Don't get bogged down with trying to find an app to help you do that one thing. You'll find that you probably already have something that can do it, and do it well!
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In yesterday's video, I talked about looking for a simple notes app for myself and doing a search for like a couple of days.
And I just kept coming up with bloated software, things that didn't quite work, features that didn't necessarily need to be there, etc.
And then got me thinking about searching, actually searching for an app.
Because often we actually have that app ourselves, we just don't realise it. And this is exactly what happened to me. I get this with a lot of my clients and I can't believe I fell into that trap myself, where they've got so many different apps, but they're still constantly looking for something else.
And that's exactly what I did. And I think we're all prone to that. I was looking for a notes app.
I have hundreds of notes apps, notes apps. That's a weird sentence. But I never really looked past what I already had.
So I was just searching for a new one because in a way, if I already have it and I'm not using it, then it wasn't right.
But that's not strictly true. If you stick to the end, I'll tell you what app it was that I actually do have.
So you have to look at what you have before you go and try to look for another app.
Because you're just wasting your time. I wasted like three days looking for an app that I kind of already had.
Now, this app that I'm using now as my notes app is not actually a notes app. It's a journaling app. It's a journaling app that I've been using for years.
And I'm kind of like a stop and start journaling. But the reason I think I don't journal as much as I should do is because it wasn't on my homepage.
So I kind of killed two birds with one stone. I found a notes app that will actually work for me. And I'm going to journal more because it's in my dock now on my iPhone and in my dock on my Mac.
And it's amazing that I didn't really think about using that as my quick input notes app. I mean, what I was looking for is something that I could quickly jot down ideas and thoughts and so on. That's to me kind of like journaling.
You can just put your thoughts down and you can put it into different places. This app is called Day One. We all know Day One. Well, I know Day One.
I've known it from Day One. And it's a great app. It's a great journaling app. I've been using it since 2013, I think, roughly. So it's been a long time that I've been using it. So that's my note taking app of choice now.
It works great. I've created different journals, as it were. I've created one called Inbox.
So I put everything in it and then I can organise it. Works really well. Tried it for a day. Seems to work. I'll let you know if it will stick. Anyway, the idea is to not constantly look for another app.
You probably have the app in your applications folder. Just take a look.
As always, keep it simple. I'll see you in the next one.
Ciao.