![]() ![]() I will write an article about the iPad and how I have been using it. While I still use my iMac Pro at my desk, I almost never use my (work) laptop anymore. More importantly, the latest iPad Pro devices are so good, and now that iPadOS is out with it’s enhancements to make the iPad more like a laptop (if wanted) I am using my iPad more and more. These days, the apps I am using sync across all of my devices in near real-time and I can move seamlessly from one device to another. ![]() But phones are not the best device for all cases with their small screens and that also led to frustration. Before “cloud” applications became a thing I had to choose my phone for that single source of truth. Then there was the issue of wanting to have all of this information no matter where I was. But there is still a problem… which you’ll read about below. I used many different task management applications and they all felt limiting to me until I found OmniFocus and later Things, as I write below in this article. I have used several different digital planners and calendars, but never found a single thing that fully met my needs. Plus, flipping through pages to reference things later is kind of a pain. I love using them and writing with really nice and expensive pens, but I never seem to stick with them. Physical planners have a strong place in my heart. Over the last few decades (man I’m old) I have flip-flopped between both physical and digital uses for various things within my productivity systems. Physical, Digital, Multi-Device, Frustration ![]() So I started to lean toward using the iPad and the Apple Pencil to be able to still write my notes by hand, but have them already digital and searchable. I think it still has its place and I could also take pictures of things to digitize them, but I never do. I like the act of writing things down in an analog/physical fashion, but the fact that it’s not digitized and searchable is a downer and a little frustrating when trying to find something. I think there is a lot of great content in there, and I will need to go through that multiple times to truly get it, but I believe it will be helpful in understanding myself, my needs, and how my brain works and sees the world. ![]() I also recently paid for and took their newer, more involved (and expensive) EVO Elements Assessment and got the results of that. But there are definite benefits to their content. The planner notebooks are superb quality, truly lovely and a pleasure to use, but it just felt a little off when using it. I really like a lot of things about their planner and system, but some of it just doesn’t make sense to me. I originally took the EVO Brain Type Assessment maybe a year and a half ago, and then bought their physical planners. In fact, I wrote this blog post using Ulysses and it even publishes directly to my WordPress blog from within the Ulysses app whether on my iMac Pro, my iPad or my iPhone! Talk about convenient!! Some Background The EVO Flow System I think it will greatly help me write more content and do more blog posts. I’ve since figured out that Ulysses is an awesome app, so I’m happy I took the plunge. I already had and used all of the other apps they had training on, other than Ulysses, and I like supporting people that create amazing content. After looking at the training on The Sweet Setup site and looking at the Ulysses app, which I had looked at before but didn’t want to pay the subscription fee for, I decided to get ALL of their training as a package. I came across The Sweet Setup as a result of looking at some custom page templates that David Sparks had on his blog on MacSparky. ![]()
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