What app saves you the most time each day?

I always enjoy learning about other people's processes, I usually find something I can tweak to make my system even better!

Fantastical covers off weekly and monthly planning.

With easy natural language task and event entry along with calendar sets keeps me focused on the right task at the right time.

Shortcuts streamlines my productivity stack.

Creating linked notes and reminders with common templates saves me a ton of time for YouTube planning

Raycast launches apps, replaced my calculator and has custom AI integrations with the latest models!

Make sure the chapters and the transcription are separated. I would like the transcription first, then the section with chapters."

Let me know if you try it out or make adjustments to the prompt that improve results. I've been using Claude 3.7 Sonnet as the model.

Please remove the numbering and timestamps and keep only the text. Reformat the transcription to make it more readable.

Please also make the timestamps into chapters.
Start at 0:00 with “introduction” and have less than 10 chapters total....

"These are transcriptions from a YouTube video srt file. They contain a numbering system and timestamps associated with the video timeline.

You are assiting in helping me to cleanup the transcription so that it may be used on YouTube as well as repurposed for other social media content....

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I dove deeper into how this "Pricing Ladder" works in my latest video. Check it out for the full breakdown and visuals!
youtu.be/zC8i_jl26wU

Those incremental upgrades cleverly bridge the gap between product tiers.

Plus, 0% Apple Card financing makes the monthly hit feel smaller. Masterclass in strategic pricing, right? Was I expertly guided? Yes.

Am I happy? Also yes...

Now you're eyeing the M4 MacBook Pro (~$2000).

Better chip, active cooling, gorgeous screen! But wait... only 512GB storage?

One more rung... boost storage, maybe add nano-texture glass... hello $2350+ machine.

It starts innocently.

That base M4 MacBook Air looks great at $999. But need more than 256GB storage (tough in 2025)? Upgrading the Air pushes you towards $1800.

Suddenly, the M4 Pro isn't that much further...

Thanks for the support, we're in this for the long haul and the journey has just begun!

So as I navigate my new reality of becoming a father in just 4 short weeks, I'm reminding myself that there is no rush.

Business profitability, more subscribers, more videos, new tech and apps can all wait.

There is no rush for me to hop on the hamster wheel and spin it as fast as I can right now.

The channel is currently at 1.88k subscribers, 211 videos, which I think includes short form that was clipped from long form videos and podcasts.

There were times where I posted every week for months on end and there were months where I didn't post at all.

I think of this like an extra retirement plan.

I hope I am still doing this well into my 50s and 60s.

I started posting June 2023. It took 16 months to get monetized, while also working a full time job.

It often feels like there is not enough time in the day to do everything that I want to do. That is ok. This is a long game.