22:09 ◼   ► We just as this is as we stand right now, who knows what could happen with the next iPhone?

00:22:14 ◼   ► But yeah, go on the iPhone doesn't work in this way. I understand that

00:22:17 ◼   ► Yeah, the iPhone doesn't work like this

00:22:20 ◼   ► now

00:22:21 ◼   ► there may be

00:22:23 ◼   ► If there is a merciful God in the universe

00:22:25 ◼   ► Mm-hmm when the next phone comes out

00:22:29 ◼   ► The next phone may work more similarly to the way the iPads do.

00:22:34 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:22:34 ◼   ► There may be a little dock that swipes up from the bottom.

00:22:37 ◼   ► You know, it could be better when the next iPhone comes out.

00:22:41 ◼   ► One can only hope.

00:22:42 ◼   ► One can only hope. But you know what? It's not gonna be.

00:22:45 ◼   ► It's not gonna be the same because there's not going to be a universe in which you can put eight

00:22:52 ◼   ► icons in the dock on your phone.

00:22:54 ◼   ► Yeah, it's only gonna be four, right? And maybe a folder. Still, that's gonna be the same.

00:22:59 ◼   ► Yeah. Yeah, and there's not going to be multitasking on the phone presumably.

00:23:05 ◼   ► So lots of things

00:23:07 ◼   ► lots of things work differently. So I feel like I am trapped and trapped in this universe

00:23:14 ◼   ► where

00:23:16 ◼   ► consistency is not possible. That there is no solution

00:23:21 ◼   ► that works everywhere the same that I want it to work. So I feel like when I'm using my phone

00:23:27 ◼   ► I'm losing my mind about how do I launch apps on my phone versus launching apps on my iPad and

00:23:34 ◼   ► as a result of this like what you are seeing what you were seeing in these screenshots is just my

00:23:41 ◼   ► current state of arranging things

00:23:43 ◼   ► Which is not good

00:23:45 ◼   ► But what I can't tell you what I got what I I don't even want to know is how how many different ways?

00:23:52 ◼   ► I have tried arranging things

00:23:55 ◼   ► How many different placements I have tried, like different full-- like, I'm going crazy

00:24:00 ◼   ► because there's a lack of consistency. Because as listeners to the show will know,

00:24:04 ◼   ► we've talked about home screens a few times,

00:24:07 ◼   ► and

00:24:08 ◼   ► there's been something that for the entirety of my iOS use has been exactly the same,

00:24:16 ◼   ► which is

00:24:18 ◼   ► three icons in the dock, and those icons have been incredibly stable.

00:24:23 ◼   ► Notes, Launch Center Pro, and OmniFocus.

00:24:27 ◼   ► And I felt like that was a real centering location to,

00:24:33 ◼   ► here is a thing that is consistent across all of the devices that you use.

00:24:38 ◼   ► There's like a little launching station for the things that you want to access quickly and consistently everywhere,

00:24:44 ◼   ► and it's the same on all of the devices.

00:24:47 ◼   ► And then above that, because I live the multi-pad lifestyle and because I have a phone as well,

00:24:52 ◼   ► you can arrange the icons that you use in particular on this device on the home screen.

00:24:58 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:24:59 ◼   ► Right? But it's like, but all of that is gone now. So I'm just going crazy.

00:25:04 ◼   ► I deconstructed my dock, I've put some new stuff in there, and I'm trying to figure out what to do,

00:25:10 ◼   ► but I'm just, I'm going crazy, Myke.

00:25:12 ◼   ► I can tell.

00:25:13 ◼   ► I'm going absolutely crazy, and I don't know what to do.

00:25:15 ◼   ► Alright, so, episode to episode, we've switched to crazy.

00:25:19 ◼   ► Alright, that's, it's all on you now, buddy.

00:25:22 ◼   ► I have, we have a lot I think that we want to get to about this today, but I just, we need to just go over, okay, we're going to come back to the doc, alright, and like kind of what that is, but I just have a bunch of questions first because I'm looking at these images, and it's all

00:25:39 ◼   ► And it's all.

00:25:40 ◼   ► - Yeah, here's the thing.

00:25:40 ◼   ► You ask questions away because I don't even know

00:25:43 ◼   ► what's happening in my world anymore.

00:25:44 ◼   ► - Right. - Like I don't know.

00:25:46 ◼   ► - What I don't understand from a fundamental perspective

00:25:49 ◼   ► is you're complaining about consistency,

00:25:51 ◼   ► but you have inconsistent apps

00:25:52 ◼   ► in both the docks on your iPads.

00:25:54 ◼   ► I don't get that, I don't get it.

00:25:56 ◼   ► Like you can look at my screenshots

00:25:58 ◼   ► and you'll see the docks are the same.

00:26:00 ◼   ► The home screens differ in slight ways

00:26:02 ◼   ► depending on what I do on those iPads,

00:26:04 ◼   ► but the docks are the same,

00:26:06 ◼   ► what I'm putting in them and where they go.

00:26:08 ◼   ► And you have like all different apps

00:26:11 ◼   ► in all different placements.

00:26:12 ◼   ► And like some apps are on the dock on one

00:26:15 ◼   ► and not on the other.

00:26:16 ◼   ► Like there is no consistency

00:26:18 ◼   ► and you are making it inconsistent for yourself.

00:26:20 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:26:21 ◼   ► - Evernote, look at Evernote just sitting there in the dock.

00:26:24 ◼   ► My word, where are we in 2017?

00:26:26 ◼   ► - Sitting in the dock, laughing at me.

00:26:29 ◼   ► - I know, what is that thing it's next to?

00:26:30 ◼   ► What is that red Fox arrow thing?

00:26:33 ◼   ► What is that?

00:26:35 ◼   ► - Oh, that's a Wikipedia viewer.

00:26:37 ◼   ► Oh, yeah, I've seen this before.

00:26:39 ◼   ► It's really good.

00:26:40 ◼   ► It's called V, V for Wiki, I think is what to search for.

00:26:44 ◼   ► It's a really great Wikipedia viewer.

00:26:47 ◼   ► So here's where I'm trying to focus

00:26:48 ◼   ► on consistency in my world, okay.

00:26:49 ◼   ► Step one, I decided that it was time

00:26:55 ◼   ► to let Launch Center Pro go.

00:26:58 ◼   ► Ah, okay.

00:26:59 ◼   ► Which may be one of the longest running apps on my phone

00:27:03 ◼   ► that has changed the least.

00:27:05 ◼   ► It's like that has been around for forever.

00:27:07 ◼   ► - We were just talking about it, about the icon.

00:27:10 ◼   ► - Well, this is why.

00:27:12 ◼   ► On the episode "Out of Time", it comes up as a thing

00:27:16 ◼   ► and I didn't want to specify anything at that point in time

00:27:18 ◼   ► but I had already, when we recorded that show,

00:27:20 ◼   ► gotten rid of Launch Center Prom.

00:27:22 ◼   ► - Right, because on an episode "Out of Time",

00:27:23 ◼   ► you cannot acknowledge the time.

00:27:26 ◼   ► - Yeah, who knows when it occurs.

00:27:28 ◼   ► Is that the rule for episodes "Out of Time"?

00:27:30 ◼   ► I don't understand how that works.

00:27:31 ◼   ► So I got rid of that.

00:27:32 ◼   ► Now, I have tried other launchers,

00:27:35 ◼   ► and I think other launchers are probably fine

00:27:39 ◼   ► for other people.

00:27:40 ◼   ► But, right, it's like I don't want to denigrate

00:27:43 ◼   ► other launchers that people might use,

00:27:45 ◼   ► because they are good, and they do, but like,

00:27:47 ◼   ► there's a bunch of things I didn't like,

00:27:48 ◼   ► and I'm very picky about this,

00:27:50 ◼   ► and there's, like, the reason I had stuck

00:27:51 ◼   ► with Launch Center Pro for as long as I had

00:27:53 ◼   ► is because it solved a particular need very well.

00:27:56 ◼   ► So I was thinking it through and realizing 95%

00:28:00 ◼   ► of what I was using Launch Center Pro for in the past year

00:28:05 ◼   ► was really as a way to kick off a bunch of workflows.

00:28:09 ◼   ► So I had a whole bunch of stuff in the workflow app

00:28:12 ◼   ► and Launch Center Pro was just a faster way

00:28:14 ◼   ► to launch a workflow than going directly

00:28:17 ◼   ► into the workflow app itself.

00:28:19 ◼   ► This, what I'm about to say is going to sound crazy

00:28:21 ◼   ► to people, but actually is, I think is great

00:28:24 ◼   ► and is the part of the system I'm the happiest with,

00:28:27 ◼   ► is I replaced Launch Center Pro with a folder

00:28:31 ◼   ► that just has shortcuts to workflows.

00:28:36 ◼   ► - No, this is better.

00:28:37 ◼   ► The way you were doing it was worse.

00:28:39 ◼   ► Like opening Launch Center Pro to launch workflows

00:28:44 ◼   ► is a, I think, a slower way of doing it

00:28:46 ◼   ► than what you're currently doing,

00:28:48 ◼   ► which is to save, 'cause you can save workflows

00:28:50 ◼   ► to the iPhone home screen

00:28:53 ◼   ► with like this weird hack of Safari, basically.

00:28:56 ◼   ► and this is quicker having that folder there and then hitting the button.

00:28:59 ◼   ► That's one less tap.

00:29:01 ◼   ► The reason I stuck with launch center pro

00:29:02 ◼   ► is as long as I did is it was lightning fast to do it.

00:29:05 ◼   ► It actually is a little bit slower with the folder.

00:29:08 ◼   ► OK, because Apple's like, look at our beautiful animation.

00:29:11 ◼   ► Yeah, OK, but hit by animation speed.

00:29:13 ◼   ► OK. Yeah.

00:29:15 ◼   ► Whereas especially if launch center pro was still kept in memory,

00:29:18 ◼   ► it was essentially instant.

00:29:19 ◼   ► So there's a little bit of a speed trade off here, but it's fine.

00:29:23 ◼   ► I still think this is a better way to do it, though.

00:29:25 ◼   ► It might not be faster, but I think this is cleaner.

00:29:29 ◼   ► Yeah, so this is cleaner. It does have a disadvantage

00:29:33 ◼   ► that I have to manually arrange everything so that it's

00:29:37 ◼   ► the same on all of the devices. There's no syncing anymore. The state of what

00:29:41 ◼   ► the launch center is. But that's fine. That's a fine trade-off.

00:29:45 ◼   ► And if someone looks in the screenshots, what they will see is

00:29:49 ◼   ► dead center on all of my devices, there is a folder

00:29:53 ◼   ► and that folder has nothing but buttons which launch

00:29:57 ◼   ► workflow actions.

00:29:58 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's dead center but not always relative.

00:30:01 ◼   ► - What do you mean not always relative?

00:30:03 ◼   ► - It's not relative to the green and red.

00:30:05 ◼   ► - Okay, no, we'll get into this in a second.

00:30:07 ◼   ► We'll get into this in a second, Myke, right?

00:30:08 ◼   ► - There's so many layers.

00:30:09 ◼   ► - 'Cause I've thought about this for a long time.

00:30:10 ◼   ► - This is like the onion of home screens we're in right now.

00:30:13 ◼   ► - No, but listen, okay, listen, listen.

00:30:16 ◼   ► Look at those three screens.

00:30:17 ◼   ► The workflow folder is dead center.

00:30:20 ◼   ► - Yes, it is, it is, it is.

00:30:22 ◼   ► Look at those little dots that are supposed to show you the home screen or the widgets.

00:30:26 ◼   ► I can see it.

00:30:27 ◼   ► That is the center.

00:30:28 ◼   ► Right?

00:30:29 ◼   ► And the folder is directly below those dots or as close as a person can make it.

00:30:33 ◼   ► Yes, it is.

00:30:34 ◼   ► It is.

00:30:35 ◼   ► I'm sorry.

00:30:36 ◼   ► It's not perfectly aligned because of some aesthetic choices that Apple has made, but

00:30:41 ◼   ► we'll just let that slide for right now.

00:30:43 ◼   ► Yeah, that is weird, isn't it?

00:30:44 ◼   ► It would be perfectly aligned, but it isn't.

00:30:45 ◼   ► It's fine on the iPhone.

00:30:48 ◼   ► Not fine on the big iPad.

00:30:49 ◼   ► Yeah, not fine on the iPad.

00:30:52 ◼   ► I bet that doesn't bother you at all.

00:30:54 ◼   ► It does, very much so.

00:30:57 ◼   ► Okay.

00:30:58 ◼   ► Alright, so this is the anchor around which we're building everything.

00:31:03 ◼   ► I've gotten rid of Launch Center Pro, I have found an adequate solution,

00:31:07 ◼   ► it's going to go in the center on all of the devices.

00:31:10 ◼   ► This is where we begin.

00:31:11 ◼   ► My assumption here is that these are all to launch, most likely, toggle actions.

00:31:19 ◼   ► Would be my assumption.

00:31:20 ◼   ► Nothing in that center folder is for toggle. We'll get to this.

00:31:23 ◼   ► Okay, good, good, good, good.

00:31:24 ◼   ► I thought that was gonna be the end of the discussion and I was gonna lose my mind.

00:31:27 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:31:31 ◼   ► No, actually, most of those launch center things are pre-programmed stuff for OmniFocus and,

00:31:38 ◼   ► like, a couple of other things.

00:31:39 ◼   ► Okay, the purple ones I assume are OmniFocus and then there's other stuff.

00:31:42 ◼   ► Yeah, purple ones are OmniFocus stuff.

00:31:44 ◼   ► That's cool. That's all I really need to know. I just needed to know what they did,

00:31:48 ◼   ► and that's enough for me.

00:31:49 ◼   ► It's all inconsistent now because I haven't quite decided on like what this new setup is going to be so I haven't worried about

00:31:55 ◼   ► Making sure it's consistent on every single device, but I'll get there at some point

00:31:59 ◼   ► I've just noticed something else that you've done. Okay. What have you noticed in the iPad folders?

00:32:04 ◼   ► You've put blank icons in there. So it's always the same. Yes. Okay, so this is

00:32:10 ◼   ► This is one way this is one way I am trying to force

00:32:17 ◼   ► out of an operating system that is trying to force me into an inconsistent state.

00:32:22 ◼   ► Because you want the 3x3 grid everywhere.

00:32:25 ◼   ► Because the thing with a launcher is that it's muscle memory, right?

00:32:29 ◼   ► You're not scanning and looking for a thing, you're trying to make it muscle memory.

00:32:35 ◼   ► So the iPhone only allows a 3x3 grid in the folder,

00:32:40 ◼   ► so I am forcing a 3x3 grid in the folder on the iPads.

00:32:46 ◼   ► But as you can see, that means the 3x3 grid is not centered, and it can't possibly be centered because the iPads want a 4x4 grid in the folder.

00:32:56 ◼   ► So this is a trade-off I'm just going to have to make, that the grid will be off-center, but there's no way to manage that for the LauncherOne, and the muscle memory of where the buttons are is vastly more important.

00:33:08 ◼   ► All of these images are in our show notes, so you can play along at home. I just wanted to reinforce that.

00:33:13 ◼   ► Yeah, I think you have to look at this.

00:33:15 ◼   ► You cannot conceptualize this unless you're seeing it, so you have to see it.

00:33:20 ◼   ► If you're driving, just wait till later. We're all good.

00:33:23 ◼   ► But you need to see these.

00:33:25 ◼   ► Rethink number two.

00:33:26 ◼   ► Okay. Can't believe we're just on number two, but okay.

00:33:28 ◼   ► I know you can't believe we're just on number two.

00:33:31 ◼   ► I feel like I'm barely halfway through whatever's going to happen.

00:33:34 ◼   ► I'm still so dissatisfied.

00:33:36 ◼   ► I have so many more questions.

00:33:38 ◼   ► I keep seeing things that make me laugh.

00:33:41 ◼   ► Because I know what you're doing, but I just need to double check.

00:33:44 ◼   ► double check.

00:33:45 ◼   ► Thing number two that happened is

00:33:48 ◼   ► there's a change in iOS 11, which I really like,

00:33:51 ◼   ► which is that you can put notes in Control Center.

00:33:55 ◼   ► And so I realized I don't need notes on the dock anymore

00:34:00 ◼   ► because the way I use notes is probably different

00:34:03 ◼   ► from the way almost everybody uses notes

00:34:05 ◼   ► in that I use it solely to just write down something

00:34:10 ◼   ► and then once a week I kind of go through

00:34:13 ◼   ► and cull all these random pieces of text throughout the week.

00:34:17 ◼   ► I don't use notes as an organizational system of any kind.

00:34:20 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:34:21 ◼   ► - Notes is just, I need to write something down

00:34:23 ◼   ► and I know future me will do whatever is necessary

00:34:26 ◼   ► with this piece of text at a later point in time.

00:34:28 ◼   ► - Okay, couple of questions on that.

00:34:29 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:34:30 ◼   ► - Are you writing them down with a keyboard

00:34:32 ◼   ► or with a pencil?

00:34:33 ◼   ► - With a keyboard almost all the time.

00:34:36 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:34:37 ◼   ► And so I'm assuming that you're taking these things

00:34:41 ◼   ► either putting them in a task manager or inside of a project that you're already writing and/or

00:34:47 ◼   ► inside of your beloved Evernote would be my assumption.

00:34:50 ◼   ► Yeah, it's like it's just anything, right? Like it's like a simple case,

00:34:54 ◼   ► like somebody recommends a movie and I'm like, "Oh, okay." And I make a note of the movie title

00:34:57 ◼   ► and then later I'll properly sort that into like the place where I keep a list of "here's a bunch

00:35:02 ◼   ► of movies to watch or books that have been recommended" or right. It's just like little

00:35:05 ◼   ► pieces of text that don't go anywhere in particular and it's not worth the effort of properly

00:35:10 ◼   ► sorting them at the time.

00:35:12 ◼   ► Right, okay. So it's different to me where like, if it's text, it goes in notes, right?

00:35:18 ◼   ► If it's not a task, because tasks never go in notes, it always just like, so I would

00:35:22 ◼   ► have my list of movies to see would be in notes, for example.

00:35:27 ◼   ► I know that that is the way most people would use it, but it's just it's just not the way

00:35:31 ◼   ► that I use it.

00:35:32 ◼   ► Sure, I get that.

00:35:33 ◼   ► is the app called Drafts.

00:35:35 ◼   ► I use Notes the way Drafts is intended to be used.

00:35:39 ◼   ► Like that's like a little comparison there.

00:35:41 ◼   ► So it's not a storage facility of any point.

00:35:44 ◼   ► - As a starting point for text, never the final point.

00:35:47 ◼   ► - Yeah, exactly.

00:35:48 ◼   ► And I really like this little change in iOS 11,

00:35:51 ◼   ► that you can do it from Control Center

00:35:53 ◼   ► because it also means that it's much more accessible,

00:35:57 ◼   ► much more quickly in a bunch of scenarios.

00:35:59 ◼   ► So I love that the phone is locked

00:36:01 ◼   ► and I can just swipe up from Control Center

00:36:03 ◼   ► and go to Notes and type something

00:36:05 ◼   ► and it just goes into the system

00:36:07 ◼   ► and I never even need to unlock the phone.

00:36:08 ◼   ► - Yeah, that's a great thing that you can do that now

00:36:11 ◼   ► if you want to set it up that way.

00:36:13 ◼   ► - It is a really nice addition.

00:36:15 ◼   ► And so that change meant,

00:36:17 ◼   ► okay, well, Notes doesn't need to be on the dock anymore.

00:36:20 ◼   ► Notes can just go away.

00:36:22 ◼   ► - Yeah, and in an interesting way,

00:36:24 ◼   ► that kind of reinforces your use case.

00:36:26 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's almost like it's designed exactly for that.

00:36:30 ◼   ► Like, oh, someone just said a thing,

00:36:31 ◼   ► you want to write something down really quickly and you just want it to go into the system.

00:36:35 ◼   ► You're not filing it at that point in time.

00:36:39 ◼   ► So, I'm glad about that.

00:36:41 ◼   ► But again, I'm all like muscle memory because this is a thing that happens lots.

00:36:46 ◼   ► So I just want to know that whatever device I'm using,

00:36:50 ◼   ► I've built it into my brain that, oh, the way you now type down a thing

00:36:55 ◼   ► is just pull up Control Center, hit New Note, and just type it and done.

00:36:59 ◼   ► So this is no longer a dock first activity.

00:37:03 ◼   ► OmniFocus has also been removed from the dock, but this is a complicated thing.

00:37:07 ◼   ► We'll just have to get to later. For various reasons

00:37:11 ◼   ► OmniFocus is not going to be on the dock anymore, but it's like, I can't even articulate it.

00:37:15 ◼   ► Of your iPhone, you mean? Yes, it's not on the dock of the iPhone.

00:37:19 ◼   ► Because it's on the dock of one of the iPads. I know, I know.

00:37:23 ◼   ► Reinforcing the inconsistency, but, you know, whatever. Yes, I know, I know.

00:37:27 ◼   ► could be on the dock on the iPhone we'll just we'll get rid of that. Oh I just noticed Todoist

00:37:31 ◼   ► is there as well wow look at you. Would you. Look at you Mr. Todoopants you got a wall

00:37:37 ◼   ► going on. Would you stop, would you stop jumping ahead? I can't help it you shouldn't have

00:37:42 ◼   ► given me the images you know like I can't I can't help it. Okay so there was then a

00:37:47 ◼   ► long period of thinking well what the hell goes on my dock now for a while I tried nothing

00:37:53 ◼   ► on the dock except that one folder. But that looks really dumb and it makes no sense on

00:38:00 ◼   ► the iPads because again you're punished for not using the dock on the iPads and just having

00:38:06 ◼   ► the one little launcher folder is ridiculous. What I have eventually settled on for my dock

00:38:13 ◼   ► icons is a green plus and there's a red X. And I was trying to think what is the thing

00:38:22 ◼   ► that I now do the most in the day.

00:38:24 ◼   ► I've replaced my launcher,

00:38:26 ◼   ► I've replaced the thing where I'm typing in stuff.

00:38:29 ◼   ► What is the next most frequent activity?

00:38:31 ◼   ► And of course, that is everybody's favorite topic,

00:38:34 ◼   ► time tracking.

00:38:36 ◼   ► - Oh no.

00:38:37 ◼   ► - Time tracking is the thing that I do the most.

00:38:39 ◼   ► - I promise we won't talk about this for too long, listeners.

00:38:41 ◼   ► I really, I just want you,

00:38:43 ◼   ► we'll get through this as part as quickly as we can.

00:38:46 ◼   ► But yes, go on.

00:38:47 ◼   ► - I promise you that we will as well

00:38:49 ◼   ► because there isn't that much to say about it

00:38:50 ◼   ► except what do these two buttons do?

00:38:53 ◼   ► They are also workflows.

00:38:55 ◼   ► So the green one simply launches a master workflow

00:39:00 ◼   ► that allows me to very quickly select

00:39:02 ◼   ► what is the activity that I'm doing right now.

00:39:04 ◼   ► - This is what I'd assumed they were.

00:39:06 ◼   ► And I thought that the middle folder was related

00:39:08 ◼   ► to just triggering specific trackers,

00:39:10 ◼   ► but that makes sense.

00:39:12 ◼   ► Like the green and red, it made perfect sense.

00:39:15 ◼   ► One is to start and one is to stop.

00:39:17 ◼   ► I mean, and I have these, but they're in,

00:39:20 ◼   ► I have them in my widgets in Notification Center.

00:39:23 ◼   ► - So this is a thing that I had tried for a long time.

00:39:25 ◼   ► Workflow has a fantastic widget.

00:39:28 ◼   ► It's really, really great.

00:39:30 ◼   ► But basically in iOS 10, there was an option to say,

00:39:34 ◼   ► hey, you're in Notification Center.

00:39:36 ◼   ► It's dumb, I don't ever use it, I don't care.

00:39:39 ◼   ► Remember what the thing I swiped down last time was.

00:39:42 ◼   ► So if I've pulled down the widgets,

00:39:45 ◼   ► always just have the widgets there.

00:39:47 ◼   ► but iOS 11 seems really proud of their notification center

00:39:50 ◼   ► and they've removed this option.

00:39:52 ◼   ► So in theory, I would want to use the widget

00:39:57 ◼   ► to launch and to stop my time tracking,

00:40:02 ◼   ► like across all devices, that'd be a way

00:40:03 ◼   ► to do it consistently, but that extra swipe

00:40:07 ◼   ► really annoys me every time.

00:40:09 ◼   ► Doesn't it work if you just swipe to the left?

00:40:12 ◼   ► Okay, but this is a thing that then becomes

00:40:15 ◼   ► little bit in my mind like it like an inconsistent thing like which device am

00:40:20 ◼   ► I using how do I open up that device like am I on the lock screen is the lock

00:40:26 ◼   ► screen open or is a lock screen not like I tried it with the widget but it's it's

00:40:32 ◼   ► just a little bit of an annoyance I don't feel that it's also but here's

00:40:39 ◼   ► here's the use case that here's the use case that I will give you which is I'm

00:40:43 ◼   ► I'm on the iPad doing something and I want to trigger the timer.

00:40:48 ◼   ► Yeah, okay.

00:40:49 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:40:50 ◼   ► Where do I go?

00:40:51 ◼   ► You have to pull down or go home and yeah, it's the thing.

00:40:53 ◼   ► Right, I can't, yeah, there's like, so it's not the same every time.

00:40:57 ◼   ► And this, again, is where muscle memory is really important.

00:41:00 ◼   ► Like, this is an activity that I'm going to do dozens of times a day.

00:41:05 ◼   ► It has to be something that I just don't think about.

00:41:09 ◼   ► So that moment of being on the iPad with the apps open is like, I have to think about it

00:41:15 ◼   ► for a second and now it's all ruined.

00:41:18 ◼   ► So this is what ended up with the most sensible thing to do, was to put the time tracking

00:41:23 ◼   ► stuff in the dock.

00:41:25 ◼   ► And so I'm thinking of it from the perspective of the most space-constrained device, which

00:41:32 ◼   ► is the iPhone, which you can only put three icons in the dock if you want it to look nice.

00:41:38 ◼   ► So now I have my three doc icons.

00:41:41 ◼   ► And so now we come to the iPads.

00:41:45 ◼   ► OK.

00:41:48 ◼   ► And so I have given you two screenshots because we

00:41:52 ◼   ► live the multi-pad lifestyle.

00:41:53 ◼   ► Hashtag.

00:41:54 ◼   ► Yes, hashtag multi-pad lifestyle.

00:41:56 ◼   ► The one with the standard Apple wallpaper,

00:42:00 ◼   ► which is like the exploding paint, this is my Office iPad.

00:42:04 ◼   ► So this is the one that I'm primarily using for writing.

00:42:08 ◼   ► And then the one with the black sand beach, this is the Everything Else iPad.

00:42:13 ◼   ► Okay.

00:42:15 ◼   ► So the writing iPad is reasonably okay because the use cases are very constrained.

00:42:23 ◼   ► And this is where I feel the happiest because it's like I want to use Ulysses to write,

00:42:29 ◼   ► I want to use GoodNotes for the physical writing.

00:42:33 ◼   ► I use Bear to organize a bunch of notes,

00:42:37 ◼   ► and then of course I have Evernote and a Wikipedia app,

00:42:41 ◼   ► and it's like, this is easily 95% of the time

00:42:44 ◼   ► I'm going to spend on this iPad.

00:42:47 ◼   ► So I can get it all in the doc,

00:42:48 ◼   ► and I can get it arranged reasonably nicely.

00:42:50 ◼   ► Now the thing that I'm trying to do

00:42:52 ◼   ► to preserve my mental muscle memory

00:42:55 ◼   ► is because since docs are variable in size,

00:42:57 ◼   ► there's three muscle memory points here.

00:43:01 ◼   ► Center, left hand side, right hand side.

00:43:05 ◼   ► So this is what I want now to be the same

00:43:07 ◼   ► across all devices.

00:43:08 ◼   ► So the launching folder is in the center,

00:43:11 ◼   ► the plus to start the timer is on the left,

00:43:14 ◼   ► and the X to stop the timer is on the right.

00:43:17 ◼   ► This is what's going to be the same across all devices.

00:43:21 ◼   ► And all that means now is I need to

00:43:23 ◼   ► put a symmetrical number of apps in between those points.

00:43:28 ◼   ► So on my writing iPad, I have three apps

00:43:31 ◼   ► between the left and the middle,

00:43:33 ◼   ► and on the right-hand side, I have two apps

00:43:37 ◼   ► plus a folder that contains everything else

00:43:41 ◼   ► that's on the iPad.

00:43:42 ◼   ► Since I've decided that there will be no apps

00:43:45 ◼   ► on the home screen, that means everything else

00:43:48 ◼   ► goes into the Infinity folder that holds

00:43:51 ◼   ► all of the other apps that are going to exist on the iPad.

00:43:55 ◼   ► So this is the idea of my dock solution,

00:43:59 ◼   ► is you have one folder, that's the infinity folder,

00:44:04 ◼   ► I have three muscle memory points,

00:44:07 ◼   ► and then I fill in the rest.

00:44:08 ◼   ► That's the idea of what's going on.

00:44:11 ◼   ► - Can I ask you a question about the muscle memory thing?

00:44:14 ◼   ► - Please.

00:44:15 ◼   ► - Why didn't you put all three in the middle on everything?

00:44:17 ◼   ► Because on the big iPad, because you have the recents,

00:44:20 ◼   ► it's not on the far right.

00:44:22 ◼   ► - In iOS 11, you have this option of,

00:44:25 ◼   ► because the doc is so important,

00:44:27 ◼   ► iOS will put three suggested apps in your dock on the right side.

00:44:33 ◼   ► And these you don't have control over, they just appear, they're the suggestions, they're

00:44:38 ◼   ► what Apple thinks you want to have.

00:44:43 ◼   ► Now there's like a funny bit of space that's between these apps and the other apps that

00:44:49 ◼   ► makes everything kind of off-center.

00:44:52 ◼   ► And having the three right in the middle but not exactly in the middle makes it more obvious

00:44:59 ◼   ► that things are off-center to me.

00:45:02 ◼   ► It just visually bothered me more.

00:45:04 ◼   ► Okay, so you tried it?

00:45:06 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:45:07 ◼   ► I tried it but it just looked weird.

00:45:10 ◼   ► And I can, in my mind, sort of mentally place those suggested apps in a different location.

00:45:18 ◼   ► And you like the suggested apps enough to keep it on the big iPad because it's not on

00:45:22 ◼   ► the small iPad?

00:45:24 ◼   ► Well we're trying a few things here.

00:45:28 ◼   ► But we'll get to this in a second.

00:45:29 ◼   ► It also helps that the red X I press far less than the start button.

00:45:33 ◼   ► So it matters less that that one is in the exact right spot.

00:45:37 ◼   ► But for me, for my brain, this just works even though it should seem like keeping everything

00:45:43 ◼   ► in the center would make more sense.

00:45:46 ◼   ► But I don't-- for like, for me, for somehow, this is just what seems to make more sense,

00:45:50 ◼   ► is put them at the edges, even though on one of these devices there isn't quite an edge.

00:45:57 ◼   ► So this is what I am trying.

00:45:59 ◼   ► But this again, like, this world of inconsistency is crazy making, because on the iPad that

00:46:04 ◼   ► I use for everything, I do have these suggested apps, because it's really useful to have them

00:46:11 ◼   ► But I don't want them on my dedicated sort of writing office iPad because they're often just suggesting apps to me which are in the dock already.

00:46:21 ◼   ► Right? Or they're things that I've just used and they're changing is annoying. Like it's not helpful because on that device I'm able to get just about everything that I want in the dock in the dock.

00:46:31 ◼   ► This is where I am with the setup of things.

00:46:34 ◼   ► I have a couple of observations.

00:46:36 ◼   ► One, I enjoy the fact that you have decided that you are unwilling to take the colors

00:46:42 ◼   ► of some icons and have recreated icons of your own, books and audiobooks.

00:46:47 ◼   ► I'm assuming that they are literally just shortcuts to launch iBooks and Audible?

00:46:55 ◼   ► And you have taken matters into your own hands and have gone for a more pleasing to you green

00:47:00 ◼   ► color than the yellows.

00:47:03 ◼   ► I have taken matters in my own hands. There's another one that you have missed there, which is Flashcards.

00:47:07 ◼   ► No, I hadn't missed that. I had assumed that that wasn't real, but the books and audiobooks were more obvious to me.

00:47:14 ◼   ► Yeah, Flashcards is a shortcut to the program I've been using for years and years, which is called Anki, which is-- it's great.

00:47:23 ◼   ► It's a fantastic flashcard program,

00:47:25 ◼   ► but it has a very ugly app that I don't think has been updated in years and years.

00:47:31 ◼   ► I can tell how long you've been using it because you keep calling it a program, which is very

00:47:36 ◼   ► strange.

00:47:37 ◼   ► Yeah, you know what?

00:47:38 ◼   ► That's totally, yeah, it is a program because I started using it in college on a computer.

00:47:44 ◼   ► That is the program, everything else is an app.

00:47:46 ◼   ► I love that your brain made that distinction.

00:47:50 ◼   ► This is a computer program.

00:47:53 ◼   ► Yeah, I would never have used that.

00:47:55 ◼   ► And then because Amazon finally introduced proper text alignment in their app, I was

00:48:00 ◼   ► Kindle.

00:48:01 ◼   ► --switch back to using Kindles, which is great.

00:48:04 ◼   ► But that Kindle app icon is horrifically ugly.

00:48:09 ◼   ► Do not buy it.

00:48:11 ◼   ► I will not allow that on my screen.

00:48:13 ◼   ► I don't want to have to look at that.

00:48:16 ◼   ► I hate that the apps have the words beneath the app

00:48:18 ◼   ► to begin with.

00:48:20 ◼   ► And then any app which also has to write

00:48:22 ◼   ► its own name on the app icon in addition to the title

00:48:26 ◼   ► underneath-- it's like, I can't deal with that.

00:48:28 ◼   ► It's horrible.

00:48:28 ◼   ► It's like, Kindle.

00:48:29 ◼   ► yeah, I get it Kindle. Like I see the word twice. I hate it. So I just made a much better

00:48:35 ◼   ► icon using workflow than they use. So yes, I have some replacement app icons for ones

00:48:42 ◼   ► that are unacceptable.

00:48:46 ◼   ► Except for the fact that you're running three to-do apps on your iPhone. I think that's

00:48:53 ◼   ► most of my general questions.

00:48:57 ◼   ► So my phone there, just to be clear, that to-do row, which is four icons that have check

00:49:02 ◼   ► marks is--

00:49:03 ◼   ► To-do lane, this is Simone.

00:49:04 ◼   ► Yeah, it's a to-do lane.

00:49:05 ◼   ► Just quickly so people don't think I'm going crazy.

00:49:07 ◼   ► It's like the do is for reminders that are related to a particular time or timers that

00:49:10 ◼   ► I want to run.

00:49:11 ◼   ► As we've discussed in the past but we don't need to go over here again, it is useful to

00:49:17 ◼   ► split certain kinds of tasks between to-do and omni-focus.

00:49:23 ◼   ► So OmniFocus is generally like big project stuff and to-do is much much smaller things.

00:49:29 ◼   ► And then to-do-ist is what I use to communicate with my personal assistant. So that is like

00:49:34 ◼   ► shared tasks between the two of us.

00:49:37 ◼   ► Oh, Wunderlist is dead.

00:49:39 ◼   ► Oh, yes. Yeah. Wunderlist is gone.

00:49:43 ◼   ► Maybe I should call this one to-doist. Like I have to give this one a new name now because

00:49:48 ◼   ► Wunderlist is gone.

00:49:50 ◼   ► No you don't. No, we don't need to do that.

00:49:52 ◼   ► - Todoist is actually a pretty funny name, I like that.

00:49:55 ◼   ► But I use Todoist and love it,

00:49:57 ◼   ► so I wouldn't dare give it a different name.

00:50:00 ◼   ► Even though Vunderlist is the way

00:50:01 ◼   ► that that app should be pronounced anyway.

00:50:05 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:50:06 ◼   ► - Todoist, interesting, okay,

00:50:08 ◼   ► what do you think of Todoist?

00:50:09 ◼   ► 'Cause this is what I use every day,

00:50:10 ◼   ► I mean, I extol its virtues, I like the automation.

00:50:13 ◼   ► I bet that's pretty good for you

00:50:14 ◼   ► if you're using it for shared tasks,

00:50:15 ◼   ► to have things automated from it is pretty good.

00:50:19 ◼   ► I actually don't use any of the automation features in it.

00:50:24 ◼   ► This is a case where basically my assistant and I

00:50:27 ◼   ► were running up against some limitations in Wunderlist.

00:50:30 ◼   ► We just ran into some things where like,

00:50:32 ◼   ► this isn't working great anymore.

00:50:34 ◼   ► And primarily one of the things was like the need

00:50:36 ◼   ► to be able to prioritize certain tasks above others.

00:50:39 ◼   ► She is the one who is 95% using this.

00:50:42 ◼   ► And I am simply like adding tasks and adding comments.

00:50:45 ◼   ► So I feel like I can't really give a fair review of Todoist.

00:50:50 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:50:50 ◼   ► - Like what I do use of it, I can say like,

00:50:54 ◼   ► I'm not a huge fan and it feels like

00:50:57 ◼   ► there's some really obvious things that are missing.

00:51:00 ◼   ► But I can say that it is definitely

00:51:03 ◼   ► a better collaboration solution

00:51:06 ◼   ► when your collaboration gets more complicated.

00:51:09 ◼   ► Like that's clearly the case.

00:51:10 ◼   ► - Goodbye, Wunderlist.

00:51:12 ◼   ► Goodbye, it's been a pleasure.

00:51:14 ◼   ► I feel a little exhausted from all the explaining I've done

00:51:17 ◼   ► of this setup that I have here, Myke.

00:51:20 ◼   ► And I feel like I've barely even scratched the surface.

00:51:24 ◼   ► - It might be your time for a nap.

00:51:26 ◼   ► - Yeah, it might be my time for a nap.

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00:53:13 ◼   ► What do you use the two different iPads for?

00:53:17 ◼   ► What are the use cases for you of your two devices right now?

00:53:21 ◼   ► So primarily, the primary use cases are home and out of home.

00:53:28 ◼   ► So at home I use the 12.9 and away from home I use the 10.5.

00:53:33 ◼   ► But I do use the 10.5 a lot at home if I'm going to be doing things like reading Twitter

00:53:42 ◼   ► and stuff like that.

00:53:43 ◼   ► I may just grab the 10.5 because it's just easier to hold and use because it's smaller

00:53:47 ◼   ► and lighter.

00:53:49 ◼   ► But like the primary is home and away, which is why I take steps to set them up very similarly.

00:53:57 ◼   ► They're not exactly the same.

00:53:59 ◼   ► So like some of the folders and the placement of some apps on the home screen is different,

00:54:03 ◼   ► but that's not a thing that I worry about too much because if it's not in the dock,

00:54:09 ◼   ► I'm opening it via Spotlight.

00:54:13 ◼   ► And so like for me, the reason I still have apps on my home screen is because they're

00:54:19 ◼   ► really just an organization thing, it's just like a place for me to put the apps because

00:54:23 ◼   ► I open the majority of apps from Spotlight.

00:54:26 ◼   ► Right, okay, so that makes sense. Since you are doing the same kind of things on both

00:54:31 ◼   ► devices, it's a simple, it's simply the size factor and convenience factor of moving it

00:54:37 ◼   ► or not moving it.

00:54:39 ◼   ► Exactly.

00:54:40 ◼   ► So that's why you want the dock the same everywhere because otherwise you would be losing your

00:54:43 ◼   ► mind.

00:54:44 ◼   ► And my steps are like, so I have less, you can have more apps in the dock on the 12.9,

00:54:53 ◼   ► But I actually keep less because I like the consistency.

00:54:56 ◼   ► I have noticed an inconsistency which I want to rectify that Dropbox on the large iPad

00:55:01 ◼   ► is in the dock on its own, but on the small iPad it's in a folder.

00:55:06 ◼   ► Although I expect as soon as Dropbox update for the Files app on iOS 11, I won't need

00:55:11 ◼   ► it anymore really.

00:55:12 ◼   ► I'll just be using the Files app.

00:55:14 ◼   ► I'm kind of just waiting for that point.

00:55:17 ◼   ► So the dock for me is really like these are the apps that I'm using most on my iPad and

00:55:22 ◼   ► And I think it reinforces the fact that I say I use the iPad for work because they are

00:55:27 ◼   ► work apps.

00:55:28 ◼   ► Like, all of those.

00:55:30 ◼   ► That's what they are.

00:55:32 ◼   ► And the reason that they are all there is because these are the applications that I'm

00:55:35 ◼   ► most frequently using in split views.

00:55:39 ◼   ► So I keep them in the dock because it's way easier that way to just flick up and just

00:55:42 ◼   ► drag it to where I need it to be.

00:55:44 ◼   ► Which just for the record, because there is a lot of a, I think there's a lot of inconsistent

00:55:49 ◼   ► opinions about how people feel about this.

00:55:51 ◼   ► I love the new multitasking in iOS 11.

00:55:56 ◼   ► I think it's fantastic.

00:55:57 ◼   ► I think it is superior in almost every way.

00:55:59 ◼   ► It just takes time to get used to and learn.

00:56:02 ◼   ► But I absolutely love it.

00:56:05 ◼   ► I love all the dragging because I'm able to visualize

00:56:08 ◼   ► where everything's gonna be.

00:56:09 ◼   ► iOS is very visual.

00:56:11 ◼   ► I think that that is,

00:56:12 ◼   ► I think there is a key to being able to work on iOS

00:56:15 ◼   ► in the, if you like things visual.

00:56:18 ◼   ► I think that that is a thing that you have to just

00:56:20 ◼   ► get used to is that you like to be able to see things, you like to be able to see the

00:56:24 ◼   ► movement of things, and being able to physically drag applications to where I want them to

00:56:30 ◼   ► be and have them snap into a place and move them all around and the additional flexibility

00:56:35 ◼   ► that iOS 11 multitasking has is amazing and I love it.

00:56:39 ◼   ► And I've changed some of my workflows and they're changed now and I would never want

00:56:43 ◼   ► to change them back.

00:56:44 ◼   ► Yeah, I do again just want to make it really clear that I am also in favor of the changes

00:56:52 ◼   ► and I think it's a really great the way that they have done it.

00:56:55 ◼   ► I've just been advocating for something on top of that.

00:56:58 ◼   ► Very minor thing on top of that.

00:56:59 ◼   ► But yeah.

00:57:00 ◼   ► Yeah, of course.

00:57:01 ◼   ► I mean there are things that I would like for it to do that are different.

00:57:06 ◼   ► But on the whole I am a real proponent of the changes that Apple has made.

00:57:12 ◼   ► So a thing that I found really interesting about using iOS over this long period of time

00:57:19 ◼   ► is with my two iPads, one that has this dedicated purpose, which is writing and research, and

00:57:27 ◼   ► the other one, which is the everything iPad, all kinds of administrative, all kinds of

00:57:32 ◼   ► work, I see both sides of how this works.

00:57:36 ◼   ► So on my dedicated iPad, I feel like this is exactly what Apple is really optimizing for.

00:57:43 ◼   ► I can put essentially all of the applications that I want to use on the dock,

00:57:48 ◼   ► and on my writing iPad, every app does have a consistent buddy that it stays with.

00:57:55 ◼   ► Ulysses and Bear, I'm always opening together.

00:57:58 ◼   ► One's the main writing app, and then the other one is for auxiliary notes.

00:58:02 ◼   ► Workflow and Do are side by side. They're always together.

00:58:07 ◼   ► Like, To Do and OmniFocus stay together as a little pair.

00:58:11 ◼   ► So, on this device, I have consistent pairs, which is great.

00:58:17 ◼   ► It's nice to see the things that I want next to each other, next to each other all the time.

00:58:21 ◼   ► And I also have the vast majority of my work is just there on the dock and easily accessible.

00:58:26 ◼   ► It's like, this is great! I feel like this is exactly what this was designed for.

00:58:31 ◼   ► But I do still feel like on my everything iPad, like I'm just losing my mind and I still find it very clunky and frustrating to work with.

00:58:42 ◼   ► Because there I just don't have consistent pairs of apps.

00:58:48 ◼   ► And I find myself always wishing it was a bit more like spaces on Mac OS where I could say,

00:58:56 ◼   ► I want to define these two apps together and don't break them apart if I happen to go to something else briefly.

00:59:06 ◼   ► I feel like I'm building castles out of sand.

00:59:11 ◼   ► For example, this morning I was doing storyboarding feedback with the animator.

00:59:16 ◼   ► That is a process that has a bunch of apps that I want to use.

00:59:20 ◼   ► And I just keep finding it clunky to be constantly setting up pairs,

00:59:26 ◼   ► but then I want to break them down because I want to bring in a third app,

00:59:29 ◼   ► but I want to go back to the previous thing.

00:59:32 ◼   ► I'm still finding it frustrating for intensive use of a large number of varied apps.

00:59:40 ◼   ► But on the smaller case, it's great and perfect,

00:59:45 ◼   ► but it's more frustrating the larger number of apps you use.

00:59:49 ◼   ► I think the fundamental problem of people that feel the way that you do is thinking of apps as pairs.

00:59:55 ◼   ► I don't think that Apple ever really asked you to do that. You decided to think of it that way on

01:00:02 ◼   ► your own, right? But what I mean about the the pairs though is it's not the thinking of them as

01:00:09 ◼   ► pairs. It's the switching like here's the use cases like I have one major

01:00:17 ◼   ► So, like, what I was doing this morning is the perfect case.

01:00:20 ◼   ► So I'm watching a movie that's a storyboard.

01:00:23 ◼   ► So this is, like, the main thing that I want to look at.

01:00:26 ◼   ► And then on the side, I want to be able to switch between three different things.

01:00:31 ◼   ► Like, I want to have notes that I'm taking in Bear,

01:00:34 ◼   ► I need to be able to talk to the animator in Slack,

01:00:38 ◼   ► and there's a couple of other things where I need to bring up good notes

01:00:41 ◼   ► to be able to make a quick sketch to make something that's clear,

01:00:44 ◼   ► and then Dropbox to send a link back to the animator who I'm talking in Slack,

01:00:49 ◼   ► but I never want to close the movie that I'm watching, which is the thing that is being commented on.

01:00:54 ◼   ► That workflow, which is still very easy to do on a computer, is frustrating because of the

01:01:01 ◼   ► the time it takes to switch the app on the side, and it's also frustrating because of the

01:01:08 ◼   ► inconsistent steps of

01:01:11 ◼   ► How do I summon these apps? Like where is this app that I'm trying to summon? Like let me get it from Spotlight.

01:01:16 ◼   ► When I get it from Spotlight, I have to drag it over into just the right spot.

01:01:20 ◼   ► I have to wait for the little animation to show me that it's going to go there. Like rapid switching between a few things is

01:01:27 ◼   ► noticeably slower than rapid switching between a few things was under the old system. And I want to be really clear.

01:01:33 ◼   ► I'm not asking for that old system. That was crazy.

01:01:37 ◼   ► In iOS 10 you could use the command tab action to switch out just what was in the left pane.

01:01:43 ◼   ► I understand that, I do miss that, but I don't want it back.

01:01:48 ◼   ► There's other weird consistency problems that I sort of thought were bugs at first in iOS,

01:01:54 ◼   ► but I think are not bugs, which is when you do the command tab switcher, what apps show up in that

01:02:01 ◼   ► list? It doesn't show everything, and I don't understand what it's supposed to be showing.

01:02:05 ◼   ► That is something that I think is wrong.

01:02:07 ◼   ► However, Apple are deciding to make that list is is wrong

01:02:11 ◼   ► because it should show everything and it should show pairs.

01:02:16 ◼   ► But it doesn't.

01:02:17 ◼   ► And it should show things that I've just touched.

01:02:21 ◼   ► So it feels like this.

01:02:23 ◼   ► The thing that it seems to miss the most is I've summoned an app from Spotlight

01:02:27 ◼   ► and dragged it into an overview setting or like a not main view.

01:02:32 ◼   ► And like then it doesn't show up in the command switch.

01:02:35 ◼   ► It's like, I want that thing-- I was just there.

01:02:37 ◼   ► That also adds to this frustration of trying to switch between multiple apps.

01:02:42 ◼   ► Like, it's--

01:02:43 ◼   ► So, I guess this is one of the things that also just doesn't help with, like,

01:02:48 ◼   ► what is my dock setup going to be and how am I going to set up these iPads is

01:02:52 ◼   ► the use case where I want to have the most number of things,

01:02:57 ◼   ► I feel like I really need to cram the dock full of stuff.

01:03:02 ◼   ► And this is where you can see on my everything iPad screenshot.

01:03:07 ◼   ► Like, I have the Infinity folder, I have the Launcher folder,

01:03:10 ◼   ► but I'm also trying to make a little communications folder,

01:03:13 ◼   ► which is like, here are the little apps where I'm talking to people,

01:03:17 ◼   ► and I find myself switching in and out of very frequently,

01:03:20 ◼   ► and trying to put them in a folder on the dock

01:03:23 ◼   ► so I can get access to them more quickly

01:03:25 ◼   ► for dropping into the workspace that I'm using.

01:03:29 ◼   ► like I'm trying to get around this, but I don't have a great solution that feels like,

01:03:36 ◼   ► "Wow, I'm really flying through my work on this iPad." It still feels really clunky for me to do that.

01:03:42 ◼   ► So I can see in the specific use case that you've posted in that you want to use three apps plus for

01:03:50 ◼   ► video, right? And I'm assuming picture-in-picture isn't working for you here for whatever reason

01:03:56 ◼   ► that might be. It's not really worth getting into.

01:03:58 ◼   ► Yeah, the details don't matter.

01:04:00 ◼   ► But picture in pictures is either the view isn't large enough or the app that you use

01:04:03 ◼   ► doesn't support it, whatever. I can see for that where it's frustrating, right? But because you're

01:04:09 ◼   ► watching a video, I think for basically any other workflow issue, you can just deal with switching

01:04:14 ◼   ► into a different app for a moment, right? Like if you need four apps, well, just using three of them

01:04:19 ◼   ► because you can use three if you slide over and then you just command tab out to the other app,

01:04:24 ◼   ► enter whatever you need to go in there and go back. The specific use case that you're posing

01:04:28 ◼   ► is tricky because you want to be watching the video at all times. But you know, just I would

01:04:33 ◼   ► just say like it's frustrating but just pause the video right like that that's that's the workflow

01:04:37 ◼   ► you will end up getting yourself into I reckon just like well I'll pause for a moment and do

01:04:41 ◼   ► what I need to do and go back. I get that there have been some workflows that I have had to change

01:04:48 ◼   ► as well but I take this small frustration because the system as a whole is vastly superior to what

01:04:58 ◼   ► has come before it and I really think that a lot of people are getting more frustrated about this

01:05:04 ◼   ► just because of how close it is to the Mac now which I actually think is a testament to how good

01:05:10 ◼   ► iOS 11 is that people are getting more frustrated about how it's different to the Mac because it is

01:05:17 ◼   ► so good and it's so powerful it's almost like an uncanny valley thing where people are less

01:05:23 ◼   ► comparing it to what ios 10 was and comparing it to what they think it should be because of how

01:05:29 ◼   ► the mac works so yeah like i i will agree with that 100 because there was no doubt in my mind

01:05:36 ◼   ► that it's a bit of a frustration for me because like on i don't know about you but on the mac i'm

01:05:42 ◼   ► a very heavy spaces user.

01:05:44 ◼   ► Yeah, I am.

01:05:45 ◼   ► I really like the ability to use lots of spaces.

01:05:48 ◼   ► I think most heavy iOS users use the Mac that way.

01:05:51 ◼   ► Hmm, maybe.

01:05:53 ◼   ► And so yes, it does invite that comparison of, on the Mac it's much easier to be fussy

01:05:59 ◼   ► about my spaces and which apps go in what spaces, and then it feels like I'm switching

01:06:04 ◼   ► between a whole bunch of different virtual desktops that have been left just the way

01:06:10 ◼   ► I want them to be.

01:06:11 ◼   ► And so like I will completely agree with you on that.

01:06:14 ◼   ► That is, it is impressive in a way

01:06:16 ◼   ► that the comparison is now,

01:06:18 ◼   ► oh why can't I do this as lightning fast

01:06:21 ◼   ► as I can do it on a full desktop computer?

01:06:23 ◼   ► You and I have always acknowledged

01:06:24 ◼   ► that there are many things on the iPad

01:06:26 ◼   ► that we have always known it is slower to do,

01:06:30 ◼   ► but it doesn't change the fact

01:06:31 ◼   ► that we like working on an iPad way better.

01:06:34 ◼   ► Like and that has always been a trade off

01:06:37 ◼   ► that we're willing to make.

01:06:38 ◼   ► - Yeah, like I know that dragging from the dock

01:06:41 ◼   ► is slower than however any other system would use it, even the previous system.

01:06:45 ◼   ► But I don't care because I enjoy it more.

01:06:47 ◼   ► I like the multitasking because I'm multitasking with my hands.

01:06:52 ◼   ► Like, I like it. I like the feeling of it.

01:06:54 ◼   ► But I understand. I understand the concerns.

01:06:57 ◼   ► But like, I think this is the best we could have got

01:07:00 ◼   ► because any more than this would have been way too complicated.

01:07:04 ◼   ► Like a jump bigger than the jump that Apple have made here

01:07:08 ◼   ► would have been too much, especially when at this stage that we're at right now,

01:07:13 ◼   ► and we'll still be at for a few weeks as app updates come out, we haven't even

01:07:16 ◼   ► realized the full potential of what this system is because

01:07:20 ◼   ► we don't really have the opportunity to use drag and drop very heavily

01:07:24 ◼   ► because the app support isn't there yet because they're not out yet.

01:07:28 ◼   ► So I think that like there are still things that we've yet to fully

01:07:33 ◼   ► appreciate for what this system is doing.

01:07:37 ◼   ► So I think any more than what Apple has added in 11 would have been way too complicated.

01:07:43 ◼   ► Like the idea of having persistent pairs and having apps that can be open with other pairs

01:07:49 ◼   ► in multiple instances inside of the multitasking pane, I think that kind of thing might come in the

01:07:55 ◼   ► future. But if they would have put that in now, it would have been like a nightmare scenario to

01:08:00 ◼   ► try and understand what was going on. I will completely agree with that. My frustration is

01:08:05 ◼   ► is simply the thing that I was trying to remedy

01:08:07 ◼   ► with the keyboard shortcut is,

01:08:10 ◼   ► like I'm very used to just switching stuff fast

01:08:13 ◼   ► with the keyboard.

01:08:14 ◼   ► And my main frustration is, it's like,

01:08:16 ◼   ► I will happily learn complicated keyboard commands

01:08:19 ◼   ► if it lets me move between a bunch of,

01:08:21 ◼   ► but like there's just no way to do that

01:08:23 ◼   ► under the current system.

01:08:24 ◼   ► It's like-- - Like command shift alt tab

01:08:27 ◼   ► could change the left app or whatever.

01:08:30 ◼   ► - I think I had some great suggestions for app shortcuts,

01:08:32 ◼   ► but whatever.

01:08:33 ◼   ► [laughs]

01:08:35 ◼   ► It's-- I think that that's one of the things that also just-- it feels like it slows it-- slows it down.

01:08:40 ◼   ► But again, I keep thinking of the--

01:08:43 ◼   ► Like I mentioned last time, like for-- for my aunt who uses an iPad Pro is her main computer.

01:08:49 ◼   ► This is a hell of an upgrade and she is not a very technical user,

01:08:54 ◼   ► but I think the system is

01:08:56 ◼   ► brilliantly designed because I know it will take her no time at all to figure out what to do.

01:09:00 ◼   ► You just move it with your hands like it's a physical object or ignore it completely, right?

01:09:05 ◼   ► You can ignore it completely if you don't notice it and it's fine. Yeah, or yeah, it doesn't even matter

01:09:10 ◼   ► That's why like it's it is a great solution to a very difficult thing

01:09:15 ◼   ► I just I just wish for pro users. There was like a faster way to do more precise stuff

01:09:20 ◼   ► You've got some beautiful wallpapers on your iOS devices here, Myke

01:09:24 ◼   ► Thank you two of them are

01:09:28 ◼   ► creations of in 5k of old Apple Mac desktops, which I'll put a link in the show notes

01:09:35 ◼   ► Stephen Hackett and our amazing designer Frank put those together together

01:09:40 ◼   ► the one on my iPhone is actually a

01:09:43 ◼   ► Relay FM members exclusive wallpaper. So if you're a relay of a member you get loads of cool wallpapers

01:09:50 ◼   ► We're just doing another plug here everybody and you yeah, you get lovely wallpapers and that's one for remaster

01:09:57 ◼   ► which is the video game show that I do, you have that same black one on your phone that

01:10:02 ◼   ► you've had forever, the fractal one, although it's better than whatever that out of time

01:10:07 ◼   ► home screen was, that weird dusty thing. And I'm assuming, I didn't, I hate, not good.

01:10:16 ◼   ► I assume that the other two are both Apple's ones, right? I think that that's beach one

01:10:22 ◼   ► is too? No the beach one's not Apple's one. The paint splash is an Apple one. I feel like in

01:10:31 ◼   ► beta season I'm more daring with what wallpapers I might use on different devices.

01:10:36 ◼   ► You're wild right now. Yeah so this is Gray Gone Wild with his wallpaper backgrounds. I think

01:10:43 ◼   ► after beta season is over we might calm down a little bit and go to something more

01:10:51 ◼   ► button-down and business-like.

01:10:53 ◼   ► But where is the beach one from?

01:10:55 ◼   ► I don't know actually where that beach one is from.

01:10:59 ◼   ► I can't remember where I got that originally.

01:11:00 ◼   ► Let's hope nobody wants it because if you don't know where it's from, I can't give people

01:11:04 ◼   ► the links.

01:11:05 ◼   ► This is why we're mentioning the wallpapers because people always want them.

01:11:09 ◼   ► This is what reverse image search is for.

01:11:11 ◼   ► Yep, that's how people found the original one that you couldn't find.

01:11:15 ◼   ► Oh actually I should make a plug

01:11:19 ◼   ► because I don't think I've mentioned it on the show before

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01:11:35 ◼   ► and so it's similar to the old one that I used to have

01:11:39 ◼   ► it's just less contrasty, it's more subtle

01:11:43 ◼   ► and I will put the link in the show notes for the designer of that has a whole series of

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01:13:31 ◼   ► Oh, Myke. I'm exhausted.

01:13:35 ◼   ► Oh, I'm sorry.

01:13:37 ◼   ► I really am, because I feel like when we talk about these--

01:13:40 ◼   ► I have to mentally go through all of my thoughts for the past many weeks about decisions.

01:13:46 ◼   ► We've barely touched this in the depth that I feel is adequate.

01:13:51 ◼   ► But I cannot go on any further.

01:13:54 ◼   ► We had topics planned for the show, which have all been destroyed by home screen discussion.

01:14:00 ◼   ► which always eats everything.

01:14:03 ◼   ► - Everything.

01:14:05 ◼   ► - And so, what I really wanna know about right now,

01:14:10 ◼   ► as we're ending this show,

01:14:11 ◼   ► is tell me more about your laundry.

01:14:14 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:14:16 ◼   ► - I have a lot to say, believe it or not,

01:14:18 ◼   ► about my laundry, 'cause I'm back home now,

01:14:20 ◼   ► and it was halfway through my trip,

01:14:22 ◼   ► so I needed to do more laundry before I got home.

01:14:26 ◼   ► - The continuing adventure of Myke's laundry.

01:14:28 ◼   ► - Yeah, I did laundry two more times, in fact.

01:14:32 ◼   ► - Okay, so when we last checked in with your laundry,

01:14:38 ◼   ► you had asked for advice for people

01:14:40 ◼   ► about what you were gonna do.

01:14:42 ◼   ► - Yep.

01:14:43 ◼   ► - So what happened?

01:14:43 ◼   ► What happened in America with your laundry?

01:14:46 ◼   ► - So, remember last time,

01:14:49 ◼   ► I had done expensive hotel laundry

01:14:52 ◼   ► and I had done one load of laundry at my co-founder's house

01:14:54 ◼   ► using a machine I didn't understand.

01:14:57 ◼   ► And that me and you were talking about the idea

01:15:00 ◼   ► and how great it will be to use one of those apps,

01:15:03 ◼   ► you know, like the laundry app,

01:15:04 ◼   ► so they can pick up the laundry for you.

01:15:06 ◼   ► I have some bad news, Gray.

01:15:08 ◼   ► All of the apps that I tried

01:15:10 ◼   ► required a US telephone number for signup.

01:15:13 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:15:15 ◼   ► - And I couldn't trick them.

01:15:16 ◼   ► - What do you mean by trick them?

01:15:18 ◼   ► - Like entering a random number

01:15:20 ◼   ► or entering a number that was my number

01:15:22 ◼   ► but in some weird US format,

01:15:24 ◼   ► because they all want to send you a text message

01:15:27 ◼   ► to confirm the phone number to confirm sign up.

01:15:30 ◼   ► - Yeah, this is what Skype phone numbers are for.

01:15:32 ◼   ► No, I didn't think of that, did you?

01:15:36 ◼   ► - No, and you know what's really annoying?

01:15:37 ◼   ► Is I actually set up a Skype telephone number two days ago

01:15:41 ◼   ► because I needed it for a conference call

01:15:43 ◼   ► and I didn't put two and two together.

01:15:47 ◼   ► Can Skype numbers receive text messages?

01:15:50 ◼   ► - I am fairly sure they can.

01:15:52 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:15:53 ◼   ► - And if they can't, I know a lot of these services

01:15:56 ◼   ► do a fallback where they call and give you the pin.

01:15:59 ◼   ► - Mm, yeah, see that would have been it.

01:16:01 ◼   ► - I know for a fact I have verified stuff

01:16:04 ◼   ► that demands a US phone number

01:16:06 ◼   ► with my Skype US phone number.

01:16:09 ◼   ► I know I have done this. - Yeah, okay.

01:16:11 ◼   ► - You're making me slightly doubt myself

01:16:13 ◼   ► about the text message,

01:16:14 ◼   ► but I know I have used it to verify something.

01:16:15 ◼   ► - Can you use the call fallback?

01:16:17 ◼   ► So this is a CGP Grey brand life hack

01:16:20 ◼   ► for everybody out there on the world.

01:16:22 ◼   ► This is good, 'cause they're not cheap,

01:16:25 ◼   ► those Skype numbers, but I do have one now because every now and then someone needs to

01:16:29 ◼   ► call me. I need to talk to someone on the phone and it's just like, oh, can we use Skype?

01:16:35 ◼   ► And it's just like a whole big deal. But now I have a phone number that people can call

01:16:39 ◼   ► and with I think it was with iOS 10. If I'm signed in on Skype, it just rings as if it's

01:16:44 ◼   ► not. So yeah, that's good. I have that set up now. I didn't think of that at the time.

01:16:48 ◼   ► So there you go. You either need that or you can't do it. So when I was in Brooklyn, which

01:16:54 ◼   ► the way, I love Brooklyn, obviously. Love Brooklyn.

01:16:58 ◼   ► Wow, what a surprise. What a surprise. Surprise, surprise.

01:17:02 ◼   ► Do you like Portland too, Myke? I like Portland, I like Brooklyn. I also

01:17:06 ◼   ► stayed in the east, like the Lower East Side, like the East Village. Love that too,

01:17:10 ◼   ► obviously. Yeah, all good, all good stuff for Myke. Lots of Mykey things in those places.

01:17:15 ◼   ► I took my clothes to a laundromat, like a laundromat that had a wash and fold

01:17:21 ◼   ► service. I wasn't 100% sure what that meant, but I assumed what it meant was they would wash and

01:17:27 ◼   ► fold my clothes. That's what it sounds like. It's what it sounds like, right? So I was like,

01:17:31 ◼   ► I figure that this is what I'm looking for, right? But I'd never used one of these services before,

01:17:37 ◼   ► so I just took my, I basically took my clothes in a bag into this place,

01:17:41 ◼   ► making an assumption of what would occur, and I put it down and I said, "Can you take care of

01:17:47 ◼   ► these?" And they said yes, and they gave me a piece of paper and that was it. And I was like,

01:17:51 ◼   ► All right, well, we'll see what happens.

01:17:53 ◼   ► That cost me nine dollars, that that load of clothes, and it was great.

01:17:57 ◼   ► And I was very happy.

01:17:58 ◼   ► And it came back basically exactly the same as the hotel stuff,

01:18:02 ◼   ► just not with a blue ribbon.

01:18:04 ◼   ► So, you know, you don't feel the need to bleep that number nine dollars.

01:18:08 ◼   ► No, I'm fine with nine dollars.

01:18:10 ◼   ► So you're going to let that go through.

01:18:11 ◼   ► Uh huh.

01:18:12 ◼   ► There was an unexpected side effect of the last episode for me.

01:18:16 ◼   ► Yeah, something I didn't anticipate was the amount of direct messages

01:18:20 ◼   ► I was going to get from friends asking me just one simple question. Can you guess what

01:18:26 ◼   ► that question was?

01:18:27 ◼   ► How much did you pay for your laundry?

01:18:29 ◼   ► Yes.

01:18:31 ◼   ► Pretty much everybody that I know.

01:18:33 ◼   ► Everybody wanted to know.

01:18:34 ◼   ► Everyone wanted to know. And as I assumed would happen, all the listeners wanted to

01:18:42 ◼   ► know too.

01:18:43 ◼   ► Yeah, that's what you get for bleeping.

01:18:45 ◼   ► Yep. I mean, I knew it would happen. I was fine with it. But then something really interesting

01:18:50 ◼   ► happened in the reddit thread. Someone with the username "funkyu" put together a google

01:18:58 ◼   ► form to employ the wisdom of the crowd, which I found out was like this method of trying

01:19:06 ◼   ► to guess something by using multiple people's guesses and you take the averages of the guesses

01:19:11 ◼   ► and it gives you something which is expected to be correct. Now this person put together

01:19:18 ◼   ► this survey, they weeded out some of the more wild answers, which was probably the right

01:19:25 ◼   ► thing to do, and came up with an answer of $153.21 over 183 responses. They then closed

01:19:37 ◼   ► it down after that point just because they felt that they had a good sense of the answer

01:19:42 ◼   ► from that point. Now, because this number was so close to the actual number, I felt

01:19:51 ◼   ► that it was only fair for me to confirm it. So the actual number that I paid for my laundry,

01:19:59 ◼   ► dear listeners, was $116.

01:20:04 ◼   ► That's pretty good for a wisdom of the crowd estimation.

01:20:07 ◼   ► And I didn't want to share the number at the time, or cold, because I still believe if

01:20:11 ◼   ► If I would have said $116, I would have been inundated by people saying how ridiculous

01:20:16 ◼   ► that is to spend on laundry.

01:20:18 ◼   ► It is ridiculous.

01:20:19 ◼   ► It is ridiculous.

01:20:20 ◼   ► But also all of my friends that asked me, how much did you spend?

01:20:23 ◼   ► I said to them, my first answer for everyone was, how much did you think?

01:20:28 ◼   ► And everyone went higher.

01:20:30 ◼   ► So I still believe that by not giving that number, everyone thought it was worse than

01:20:34 ◼   ► it actually ended up being.

01:20:36 ◼   ► Because I still think $116 is an embarrassing amount to spend on laundry, especially when

01:20:40 ◼   ► and I got the same amount done for $9.

01:20:43 ◼   ► But I feel better about my $116

01:20:46 ◼   ► because most people thought it was 1,000,

01:20:49 ◼   ► which was wild to me.

01:20:50 ◼   ► People kept thinking I spent $1,000.

01:20:52 ◼   ► I would say keep the clothes, right?

01:20:55 ◼   ► Like you can have 'em.

01:20:57 ◼   ► I don't want 'em anymore.

01:20:58 ◼   ► Take 'em.

01:20:59 ◼   ► $1,000, no, that's ludicrous.

01:21:03 ◼   ► I spent 116 was the amount.

01:21:05 ◼   ► - So you feel like you've done

01:21:07 ◼   ► successful expectation management here?

01:21:09 ◼   ► I do actually. I feel like I managed this best for my own personal well-being. $116

01:21:20 ◼   ► was the amount. Congratulations to everybody for getting so close with $153. So I assume

01:21:27 ◼   ► that there was just a lot of people that have probably been through this themselves. I also

01:21:31 ◼   ► did hear from a lot of people that have been through this themselves who had a guess of

01:21:34 ◼   ► amount because they know how much this stuff costs. So I think this can close out the laundry

01:21:40 ◼   ► now because I'm back at home and I'm doing my laundry at home with a machine that I understand.

01:21:46 ◼   ► And it's effectively free because our water is paid for by our building so I don't need

01:21:52 ◼   ► to pay the water bill. I guess it's just the electric that powers the washing. Anyway,

01:21:59 ◼   ► I expect it's less than $9 a load.

01:22:01 ◼   ► What do you want? You're walking us into a kilowatt hour cost conversion calculation here?

01:22:07 ◼   ► Is that what you're going towards?

01:22:08 ◼   ► I really don't need that. We're all good. I'm cool with what it's costing me at home,

01:22:12 ◼   ► but there we go. So that's the laundry.

01:22:15 ◼   ► I'm glad you're back to your front-loaded washer.

01:22:18 ◼   ► It's just so much more easy to understand. I used another one of those top-loading washers

01:22:25 ◼   ► with some more friends because we went for a vacation with friends,

01:22:29 ◼   ► and I still don't understand it.

01:22:31 ◼   ► I just don't get it.

01:22:32 ◼   ► It doesn't make sense to me.

01:22:34 ◼   ► There's like this big wheel

01:22:35 ◼   ► and it has like a million options on it.

01:22:38 ◼   ► I just, I don't get it.

01:22:39 ◼   ► - I think we're just gonna have to put this aside

01:22:40 ◼   ► as cultural differences, my--

01:22:42 ◼   ► - It is, oh, 100%.

01:22:43 ◼   ► I'm not saying it's wrong.

01:22:44 ◼   ► I'm just saying I don't understand it.

01:22:47 ◼   ► You know, in the same way that I would imagine

01:22:48 ◼   ► people that are used to the top loading machines

01:22:51 ◼   ► have to take some time to understand

01:22:52 ◼   ► the front loading machines, 'cause they're different.

01:22:54 ◼   ► - They're not that different.

01:22:56 ◼   ► - I wanna just, before we finish today, Gray,

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01:23:57 ◼   ► as well. We really appreciate it and I also want to specifically say a

01:24:03 ◼   ► real thanks to you Myke and to Jason Snell for all of the work that you two

01:24:10 ◼   ► put into that episode. I feel like this is a thing where I get to just show up

01:24:17 ◼   ► and I have a lot of fun doing those episodes, but I always feel the need to re-emphasize.

01:24:27 ◼   ► I am so aware that those member episodes work because Jason does such a fantastic job of being

01:24:38 ◼   ► the computer, being the parser. That is a much more imaginative role than it may seem to the listener,

01:24:45 ◼   ► like the things that he has to keep track of and all of the work he has to do live while we are recording

01:24:51 ◼   ► so I really appreciate that and

01:24:53 ◼   ► to you Myke

01:24:55 ◼   ► for the

01:24:57 ◼   ► I'm going to say

01:24:59 ◼   ► insane amount of editing you do to these these member shows all of the

01:25:05 ◼   ► special effects that you add all of the

01:25:08 ◼   ► atmospheric sound effects which which people might not even notice when they're listening but really add to the feel of the show

01:25:15 ◼   ► I am very grateful to the tremendous amount of work that the two of you are putting into these shows.

01:25:23 ◼   ► And I think it's what makes them fun to do.

01:25:27 ◼   ► And I have to say, it makes them really great to listen to.

01:25:31 ◼   ► I have listened to both of our member episodes multiple times, just out of enjoyment.

01:25:38 ◼   ► Like, "Oh, is this work? Am I listening for edits?"

01:25:40 ◼   ► Like, "Ah, I'm just listening because I like it."

01:25:42 ◼   ► Like they're great shows and there's a lot of man hours

01:25:46 ◼   ► that have gone into them.

01:25:48 ◼   ► So thank you for all the work that you do on that.

01:25:50 ◼   ► - It's a pleasure, genuinely it's a pleasure

01:25:52 ◼   ► 'cause I really, really love doing them.

01:25:55 ◼   ► (laughing)