We get up every day, and we walk out of the house with the tools we need to get through the day. Do you stop and think about what it is that you carry, and why? Are there things that could help you? Are you carrying items that you don’t need? In this episode of ProductivityCast, the team discusses their everyday carry for personal productivity.

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In this Cast | Everyday Carry, Productivity Edition

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes | Everyday Carry, Productivity Edition

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Augusto

Briggs & Riley Baseline Rolling Cabin Bag

iPad

Apple AirPods

Art

Motorola Moto Z2 Force

Fieldnotes notebook

Leatherman multi-function tool

Todoist

Chromebook

Midori’s Traveler’s Black Leather notebook

Ray

SIM tool

Mini multi-function tool with belt holder (Leatherman)

Leather pen holder with two pens

Cole Haan Men's Credit Card Holder

Micro-USB to USB-C adapter

Lesoom Bluetooth headset

WysiWipes Multi-Purpose Wipes (one to two tablets)

Blistex medicated mint lip balm

Business card holder

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Voiceover Artist 0:00

Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling, productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things. productivity, here are your hosts, Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:22

productivity cast Episode 33. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith and I'm joined here today with Augusto Pinaud, Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks, we are going to do something, I think rather interesting today, something that has become sort of an internet sensation. In a way, it's the idea of what's called an everyday carry. And we're putting a little bit of a twist on it today. But I wanted to explain a little bit what the everyday carry is. And I think art might be able to explain this a little better than me. So I'm going to try and then I'm going to turn it over to you art and you can give a little more. And then what we're going to do is actually talk about it from a productivity perspective. So the everyday carry in my understanding is basically the things that you carry on your person, or maybe carrying a laptop bag and or suitcase, a briefcase or something like that backpack to work and what those things are that you carry every day. And, you know, just to sort of get through the day. And obviously, that can include a wallet and keys and those kinds of things. But more from our perspective, what's going to help you be more productive art to like, catch the essence of it? Can you explain a little bit more sincere, much more

Art Gelwicks 1:23

familiar with this than I am? Yeah, the I basically live out of my backpack. So my everyday carry is on my back. But if you think about it, as it's the stuff in your pockets, it's the stuff within immediate perimeter to you that you really wouldn't leave the house without, you feel unprepared. Without and expanded into the digital space. I like to think about it. Like if you get a new device. Let's say you buy a new iPhone or you buy a new Android phone, what are the productivity apps, you immediately load? What are the first ones that you put on there that you know that if you don't have those, you're just not ready for what's going on that to me. That's what every day carry is the things that make you feel not only successful and make you successful, but they make you feel comfortable in your daily activities.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:11

Thank you for that. I think I think this is going to be a really fun and interesting episode for us all to kind of talk about the various things that we use so I am going to turn it over to a goose to to start us off a gusto Would you like to cover your everyday carry, and then all of us are just going to inject and ask oddball questions about why you carry those things. So a goose Joe, take it away. Good morning, everybody.

Augusto Pinaud 2:39

So I shoot a star. In my case, with a little bit of history in the sense that I might everyday carrier has been strength and significantly since around 2006, 2006.

I was traveling around 250,000 miles a year. And basically my bag was an hour, 60 pound bag was two laptops, printers, Kenner an incredible amount of useful things that people may call junk in 2011, when the iPad came, I wouldn't quickly and saw the possibilities of reduced that 60 pound bag to an iPad with a keyboard. No, it was not as romantic as it just sounded took a little bit longer. But since 2012, I mean mostly I but only and that has changed my carry bags, even to the point that I now carry instead of a big bag, a small one that basically feed the iPad on a couple more things. And if I need for any reason to carry a laptop, or or an extra additional gear, I go and get a second pack. And what that allows me to do is to keep my everyday carry super alive.

The other change that has happened in my everyday carry was the introduction of the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil I had try every stylus that has come out to see if I could do any kind of handwriting more specifically to see if I can live in a paper that I carry for no other reason that paper is heavy. I need Watson on till the Apple Pencil that I was finally being able to get something that I can do my awful handwriting on and then I can revisit eliminating really the need for me to having to carry a piece of paper that make my everyday carrier a lot heavier. My everyday carrier has an iPad Pro a pencil and on top of that I carry some Advil

Raymond Sidney-Smith 4:56

that's it. I think it's really interesting how the program of going from quite a lot of stuff being carried to being less stuff that you carry because of the fact that life circumstances have changed, right. So your productivity system the lesson here is that your productivity system needs to be adaptive and flexible to the changing nature of life and work he is but he but if you think about it, there is also an evolution of where the technology has come you know I still I still have

Augusto Pinaud 5:29

you know a possibility with the scanner I can now sign documents on the iPad they were although things that were impossible you know years ago I I remember being traveling and then needed to print in a hotel room and that's part of the reason I carry a printer sign a document is Kenneth bikes and you can email that then Okay, that he was really challenging I at the time there was really not an easy way to do that on a piece See, and even when I moved to the mag later on, it wasn't easy to do that. So you needed to print to sign to rescan now you can do all that directly on the iPad or if you get the paper document just take the images and go on so also technology has has evolved you know the things that I can do on on my iPad today I didn't even dream that were some of them possible in in 2012 so I'm on as we discussed on a previous episode when I said the eye but that's because that the device I use but doesn't matter if you go for for an Android tablet is exactly the same thing you know you will be able to do things that simply five eight years ago were you were not even a possibility that makes all those devices a lot more powerful and a lot more accessible when we discuss the I the iPhone vs Android Apple iOS versus Android you know my when it when we did the research for that episode My advice for people when when people come and ask me about tablets has changed to the point that I now ask what is your boys you use was your mobile device and that he said always you should get on your tablet so if your phone is ons or make sure you get an Android tablet on if it's an iPhone to get an iPad but don't mix and match because it makes them mad it's going to make you less efficient but I think they everyday carrier form for must be bull has come a lot lighter just because the technology has evolved in an incredibly way that simply was impossible before Francis tell us a little bit about your everyday carry for productivity purposes.

Francis Wade 8:01

I think I had a similar evolution to the one that was to described I used to carry on one of those I'm sort of carry on with wheels that's made for like a mini office so you could put a laptop in there a bunch of files and it has a sort of a low profile but along Hatton handle I don't know what that's called anymore because I don't see too much of them but I had everything in it that I had my laptop I had files and I had all sorts of other do does that I thought were really important and it wasn't quite 60 pounds but it was it was heavy you know it was something I didn't want to have to live too often put an overhead compartment but that's about it no when I travel I I carry a very small backpack and it keeps my laptop and I think I carry just about the basics I carry a charger.

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