Productivity Toolkit: Pro Tools to Automate, Organise & Optimise

1. Introduction to Powerful Productivity Tools: The difference between a busy professional and an efficient one often comes down to the tools they use. In this class, I'll introduce you to the tools that I use and love on a daily basis. Let me show you the pro level toolkit that can take your productivity to the next level. This class says all about simplifying and supercharging your workflows. You'll explore my best selection of tools designed to help you automate repetitive tasks. Stay organized and optimize your day to day operations. In this class, you'll learn how to use auto text expanders, such as phrase Express to save time and reduce typing fatigue. You'll learn how to master visual tools like ClickUp, Trello and Air table to streamline task management and project planning. Enhance your workflows with Snaget for visual communication and use Canva for quick professional designs and graphics. All of these tools will allow you to automate your workflows and keep your workspaces organized and streamlined. You'll learn how to build a system of tools that works seamlessly together, improving both individual and team productivity. Whether you're managing multiple projects, juggling team communications, or simply trying to streamline your day. This class will help you to create a tool kit. That not only saves you time, but also fits your needs. By the end of this class, you'll have a fully optimized productivity toolkit that simplifies your workflows and helps you work smarter. So let's dive in and get started. 2. Auto-Text Expanders: Save Time and Automate Typing: Hi there, and welcome back to this lesson on Auto text and Text Expanders. This is probably one of the most important lessons that I can bring to you. And it's a tool that has saved me countless hours. And if used correctly, it will allow you to save up to two to 3 hours per week right off the bat after you start using it. It's that powerful. So what is an auto text or a text expander? So it is a software tool that allows you to have predefined phrases. So you're able to replace words with entire phrases or snippets or even documents. It just allows you to quickly type out emails or documents and have all of the information standardized and presented in a boilerplate type fashion. So you're able to get large chunks of text such as snippets that you can use in documents as well as emails, and they are there ready and available for you at just the click of a button, or by using auto text shortcuts, you're able to replace unique keywords with these long expanded snippets and text versions. So, like I said, this is probably one of my best productivity hacks. I've been using text expanders for many, many years now, probably over a decade. And in the next lesson, we're going to look at one of my favorite tools, and you'll see just exactly how that works, and I'll show you a demo of the software, and you'll be able to see how I use it in my workflows and how it saves me a lot of precious time. So what kind of things can you use with an auto text and a text expander? Well, the sky is the limit. It is, of course, really good for short phrases, texts that you want to replace, things like greetings in emails or standardized responses that you want to give to certain emails. It's a lot like the canned responses you might have seen in Gmail and other templates that outlook provides when sending emails. But this is that on steroids. So it gives you that as well as so much more functionality. You can also use it for AI prompts. So now we are able to have an entire database of all your favorite AI prompts so that when you type out a key phrase, it will bring up a context menu that allows you to choose from categories and insert the prompt that you'd like to. This saves you having to switch to another application, find the prompt that you're looking for, copy that prompt, paste it back into Chat EBT or Gemini or your favorite AI tool. So it really helps to save time and just create an entire repository and database of all your most frequently used snippets and documents and texts and phrases and prompts. It's just a magical tool, and I can't wait to show you that in the next lesson. But let's have a look at some of the ways it can help with productivity. So of course, it saves time and a lot of it. If you started using some of these tools tomorrow within a week or two, once they're set up, you could expect to save up to two to 3 hours per week. So right off the bat, that's going to give you some instant time savings. It enhances accuracy. So you're able to use the same text and the same phrases over and over again. So there's no chance of putting in inaccurate information or false information. It's all standardized, and it's all their verbatim. Consistency, that is a similar aspect. It will ensure that everything is standardized, and the responses you give are consistent. Text replacement, you're able to replace any text that you'd like to entire chunks of text or just greetings or parts of it. The choice is up to you. And what's nice is that some of the advanced auto text tools will allow you to replace the formatting as well. So you can take the snippets. You can have them beautifully formatted, exactly how you want it with bold text, with lists, with stylized and italicized and different fonts, different size fonts, headings, that sort of thing. All in the way you want and love, and it will reproduce those in all of the documents and emails where you use it. You're able to create custom snippets, so that would be little snippets of information, as well as entire documents. So you can replace an entire document with a different document or even the text from another document. I just gives you that flexibility, which is super handy. And lastly, it becomes a centralized resource and database. So once you have all of these phrases set up, and you're able to categorize them. You're able to use hot keys as well. So shortcuts so that when you put in a combination like Control Shift F two, for example, it would then use a specific text snippet that you've defined for that shortcut key. Having a centralized resource database also means that you can share this with team members. So if you're wanting to have a brand voice for your business and you want a specific tone and there's certain terminology that you want to use, you would use this in amongst your team so that they all have access to the same text nippers, the same phrases, the same documents, all of the same content that you want to be putting out there and presenting to your clients or anybody out there that receives your materials or documentation, so that's another key aspect. So this is just a tiny glimpse into the world of auto text and text replacement tools and software. We're going to be looking at it a bit more closely in the future lessons, so make sure to check those out. This really is a game changer. And if you're already using an auto text or text replacement tool, then stick around because there might be a couple of tips and tricks that you could pick up from the next couple of lessons. But for this lesson, that is it. And I hope that you stick around for the next lessons as we dive a bit deeper into the world of auto text and text replacements. I will see you in the next lesson. Goodbye. 3. The Best Auto-Text Expander: Introduction to Phrase Express: Welcome back. We're still with Auto text and text replacement tools, and we're going to be looking at which are the best out there. So there are many to choose from all supporting both PC as well as Mac. This is the list of the best ones that are currently available. Phrase Express, I've been using for many, many years now. And it just has all of the features and functionality that you'd want from a text expander. But there are other options as well. So if you wanted to have a look at some of the others listed here, so magical text expander, typenaa, Alpha DSpanso, all of those are really good options. But we're going to be focusing on phrase express just because it's one that I've used. It's one that I trust. It's one that I tell all my friends and family about whenever they're looking for something to save time. So this is the one that really, really makes my life a lot easier. And let's look a little bit closer into phrase Express and what it can do for you. So they're a well established tool. They've been running for over 20 years now, and it's got a really intuitive interface, and it is well thought out and structured. That's one of the things I look for in good software. If we look at the features, it has, of course, auto complete feature, which is useful for emails, for documents, for completing forms online, any environment or any application that you're working on, you're able to use this tool. It has a clipboard manager, which is a very nifty function in that it's able to save all of the past clipboard texts. So if you copy and paste a lot of data and content, you're able to refer back on your clipboard to previous copies, which is very, very handy. You can automate tasks with macro, so this is a bit of an advanced feature where you're able to run automations and control mouse movements, that sort of thing. But it becomes incredibly powerful when you need that in certain functionality, like if you need to log into specific websites and direct the mouse to a certain area, you're able to do that automatically with the automations and macros. Then it's also fully customizable every aspect of it, from the snippets to the folders, you're able to name them how you want to set up as many levels and the hierarchy that you need, it is fully customizable. Multi device support, so it has both a desktop app as well as a mobile app. This means that you can use it on the go or when you're working at your desk. It's triggered by phrase menus, as well as floating menus. So you'll see in the demo what this means. But essentially, it's a almost like a Right click menu. You'd get a context menu that pops up, and then from there, you're able to search for phrases in that menu. You're able to categorize them, have entire lists of folders in those menus. It really just helps you to organize and be able to access all of your phrases quickly. It has dynamic phrase contents. That means that you're able to use forms in some of the snippets and phrases. So you can actually ask questions and give yourself drop down menus to be able to adjust and adapt the output that's made. So an example would be, if you want to include someone's name in multiple sections of the text that it will replace, you would just input their name, and wherever you set the placeholder, it will replace that with the name that you've specified. It has multi language support, which is really handy for multilingual applications. And then it also has an integration to open AI and chat GBT, which is super exciting. So you can run things like translations and run prompts from within this software. And that's just a handful of what's available. In the next video, we're going to be looking at a demo of this software, just so you can see it in action and just see how it can help you be more productive. I wanted to share with you another little tip on how to use text expanders to your advantage. And one of them is to use them to keep all of your most commonly and popular sheet formulas. So if you're a Google Sheets or an Excel wizard, and you frequently use formulas, these text expanders, specifically phrase express as a good one to recommend, is a really great way to keep all of them organized and collected. So that's just a top tip for you there. So that's it for Phrase Express. I hope you were able to see just how powerful this tool is. It's really a productivity hack, and I'd love for you to have a look at it, maybe download it and try it out with a few things. It's more than just a text expander. It's really like a productivity side kick and companion. It's there with you, wherever you're going, whatever work you're doing, and it just makes life easier and saves you a ton of time. So I'd love for you to try it out and let me know how you find it. Um, but otherwise, that is it for this lesson on Phrase Express and which, in my opinion, is the best auto text and text expander. I hope you enjoyed the lesson and learned something, and I will see you in the next lesson. Goodbye. 4. Phrase Express Basics Demo: Hey, guys. Welcome to this lesson, and we're going to be looking at phrase Express and just giving you an overview of this incredibly powerful auto text and text expander. Now, it's not just for snippets of emails or canned responses or anything like that. It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife of productivity, and for online professionals that are working in all sorts of online documents, whether that's emails or sheets or Google documents or outlook or any of the online software tools, you're able to do it much more efficiently with a piece of software like Phrase Express. So in this demo, I'm going to be walking you through the interface just to give you an idea of what it looks like, as well as diving into some of the actual functionality. And we're going to be looking at phrases, how they can be included in emails, things like that. Some of the additional powerful functionality. We're going to be looking at some basic functions, all of that. So it's a really good introduction to phrase express and how it can help you be more productive and more efficient. So let's take a look. Right. So here we have the interface. This is what the software looks like when you first open it up. Obviously, you would add all of your own content inside of folders and all of that. So it keeps everything neat and tidy. If we look at the top menu, this is where you can just edit and create new phrases. So to come in and create a new phrase, it's as easy as that. You can even color your phrases. So if you want to have some sort of color coding, as you can see here, I've got a gray color on the basic demo folder and then a blue there and a different color on the AI lesson, which we'll look at later. You also have access rights, which is really handy to be able to restrict certain people if you're sharing these prompts. So you can work with prompts as a team, which is great for companies. If you have a single repository of all of your phrases, this could be proprietary information or terminology that you would like to keep consistent and on brand throughout your company, you can have a team repository that is syncing to everybody that is using phrase Express, and in here, you can create groups and restrict certain uses from those phrases. The other nifty feature is you're able to restrict phrase express working with other applications. So if you don't want to detect your typing in a specific application, you can do that. So if you wanted to say, Well, when I'm in a piece of software like Adobe Premiere Pro or anything like that, you shouldn't detect my typing. That's a really nifty feature because it means that you're not going to have all of these context windows asking you, do you want to expand the text or do you want to replace the text, which I'll show you how it works in a moment. It just prevents that from happening because it can get a little bit annoying if you're not expecting it or not wanting it, and all of these menus are popping up. It just gives you a way to manage that and handle it. You have some other functionality here so you can duplicate folders or phrases you can find and replace phrases, which is quite handy. As you start to build all of your phrases out, it becomes a bit more of a challenge and a necessity to organize them and keep everything neat and tidy. You can then import files like Microsoft Word documents or a database, even, which is really good. If you've maybe got a whole lot of terms or phrases or snippets or canned responses that you've been using before and you want to start using Phrase Express, you can hit the ground running and have them all imported and ready for you to use with that import feature. Can export as well, which is quite handy, and you can also print. So if we look at the folders and phrases section here, this is where all of your phrases are kept and you're able to keep them all neat and tidy in folders. So if we come down to the basic demo, we can then start to look at what exactly we can achieve with phrase Express. So just walk you through some basic examples of how you would use it. This is the first phrase we're looking at. So this is a email response or a message response. So it could work on any website, any platform. So whether you're sending a GML message or you're in a slack group or anything like that, it will work across all of your apps. So this is just a basic little boilerplate template that we would send to a student that has finished a course, just congratulating them, which I hope is something that I'll be able to send to you at the end of this course. And to see this in action, let's hop over to an email. So here, I've got a draft email set up here. So then all we would do is just type out the auto text, and it would populate everything for you. So that's just placed all of that snippets contents into your email. And what's interesting to note is that you can format any of these phrases. So if you wanted to come in and just add a bit of formatting, just to spice it up, make it look a little bit better, just to give it your brand and your finishing touch, you can do that. You've got all of the editing options here to be able to format it exactly how you want it. And then there's some paragraph formatting here as well. So that is the student congratulations template. Here is another example of a similar boilerplate, where it has all of the formatting in there. I mean, as you can imagine, typing out an email like this would take you a good few minutes, whereas with Phrase Express, you're able to do it within a matter of seconds. It's done it for you there, so already a huge time saver for typing out just simple emails. And the other thing is, it can keep emails consistent. So if you want to standardize your processes and make sure that you're consistent with all of the wording, the terminology, all of that, this is made possible with these boiler plates. So those are the basic email replies. Let's move on to a couple of basic phrases. So this is just a simple sign off you could type out. These are kind of more for ad hoc messages that you receive, normal messages you'll receive, and you just want to sign off, give it kind of like a personalized touch, you can use this to do that. It can also expand on abbreviated words. So things like FYI for your attention, if I remember correctly, all of that. And you're also able to hold important information like your bank details. If you're a person or a company, you need to give out your bank details frequently in emails and you don't want to have to attach them all the time or anything like that, you can have your bank details given quickly and accurately. Let's see how that would work. G four, boom, let's put in everything there. You can even use it to store snippets of your code. So if you're a programmer, you can have all of your favorite snippets and be able to use them in your development projects. You can also use it to expand and replace characters and create sort of unique ASCI characters. So this is an arrow that you wouldn't find on a keyboard, but if you create a phrase, you're able to replace the arrow. Every time you use the parenthesis bracket, you're able to replace it with a nifty arrow. So let's see that in action. So if we come back here, we might say something like meeting, and we put in the right bracket, and it asks us, do we want to replace it? So this is the context menu that appears. If you were to carry on writing, if you were to carry on typing, it would the context menu would fall away and you could just carry on typing, so you could ignore that. But if you wanted to use that replacement, you would just hit the tab key, and it replaces it with the phrase. So that's really good. Another example would be using the copyright symbol. So I mean, this is another one without having to get into keyboard layouts and switching to a different keyboard layout and all the symbols and all of that. You're able to quickly and painlessly add things like euro symbols or currency symbols or copyright symbols, all of that. So that's just a really cool way to get those there. Then if we're looking at basic URLs, if you've got a whole list of URLs that you use frequently, it can help you fetch them quickly. So if I type in URLs here, it gives me all of those phrases that I have set up for that auto text. So here I'd be able to choose. Okay, I want the Shopify, and bam, let's put it in there. Okay, so then basic functions, moving on date and time. This is quite a handy feature. It's a little bit more advanced, so you would have to set it up. But if we have a look here in how it's set up, you would be able to just specify the date format that you want to output. That is quite handy to have and what makes it even more handy is you're able to say in 5 hours and it'll give you the time back. You can also output the current date, which is really nifty. So if we have a look at that, okay, for some reason, that one wasn't letting it get in. But here you can see this is what the the window would look like, and these are the options. So it's got some presets on the date format that you want to display in. So based on your location or your preference, you can add the date in the format that you want. You can also then do some other NIFD functions. So you can change the locale. You can add value. So this would be if you have any other inputs that you want to use. You can shift the date by a certain amount of time. So this is where you would set up a unique snippet and phrase to be able to say, right, either I want the current date or I want the date plus one or the date plus five, that sort of thing. So this is where you would do it over here. So here's an example of that date plus 14 days. The auto text that has been set up is put down here. So the forward slash date plus 14, say we're writing an email, so we say date plus 14, and then it gives us the date plus 14 days. There we go. So that's it for date and time. There's also some really cool text operations. So you're able to generate random text to create passwords, which is quite handy. I mean, Google and most browsers, they have a simple way to offer passwords and that sort of thing. But you can do it yourself here with Phrase Express. So what would that look like? You would pretty much come in here and just type in your auto text. And you would then generate a password. And as you can see, scrolling down between these two, it's just giving random password options there, and then you choose the one you like, and you can then use that for a password. Get text length. So this one is quite nifty. And if you want to find out how many characters are in a text string. So what you need to do is you would need to copy any text, and then let's preview it. And so what it does is it looks at the text that is copied to the clipboard. So you would select it, you would copy it, and then it would give you the amount of characters back. So that's get text length. Another great function is the convert to sentence case. So if you had a lot of text that was all uppercase and you want to get it to sentence case, this would be a great way to just format that quickly on the fly. So how you would do that is you would select the text that's needed. And we would come in here and let's say we wanted to convert it to uppercase. The function there is the autotext there is hash tag uppercase. Now, just a little note here, you might see that some have forward slash, some have hash. All that means is that it's just the way that I've set it up. So Ford slash means it's a phrase or a wording replacement, where as a hash, means that it's a function. So it's going to do something. There's going to be an action to it. So it's just for me to organize them and differentiate between the two. So what we do here is either we could assign it to a hot key, which I think could actually be great to show right now. So if we do shift control, and let's say, U. Okay, not U. It's being used. So that's quite handy. It actually shows you that there is another application or there's a Windows hot key or a shortcut that's already associated with that. So let's try another one. Let's try a different combination here. So let's try Control Alt. So control Alt. So what we do is then control Alt and, I was able to do it. So there's just done it for us. But what you can also do is have these functions set up like that. So it then takes the clipboard contents, and you're able to convert it to uppercase, and then there it is. It's converted. And another NIFT function is that you can set up entire folders and assign them to an auto text. So what I mean by that is, let's say you have the basic email replies. So you have a whole list of all of your basic email replies, and you want to set that up to be able to show when you use this auto text. You could also set it up with a hot key if you wanted. So to see that, we would then use that. And what happens is you get the entire contents of that folder as phrases that you can use. So here we have that one that I showed you earlier, and all you need to do is just hit tab to be able to apply those. So not just phrases individually, you can also do folders, which is quite neat. And if we have a look at another more in depth menu. So here is a context menu. I've set this up to show on a keyboard shortcut combination. So you're able to have this contact menu that appears, and in there, you can start to search for phrases, and it'll bring them up. It has all of these snippets here. You can have all of that appearing there, and it's just another great way to have a more powerful context menu there for you. So that's it for this basic demo. I hope you were able to see all of the powerful functionality of phrase Express. It really is a timesaver. Like, I couldn't have been able to achieve all of the productivity tasks I had in a day without the use of this. I mean, it's one of those things where I don't know how I survived without it, because now it's just an integral part of my day. I use it throughout emails, throughout online browsing, anywhere possible, I'm always using it, and I'm always adding new phrases, and it's just so incredibly efficient. And it's really help with my productivity, like you can't believe. And I really hope it helps you with yours, because it's just one of those apps that once you start using it, and once you get into the rhythm and creating all of the snippets and everything, you truly realize how much you have been missing out and just how powerful it is. So make sure and check it out. It's a really good one, and it's kind of one of my top tools that I use. So that's it for this lesson, and I'll catch you in the next one. 5. Phrase Express Advanced Demo: We're still with Phrase Express now, but we're going to be looking at some more advanced features, and I'm really excited to share with you some of the incredible things that you can do with phrase Express. I mean, things like automations. You can do inputs, create input fields, so you can get information from yourself or from other people. We're going to retrieve some external data from Excel spreadsheet. So these are just some of the really cool features and functions that we're going to look at in a moment. So, yeah, I hope you're ready. So let's take a look at it. So first up, we have the open folder. Now, this is quite a basic automation. All it's going to do is open a folder that you determine here is what the settings look like. So you would input the folder path, and that would just then open up a folder for you. Now, this is quite handy, as you can imagine, if you have a lot of documents that you want to include in emails or things like that, it allows you just to open up that folder and drag and drop them in really quickly. So let's have a look at an example of that. So let's go back to this example, email. Imagine you were sort of typing something out and you wanted to put in an image. Of course, you could attach an image here or go to Windows Explorer and try and find it on your hard drive. But a quicker way is to use phrase Express, and you would set up a hot key, and it would then open up that folder for you. So then you could come in. You could select the image that you want, drag it in there, just like that, and then carry on with your email. So that is the open folder. You can insert entire external documents. So if you wanted to pull in a PDF or a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet or any kind of external document, you could do that. So let's have a look. Let's go back to the email example here and just create some space here. So we would come in. We would put in our auto text. And what it's going to do is it's retrieving the document, and boom, it's put it in there for you. So that's really handy. If you wanted to have a document, maybe it was a document that is sync in the cloud and you have multiple people working on it, you would always ensure that when you add the documents contents, it's always going to be up to date and it's always accurate. We come back to phrase express here, then we can create almost like form. So you could input the data that you want phrase Express to work with. This could be yourself or another team member if you're sharing your phrase Express phrase file. And what that would look like is something like this. So we would come in and create a form we're going to do a simple example here. So what is your name? It's a single line input, but you also have options to do multi line. You can do checkboxes, drop down, checkbox, dropdown, radio button, all of that. So you would just have a form there and ask for the name. You would then have another input. Which we are converting to uppercase text. So just as a rough example, you would have the default value. So if you wanted to have a default value for that form, you could include that as well. And then the last thing we're asking is for the date. And you remember from the basics video of phrase Express that this is the date picker, and you can choose the format, and it will output in that desired format. So then if we want to run this, let's have a preview. You would get this little input pop up here. So it's asking for name, put in the name. It's asking to provide some text, and we could add more text, and then choose the date to use. So here we are going to pick a random date or you could use today's date. And then what happens is it's put in the name variable there, as well as the date variable there. And then the text is given, but then it's converted the text to uppercase. So it's just done a text transformation on that result. So it's kind of combining two functions there. So that's a simple example. If we look at the next one, which is a date calculation, a nice use of this would be maybe you have an event coming up or you're going on holiday or there's something in the future, and you want to be able to quickly on the fly, calculate how many days until that event, it's just a really simple way to do this. And the example here, we're saying the number of days until Christmas. So it's going to take today's date, and it's going to look at Christmas for the year. And it's going to give you the number of days until Christmas Day. So if we run this the number of days is 166. So you could imagine if you were in a email and you were typing out and maybe you're speaking to a friend and you need to say, Look, this is how many days until Christmas, you would be able to do that really quickly there, and it could be any event or date you define. That's the great thing. Then the next one, so this is a really cool advanced feature and function where we are retrieving data from a Excel spreadsheet. So in this example, I'm just using some productivity quotes, and I'll show you what that looks like. Here we have the sheets. So it's a three column sheet. We have the productivity quotes. We have the application of where it's being used, and we have the person that said this. So it's the productivity expert, essentially. So this is what they have as a quote. And what is happening here is that we have an input. So we are asking, who is your favorite productivity expert, and we're giving some drop down options. So is it Tim Ferris? Is it Sam Levenson, Steve Covey, Peter Drucker. We then record all of those choices, or it's going to be a single choice in this case, and we process the output. So we're setting a variable there. And that variable becomes the productivity person. So once we have that, we then need to find the rows. So it needs to search that sheet to be able to find out which of these rows was chosen. And then once it finds the row, that is created into a variable. So the file is loaded again here. This is where it searches, and it looks at the first sheet, and it's looking at the productivity person row. So that is the variable that was set in that step. And we only want to retrieve the first row. So you'll see here that from row one or two, and it'll be two row one or two. So we're just retrieving that first row and a single row at that. And the column, we know that the column is column one, always. So it's always going to retrieve from column one. And then we've just added some other text here, so that will be replaced with the actual quote, and this is where the person who they selected will appear. So if we run this or preview this, we're able to see everything at work. So who is your favorite productivity expert? We have all of the dropdown options here. Let's select Stephen Covey. So there it founded at row three, and the quote is the key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. So a productivity quote by Stephen Covey. So let's make sure that this all matches up. Row three, the key is to not prioritize Stephen Covey. That's all good. So the next function is opening a webpage. So this could be handy if you're in an email program or somewhere else, and you needed to open up a URL, webpage. So how that would look is we have the autotext down here, so that's what we're going to be using. And if you were in your email client or any other app, you would simply just put in the Auto text, and there you go. It opens up the URL that you define. The next one is a math calculation. So this would be handy to use if you need to do a simple calculation like a profit margin calculation or something to that effect. Let's have a look at how this would work. So it's asking for the price per unit. Let's put in 45. We want 1,200 units of that, and it's calculated all of that for you on the fly. So that's pretty neat. Then it can also control your mouse cursor, so it can move your mouse where it needs to, I can click it, I can pause it. It can do all of these mouse movement functionalities. So to preview this, you'll notice that the mouse will run to the right hand side of the screen and then directly down into the right hand corner. But you'll know that it's being controlled because you'll see it's an incredibly straight line going across, as well as down. So let's have a look at that. There we go. And all the way down, yeah. So that wraps it up for this demonstration of Phrase Express. We've looked at some more advanced features. We looked at opening folders. We looked at inserting documents, date calculations. We saw how to use inputs. We also used some mouse cursor controls, and that just gave you a little taster of what's possible with Phrase Express. So I hope you'll install the application and try it for yourself and just see what it can do for you. But for this lesson, that's it. So I'll see you in the next one. 6. Task Trackers Overview: Organizing Your Workflow with Ease: Hey, there. It's good to have you back, and welcome to another lesson. We're going to be looking at task trackers in this lesson and the lessons to follow as well. I'll be discussing two of my favorite tools, which are going to absolutely skyrocket to your productivity. But just to talk a little bit about task trackers and why you should be considering them if you aren't already. So if you're one of those traditionalists and you're happy with pen and paper, that's fine. Go ahead and continue with that. But I'd like to introduce you to task trackers, digital task trackers like Trello and ClickUp. These are incredibly powerful tools that allow you to just expand the possibilities and the functionality of simple task. So you're able to add things like descriptions. You're able to add due dates, set reminders, add attach files, all of these great functionalities that will enhance your note taking and task creation abilities, they really do allow you to improve your productivity and save time. I mean, for example, having to rewrite tasks if you're using pen and paper, rewriting tasks each day, it can be a bit time consuming, and especially if there are tasks that need to carry over to the next day, having to rewrite them is just a bit inefficient, whereas these tools allow you to duplicate, you can clone, you can copy. You can move from one list to another. You can snooze it for the future. There's just a world of possibilities, and I'm going to introduce you to some of the best features of my two favorite productivity tools in the next two lessons. But I wanted to set the stage here and just give you some indication and idea of the possibilities that you can have with these advanced task trackers. And we're going to be jumping them into the next lesson. But for this lesson, that is it, and I will see you in the next one. Goodbye. 7. Trello Best Features: Simplifying Project Management: Hello, and welcome to this lesson on Trell. We're going to be diving into Trelo's best features, and this is just to show you how incredibly powerful this productivity tool is and task tracking tool. And it's a really good one to have in your arsenal productivity tools. So how I use Trello it's more for personal task purely because personal tasks don't have as much need for collaboration and other stakeholders team members, that sort of thing. And I can generally get away with having lists where I move it in a Kanban style from one list to the other. It goes through various stages. So it's a much more simplified, easy to use tool, and therefore I use it for personal tasks mostly. That's not to say it doesn't have the functionality that a more advanced productivity tool and task tracker like ClickUp would have. I've just found ClickUp to be a lot more advanced in its functionality, and it allows me to track and manage my work and business projects a lot more effectively than Trello. But for you, it could work equally as well. It's just a matter of what you prefer. So let's dive into the Treles best features. The main one, of course, is the views that it has. You're able to visualize task, and the Kanban board is probably one of the most well known features. So a Kanban board is a list of different stages or different ways of categorizing your lists and cards within that list, and you're able to move from one list to the other in a kind of stage fashion, so it move in a timeline way. That is probably one of the most effective ways to use it is to just drag your cards from one list to another. But you can also have other views in Trelo. So you can have list views, just purely the task laid out. You can have timeline views. You can even with a few power ups, you can even have a gant chart. So that is quite handy. Of course, rell's big strong point is that it's a card based organization tool. So you're able to create cards which can be rich with descriptions and attachments and links and all sorts of things. Then you're able to use labels. In the screenshot here, you can see the different departments and the different labels that are possible. Tagging tasks with those labels just gives them a lot more organization, and you were able to then filter on those labels, as well as set automations for those labels. So it really allows you to do a few more things. The due dates, that is a key requirement of any good productivity tools. So being able to set the start and end dates and then also to set reminders for those. It helps with prioritizing, as well, so you know which ones need to be done first. Checklists and nodes. This is a great feature the checklist. You're able to add checklist items, and you can even include links and basic formatting to those checklist. So you can really just have a list of tasks within a card, almost acting like subtask to be able to have everything there at your fingertips. Then customization, you're able to tailor these boards and customize them and make them yours. The boards, the lists. All of it is customizable. I mean, from the backgrounds to the cards to the labels to pretty much every element of the card is customizable, and that's a really nice feature. And of course, the great thing is that Trello is free to use. Once you get started, you're able to use it without spending anything. Of course, if you want to get access to some advanced functionality like power ups and other automations, you might then need to consider a paid for subscription. However, to get to the basics and get all of the functionality, Trello is really good and free to try. So that is a good one. And I've just put up here a couple of handy tri shortcuts. Feel free to save this or screenshot this for your own reference. These are just some of the most commonly used shortcuts. And with that, we've come to the end of this overview to introduce you to Trello in the next video, I'm going to show you how Trill operates. We're going to look at the interface. We're going to look at how cards work, how lists can be created, how you move them between there. We're going to look at power ups and all the nice and wonderful functionality of Trill so that you can get an idea of how this can really help you to be more productive. And that's it for this lesson. I will see you in the next one. Goodbye. 8. Trello Demo: Hands-On Guide to Visual Task Management: Hey, guys. So now we're going to be looking at Trello, which is a visual task and project management tool that allows you to organize all of your tasks into boards and lists and cards and be able to have a visual view of everything in a C ban style setup. So what CBan is is a lot of lists where you have cards that sit in those lists, and what will happen is you will move from each stage to the next. So you'd move from a research stage to a preparation stage to a in progress stage, to a review stage, to a completed stage, all of that. So it just allows you to move tasks from individual stages. And with Trello it's super simple to do. So let's dive in and check it out. So having a look at the interface here, we can see that everything is laid out. We have our workspaces. And it's a good idea to separate workspaces, so you can have a personal workspace as well as a business workspace. The difference being the personal one wouldn't mix any of your personal tasks into the business one because if you had a business workspace, you might want to be sharing it with some team members and things like that. So it just keeps the two workspaces separated. And we then have boards. So boards are a collection of lists and lists are a collection of cards. So in each of those, you can have any kind of list that you want. So it depends on the project and how you want to set it up. You can set it up to just have friendly names that you use, or it could be stage related. So as I mentioned earlier, if you have stages of a project that you want to send the task through, it would then go from one list to the next until completion. So that is one way to set it up. So if we have a look here at my setup, this is just my personal board, and it's got some lists here, and it's a very simple setup. I didn't want to overcomplicate things. And so here we can see the list, which is next. Now this represents all of the tasks that are upcoming that I need to do, open task, things like that. So everything that comes into here would sit on this list. When I start doing the task, they then move to the doing list. And so on. So as you can see here, we then have scheduled scheduled, that would be if it is coming up and it needs a bit of time before it can be executed. It's going to sit in the scheduled list awaiting. That is when I'm waiting on somebody else to give feedback and completed, of course, that's when it's done. There's also a projects task here. This is just for additional projects side projects, things like that that I would want to just keep track of. Let's have a look at what a card would look like. If we click on here, you have the card name. You have the notifications, the due date, which is quite an important function. This allows you to set the final due date of a card. You can even set a start date, which is really good for project management when you have a strict deadline and things need to be laid out and started at a specific date. So that's really good to use. You can even set reminders, and that will send you emails as well as notifications on your app or even on the desktop app. The description, this is where you would put all the information of the card. It's got rich text formatting. It even supports markdown, so you can really go to town the amount of rich media that you can add to a description. I mean, you can add in links. You can add in images. You can format the text how you want it. You can have lists. You can even change the formatting there. So you really have so many options with creating nice rich and comprehensive descriptions for you to be able to use and know the information for that particular task. Then if you move to the right hand column here, members. So these are people that have access to the board. At the moment, it's a personal board, so it's just myself. You would add that there if you want to have email notifications. Then we have label. So this is where you can have all of your labels that you want to use. And the label is what appears here. So that's a label. That's a label there. There's two ways to view them. If you click on them, you can have just a color based system, or you can have a text label appearing there. So checklists, these are really handy. Each card can have a list of other items and tasks to perform. And you can get quite detailed with these checklist items. You can even add links, assign them to other people, which is quite nifty. And once you've added a task there, you can then set a due date. And then that will appear color coded based on the status of that. So when the due date is approaching, it will change to a amber color. And if you run over the due date and it's overdue, it will then change to red, as well. So it's just a really cool way to keep track of your tasks. We've looked at. These are the start and due dates. Attachments, you can attach all sorts of documents to these, which is really handy. Location. So this is for location based cards. I don't use this feature too much, but it is there if you need it, the cover. So if you want to change how the card looks, you can get really creative with all of this. You can add images, and you can set how it should display. So it can have the text overlaying As you can see there in the background, it's changing. So you can just really style and personalize the board, how you want it. Custom fields. So this is great. If you want to add things like priority, status, risk, or you just want to have maybe quick notes or any number of applications, you can use a custom field to be able to do that. So there we've just added a priority field, and here we can set that as high priority if we wanted. Power ups. Now, these are integrations. So you're able to connect all of your favorite applications via PowerUs. So if you had Google documents, instead of just having a Google Link, it would create a media rich preview of the documents, so you'd be able to have a bit more information from it. Snooze. This is quite handy. So if you would like to snooze a card for a few days or a few hours, you can do that here. And then action. So this is to move the card, copy it, make a template from the card, which is really good. If you follow the same procedure and use the same format in a card time and time again, you can make a template from it, which is really good. You can archive it and then share it. So automations, I'll get onto this in a moment because that is quite a powerful feature of Trello. But for now, this is kind of the features of a card. So the list settings, here's just another way where you can add the cards. You can change the color of the list. You can get to some very basic and popular automations from this settings menu. So that's the card features. Let's move on to the views. So this is a Kanban board view. This is probably the most common and popular and powerful view that you're going to use with Trello. I prefer it. I really like it to have this visually laid out, so I always stick with the board view, but you do have others. That's the nice thing. So there's a table view where you can have everything just laid out, and it's a very simple row by row, almost like a spreadsheet appearance. Timeline. So the timeline is quite handy. If you want to have a project management approach to all of your tasks. So you set up a board, you add all of the lists, you add all of your cards, which are the tasks, you can then get clever and start to map out a timeline so that you can see everything that needs to be done for that project. So to do that, you basically just pull the cards onto here, you would then set the start and finish dates. So you could do it like that or where is it gone? So let's put it over here. Okay, so here you can extend it there so you can set the start and end dates. And there you'll see those are the dates that are added there. And once you've added out all of your tasks, you'll see it creates a kind of waterfall effect of everything that needs to be done, and you can see in a timeline what needs to be done for that project. So it's just a really great way to visually map out all of the tasks that you need to complete. There's also some other views. I don't really use the other views as much because they're more sort of based on calendars or maps, which is where that map field came in handy, which we saw on the card. But I would say that the board, the table, and the timeline are probably the bread and butter of the most powerful views in Trill. So then moving on to power ups, these are very, very powerful and allow you to add all sorts of integrations from other apps. So as you can see here, we have Google Drive, which is already installed. You can have a Slack Power, and it just allows you to integrate with all of these apps so that you can bring the data from them into Trello and vice versa. So there's some really cool ones here, and developers are making new ones every day. Trello has made some of its own ones as well. So there's a Gmail power, which allows you to instantly turn an email into a Trello card, which is super handy. So if you're using Trello purely for all your task management, you would then have that set up to convert emails to task very quickly. So the other great feature of Trello is automation. So rules are a way where certain conditions are met, you can perform actions on those cards. So as an example, let's just create a simple automation. A rule. Here, we're going to select a trigger. So when a card is added to a list, let's say, to the doing list, we want to add that. We then want to add remove an element. So we are going to add a label. So here we come in, and we want to add the in progress label. So we add that. And now every time a card is added to the doing list, it will have the in progress label added to it. So, of course, that's an incredibly basic automation, but you get the idea of what can be done. There are all sorts of clever conditions and scenarios that you can use just to really automate some of the tasks that you would otherwise be doing manually on your boards and lists. So let's see that in action. Let's come back. So what's happening is when we move any card to the doing list, what we're hoping to see is that it will change it to in progress. So let's have a look. There we go. So within a few seconds, it's added that. Now, you could layer all of those automations, so you could say, add me as a member so that I can get notifications, set the due date for one week in the future, all sorts of powerful automations that you can do just to reduce the time that's needed for kind of managing your tasks. So you can filter cards here. You can search for keywords in the cards, which is quite handy. When you have big lists and loads of cards, it's always good to be able to search for them. You can share boards as well. You can add as many people as you want, give them different privileges. So if you just want them to be a viewer, that's also possible. Over here is the settings. So here you have access to some basic settings. You can have labels and stickers and other things there as well. But another cool feature is email to board. So here you're given a unique email address that when you send an email to it, it will automatically convert that email into a card and add it to whichever list you define. So you're able to if you've got a quick note or you receive an email from somebody, you can just forward it to this unique email address and it'll automatically add that to the cards. That is quite a nifty feature. Right. So that is it for Trello. I mean, as you can see, it is a very, very powerful tool, and you're able to do so much with it. I mean, between just the features of a card and all of the functionality there to creating power ups, to creating automations, it really is one of those tools that is going to supercharge your productivity. I use it mostly for personal use. I've just found it works really well for personal stuff, but of course, there are people and teams that use it for work applications as well. My GT tool for work projects is ClickUp, and that is going to be discussed in the next lesson. So for this lesson and Trelo that's all I have to show you. I hope you got some information and some tips, and I hope you give Trelo a try because it really is super powerful and it's going to help you with your productivity. So, until the next lesson. See you then. Bye. 9. ClickUp Best Features: Streamlining Complex Projects: Hey, there. We're looking at ClickUp, which is a super powerful productivity tool and Task Tracker. It's one of my personal favorites, and I use it for all of my work projects. And I actually used it when planning out the course this course that you're watching. I used ClickUp for that. So it's incredibly powerful, and let's have a look at some of its best features. So as a versatile task management tool, it really, really excels. I mean, you're able to organize and prioritize tasks into list spaces. It also works with Gang charts, which are really, really handy. AGANchart if you don't know, is just more advanced way to track projects. So you have a cascading waterfall of all of the tasks that make up the project. You're then able to set starts and due dates for each of those tasks, as well as milestones and subtasks and all of that. And it gives you a visual top down view of all of those tasks, and you're able to move and slide the start and due dates of task. And if there are dependencies on those tasks, they will slide below it, as well. You'll be able to see a demo and see exactly what I mean in the next video where we actually have a look at ClickUp and just see how it works. But some other great features that you can prioritize and group and organize task. So it has an amazing ability for you to customize the views that you use to be able to see your task, and you can group those views as well. So you can group it based on the due date. You can group it based on labels. You can group it based on which list they are coming from. I mean, the possibilities are near endless, and it just really helps for you to be more organized. And allowing you to customize it fully to how you'd like to see and use this tool. Then, of course, it has an AI powered assistant, which is super handy. It can help you summarize entire lists of tasks, so you know exactly what's going. You were able to see what other team members were working on. So if you need a daily summary of everything that went on, it can do that for you. It can also plan out all of the tasks needed for a project. So if you were to give it a campaign, a marketing campaign, or a product launch campaign, it would then be able to list out all of the sub tasks for you and have those ready and waiting for you to start working on. So gone are the days where you have to manually type out all of the tasks and sub task and milestones. There's an AI feature that will do this for you. It then also allows effortless collaboration. So this is one of the key reasons I use it more for work projects is because when other team members are involved in projects, you're able to get the streamlined and very effective collaboration environment with inside of click up. So you're able to comment on tasks. You're able to attach files into those comments, attach screencasts. This is another great feature is you can record screencast, which is great for demonstrating concepts and principles and giving tutorials and direction and training, that sort of thing. And collaboration is one of the really powerful tools that the ClickUp does offer. Then it's also integrated with thousands of other apps as well. So if you wanted to bring in the power of Zappia, you can do that. You're able to integrate with Gmail and all Google Workspace apps. So Drive, calendar, all of those you can use from within ClickUp. So it really is a powerful tool. And those are just a handful of the features, but I'm really excited to show you a demo of ClickUp, and you'll be able to see how I created all of the task for the project, which is this course. So that's being used as the demo you'll see in the screencast, and that is going to be in the next video. So I will catch you in that video where we dive a little bit deeper into ClickUp. I wanted to share some useful click tips with you. This should help you to be more productive. So using the Mode, this is a setting within ClickUp. That allows you to filter all of the task, and it's only going to show you those tasks that are assigned to you. The next one is setting up recurring task. So every task that you create, you can also convert it into a recurring task. This makes it easier to set up scheduled tasks and make sure that no recurring tasks slips through the cracks. Able to leverage time tracking. So there is a time tracking tool within every task. So this is especially helpful if you are billing clients or you need to track the physical time it takes to complete a task. Then creating goal folders, this is really great to give you a bird's eye view of all the goals for a project. You create a folder with all of them, and then add the tasks into that goal folder, and that just helps you to keep all of them together. Then, lastly, using mindmaps, you're able to visualize projects and task creatively with mind maps. So if you need to demonstrate a concept or a principle to somebody or even for your own understanding, to be able to visually map out in a diagram or a flow chart. You don't have to use another tool for this. You can do it all within ClickR. So those are just a few great tips to use when you're inside of ClickUp. I hope you found them useful, so why not give them a try. That's it for this lesson. I'll catch you in the next one. Goodbye. 10. ClickUp Demo: A Practical Walkthrough for Task Tracking: Hey, and welcome back to this lesson, we're going to be looking at ClickUp. ClickUp is an all in one platform that allows you to manage tasks as well as projects. It is really powerful in that it allows you to break down all of the tasks that are required to complete a project. Now, I used the term project loosely. It doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be a massive project. It could be something as small as launching a social media profile or sending out an email campaign to your clients, anything like that. It really shines where you have a certain number of steps to perform to get to an end goal. So, whatever that is, ClickUp is a really powerful tool to help you manage all of the tasks that are needed for such a project. So let's have a look and see what it's all about. So here we are at the dashboard. This is the home screen, and it allows you to just have a bird's eye view of all of your tasks and folders and the agenda for what's coming up for the day. And it is just a great place to see everything at a glance. The inbox is where you would be tagged in certain tasks or things like that, and all of that would appear here. So if you're mentioned by a colleague or a teammate or whatever, this is where all of those messages will appear. The document page, this is where all of your documents are housed, so you can get to them quickly. Clips. This is another great feature with ClickUp is that you can record screen cars. So it's really great for demonstrating a concept, or if you're having a problem with something, you are able to record your screen, much like you would with other tools like Loom or things like that, and include them in the task, and even in comments, you can add clips. So this is where all of your clips would be housed. That's another great feature that makes ClickUp stand out. There's a goal section, so if you wanted to set goals to achieve, you have that time sheets. So this makes it really great for freelancers or entrepreneurs that want to track the amount of time they're selling to be able to build their clients. So that's really cool. Then you can add all sorts of other different sections. So if you wanted to create white boards to demonstrate concepts or create visual diagrams, that sort of thing. Then if we come down to the spaces section. So the way ClickUp works is there's hierarchy of spaces and folders, and then inside of those folders, you will have task lists, and inside of those task lists, you will have tasks, and you can also have subtasks that are nested underneath those. So it just allows you to go a few levels deep and really sort of get a detailed count of your projects. So to see that hierarchy in action, let's just have a look at this animation. So we have the workspace, the space, the folder, the list, task, and subtask. So that kind of lays it out there, and we'll look a bit more in depth and how this applies to an actual project, so you can see it in action. So let's go into one of my spaces. So this is the M courser space. Um, these are all the tasks that have been laid out to be able to create this course. So it has everything in stages, and each of those stages is a task, and below that is a sub task. So in this example, we have record videos and voiceovers and record demos of the tools and software. And that's actually what I'm busy with now. So this is the click up demo over here. If we go into that, we're seeing everything that I would want to cover in such a lesson. So this is what your task would look like. So creating a task, it brings up this window, and you're able to add all of the information that you need and include things like statuses, you can assign other people to this task or keep it for yourself. The dates, this is the start dates and end date. I'll show you in a second where that really becomes powerful. The priority, you can choose between urgent high normal and low time estimates. So if you wanted to share time estimates with clients or other team members, tags, you can tag this to have more filtering options. And relationships. This is a really cool feature. So you're able to add relationships to either documents or even other tasks. And when you have that relationship, it shows in this panel over here. There are also relationships that relate to the status. So if you're waiting on another task to be completed before this one can be started, those will appear here as well. Same thing for blocking. But if we wanted to say link another task, we wanted to link a subtask, we would just select it there, and then it becomes linked to this one, and we can access it very easily. So this is just a great feature that allows you to interconnect all of your task and just to have that streamlined view of all of your task and to get to the task that you need to very quickly. So in the task description, you have a rich editor, and by hitting the forward slash, you're able to access all of the different elements. So you can add things like tables, banners, checklists, columns, templates, toggle lists. And then you can also stylize the text and format it how you want to. Of course, bulleted lists, numbered lists. All of these options are available too. You can even list other tasks as a click up list table. Or even as a ClickUp list board that is quite handy, and then also you can embed other files from other applications. Having a Google Drive file or a Google spreadsheet, you can have all of that information available in your description. This just makes it incredibly powerful to have all of the information you need for a task right there in front of you. You can then add custom fields, which are really great if you want to customize and personalize the tas. Sub tis are where you are able to add nested task within this task. So this then becomes the parent task, and you would have child tasks that are nested within that. The great thing about subtasks is they would have all the same functionality as the parent task. So if you needed to set due dates start and finish due dates, you needed to set separate priorities, tag them differently, add different descriptions. That is all available to you on a sub task as well as the parent task. So that's a really powerful option and feature. Checklist. These are just nifty ways to add very simple lists of things that need to be accomplished for this task. So if you feel that you don't really need a subtask because you don't really need all that extra functionality like media rich descriptions or commenting or anything like that, you're able to just have a simple checklist here, and that would mean you could have just a bit more of a simple list of things to go through. You can also tag people to checklist items, so that's pretty cool. And then attachments, of course, you are able to attach any and all documents to a task, which is really handy. So then some of the options here as well, on a task card, you're able to add this to different sections, so favorites or personal list. You can convert it to a list or a parent task or a milestone. You can set the task type, whether it's a task or a milestone, you can duplicate that task. You can remind yourself You can send email to task, so that would be where you want to send updates or include attachments, things like that. You can merge it with another task, all of these gray things. And this is where the relationships come in as well. This is just another section where you can create those relationships or dependencies. So that is what a task would look like. Et's move on to view. So another great and powerful feature is being able to have different views. So what we're looking at here, this is just a standard list, and we're grouping by the due date. We're also showing the subtasks. Other options available to you are table. So I'll show you what this looks like. Personally, I really do like the table view because it allows you to view tasks as if they were spreadsheets. So it means that you can fit in a lot more tasks in smaller space. So over here, we have all of the tasks listed out. We can interact with these tasks right from this view. If we needed to, we can also bulk edit them. So if you say, one day just blazing through all of your tasks, you're able to select all of them and then update the status all at once, which is quite handy. You can set the assignees. You can set the dates. All of these options are available to you in this view. The next one is the project Gant. Now, this is where ClickUp really shines in that you can create these Gang charts that show you via a waterfall, just the full breakdown of your project. So here we're able to see all of the start and end dates for a specific task. You're then able to see the dependency. So once that task is completed, then the others could start. It has the great option that if you move these around and change the start and end date, all of the dependent tasks will change as well. So that just means that if one major task is changed, you're able to change all of those tasks that are dependent on it and all those to follow as well at the same time. So it's a huge timesaver for that. So the Gant is a really nice view, and it allows you to see everything at a glance and just keep things on track. I mean, you can see your start dates and your due dates. The tasks, they change a different color as you complete them. So this, to me, is just a really, really cool feature of ClickUp. Then there's also the board view, much like we saw in Trello. This gives you the Kanban way to manage tasks. I don't use this as much, but it is there if you want to use it. One last thing I'd like to show you in ClickUp is automation. So you're able to automate some basic tasks, and this helps you just to get a bit more functionality and not spend as much time manually updating tasks if you need to. So there are a lot of templates that they provide. I mean, right out the box, you're able to see so many different options. So project management automations when a task is created, then you set the custom field. When the due date arrives, change the status. All of these really powerful automations that you can run just to save you time and things like that. You've got marketing automations. All of these are available to you. So this is another powerful feature is you can create these automations and be able to save yourself a lot of time. So that about wraps up this ClickUp demonstration. I hope you were able to see just how powerful it is. You can see how I used it. For this course, to be able to flesh out everything and manage everything, I could not do this on a simple document. I would struggle on a spreadsheet. So ClickUp has made it just super easy, and I'm so happy that there is software like this to really make it easier for creating projects and managing task because it does a fantastic job at that. So I urge you to give it a try. There is a free trial. There's also a free edition, actually. You can use it quite a generous one Um, not too many limitations. I'm on the free plan here, and I was able to use much of the functionality. I'm not missing out on anything. So I'd love for you to give ClickUp a try and just see how amazing it is and how it can help you with your productivity. So that's it for this lesson. I'll catch you in the next one. Bye. 11. More Productivity Tools: Expanding Your Toolkit: Hey, there. In the last couple of lessons, we were discussing my two favorite productivity tools, Trello and click up. Now we're going to dive a little bit deeper into some other ways to be more productive and just squeeze out the maximum amount of productivity and just to be more efficient in general. We're going to be looking at tools such as Airtable. Air table is fantastic in that it combines the functionality of a spreadsheet with that of a database to give some really unique efficiency, as well as Snag it, which is a screenshot and image editing tool that has so many other cool features that you're just going to love, and it's going to help you with your workflows, creating screenshots, trainings, demonstrations, that sort of thing. But also just simple image editing. You're able to edit images and just create content in general, a lot quicker and with some cool additional features there. Then lip serve is another one of my top tips and productivity hacks. It's a dictation tool, so it takes voice and converts it to text, but more than that, you're able to control your browser with it, and that makes for some pretty powerful functionality, and we're going to be looking at that as well. Dictation is another aspect of it, and dictation is an incredibly efficient way to just squeeze out more efficiency and reduce errors at the same time. So that's a really great one that I'm excited to bring to and lastly, we're going to be looking at Canva, which is a powerhouse graphic creation presentation, templating genius of a tool, and we will have a look at a demo, and you'll be able to see how I've used it and how I use it and the best features that I think could be useful to you. And this course was actually created in Canva. All of these slides were created in Canva. All of the screenshots that you see here, the stock content, all of it was made in canvas, it's an incredibly versatile tool. You can use it for social media posts. You can use it for print applications. You can use it for course creation, any kind of content creation, it is an absolute breeze to work with, and it is super powerful. And you're going to see just how it can do the same for you in your workflows and your daily productivity. So that's it for this lesson. I'm excited to get into these other tools, so I will see you in the next lesson. Goodbye. 12. Airtable Intro: Collaborative Task and Data Management: Hi. Welcome to this lesson on Airtable. Airtable is a fantastic tool that combines the functionality of a spreadsheet, as well as that of a database. So the spreadsheet functionality allows you to have many, many rows of data, and with each of those rows, you can have records. And within those records, you can have attachments. You can have due dates. You can have any number of fields that you would like, and it really allows you to customize those fields. So you could have text fields, you could have date fields. You could have barcode fields. You can have a dynamic range of different fields for each of the records. And then the database aspect to it allows you to have relational links between different tables, which is a really powerful feature. So you can interlink the values from one table to another, and that can give you some really powerful tables for your data. So the way Air table operates is very unique and it allows you to use it for a wide range of applications. So everything from planning projects and managing projects to event planning to asset management, you're able to have your brand assets managed effectively. You can also use it for task tracking, so you can have lists of the tasks that you need to complete, as well as CBN views to be able to move your different tasks between the different lists and stages of a project or task. You can even use it for things like inventory lists. I've worked with suppliers in the past where their entire price list was set up in AI table, and you were able to have all of the information you needed, the pictures of the products, the descriptions, the pricing, and all the relevant info. So it has a wide range of uses, and it's a really powerful tool. So let's have a look at some of the best features. How it works is you have a base, and a base is a collection of tables. And within those tables, you have the individual rows, and that's where your data sits. So you can create bases that are tailored to your needs, and you can organize it how you want. So it is very customizable. It allows for flexible data storage. So that means that all of your business's essential information, whether that is inventory lists or contact lists or employee lists, any number of things, you can use it flexibly with Airtable. It has powerful automation, so you're able to set reminders. You're able to automate records. You can use that to update records or retrieve other records. You can have look ups on relational database records. These are just some of the great features you can automate. It is fully collaborative, which means you're able to include team members. You're able to share bases and tables so that others can access them and comment them and update them as you need, which is really handy. Of course, like any good productivity tool, it has a mobile app so you're able to do things on the go. Integrations, you can connect with Zapia, Google Drive, all of your favorite tools it is able to connect with. Custom view. So this is really handy. You're able to have a normal grid spreadsheet like view, but then you're able to create new views for that same data. So an example would be a Kanban view, as well as having a normal grid view, which is all of the spreadsheet views for your records. It just gives so much flexibility in terms of the views and how you can arrange and lay out all of your data and rows in your table. Then lastly, it has AI powered features. This is really handy. You're able to use it to summarize text, to expand text to help you with improving on decisions and also creating tasks for you if you used it for a task tracker. These are just some of the best features. In the next video, I'm going to dive into it, and we're going to see the interface, and you're going to see it under the hood and be able to just get an idea of how powerful this tool really is, and I hope I'll encourage you to try and use it and improve your productivity. But for this lesson on the overview and Best features for Airtable, that's it, and I can't wait to show you the actual demo of Airtable in the next video. So stay tuned for that. I am off, so I'll see you in the next one. Goodbye. 13. Airtable Demo: Organizing Tasks and Data in Action: In this lesson, we're going to be looking at Air table, which is a flexible database and project management tool. It combines the best features and functionality of a database as well as a spreadsheet. So let's have a look at it. So here we are at the dashboard. The way it is structured is that you have workspaces, and within those workspaces, you have bases, and within those bases, you have tables. And within the tables, you have your rows of data. So if we have a look at this air table example, you'll be able to see exactly what I mean. In this grid view, we have the columns and rows of data laid out. So much like a spreadsheet, you would have columns as well as rows. Same thing applies here in a table. So this is just a simple dummy table. We've got some dummy data in there, just to show you how it all works and all of the functions and features of a table. So you're able to add different views. Here, this is a grid view, so it displays everything in a spreadsheet, grid like setup. That is great for any standard table and is the default view. Then we have a list. Now, the list looks a lot like those lists in ClickUp or Trello, where you have just a simple list of rows, so that could be tasks or rows of data, anything like that. So this view is really good for simple task list when you're managing a project to be able to have that display as a simple list. It is a simple way and effective for tasks. So here, you'll see that you a status column and in the status column, you have a checkbox. You could also add additional columns there or improve the status column to maybe have different statuses, so you could have upcoming or in progress or scheduled, things like that. But if you wanted a very simple task tracker, you could have it just as a checkbox. So that is the list view, then there is the gallery view. So the gallery, it is a image centered view. So whatever attachments you have as images, they will be displayed first. As you can see here, it has the attachment for the record. And if we have a look at what that looks like on the grid view, here is the attachment sitting in this column over here. There are also other views to look at. There's a Cvan that is, as you know, from other lessons where you would just move the rows of data from different stages. Then you have all of these other views, timeline, Gant and all of that. So the Gant would work much like on ClickUp where you have that cascading list of all of your tasks. So if we have a look at the top row here, you're able to hide fields, so you can have as many or as few as you want. You're able to sort them so that they are in an order that you want. You're able to create conditional filters, where the feature name contains certain text, it will only display that. So we only want the automations. We will put that in there, and then it'll only show those with that. Can group them by any of the fields. This is really neat when you have different categories and topics or statuses, anything like that. So that is really handy to be able to use. You can also sort the data by any of the fields. Some of these don't work well together, so you just have to find the combinations that do work the best. Colors, you can color the backgrounds of your row data. And then the row height, this is quite FD little feature. So here we're able to see more of the attachments. So if you wanted to have a more attachment centric view of the rose, you could do that. And also maybe if you had rose with a lot of text coming down there, you'd be able to see everything at a glance. So that is everything for the table view. You're also able to import data, so you can import from another air table base. That does require a paid plan. You can import from a CSV file. So any Excel spreadsheets, you convert them to CSV and you can bring them in. Same thing with Google Sheets. So you're able to kind of bring in just about any format you want to I mean, here, these are all the other integrations that they offer. So it is well integrated. And that's quite important if you're wanting to sync data between your other apps and databases or anything like that, you can keep it fresh and up to date inside of AI Table and then manipulate and transform the data as you wish. The next thing I want to show you is the types of fields that you can use. There are many different fields and each of them have different applications. So let's just go through them. So linked to another record that we were able to see in the previous demo where we were linking to a different table. You have a single line of text that's just a basic text line. There is long text. So this is where you have longer text, but what's Nifty is you can enable rich text formatting. So this is where you can have headings and hyperlinks and checklist, things like that. Then attachments, this is where you would add images, documents, and other types of files. Checkbox, this is where you are able to have it as a checkbox. Multiple selections. So you would add all of your selections here. These would be color coded as well. Single selects. So if you only want to offer a single selection, the user, this would be all of the users on the board. The date field. So you have a date picker on the field. Phone number, email, number. This is just a standard number, but you can choose how many decimal places it should have. Currency, percent duration, rating. That's a nice one. You can have a star rating. You can even run some formulas. So these are much like the formulas you would use in sheets, Google Sheets or Excel. Roll ups, counting, so counting the number of records. Lou, that's another relational field type, created time. So yeah, as you can see, there's quite a few over here. There's also a barcode one. So there you'd need a separate app for that. But I think that'd be great for inventory tracking, things like that. So quite a few field types. And with all of these options, this is what makes it incredibly flexible and powerful. So another thing to look at is relational databases. So one of the things that makes it incredibly powerful is that you can link rows and data from other tables and display the contents of specific columns. Now, by that, I mean, you can, for example, have a table with all of your columns. It will then look at the data from a different table, and it will output the column from that row into this table. So just to explain that concept here, we have the edit field, and we're using a lookup value. And that is looking up on the digital asset source. So it's looking at this column. And what it's going to return back is the asset column from the digital assets table. So this is the column there, and then this is the table that it is giving back. So if we have a look here, it's going to be returning the asset column. So if we see that in action, Right. So then what you would do is you would add the rows from the other table. So this is all the rows that are coming in from the digital assets table. So once we start to select them, we should see the asset column appearing in this table. So if we select them, there it goes. It's just displayed there. So that just gives you an idea of the power you can use other tables to bring in data. That's the relational database feature, and it's incredibly powerful. Okay, so next up, I'd like to show you how a table could be structured for a content tracker. So this is a content based website that I run, and this is just where I keep all of the ideas for articles and content that I want to put on the website. So from here, you're able to see this is the working title. So this is where I put the ideas for articles. It's not the finished product. These are the ideas. So everything here is subject to change based on the final article. So from here, you can have a score. That's really how important to me it is. That'll be based on a few factors, like, is it a trending topic? Is it needed for the website? Is it part of a bigger content strategy? So, things like that. Then we have a post type category here. So this field is a multi select field. And you're able to add multiple selections there. The status that is at what stage of the cycle it is at. So whether it is in idea phase or scheduled or in progress or completed and published, all of the stages and statuses are laid out there. Is it going to be outsourced? Is a writer, a freelancer going to be handling it, that would determine that? And then in the notes, this is where I would add all of the information. So everything that I pick up, all of the reference articles, all of the ideas and tips and tricks. So frameworks that I want to include here, all of the features benefits, features and benefits that I'd like to include in the description. All of that is sort of laid out in here. And then just a few additional fields like attachments and format. So is it going to be an article 0R a video? Is it for the email newsletter, all of that? So this is where the power of views can come in because you can set up those views to be able to only show the fields that you want to see. So you can set up multiple views that would show different fields and have, like, a different application for each of the views. So that is the content tracker. As you can see here, it has all of that. This is how it would look in the all fields grid view. If I wanted just to add a quick idea, I've obviously reduced down the number of fields. This is one for just the videos, and you could create as many views as you need. So another great feature of air table is that you're able to use automations, as well. This is quite handy. You can do things like send a weekly digest. So at a scheduled time, you would find all of the records that you have in the in progress status, and you would send an email that would have all of those rows. So you could have kind of like a just a round up, a digest of all of the task that you were working on for the week, and it would give you a rundown of that in an email. So that is pretty cool. There's all sorts of automations you can add. I mean, you can set up conditions, like when a record matches certain conditions, When a form is submitted, when a record is created, when a record is updated, at a scheduled time, I mean, these are all the automations that are possible. And also, it can look at your other applications as well, then bring in that data as well. So very powerful stuff. So that is Air table. I hope that you are able to see just how powerful it can be whether that is for task and project management or even database applications, things like that. It's just a really versatile tool that can really up your game and make you more productive. So that's it for this lesson. I'll catch you in the next one. Bye. 14. Snagit Intro: Enhance Communication with Visual Tools: Welcome to a new lesson. I'm particularly excited about this one and to show you Snagget, which is an incredibly powerful image editor as well as screen recorder. It allows you to annotate on your images, and it's just great for creating content and even batch editing images. It's one of those kind of Swiss Army knife tools that just does a whole lot of things, and I can't wait to show you more of it. In the next video, we're going to have a look at all of the features, so you can actually see it in action. And I think that's where you're really going to fall in love with Snagget and just see the potential it has to make you more productive and just save you a lot of time. In the next video, we are going to dive a bit deeper. There'll be a demo of all of the amazing features, so you'll be able to see it in action. And I think you're going to fall in love with Snagget and see just what it can do for you. It's an incredible tool, and I highly recommend it. So let's have a look at what Snagget can do. First and foremost, it's basically there to replace your print screen keyboard shortcuts. So instead of the standard screenshots that you can take, it allows you to now have more functionality and you can capture different regions. You can capture videos as well as microphone narrations over the videos. You can add all sorts of annotations and call boxes and all of these amazing features. So at its basic form, yes, it's going to replace your print screen button. But once you have the captured image, once you have the screenshot, that's when the power really comes into play because you can start to add all of these elements. So record screen videos, webcam shots as well. I have done a few tutorials where I've used the video capture feature of Snagget as well as the screen recording feature, and it just makes it a breeze to use. So that is one powerful feature that's really good at. You can easily annotate. So that means adding things like callous, arrows, text boxes. I'm sure you've seen those graphics where they have the boxes just to add emphasis. You may have even seen a Zoom area where the image is zoomed in and you can see more details. It's able to do that. It allows you to record video clips and screen demos like I just said. So it can work a lot like a Loom app or any of these other screen recorders, but it just makes it so much easier and it doesn't store anything in the cloud. So you have the files on your drive, and you're able to send them via email or download them to Google Drive and have them in the Cloud anywhere you need to. So you have that flexibility as well. Other great feature is text recognition. So you're able to take a screenshot and then extract out all of the text. So it has an OCR built in there, which stands for optical character recognition, and that's just a really nifty feature if you're looking to just grab parts of text from an image and convert it to normal editable text. You can share your captured media. So how I use it is I save it to a Google Drive, which is automatically synced. I can then after a few seconds, when it syncs to Google Drive, I can then share that file or folder or video or whatever to any kind of app, so in email or slack message or anything like that. So it's really handy. Then you can also create guides, instructional content, graphics, that sort of thing. So it allows you to just have all of the tools available to create really, really high end content. And those are just the basic features, but you're going to see in the next video when we break it down and you're able to see it in action, just how powerful it is, and you're going to see all of the other features that just make this a great bit of software. And I have no doubt that this is going to save you countless hours, and you're going to have fun doing it, as well. Another key feature is the bulk editing feature. So you are able to work with images in bulk, whether that's to rename them add effects to them. You can resize them. You can also add some of the annotations and stamps to all of the images and do it in bulk. This is a really great function of SNAG. I've used this for blog content and various other projects where I need a whole lot of images renamed quickly, and I need to have a certain prefix, and I want to put in a number at the end as a suffix. And it's able to do that within a matter of seconds as well as resizing images and things like that. So it is super powerful, but I can't wait to show you all of the features and functions in the next video where we have a look at the demo and dive deeper. But for this video, that is the introduction on Snagge. I hope you are able to see just what is possible and stick around for the next video as we're going to dive a little bit deeper. That's it for this lesson. I'll see you in the next one. Goodbye. 15. Snagit Demo: Creating Professional Visuals with Ease: Hey, guys. Welcome back to another lesson. In this lesson, we're going to be looking at Snagget, which is a screen capture and recording tool that allows you to take screen captures, videos, and also edit that screen captured content. So you can add things like annotations. You can add graphics, you can add text. You can add step by step instructions. It's just got a whole bunch of features that really, really helps with things like training other people or showing processes or sharing certain materials with team members, that sort of thing. I can really help you just be more effective and also make the content look so much better. So without further ado, let's jump in and take a look at Snagge. So over here, we have the Snagget interface. This is just a demo screenshot. We're going to use that to show you all of the powerful functionality that you can get from Snagget So if we have a look at the library, this is just where all of your captures will be sitting. You're able to edit these captures from this screen. By right clicking, you get a new menu with all of the different functions. You can start recording a capture straight from this menu as well. Which is quite neat. You can create an image from a template. So there's a couple of templates for you to choose from here. These are mainly kind of tutorial based templates, but they're great to get you started, so you can build on them and improve them. Then going back to the editor, if we have a look at some of the tools, the arrow tool, this is great for pointing out specific elements in a screenshot that you'd like to draw attention to. So it's as simple as just dragging it onto your screenshot. You then have some basic editing capability, so you can change the color. You can add shadows. You can change the width, opacity, start size, end sign, all of these different functionalities. You can also change the shape of each end so you can really customize it to look exactly how you want to. Then the text feature. So this is just to add a simple text that you would place on a screenshot. And of course, then again, you get all of the different options. So you can change the font for it, the font size, the line width, which is the outline that you see here. Let me just reduce the size so you can see it a bit clearly. There we go. Then you've got some formatting and styling options here. So just everything that you'd expect to find with a basic text editor. Then if we look at the call out feature, this is a combined arrow and text function. So here we have different types that you can use, different styles. So this is one option that is a really cool looking, simple callout, and you're able to just add your text there. You can then adjust the arrow. And again, you have all of these different options to edit here, which is really great. Then there's a simple shape. So if you just wanted to bring focus and attention to a specific area, you would use the shape tool. And again, you have some basic properties that you can edit. The SAM tool, this is quite neat, so this allows you to stamp graphics and other elements onto your screenshots. So here we could have charts or any number of different icons that are available here, and you're able to download more as well. So this is just a cool way to add a bit more wowNss and customization to your screenshart. The fill feature allows you to fill areas of color with a new color. So as you're seeing here, you can drop that onto any color plane that you see. So this is going to pick up the white color here, you can adjust the tolerance, should it look for more colors. So if you have gradients and things like that, a higher tolerance means it's going to select more colors to fill. A lower tolerance means fewer colors to replace. In this example, we have a kind of flat white going on here, so it does a pretty good job, but if you had a more detailed image, it might struggle with a lower tolerance, so you would just increase that and then you could fill the color. So let's increase the tolerance here, and then you can see it just takes on more of the colors in the screenshot. The move tool, this is to simply move the elements around in the screenshot. The blur tool will allow you to blur everything below the box that you create, so you can adjust the intensity as well. But as you can see here, let me zoom in so you can have a bitter view there. There, everything is blurred within that container. Everything outside of it is great. So people sometimes use this when they have an email or some sensitive information that's appearing there. They'll just use the blur tool to blur it out. The simplified tool. Now, this is really handy. So if you wanted to just simplify a block of text or an element or a graphic or anything like that, you're able to do that quite easily with the simplified tool. So here it's going to simplify the elements that are on the screenshot. So where there is text, it will have these stripes that would represent a text box where there's an image, there would be the circle and things like that. So it just helps to simplify them the screenshot for you. So here's an example there. This is where you would say right. So here is where all of the text is supposed to appear, and you would be able to adjust certain settings so you can adjust the text height, the line spacing, so that would help you to define how much text is going on there. Then if we want to just create a new element, we could do that. I just helps you to create a simplified graphic that represents your images. Then the magic wand tool that's going to select planes of color. You can adjust the tolerance there as well. So should select less or more. This is great to be used in conjunction with the filled tool because you can come in there and fill the selection. So let's just get back to where we were. The crop tool is next, and as you'd expect, that allows you to crop. Not much in the way of settings there. Cut out. This is quite neat. So this allows you to take out chunks of the screenshot so you can either take out the middle and then it just compresses it. Or you can have a jagged edge when you're doing that, so it just leaves this cut out there that you can see. It's got a few options for that. It's also got vertical options, so you can do the same there. And that's just to cut out any extra information that you don't want to be included in the screenshot. So it's quite handy. The pen tool, this is just simply to draw on your screenshots. Line two, same applies there. Highlighter, this is really great for images and text and things like that because you can actually just use it to highlight lines of text. So it'll appear like that, and that will just bring focus to that text there. Steps. Now, this is really neat in that you are able to create steps, so little icons that represent the different steps one, two, and three. And then from there, you're able to add text blocks or call outs to be able to just give more emphasis and context to these different steps. That's a really nifty function. The eraser, it keeps your added content intact, but it allows you to delete the screenshot in the background. Then magnify. This is a great function. You're able to really just pop out sections of the screenshot. So an example here would be, let's just make some space here. Grab the move tool just so that you can see a bit more clearly here. So if we come in here, we want to magnify this element over here on the screenshot. So let's just update to some colors that make it a bit easier to see. So as you can see, what's happening here is it's magnifying and pulling out a part of the screenshot. So this is great if you want to just bring focus and enlarge a specific section of the screenshot, you're able to do that with the magnified tool. So those are the basic tools. You can also apply effects to your screenshot. So if you wanted to do things like put a border on there, you can do that. Let's change the color so you can see what's going on there. Let's drop back down to the actual size. So you can add things like borders, you can add edges. Next, we have the capture info effect. So you are able to capture these settings when you take the screenshot, as well as also add some custom text after the screenshot has been taken. So in a second, I'll show you how you would add that to a screenshot. But once you've taken the screenshot, you are able to add any custom text you want, and as you can see, it adds it down there at the bottom of the image. So you just hit Apply to keep that. You can then add things like page curl, shadows. Filters are quite handy. So if you want to just do some basic sharpening or opacity changes or a inverting of the colors. So if you had maybe a dark mode screenshot and you wanted to make it a bit more contrasted and bright, you would use that. Then color adjustments. These allow you to do some basic image editing adjustments, which is really neat. So here, you can add and change all of the colors and brightness and contrast. Bring the gamma down. There we go. Color replacement. This is handy. If you want to replace a color, you could also use this for, let's say, if you had a green screen and you wanted to pull out the color and replace it with something else, like a plain white background. You could do that here. Then we have the spotlight and magnify. So if you make a selection, you're then able to spotlight that. So you can see that it's taken out just that element, and it's made the opacity for the surrounding elements a lot darker. So it just allows it to spotlight and jump out and have prominence on the image. So that's really cool. So you can adjust the Zoom here. You can adjust the opacity of the background, the dim setting. You can blur it, adding a drop shadow, and then just adjust the position as well. So this is really good to make specific elements just stand out and you have a whole lot of settings that you can tweak just to get it exactly how you want it. The watermark feature allows you to add watermark. So if that is a logo or something like that, you're able to put that on all the images. And those are the effects and properties. So next up, I want to show you the capture widget. So the widget looks like this, and this is just what you would use when you want to create a new screenshot. So it gives you all of the different options. You can select the all in one or if you just want to capture an image or if you want to capture a video. And that's one of the other really nice things about Snagget is that you can capture video with it, so you can have video demonstration. So much like I'm doing now, I'm capturing the screen, as well as capturing the webcam, as well as the audios being captured. So you can give a full tutorial with narration and everything going on that you need to show training or concepts or things like that. That is available from within Snagget. So if we have a look at the image capture, let's just go to a screen here so that you can see what's happening. You're able to select a region or a window or the full screen scrolling, as well, which is handy. So if you have a web page and it has a scrolling a lot of scrolling to it to get to the bottom, it's able to do that automatically for you and just scroll line by line to be able to capture that full screenshot of a webpage. So it's great for webpage mockups, that sort of thing. And another one another grade feature is the grab text functions. So it has OCR functionality, so optical character recognition. So it can detect wording and text and be able to grab that and you're able to then copy and paste it in other applications. And then it has some advanced functions so you can capture from the clipboard, things like that. So let's do a capture and see what we have here. So we'll do a region. We want to preview in the editor. You can also copy it to clipboard, if you want to use it elsewhere. Do we want to capture the cursor? Yes, time delay. That's if you want to just set a delay for it to capture. We don't need that this time around. So let's just start the capture. You then get these crosshairs here and you can just click and drag out to the area that you want to capture. So this is the caption if you had the effects added where you wanted to capture the application name and things like that. This is the custom text that we would add to that. So let's just say email automation, screenshot. So that's going to be some custom text that it adds there. And then we've also captured all of the information there. This is completely optional. It's not going to do this every time. It's just if you have the capture info setting enabled, which we did. So there you can see we're adding it after the screenshot has been taken, but this was added before. So we have it there. So let's just crop this, and I'll show you the grab text function because this is really handy, and I use this a lot. So it's basically just reading the text from the image, and then from there, you have this as text, which you can then copy and add to any other application or document or email, things like that. So it's just really handy if you've got web pages or even other documents, and you just want to screenshot a little element and you want to pull out all of that text, it allows you to do that. So another time saving feature I'd like to show you here is that you can share your screenshots to a whole lot of applications and platforms. I mean, from here, we can see these are the Cam tajeran and the producers of Snagget they have a few other applications. So one of them is called screencast. That's if you take a lot of screencast videos, you're able to post them to a platform and share them. Camtasia, that is what I use to record these videos. So that is that format. But then they have all the other formats that you'd expect. So Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, One Note, all of that, as well as some online drives and file sharing applications, all the ones you'd expect, Google Drive. You can actually just send this to your Google Drive folder as soon as it's taken. You don't have to save it to your local drive and then upload it from there or anything like that, that really helps to save a bit of time. You can even email it. So if you have an email set up, it will automatically start the application for you. You can upload it directly to your web server. So this is really great for web developers, and where you upload a lot of content to the server, you would add in all your FTP details, the remote path, so the folder that you want to upload it to, all of your login credentials would be added here, and it would upload it directly to your web server, so that is a huge timesaver. You can also print out everything as well. Really handy. So one last feature I'd like to show you is that with the installation of Snagget, it allows you to batch, convert files. So if you have images, lots of them, and you need to apply the same effects to a batch, you don't want to be going and doing it one by one. That's going to take too much time. So what you would do is use the Right Click menu. So you would find all of your images, everything that needs to be edited. You then right click you then have this snagge menu, and then you would select Batch convert images. Now, what happens here is it gives you all of the options that we've just looked at a moment ago, but now you can apply these in a batch. So a batch of images, they will all get applied the same feature, and any edits that you do there, they'll also get applied, and this is what you can choose from. So you can change the color mode, you can substitute colors. You can do a color correction. Image scaling. This is a very popular one and one I use quite frequently. You can scale up, scale down. You can ensure that you have smooth scaling, so it looks clean and crisp. You can rotate the images. So if you've taken from your camera and they're all sort of the wrong orientation, you can adjust them all in a batch. You can add the capture info, add borders, edge effects, watermark, trim, all of it, you can add from this bulk edit screen. So you would select the folder there. And the format for all of the images. And as you can see here, you get a lot of options to work with. You can set the quality as well, and that would allow you to export the images. Then another nifty little feature is you can adjust the file names of these. So if you want to have a strict naming convention for all of your images, you're able to do that. So for example, you would have the original file name, then you would maybe add an automatic number, things like that. You could add in system dates, month name, all of that is possible. And then when it runs the batch, it would then add that to all of the names. So this is a huge timesaver if you're working with large amounts of images, and it's really going to help save you time. So this is a great one. So with that, this brings us to the end of this lesson. I hope that you learn some cool tips and tricks and just were able to see the powerful functionality that Snag has to offer. This is one of those tools that I've been using for many, many, many years, and it just goes above and beyond the normal screenshot capture feature that you get on steroids. It allows you to do so much more and it is well worth it. So I highly recommend having a look at this. Integrate it into your workflow. It's a really great tool. So yeah, give it a try and let me know how you find it. And with that, I think that wraps up this lesson, so I will catch you in the next one. Bye. 16. 3x Your Productivity with Dictation: Hey, guys, and welcome to this lesson on dictation and speech to text technology. This is probably one of my top hacks. It's something that's allowed me to double my output when it comes to writing content and emails and documents, and it's all thanks to dictation. Dictation is where you are using your voice to type out bits of text. And it's also called speech to text. It's the same technology. And while in previous years, the technology was very new and there were some glitches and it didn't work as well as expected, there's been a lot of advances in that technology and recognition of words in different languages and different accents. So nowadays, the technology is vastly improved, and it's no longer frustrating to use dictation and speech to text tools. Right off the bat, you're going to be getting two to three times more output because dictation, if we look at the amount of words per minute, writing an email, typing it out is going to take you 30 words per minute, whereas dictation will take you 60. Well, you'll get 60 words for the same minute. So at the very least, it will double your output, but that can sometimes be increased to three times, so you'll be able to get significantly more done just by using your voice, this is the power of it. So let's have a look at some of the best features. I've talked about writing speed, so two to three times faster. That in itself is going to be a huge time saver, more efficiency. So it frees up your hands so that you can focus on other tasks, such as thinking, brainstorming, interacting with others, that sort of thing. Less errors and typos. This is an important one because many times we will type out a document and needing to go back and do all of the grammatical editing and check for typos, that sort of thing. With dictation, it's done as you go, so you're able to be grammatically correct and have everything polished a lot quicker and a lot sooner than the traditional typing way. Voice control. So some of the best ones, some of the best tools and apps, they use your voice to be able to control the mouse, to be able to control the browser. And there's one particular tool that I'm really excited about, and I'm going to show you in the next video, and it's called lip serf. And it does all of that. It's not just a speech to text tool. It doesn't just work with dictation. It also allows you to control your browser, and you're going to see some pretty cool functionality from that. So stay tuned for the next lesson. And then lastly, another key benefit is it reduces physical strain. So if you're spending a lot of hours in front of the PC or doing a lot of typing, it can take its toll on your wrists and your forearms, and that just isn't nice. This is something that I've suffered from, and I found that dictation and speech detect technology is the way to really help that. And I've seen a significant improvement in just the amount of time that I can work doing typing activities and doing writing and content creation, which involves typing, I'm able to do two to three times more with the same amount of time and less strain on the wrists and forearms. So that in itself is a really good benefit. So these are just a few of the major benefits of dictation and speech to text. We're going to be looking at lip surf in the next video, but there are some restrictions. So a couple of things to be mindful of when it comes to dictation is that there is a bit of a learning curve, and it might seem a little bit strange having to dictate out your emails and documents. And that's perfectly normal. There is a learning curve, and it will take time to get used to voicing out your content, your text, your messages, all of that. So I don't feel like this feels strange and will I ever get used to it? It will take a bit of time to get used to it and for it to feel natural. But once it does, then immediately, you're going to start seeing the time saving. The other thing is, you wouldn't need a decent microphone. The better the microphone, the better the recognition, and the better the output. Of course, if you are using the microphone that's built into your laptop, that can sometimes pick up ambient noises and the quality might not be great, and the words won't be accurate, so it will pick up different words to what you are saying. So a good microphone is an important aspect of that. Whether that is a freestanding microphone, a tabletop microphone or even one of those boom mics that you use for headphones, either one is going to work well. But of course, that does mean there is a little bit of extra hardware needed. But once you have that in place, you're going to see the benefits instantly. And then lastly, of course, as you can imagine, being in a noisy environment, that can also affect the accuracy of the software to recognize your words. So it might not be too suitable for environments like at a coffee shop or maybe even in your office when there is a lot of ambient noise going on. Those are just some things to bear in mind, and it could mean that dictation and speech text might not be for everybody. But if you're in a controlled environment and you're able to have the clear crisp audio that it needs, you're good to go and you can expect to be able to write two to three times as fast and just improve your productivity in that respect. That's it for this lesson. I'm really excited to show you how lip surf works, and we're going to be looking at that in the next lesson. So stay tuned for that one. I will see you in the next lesson. Goodbye. 17. Dictation and Speech-to-Text: How Lipsurf Simplifies Speech to Text: Hey, guys. Welcome back to another liston. We're going to be looking at Lip serve, which is a browser extension that gives you speech to text capabilities, as well as it allows you to control your browser with your voice. Now, this has to be one of my top productivity hacks. The ability to replace typing with dictation and voice to text, technology, is something that can really turbocharge your productivity. I mean, dictation can help you type three times as fast as if you were manually typing out the same text. So it's going to mean that your emails are going to be done faster. A text on screen, whether it's on forms or in messages to colleagues on Slack, any kind of environment where you're using text, this browser extension is going to let you do that a lot more efficiently. And not just speed. It allows you to use the correct spelling for words as well. So you're going to be writing faster and you're going to have the correct spelling, so it's just going to save time overall in the long run. Another great feature I found is that it can help with things like repetitive stress injuries. So if you're sort of typing out a lot and you get strain in your wrist or your forearm or anything like that, it can really help improve that because you're not having to type as much. You're using your voice instead of typing. So things like carpal tunnel, it can really aid with that. And that's something I struggled with for a few years when I was working some crazy hours, launching my own business and growing I would at the end of the day just really have forearms and wrists that were just aching and not happy. So this was another push for me to find a solution, and I found that in lip surf and just dictation in general is the way to go. Now, you might be thinking that I've tried dictation. I've tried speech to text, maybe in the Windows environment or there was another application, and it just didn't work for you. That was the case a good few years ago, but speech to technology has come so far in recent years. So there's massive improvements, there's massive improvements with cognition, how the technology understands what you're saying, and also the clarity of your microphone plays a big part. So having a good mic, as well as using a modern browser extension like lip serve is a winning combination to be able to get good dictation and speech to text functionality in your workflows. And I use this for a range of applications. I mean, everything from emails to writing documents to writing articles for my website, even slack messages, WhatsAp messages, anywhere where you're writing text or, um, or messages, you can use this browser extension to be able to voice type for you. So that is a really nifty feature. It's not just limited to say Gmail or Google Docs. It's across any website or platform that uses the Chrome browser. So without further ado, let's get into it and see it in action. So I'm here at the Lip surf homepage. If you want to take a look and see what it's all about, this is a great starting point. But let's try some of the functions. So, browser control. Let's open up a new tab. Let's close that tab. Let's visit a website. Let's scroll between different tabs. So let's have a look and see how that would look. So once the plug in an extension is installed, you would see this little icon over here, and already you can see it's giving me a transcription of everything that I am saying. This transcription is optional, so you don't have to have it appearing if it's a little bit distracting to you. So let's see it in action. I'm going to ask it to create a new tab. There we go. Closed tab, YouTube, closed tab, tab four. Right, so that has got us to this point here, so I'm just going to switch it off there. You can also run commands like so if it is transcribing, you can say sleep. Sleep and there it's switched it off. So here we have some example content. We're just going to do some basic working with text commands here and just really show you some of the cool functionality that you can have. So let's switch it back on. There we go. Go to bottom, select previous ten words, capitalize all caps. Copy backspace. Pace Paste Delete previous word. Delete previous three words. Move backward five words. Move forward two words. Down up, go to top. New paragraph. Sleep. So there you could see I was doing some basic working with text. So we were able to capitalize. We were able to create the text as all caps uppercase. We were able to move the cursor between words. We were deleting some of the words. We were selecting them. We were copying them, we were pasting them. So that's just a brief intro into some of the functions that you can do with text. And that comes in handy when you're dictating long paragraphs of text and you want to sort of move back a couple of words and maybe add in some extra text that just allows you to be able to do that. It's not just a purely speech to text functionality. So then there are also modes, which is really handy. So we can have a dictation lock mode. Now, this is going to mean that it goes into a locked dictation mode. So you reduce the risk of any commands that would be done while you're dictating. So it purely looks at speech to text. So let's have a look and see how that would work. Dictate lock mode. So now that we're in the dictation mode, you can see by the icon there that it is purely using speech to text. If we were to use commands like copy or backspace or up, it would not do anything with those. So there we go. We've written out two lines. Now I'm going to switch back to normal mode. Normal mode. And let's see if this is in effect. Normal mode. Right. So now that we are in normal mode, we can start giving our commands again, select previous ten words. Sleep. So I just want to show another mode, which is the spell mode, and that allows you to spell out individual words. So if there's something that is unique or it's in the language that you speak and it needs to be very specific, you're able to spell the word out. So let us activate that mode. Spell mode. DATING. Normal mode. So I was able to spell out words there. So that's another mode that is possible. Okay, so now we're going to move on to Gmail. Now, what I'm going to show you is some navigation commands that you can run. Search productivity. Select two. Star, unstar move to trash. View three. So there you were able to see we could get into a search query. So we were searching for productivity, and then we selected the second email. Let's just get back to search productivity. So we would then get into the third email. So it would actually allow you to open up that email. That's pretty cool. Being able to navigate your way around Gmail and open and select email messages, that's one of the powerful features here. So let's compose some emails and you can see how quick it would be to send out an email. Compose, TrellPress Enter, press Tab, my productivity note. Body. This would be a personal note that I would send myself, full stop. This is going to my email to Trellcard email address inside of a TrelobardFull Stop. Sleep. So there you see we're able to just dictate our message and create an email in a matter of seconds. Okay, next, let's look at how it works with Excel and Google Sheets. Mainly focus on Google sheets here. Once in a worksheet, you're able to do things like column A, Row five. Copy, row 17, paste, row six, outer border, row seven. Format as currency. Column A, bold. Cell B three, bold. So that just gives you an idea of how it can work with Google Sheets. Now, let's have a look at some of the settings to see what else it could do because what I've shown you here is just a handful of the powerful functionality that this extension has. So we've got to custom shortcuts. Now, these are really great if you want to create your own action. So if you say a specific phrase, it will perform a action. And let's have a look and see what that looks like. So when I say certain word, and you can get quite advanced here, you can even have regex expressions, so regular expressions. You can even adjust it so that it is case sensitive. So when you say a certain word, it would perform a certain action. So you could copy and paste something directly when you have a certain phrase. Correction. So when you notice that the dictation is not getting the word 100% correct, you can then adjust the transcription. So when I say this word, it should be corrected to this. The transcription said, and that would be what you're seeing on screen for the transcription. And here's where you would put in the correction. It should have been this. And you can also do this in certain contexts. So if you only wanted that to happen in Gmail, you could add that as a special context. So those are custom shortcuts. There's also a wake word. So when you say hey lip serve, it would automatically activate. There seems to be a bit of an issue with this, but the guys are working on it. New tabs, plug ins, you're able to do all of these navigation commands. I mean, this is so useful when you're filling out forms on a website. So if you have lengthy forms, you're able to just breeze through them. Copy, paste, cut, all of that, have some context menus for help. Keyboard commands, so you can press any combination of keyboard commands. You can press tab, Enter, all of that. You can have the extension play videos automatically for you, pause them, resume, here are all the modes that we looked at earlier, GML, so these are all the Gmail commands, Google Sheet commands. You can enable these for top sites if you just want to quickly go to one of these websites. And then it has some website specific commands as well. There's also a NIFD set timer function. It's a very basic way to set a timer, and once it is up, it just lets you know through an audio notification. So that is lip surf. And as you can see, this is just a taste of what is possible. The sky is the limit with what you can do. And the main purpose is to use speech to text to dictate and also control your browser to an extent. This is kind of the majority of what I use it for. I use it in Gmail documents or Gmail emails. I use it in documents. Slack messages, that sort of thing. But the nice thing is, it works across all of the websites. An field that is online it's able to work with. So it just has that universal application. And I really couldn't be as productive as I am without this tool. So I highly recommend it and would love you guys to check it out and start playing around with some voice to text technology. All you really need is this free extension. Sure, if you want to have more functionality, there is a paid version, but the free version you can get started with and playing around with it. I'd also recommend maybe having a good microphone or just testing it out with the microphone that comes with your laptop or PC. That should be equally good. But audio is quite important for it to understand the commands properly. So that's an important thing to consider. Aside from that, that brings this lesson to a close. So I hope you got some good tips from this application. And yeah, I want to go out there and give it a try and improve your productivity by using speech detect technology and this lip surf extension. So that's it for this lesson. I'll catch you in the next one. Goodbye. 18. Canva Intro: Collaborative Design Made Simple: Hey, there, and welcome to this lesson on Canva. Canva is a super powerful image editor as well as graphic content creator. You're able to create stunning visuals with the click of a button. It has so many different templates to work from. It allows you to use those templates as well as frames. You're able to source stock. Images and stock content, videos, graphics, icons, animations and much, much more. It has all of this functionality built in, and it's super easy to use. This is what makes it such a powerful and successful tool. So for anybody that's creating documents or content, it is a must have, and it's especially useful if you run a brand or you're wanting to publish content to social media profiles or any other platforms, you're able to integrate with all of your favorite pages and profiles and post directly from your Canva documents straight to your pages. So that is a key feature. So let's take a look at some of the other additional features you can work with. So a powerful suite of tools and apps. Like I mentioned, you're able to have really powerful editing functionality for text, for the graphics, animations and all of that, content templates. So where Canva comes alive and is really useful is that there are contributors and creatives that have all of these templates that they make available on the Canva platform. So you're able to search for a specific type of document or theme, and you would have all of the templates available for you to use. You are then able to replace the text and the content from these templates with your own. And you're also able to resize the contents. So the magic resize tool makes it really good for multi platforms. It makes it really easy to repurpose your contents. So you can have a horizontal format for one platform, and you can use the magic resize to resize all of the elements so that you have more of a portrait nine by 16 ratio content format for social media and Instagram, that sort of thing. So you can take the same content, magic resize it, and it just saves you so much time. It allows you to schedule content as well as collaborate with others on that content, so you can post directly to your social media from inside of Canva. Allowing you to schedule it as well, so you can create a whole months worth of content or even longer all from within Canva, which is super handy. Colaboration is a great tool, so you're able to work with others on the same documents and collaborate and comment and just work in a seamless fashion all at the same time. Asset management and brand kits. So a really cool feature is you're able to set up your brand. So you're able to define the fonts. You're able to upload logos. You can have the color palette so that your brand and assets are consistent through all of your work and through all of the content that you create. And then lastly, bulk actions and data imports. So of course, this is a huge timesaver as you're able to batch edit designs, so you can create a template. You can then use a CSV file or a spreadsheet file to be able to import content to apply to those templates. So you can essentially create 30 days of content for your social media channel or anything like that. You can even create videos all with the bulk actions and data import functions as well. So that is a huge timesaver. And that's just some of the great features. But in the next video, we're going to dive into Canva, and you're going to see it in action. I'm going to take you through the interface and introduce you to some of the best features and just show you how it can be used and how efficient it really is. And I'm sure it's going to save you time and become your new favorite tool. So with that, that wraps up this lesson, and I'm excited to catch you in the next lesson where we look a bit closer at Canva. So I'll see you in the next lesson. Goodbye. 19. Canva Demo: Create Stunning Designs in Minutes: Okay, so we are in Canva at the moment, and I just want to give you an overview of the software and just show you how incredibly powerful it is and how easy it is to be creative thanks to all of the templates and all of the other powerful features that Canva has to offer. It's one of those really, really impressive bits of software and tools that everybody should use, and it is sure to increase your productivity and just help you deliver more polished and professional presentations or social media content, or email drafts or infographics or any kind of creative document that you'd like to put out there in the world. So let's take a look at it. So this is the main interface. This is the landing page. From here you can see already, you can jump into the various templates. I mean, we've got documents. We've got whiteboards, presentations, email headers, logos, all sorts of just waiting here for you to start with. We have the magic Studio. This is quite a new edition, and it's an AI powered part, and section to Canva that allows you to, through a prompt, just tell Canva what you wanted to design, whether that's a presentation or social media content or anything like that. Give it some idea of what you're looking to create, and through the power of AI, it will put all of that together for you. So through text, you're able to create the slides and presentations and graphics that you want, which is incredibly clever. So that is under the magic studio section. There's also some really nifty magic tools where you can transform your content, resize and magic switch, magic animate, magic morph, all of these really cool magic tools that you can use in your content. Next, we have a look at the projects folder. So this is where you can neatly organize all of your content and your projects, all of your designs will sit here. As you can see, all of this courses, slides and presentations were created in Canva. So that is just a just goes to show how powerful it is. You can even create online courses. The template section is much like the homepage. Here's where we have all of the templates for all kinds of documents, presentations, social media, print products, anything you name it, it has a template for. There's also some really cool whiteboard features and templates to work from. So this allows you to create really visual based workflows and to demonstrate concepts. And I mean, we see here things like a site map, teen calendars, product road maps, project plans, SWOT analysis. I mean, the sky is the limit with all of the templates you can have here. Another nifty feature is you're able to control the brand. So if you work with brands or even you want to maintain your own brand, you're able to have a library full of all of the assets that you would use in documents and presentations and files that you create. All of the design work would be contained in these brand libraries, and it just allows you to have everything there and ready to use. I mean, things like the color palette, you can have your logos, the fonts that you choose, for the brand, those are all ready to use and will be applied to all of your designs. So it's just a really neat way to have all of the assets for a brand ready to rock and roll whenever you're creating a design. This is an incredibly powerful feature is you can expand the functionality of Canva by integrating and using some of the apps that come with it. I mean, everything from Instagram to brand fetch, LinkedIn, I mean, all of the other major software and tools have a app that you can actually use all within site Canva, which is quite amazing. And that's it for the main homepage. Let's move into a design just so that we can see a bit more closely how the tools work inside of Canva. So we are in the Canvas slide, which is quite fitting. As you can see here, we have all of the elements. That would make up a design. So this is a lesson slide, and from here, we can then start to edit and interact with all of these elements. So I've selected the background image here. Oh, just skip back there. I've selected the background image here. And that brings up a new context menu where you can start to edit the image, and a new column slides out. And here you have all of the editing functions that you can then use for that. I mean, really cool things like a background remover, which I think is worth showing here because it really is a powerful feature. Let's try it with the different image. BG remove. And what it's trying to do here is trying to identify what to remove. So I think this is probably not the best example. So let me just pop in a image so that we can extract the background. So here, this is probably a good example here. We would then come into Edit image. And let's try that again. So there. It's pulled out the background, and all that's left is the subject. And this is really handy to be able to do this kind of powerful editing from within Canva. So that is one of the powerful tools you can use. But from the magic studio, you have all of these other ones as well. You can also apply filters to any image from within your slide. These would just add some human saturation, edits, as well as add on other filters. You can have effects you can add a shadow. Let's add a shadow to here. There we go. You can see it's created that shadow there. So those are some really cool effects. Then you can adjust the picture and elements from inside the slide. So we can work on the temperature, as you can see the subtle temperature changes there is just changing the hue of the image, brightness controls, and these are all the basic lighting and image editing controls. You have all of that available and of course, a very basic crop function. So the next thing to look at is some other basic functions. You can flip elements in the slide. You can animate elements as well. So these would animate when the slide is loaded. So when you're presenting, it would load that element along with the animation. And there are lots of other features and settings for all of these, which is really neat. So you can get the exact look that you're looking for. So then you're able to position elements as you want it. So middle and center. You're able to manually fine tune the sizes as well as the positions there. You can align it to the pages or even adjust where it appears as a layer on the design. So here, if we want to send it to the back, it sends it to the back. If you want it to the front, it sends it to the front. We can adjust the transparency of elements. We can copy the styles. So any styles that are applied to an element, those are copied, and then you can apply them to others. And then I think we move over to the left menu over here. There is a elements column, and this is where you can add all of the elements from within Canvas. So what makes Canva incredibly powerful is all of the assets that you are able to use in your designs, everything from graphic elements to images to photos, to videos. I mean, anything that you can think of, you're able to add to all of your designs. So for example, let's say we wanted to add a Coming Soon graphic. These are all presented here. You can even search for these. So let's go coming soon. It then gives you a whole range of relevant graphics for you to use. Some of them are even animated. You can filter to only those that are animated or only those that are static. And it puts it in a high resolution version onto your design. So this is really, really powerful and just allows you to take your designs and presentations and really sort of bump them up to a very high standard. You're able to add normal text, of course, headings, as well as font combinations, which is kind of like heading templates where they've already added some great font combinations so you can get the look that you're after. So once you've added the text or the headings, I think I'm going to just remove these elements. It's getting a little bit busy here. So let's try and work with these over here. So let's assume that we've added the heading here. And from there, this is where we get to choose all of the hundreds and hundreds of fonts that are available to work with simple as one click. Here are those other textiles, as well. You can also select fonts size. So if you want to increase the size, the color, the formatting, so you can make it all bold or Telesise or underline, strike through, uppercase. All of that is available to do through these tools. Spacing, this is quite nifty. You can adjust the line height, letter spacing, just so you can get it exactly how you want to. There are some effects that you can add to text, which is really cool. You can add shadows. It's quite hard to see, so I'll try and I'll try and make it a bit more obvious for you. Let's go with a black or so there you can kind of see it it's adding that drop shadow at the back there. And you can add other effects, so you can hollow out. You can splice, outline all of that. So it's really great, and I'd recommend to play around and see what you like to look of. So you can animate the elements of a design. So you have both a page animation, which is what will be animated. Well, it'll animate the full collection of elements on the page. So as you can see, all the elements are animated independently. This is really great if you just want a quick overall animation to all of the elements. But if you wanted to get a bit more granular and work with the elements animation, specifically, you could then come into that elements animation. So let's just get back there. So, yeah, then you would come here, you would come to the text animation, and you could slowly start to see how these different animations look. And yeah, it's just a matter of choosing the one that you like the look of and that suits your design. So that's it. That's it for the text editing. Here's the brand collection again, uploads. This is where you can upload all of your own media. So if you have logos, if you have images that you want to include in your designs, this is where you upload them. You can even record webcam videos of yourself. Drawing, so you're able to draw on your designs and have all the different drawing tools here to be able to use in the design, which is really neat. And then apps as well. So this is where you get access to all of your apps. So let's say I wanted to add a logo. One such app is called Band fetch. And in there, we can add any logo. So let's think of something. Let's think of M, which is an automation tool. And here it provides the logo, and you're then able to add high resolution logo to your design, which just makes it super, super efficient. I mean, it saves you having to go onto Google or any of the other brand websites where they host all of the logos. You can just do all of that here from your Canva design. Then looking at the other pages, you can access photos. Now, this is really what makes Canva incredibly powerful is you have access to a full collection of millions of stock photos to use in your design. And just to give you an idea of the quality, I mean, some of these are really, really powerful and and really striking, and the quality is just exceptional. You also have access to videos, which is really, really cool when you're wanting to create interactive and engaging presentations or just create your own YouTube videos or social media content. It gives you those options there, and you can search videos as well. So let's just online course. You can preview that. So this would be a clip that you could add to a slide to be able to represent somebody learning an online course. The other apps that you have access to are Bulk Create, which is a really cool feature. You're able to use CSV files to populate templates of Canva design so that you can take large amounts of data and be able to use the data in the designs and not have to edit each of the slides 1 by one. So that's a really cool feature. You can translate any and all of the text on any of your designs. You can add charts, and these are charts where you can add your own values and figures. Magic Media. So this is the AI powered section. And then below here is where you have some of your apps that you most frequently use. So that's it. I mean, I hope this gives you just a sneak peek into how incredibly powerful Canva is. I mean, it's just one of those apps that I couldn't do without. I mean, creating this course, all of the slides and lessons were done in Canva, and I really couldn't think of an app that would be able to do it as efficiently and professionally as Canva. So I really recommend this as a tool to boost your productivity and just help you to get really, really professional looking designs. Out there in the world, and it's a must have tool, and I couldn't do without it, so I'd love you to try it and see how you like it. So that's it for this Canva demonstration. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you in the next lesson.