Ray and Augusto recently both obtained new mobile tablets. We talk about how we've implemented them in our work and personal lives, and why mobile tablets are becoming a powerful primary computing device.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

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Evernote

#iPadOnly by Augusto Pinaud and Michael Sliwinski

Split Views on iOS

Split Screen on Android

Feedly

Google News and Weather

OverDrive

Amazon Kindle

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DuoLingo

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud our show today is going to

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be about second-screen productivity and

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not really its corollary of the concept

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of second-screen where you use a mobile

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device while you're watching a

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television and you're accessing

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potentially supplemental content and and

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other information or interacting with

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social media while you are watching

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television we're really gonna be talking

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about Hardware the fact of the matter is

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is that gusto and I both recently got

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new tablets and while gusto is the

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tablet ninja I mean he's really the

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expert here in terms of using his iPad

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only he wrote a book on the topic I am

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just getting really comfortable with

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using a tablet for more than just

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watching Netflix so um so we're gonna

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talk about what we've been doing and how

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much more productive we have been as it

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relates to tablet productivity or even

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using your your phone as the second

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device and sort of the experience we've

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been we've been having you are using the

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iPad as a primary computing device and

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have been comfortable with that for many

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years and in contrast I have been using

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both iOS as well as the Google Android

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OS for many years concurrently but not

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really for high level activities and

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only recently did I get a Samsung Galaxy

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and the 8 inch variety so that it was

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large enough for me to be able to read

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on the screen I had the Nexus 7 prior to

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that which is the Google tablet and I

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really loved it it's then it's light

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it's powerful and so the Samsung Galaxy

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Tab that I have also has a sim card in

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it so this one has data so that wherever

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I am I can access you know just basic

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email and and web browsing and that kind

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of thing when I'm on the road so that's

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been really really helpful

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and it has the case that I got has a

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stylist you know that plugs into it and

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at a magnetic screen case and it's just

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really great I have to I have to admit

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it it does do much more today for me now

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that I'm able to take notes say in

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Evernote on the larger screen and also

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you know just sort of getting around I

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can see more email at once so I can

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process multiple emails you know that

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just need to be deleted I don't have to

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scroll through page after page after

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page of email I can quickly go through

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full pages just as I would on my laptop

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screen I can do that here on the tablet

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as well and so you you don't process

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email on your phone but you processed it

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on the tablet and it's a very similar

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interface since you're using and I

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really like this idea here I think that

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this is something not to be lost on

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people that is because you're using iOS

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across all of your devices you are in

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essence creating the compound benefits

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based on the fact that you're going to

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know more and better of how iOS works

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how your computing operating system

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works because you are not having to

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switch gears every time you look at a

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different screen cuz they're all the

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same

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am i correct there you are correct there

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even that I treat them as DIF 3 screen

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as you are you correctly said I have I

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don't check on anything on on the iPhone

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and the reason I do that what I discover

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with email is I was reading email

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multiple times so I was with my phone

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getting distracted because it vibrate or

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let me know or give me a some kind of

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indication or alert that I just received

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an email look at on my phone and then go

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somewhere else were then when I need

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back went back to really processing

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email then I prefer the bigger screen I

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prefer the iPad and then I went and then

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read that email again without any doubt

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reading emails multiple time it is

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highly inefficient ok so that's the

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reason I came with a

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that I don't read email on my phone and

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actually I don't even have email

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configured because the problem for must

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be is if you cannot process email

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efficiently on your phone and there is

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people who can then you should not check

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email on your phone

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period if you have the systems and the

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workload to do it then that's totally

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fine but if you are just checking to see

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if something it's going to explode or

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not and for to see you know just to be

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curious what is coming you are really

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being highly ineffective not only that

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if you are in like you know I received

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between 100 and 150 m of a day you know

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I'm basically getting distracted 100 250

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times a day it's impossible to do

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anything of significance if you are

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getting distracted often by something

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that you are not doing anything with you

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are just getting distracted look who's

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come and then if it sounds fun or

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interesting then open and see what it is

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just to discover oh I need to process

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this later the exception to that is if

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I'm traveling if I am traveling while

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I'm in transit then I may check email

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while I'm transit but as soon as I get

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to wherever I am then I come to the

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settings of the phone and then turn

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email again off so that way I'm

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accessible and available while I'm

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moving around but not on the other on

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the other time and the effect of that

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has been incredible number one you start

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looking your phone in a completely

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different way and you discover ways to

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use your phone in a matter there is more

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effective if they someday I have come to

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use often

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you know the split screen ability on iOS

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that's one of the reasons I don't know

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