Nobody Panic - How to Use Your Phone Notes App
Episode Date: January 30, 2024Quite an emotional roller-coaster this one. Couple of handy tips about improving the efficiency of an app quickly become an existential lament for the loss of analog in the digital age. Tessa can't gr...asp how to use bullet points, Stevie cries about her notebook, we learn almost nothing, an absolute classic Nobody Panic episode. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded by Ben Williams and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello, I'm Carriad.
I'm Sarah.
And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast.
We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival.
The date is Thursday, 11th of September.
The time is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies.
Tickets from kingsplace.com.
Single ladies, it's coming to London.
True on Saturday, the 13th of September.
At the London Podcast Festival.
The rumours are true.
Saturday the 13th of September.
At King's Place.
Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet.
Welcome to No. Do Panic with me, Stephen and Tessa, who is right there with me.
This is a really serious podcast, one of our most serious, actually.
Yes, are we ever tackled?
It is how to use your notes app.
Oh, my God.
Do you have an Android?
Not for you.
You probably have a notes app, but like, look.
We don't know specifically how it works.
No, we've just got our heads around the iPhone.
To be honest, after the end of this, we probably haven't, you know,
Yeah, yeah. I said the title, our producer said, oh yeah, because of all those tips and tricks you can do. And I was like, what do you mean? Obviously I know, but you could say them out loud, so we'd both know them. And I'll nod my head say they're the same tricks, but you say your tricks. And he's like, oh, you know, you can scan a document. And I was like, sorry. So that is. That was about an hour ago, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just to rein you back from whatever high expectation you might have from this, um,
Notes app episode. Yeah. I'd pair it down. Yeah, I'd go, I'd go sort of like 50-50.
Yeah. It's a difference. It's interesting. And then 50% of saying things like,
open a note and write on it. Yeah. Listen, if you're an old time listener, you know,
if you're new and you're really hoping for some new updates from the iPhone and what the notes app
can do for you, you will be sorely disappointed. Goodbye. Um, before we get into, um, before we get into, um,
You know, adding checkable marks, for example.
Already, my blood is pounding.
Adding checkable marks.
When you add those checkable marks.
I don't even know what you're saying.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, well, you just wait.
I would like to ask you what does the most adult thing you've done this week?
Is I DJed at Stevie's wedding?
Would we call it a success?
Who is to say?
It was.
Everyone was screaming.
Everyone was screaming.
You did like a ribbon dance.
Yeah.
During it, there was an issue because they wouldn't,
the DJs who were, you know, excellent, Alex Haddo, Haddo,
and Joey, rightly or wrongly,
we'd got people on the floor,
people were really going for it.
Tessa arrived and they thought
maybe the Pirates of the Caribbean theme tune
might have tanked it.
No, no, no, no.
To their absolute credit, they did not make that decision.
It simply was not there.
Oh, no.
It was simply not there.
They hadn't been able to download it at a time.
I was saying, oh, well, you sent yours quite late, didn't you?
They may not have been able to download.
Sure.
I think it's important to assign blame.
No, I'm just saying.
For whatever reason, it wasn't there.
And I was like, get it.
And of course, as Alex had discussed on the podcast, you can't be getting.
No.
There ain't no Wi-Fi in there, baby.
Anyway, people, I was on at 11pm.
My name was DJ Anxiety.
I truly lived up to my title.
people said oh I saw you know
people have been coming up to me
I've been seeing people all week who were like
we discussed it at Stevie's wedding I was like I didn't see you at Stevie's wedding
they're like yes you did and I was like did it happen before 11pm
because I was having an absolute anxiety blackout
I was simply spiraling I had a number of conversations with people
that I have no recollection of whatsoever
and people said I kept looking at my watch and being like sorry I'm on in eight hours
so I just need to go back
go and have a little you know so I got in my outfit way too early
so I was dripping in sweat.
You're walking around looking like you'd killed your husband.
Yeah, people did keep saying that.
I was wearing...
Listen, I just taking that upon myself to dress as a DJ
and what I thought a DJ was, was a sort of mob wife.
Helena Bonham Carter.
Yeah, Helena Bonham Carter does the mob.
Yes.
That's the theme.
It's perfect.
High-necked mesh body suit, skirt.
That was in fact a top.
Yes.
A skirt.
Very trendy.
Dark sunglasses, big hoops and a large black fur jacket.
Then what I had also incorporated into the piece was two rhythmic gymnastic red ribbons.
Yes.
On sticks that I had made myself earlier that day.
I just got it into my head that I was like, what I tried to buy online was those smoke canisters in colors that you can use for a gender reveal.
Oh, excellent.
But you would have been ejected from the building.
Exactly.
Right.
So I rang the building and I was like, can I use this?
And they were like, obviously not.
Yes.
Right.
And I was like, right.
but how will people know that the DJ set has begun?
I was saying down the phone to the poor man at the venue.
And he was like, I don't know if people need to know that the DJ set.
I just got into my head that I needed to like enter over the crowd like Pete Tong playing Ibitha.
I can understand that.
Thank you so much.
So then I was like, right, what's the next best thing?
Ribbons.
So then I made these rhythmic gymnastics sticks and had those.
And then I had tried to buy these marshmallow heads off eBay.
Oh, you're going to put over your partner's head so that he would be a hype man?
Yeah, correct.
Right, yeah.
So. Do they arrive and they were tiny?
No, they do arrive.
To be so, would you believe, get back at three o'clock in the morning from your party?
There they are on the doorstep.
I think that's for the best.
I do too.
It would have been overwhelming.
Too much.
Overwhelming.
Yeah.
So then I say to our mutual friend Liz, I've bought some paper mask heads of Margaret Thatcher.
do you want to come on stage with me and dance?
And she said, no.
And I was like, but you'll be anonymous
because you'll be wearing the Margaret Thatcher mask.
And she was like, you think that having the Margaret Thatcher mask,
people would be like, wow, who's that?
That must be Margaret Thatcher.
That must be Margaret.
As opposed to like, that's Liz.
Yeah.
Wearing a Margaret Thatcher mask.
So she refused to come up.
But my partner did come.
And our mutual friend, Cassie,
a wonderful girl and also a drama,
theater major.
Oh, yeah.
But also like,
I've been in loads of stuff.
Sorry, I was going to say drama school.
Yes.
I was classically trained, that's the word I'm looking for.
Yes. Classically trained, professional actress
saw the ribbons from across the room and hurtled her way to the stage.
Well, didn't she learn ribbon dancing from when she was in Torval and Dean at Christmas?
Oh my God.
So it wasn't anything to do a drama school.
She learned how to do them while, I think, while filming that show.
She's quite a big part in it.
She's not Tovla Dundoo, but she's like the other one.
And, yeah.
And she was behind you doing the most perfect,
I would just hit myself in the face,
perfect ribbon dancing.
While you were playing,
and I was expecting the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Of course, we all were.
I was screaming at the DJs.
What are you doing?
Play parrots, play parrots to the Caribbean for it.
Give her parrots to the Caribbean.
And then it looked like, it just, then it looks,
it's a clip where Cassie's doing the ribbons,
you're doing this, and I'm just screaming,
what are you doing?
Right, right, right.
Sure, sure, sure.
Luckily, I couldn't hear a word.
I have simply fugue state out of there, don't you really?
So I'm obviously so thrown vis-a-vis Pirates to Caribbean.
But ultimately, then what they, we choose a song at random, and it is Robin, I'm in the corner watching you kiss her.
Perfect.
Which actually the crowd are really up for.
In a way, they might not have been for Klaus Baudet, I'm a pirate.
Yes.
You know, da-da-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
People being like, what is this?
Last thing played downstairs quite a lot.
Was it?
My partner had a film soundtrack to playing on his personal room downstairs.
Of course.
When I said heard that and was like, well, you did have pirates the guy of it,
but it was on a separate system.
And you know what?
I've really made my piece with it.
It hadn't, didn't in the moment, didn't for the rest of the evening.
But later I'm like, you know what, it was right.
The Arthur theme tune was a real highlight halfway through.
You did pop that.
Of course.
And people really went through.
Hey, hey, it's a wonderful kind of day.
Hey!
It was a wonderful experience that I never intend to repeat.
I'm so glad.
so much. And if I made you your adult thing for you. Oh my God. What? You threw an unbelievable
wedding. It was very fun party. But also. You did so well. You took it all in your stride.
You were the epitome of a chill bride. Yeah. You really did an amazing job. I realized that the more
organization I imposed upon it, the more stress I would become. So it just had to be like,
beforehand we all go to an Airbnb around the corner and have some champagne.
Crucial things.
Cake, DJ sets.
To be honest, everything else.
Fine.
Stevie Martini's.
Yeah, that was the last minute edition.
Also, Gina, my sister flew from Australia and then like the last minute was like,
should you like fun posters to put around?
And we're like, yeah, that would be fun.
And then my partner wanted a ball and door, which was a champagne, a free drink,
which was a champagne flute just full of cheese balls.
And everyone was like, well, I don't want to smell like cheese balls at this party.
So no one ordered them.
And everybody was ordering so many Stevie martinis, which was the martinis, how I like them.
I thought that they had to go and get more olives.
Fantastic.
Really fun.
Wow.
But that thing is, you said very several times that there was simply, you know, it was under control and you didn't need a lot doing.
And then when I walked in, it was so beautifully decorated.
It was so well organized.
It was an exemplary party.
Oh, thank you.
That's really kind.
And I wrote about it that night in my notes.
Hey!
Okay.
Let's talk notes out.
Okay.
Let's fucking talk notes out.
You want to fucking go?
Okay, you want to go?
You want to do this now?
I wrote, um, I wrote, uh, JZ's Grey album.
Okay, what's that?
I don't remember.
I think somebody said, it's a good album.
I don't even know if it is an album,
because I literally couldn't find it.
I've thought about the man on Twitter I wanted to tell you about it.
Oh, I didn't remind you.
I just said Jay Z's gray album.
But that's what helped me.
Right.
Oh, yes, of course.
Great.
Right.
It was.
And what inspired me to, um,
get my shit together vis-vis the Notes app.
Yes.
is that a woman wrote on Twitter just discovered my husband is using the notes app and it's just one long continuous note.
I remember this.
And I did speak about it.
Yeah.
That's my adult thing.
And I was on, I read that, it had like hundreds of thousands of comments and things.
And I was like, oh, right.
What?
And sorry.
And what's the problem?
And then they were like, this is hell.
How, what do you mean?
It's all one thing.
Because I was like, my notes app is one long continuous notes app.
And it's got everything in it.
Big thoughts I've had.
present ideas, the shopping list, diary entries, bits, recommendations.
And it all goes in one long note.
And then somebody's written, well, I can understand it.
He's, guess he's just using the search function.
And then the wife had said, I just asked him that.
And he said, what's the search function?
And I, too, had said, what's the, sorry, there's a search function.
Okay.
So then having read everyone's comments, yeah, very quietly, like a real voyeur being like,
sorry, what?
And what are you all doing?
Turns out everybody's got different notes for different things.
Yes.
And I've now, I've taken that all on board.
It's very hard to make, so I think it's really hard to maintain.
Oh.
Because you have to keep.
So like, I have got different notes for different things, but the most used ones,
they slip back into like just loads of crap again.
And it's like constantly.
And I have a real hatred of the phone notes up.
I'd like to know why.
I'd love to know why.
Because up until I was 30, well, two, I have, I used to have a notepad on the go that would basically be everything.
So when I was a journalist, it would be like all my work stuff and then alongside the comedy stuff or it would be like for shows or like sometimes it would just be like things to do.
I need to go to the shop and I need to remember all the things I'm going to do today or whatever.
And it's really nice.
Occasionally just like opening one and being like, that's where I was at then.
Like that's what I was doing.
You could have like see yourself much more clearly.
in those moments,
then I would if I was trying to, like,
you know,
what's the word,
create some sort of journal entry.
Sure.
And I've lost all of that
because my phone notes are here.
Yeah,
I can look back through them.
But when I don't need them,
I sort of delete stuff or like,
then you find,
then you realize that you kind of,
like,
when am I ever going to,
in the future,
if this phone breaks,
I'm just going to,
or if something goes wrong
or something like,
it's just not the same
as having like a lovely note pad
that you can like delve in to.
Well, if that's something that you're feeling,
them out into your notes.
No, no, God no.
That would be nightmarish.
Just return to the notebook.
I've tried to, but because of the way everything is, like, everything is just migrated.
Okay, so let's see what you're, what are you working with in there?
I've got Nobody Panic, which is lots of, that's based on your suggestion, which is lots of, when I think of an adult thing or I think of an episode suggestion.
Have we done any of them?
No, because I keep forgetting that I've got the notes.
But yes.
Then I've got things to do, which is basically like, suddenly it's like, oh, I'm.
oh, I'm going to shop, well, you know, you text me and then I, like, copy and paste it in there.
No, no, no.
What?
You know, like, if I'm going to the shop and, like, my partner will be like, oh, I'm going to WhatsApp, use some stuff.
And I'd be like, okay, fine.
And then, like, he doesn't.
So then he calls me and then I, like, copy and paste it in there.
Or, like, just, like, things to do, just anything.
Could be anything.
There's a list here of posters, posted copy ideas for the wedding.
There's, like, just some, like, when I'm trying to work out a math thing.
And then I'm like, I'll just put, like, it's just basically shit that I don't need to,
like do anything where that's just like my things to do note which is just like so the maths
entries are in things to do so there's not many a math entry like for example it just says like
350 but that was obviously when I was doing something I was like working something out and then I was like
I just need to remember that number so and I need somewhere to write it so you just write it there
and so it's not it's not a note that I would be like I've got to go back and um and look at these
things like it's just it's of the moment I need to write something down quickly it's the constant
page yeah otherwise I'd be like what'sapping myself things then I've got to go
got jokes for the show, which is out of control now. And actually now it's no longer called
jokes for the show because it's called the first title, the first line of the note. I don't know
how to name notes, which is an issue. So it's actually called the Caslet Chronicles, bracket,
romantic comedy, because someone recommended that as a book to me. The next thing says,
where's Ronald Reagan in hell? Which is a meme that I wanted to send my sister. Then you got
to scott on ages and then you get to the jokes. But the problem is, now I've gone,
Casillac Chronicles wears Ronan Wragan in hell.
That's my jokes note.
You're like, no, just organise it.
Like, just like keep going.
Oh, I've got to go back in and tidy it all the time.
This is what I'm saying.
Okay.
So I'm working with, um, this one's pinned.
Don't know how to unpin it.
And I'm happy to leave it there.
Right.
And we've got, I was going to say, pinning's really helpful, isn't it?
Like I've pinned the jokes one.
But you actually don't use the pinning.
You just accidentally pinned it.
I don't know.
I think similar to you, there's something quite fun about this one.
And I think why I leave it there is because it's so chaotic.
I don't know what it is and it's above a very particular time.
And I just think, yeah, that can stay.
Okay.
Okay, right.
Christmas.
Okay, great.
Do you also have headings like this?
Yes, so I've got sketch ideas, directors, job stuff for my book, Dream House Notes.
And then I've got another stuff for shows which should go in.
Dog stuff.
Yeah?
No.
This seems fine.
Okay, so changing the title, by the way, is just, you can just change
that and do you put them in dark balls up here?
Yes, I try and put them in bold up there.
And then you just can change that and then that becomes the title.
Yes.
So that's that first.
That's easy, but I've just, I've just let it slide.
Okay, we've just, sorry, just to pop back in.
There's been a little pause there from our producer who's explained that we're being
extremely visual on an audio medium.
Okay, well, we'll just say, have you got that, have I got, and you have, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, right.
So just to explain what we're looking at, maybe you've not even ever used the notes.
I think everybody's used it.
Okay.
Well, just in case anyone.
one is.
Understood.
Search notes.
Within the phone.
Tip one.
Search notes.
And it's yellow.
It's yellow at the top and it's got lines on it.
It's nice.
Okay.
Is that well explained?
Yeah, that was good.
Okay.
So then within that, it says all on my iPhone.
There's a search bar at the top.
And then you've got a whole lovely lines of them.
And then you can make a lovely bold title.
You can go in there and you can change the font.
You can change the style.
You can change the color.
You can make things bold.
You can make things bold.
you can be like, oh look, I'm a real professional gal about town.
Recommendations.
Now, this I've found incredibly helpful.
Okay.
And I have even added bullet points in here, books.
And then any time, because people were recommending things and they were just going into a very chaotic.
They go into everywhere.
Everywhere.
And then the amount of times, like, the zodiac would come up.
Yes.
I was like, yeah, okay, recommended.
It's just stop writing it down.
So books, TV, films, loads of films.
podcasts, theatre, not a huge amount in theatre.
Yeah, that's fine. One, play actually.
Cabaret. That little show that's...
That little show. No one's ever heard of, yeah.
Then restaurants, and then I suspect at the end things become slightly chaotic,
and I've obviously lost my way here.
This is what happens, yeah.
And I think I got tired of...
That's always what happens. You start off, the full gas and the more you scroll down,
the more it's just like...
Well, there is something to be said then for taking the time, like, on the bus or whatever,
where you've got a second, to be like, let's go in the bottom there, let's be tied it up,
I just don't want to delete anything because it's kind of sad.
You don't have to delete it.
You just have to move it to the right section.
Yeah, you're right.
We're not about throwing away or deleting.
We're simply about putting everything in its right place.
So that when we look at the notes, we aren't completely overwhelmed.
Now, a useful thing I've started doing is out and about.
Okay, what does that mean?
Just like things are like not urgent to do today, but if you are about,
you could get some of these tasks done.
You could go into three and discuss your contract.
Okay, well, there's a fantasy exhibition at the British Life.
library. That's fun. That sounds fun. But then the next day is there's a face gym in
selfridges. Look, it still's something you could do. There's the Hackney Community
Sawna. You could go to the bank for a new £50 note. Okay. And then shopping list,
and that is the groceries. Okay, very good. So then that I try and update. And then ideas, sorry,
the first thing on the ideas section, it says, is the owl still coming? I don't know what that's a
reference to.
And then here in September we've got a section called oil.
If I opened that, nothing else.
So you don't know what that is.
And then things become more and more chaotic, the lower down we go.
Yeah.
One note here just says, don't get sick.
So that's helpful.
That's useful.
And yeah, so then things really do collapse.
But I have genuinely found the categorizing of this, like, of five, the top five.
Those categories.
So incredibly.
helpful and to really be like, okay, this feels, because then I'd be given a recommendation.
Every time I opened that, my one long note, I'd be like, oh, God.
Yeah, how do we get anywhere?
And then equally like, any time I had my sort of, I'm out and about, there would be this
feeling of like, ah, there's something I meant to do in town.
Anybody know, I'd say, to the streets?
No one did.
But now I've got out and about.
Now I've got out and about.
Now you can go to the bank and get your 50-pound note and look at it.
category in SPO is great.
It will never not make me sad that these things aren't in like a notepad.
But in the past you used to have your notebook with you all the time.
I did, yeah.
So what changed?
Do you know, I think everything just started suddenly like it was just easier to use ICAL.
Because I kept missing things I didn't put them in the diary because I was like,
oh, well, I was in that moment I couldn't like get to my like bag in time or find a pen or whatever.
Are you in your feelings or are you solutions orientated?
I'm in my feelings.
But I also am happy to have some solutions.
No, I'm just going to respect.
I'm on the cusp.
Okay.
I read that that's a helpful thing to ask people if they're actually just like lament, if they're...
They just want to be like sad about it.
And then you're like, okay, I've got some ideas.
I don't really need ideas.
I just wanted to talk about my feelings.
No, I do like the ideas.
Okay.
But if the idea is just do it.
No, it wasn't.
It was a couple of ideas.
Oh yeah.
I've actually been in my phone at the top.
Yeah, I'm down.
Yeah, I'm done.
Yeah.
It was, um, what if the notebook's really small?
I was good.
Genuinely.
I'm not joking.
That's quite a bad idea.
Not a bad idea.
Not a bad idea.
And the second bit, what if the pen's attached?
Shit.
Because then it could just always be in your coat or in your bag or, you know, it could just always be there.
Because you do love paper and pen.
I'm popping that right into the notes that's called retreat links.
And the first thing says, mad hot fit 140 pounds.
What do you think that is?
I know.
What does retreat links mean?
I have no idea.
Why don't we start a new note called like ideas or something?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Or solutions-oriented.
Yeah.
Oh, delete that.
That's good.
Dog nose bar.
I won't put it in there either.
I forgot.
See, look, now I've forgotten what it was.
What do we try?
So we're calling it solutions, maybe.
Solutions maybe.
The maybe is just me talking.
Solutions is the title.
Calling it solutions, maybe.
Okay, fine.
I think paper and pen would help would be,
that is what you love and I think it feels really,
what I'm hearing is someone very sad
that they're not using their paper and pen anymore.
And it feels like this to you is not,
This is good for like business, the shopping list, stuff you need to get done, things to do admin.
But doesn't feel like it's the right place for you to put all your big joke ideas or your thoughts.
Big joke ideas.
Yeah.
You're right.
Some of them are, some of them be big.
Okay.
Great.
I realize that we've got sidetracked as to whether or not you should use.
Is it not?
No.
I think this is exactly it.
We're talking on the big issues.
Thank you.
Did I not say at the beginning this is going to be the most serious podcast we've ever done?
It's very true.
It's serious.
It's serious stuff.
It's from the heart.
Make smart folders.
Do you know how to do that in phone notes?
So if you had like multiple notes that were maybe out of a similar vein, you could like put them in an umbrella folder.
You can do tags on notes.
You know, it's your hashtags.
And then the tags appear.
So when you make a folder, you can make it a smart folder.
And that's where you select the tags that apply to it.
So when you tag a note, it'll direct to a smart folder designated with that tag.
It's too organized for me.
Yeah.
And I think you've got to listen to your heart.
Listen to your heart. Listen to the beat. Listen to the rhythm. The rhythm of the street. It's a small notebook.
That's great. What is that song? I know the lyrics. I'm Arthur. Thank you. I knew the lyrics but I didn't know the melody.
It is agony to me to not be able to sing. Agony. Okay. So I really think this does not have to be a thing that you use. I really mean that. Or I could separate it.
So things that are, yeah, like boring and categorizable things like things like things to do.
do list things like grocery lists, whatever, pop them in.
And then for other things that I very clearly categorized that they can be in notepads.
I just feel like, why does everything have to be searchable and have tags?
Exactly.
So that's the thing like, that's what you feel.
That's how I feel.
That's what you feel.
And also you feel a great sense of joy of looking back through old notebooks and
be like, oh, yeah, that.
And look where I was at and thing.
And for me, all I ever see is the words laundry written on every single page.
I always need to do my fucking laundry.
And so the notepads don't bring me that sense of joy to look back at the physical ones because I'm like...
Oil and then a blank page.
Oil and then a blank page.
And I'm like, what the fuck is that?
And so this has really, really helped me.
You can see oil with a blank page on the screen.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
It's helped loads.
No, but I can see it's helped because they, when Tesla was flashing me, her phone notes, they looked so organized.
And that's really, really been nice to like, oh, a little bullet point.
oh my head is in bold.
Checkable markers are the same as when you do bullet points.
If you do a list of groceries,
you can do checkable markers that's in the same place
as bullet point and then you can go through
and you can put a tick to say I've done my things.
Yes, it feels like that would be very helpful for you.
The dopamine hit will be overwhelming, you know?
Yeah, there we go.
It looks happening now.
How do I add in my checkable markers please, Stevie?
So you go to where you would normally put your bullet points in
and you should have options there.
And if not, you can't.
If not, you can't.
You click the little checkmark icon on your screen.
That's where the bullet points are.
Yeah.
So it is in the same place.
And then the notes up will create bubbles that you can check off as you finish a task.
Oh my God.
Is it incredible?
Yes.
So it can do loads of things.
And I'm enchanted by it.
And it's really helping me.
And you are very disheartened to the point of heartbreak.
Yeah, because I would say normally out of the two of us,
I quite relished the organ.
I like, I don't mind organisation so much and you have struggled with it or kind of reject it or don't really want.
Whereas look at what's happened. You've actually like created this phone note system of beauty.
Maybe the big tip is like if you're really struggling with phone notes, ask yourself why.
Why?
Is it because you can't be asked? In which case, start small.
If it makes you feel worse, back away.
Honestly, I have a full feeling that I'm going to not have any of them.
And then what happens is then I have so many notepads
that I start panicking about what I will do with them.
And it's simple, just burn them with my body when I die.
We've established this.
Whereas for me, what are you doing with mine?
Publishing them all.
Publish them all.
Yeah.
Laundry.
Laundry.
Laundry.
Laundry.
Laundry.
Chapter three.
Laundry.
How is this the way we're ending.
How to do your phone notes.
How often have we started a podcast and ended in a completely different place.
Yeah.
Because along the way, we discover this isn't what it was about at all.
About halfway through this episode,
I was like,
I'm getting emotional.
I have to pull back.
Right?
I don't care.
Important information, you can scan a document on your notes app, okay?
Oh, yeah.
We haven't really talked about that.
No, because we're too busy dealing with your small notebook and your tiny pen.
Yeah, okay.
You can scan a document.
That's wild.
You can lock a note with a password.
Oh, for your porn notes.
For your porn ideas.
Your porn ideas.
Yeah, or your fan fiction that you're writing.
That's exciting.
Yeah, right.
Hello.
I've got a friend who wrote a novel on her phone notes.
That's deranged to me.
But it worked.
because it meant that she didn't feel that whole like,
oh, the blank page, it was a dark and stormy night.
She was just like, I was on train to a job.
She was doing a acting job every night.
And on the train, she would just be like, okay, forget.
And then when she read back, she was like, oh, I was so free that it actually worked.
And then the other drafts went onto her laptop, of course.
But I suppose there's a whole world out there of phone notes.
You know, like don't feel constricted by what you can and can't do on there.
And at the same time, if the digital world appalls you, let it go.
Let it go.
Stevie, whereas I will only embrace and dive in further.
I hope so.
I will.
Enjoy.
Oh, boy.
Did we learn anything?
No.
I did actually learn loads.
I learned about myself and also that you can scan a document and you can't sing.
And I can't sing and that's big for me as well.
Great.
And I hope that people listening if they're not exploring and using their notes up to their fullest
or if you are like the man on Twitter with one giant note, that you're like, oh yeah, that
does cause me distress, my one giant note, I don't know what's in there.
Be like, oh, could I try recommendations?
Could I try out and about?
Could you?
Could you?
Could you?
Could that be something nice for me?
And what will you be burned with any time?
Okay, bye.
