How you can use iPhone’s Notes app to your advantage

I am writing this article in notes app in my phone. Yesterday I invited Sana Nadeem, to join our WhatsApp community. The introduction, I wrote it in notes app. Some days back I created a video for makerlog, and script I wrote in notes app. I also write my tweets in notes app, before publishing them on twitter. If you take notes app out of my life, I will be dead.

You need your thoughts oriented, connected and sorted.

1. Write everything down on a Digital Minimal place

2. Do not make spelling mistakes

1 — Write it down, “your super big idea”

All our ideas are big. You create google again. It will be different. You create Space X again, and it will be different. You redraw your own hand drawn line, it will be different. Different as in different proportions of ink, pen pressure, ink spread, paper undulations and different frame of mind. If you believe in yourself, your idea is good enough to become the next blockbuster.

Do not use plain old papers. Do not use diaries. And do not use internet to validate your idea. Do not touch anything else around. When you enter the idea spike zone. Sit. Relax. Think. Open notes app. And write bullet points:-

1. What it will change ?

2. What I will love building it ?

3. What will fund my journey ?

Connect the dots on your notes app. It is big, empty, minimal and focus centric place. Switch on ‘do not disturb’ on your phone, laptop, door and landline phone. And dive into converting your spikes into words.

After you have gained some clarity, connect a little more. With clarity, you will be able to connect your thoughts while walking on the road, eating your dinner, watching tv or helping mother. Notes app gives you clarity to walk with your ideas right in front of you, in your everyday’s busy routine life.

2 — Do not make spelling mistakes

After you have expressed yourself on the notes app. You will be sharing it for idea validation. You can be writing a tweet about it. Or you can be sending a text message to your brother asking for his time to discuss it. Or you can be writing a letter to a VC funding. Write it bold on your wall, behind the office desk.

Do not make spelling mistakes.

It breaks the momentum of your talk. It gives unprofessional look to your brand. It tells your lack of sincerity. And it simply says, you are not willing to make it a reality.

Whatever you do in your life; talk, tweet, text, speak or try to avoid the jolted verbosities. Try to look professional. Your everyday things will start turning into simplistic ideas. You will be penn-ing them down more often. And slowly it will make you a content creator.

Conclusion

Notes app has grown me to a ‘content creator’. Unlike all the apps on my phone, I find this app, the only app, that has changed the most of my routine life.

If you do not have this app because you are not an iPhone user, I strongly suggest you stop using your phone. It is either leaking your memory, or making a privacy breach. Your accounts are vulnerable and your data is not yours.

Until buying the iPhone, use the notepad app on your windows laptop / computer to list your thing. Brainstorm your long awaited project. Simplify it down. Find out how it can start churning sooner. Start earning money, sitting home, thinking sane and acting simple.

Because, Making money online, in 2020, is the only way you will be doing justice to your time.