Speaker 1: You're about to listen to My Favorite Tip episode, where
Speaker 1: I select one of my favorite tips that I've heard
Speaker 1: on this show. But I want to know what your
Speaker 1: favorite tip has been that you've heard on How I Work,
Speaker 1: because I'm putting together a short series of listeners favorite
Speaker 1: tips that i'll be releasing next month.
Speaker 2: To submit a tip.
Speaker 1: Email me a voice memo or a note to Amantha
Speaker 1: at inventium dot com dot au. That's Amantha at inventium
Speaker 1: dot com dot au and you can get my email
Speaker 1: from the show notes. You might even want to mention
Speaker 1: how you've applied the tip in your own life. Most
Speaker 1: guests on How I Work will tell you to turn
Speaker 1: off your phone if you want to get work done.
Speaker 1: They'll probably tell you to leave it out of the
Speaker 1: bedroom when it's time to sleep, and to keep it
Speaker 1: out of reach when you're meant to be spending quality
Speaker 1: time with friends and family.
Speaker 2: It's easy to forget sometimes just how.
Speaker 1: Useful, though, that little super computer in your pocket can be,
Speaker 1: and that applies to life admin too. Life Admin Hacks
Speaker 1: authors Miya Northrop and Dinah Roe Roberts put me onto
Speaker 1: the untapped power of Siri, Apple's personal assistant and I've
Speaker 1: never looked back. If you've never used Siri for anything
Speaker 1: other than a Google search while your hands are full,
Speaker 1: you are missing out on an on demand, high powered
Speaker 1: digital assistant, from reminders to calendar updates.
Speaker 2: Maya and Dinah.
Speaker 1: Share with me how do use Siri to supercharge your life?
Speaker 2: Admin. My name is doctor amanthe Immer.
Speaker 1: I'm an organizational psychologist and the founder of behavioral science
Speaker 1: consultancy Inventium. And this is how I work a show
Speaker 1: about how to help you do your best work. On
Speaker 1: today's my Favorite Tip episode, will you go back to
Speaker 1: an interview from the past and I pick out my
Speaker 1: favorite tip from the interview. In today's show, I speak
Speaker 1: with Mia and Dinah and I wanted to know for
Speaker 1: Mea in particular how she uses Siri.
Speaker 3: So probably mostly to add things to my to do lists.
Speaker 3: Either I'm in the car and that's where things occur
Speaker 3: to me. I might hear something on the podcast or
Speaker 3: on the radio, or something will just pop in my
Speaker 3: mind and I'll pause whatever I'm listening to and say, hey, Siri,
Speaker 3: and you know, at a reminder, she's probably he's probably
Speaker 3: gonna wake up now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, My Siri is a man. I love the fact
Speaker 4: that you can customize the voices.
Speaker 3: So that's probably the main way I Siri in terms
Speaker 3: of life, Adamin, I think the reminders app on the
Speaker 3: iPhone has some very powerful functionality in terms of the
Speaker 3: toad's where you can be reminded on location, So if
Speaker 3: you're arriving somewhere or you're leaving from somewhere, it can
Speaker 3: trigger the reminder.
Speaker 4: It can trigger a reminder if you're talking to someone,
Speaker 4: particularly if you're messaging with someone. So if you link
Speaker 4: that with a contact, it'll remind you, Oh, I don't
Speaker 4: forget you're going to talk to so and so about XYZ.
Speaker 4: There's some powerful things in there around tagging and flagging.
Speaker 2: So Mia, how do you link reminders to contact specifically?
Speaker 4: So if you go into the reminders app and you
Speaker 4: click into the sort of information when there's a little
Speaker 4: icon there that says when messaging, and then you can
Speaker 4: choose a person, so you can choose, you know, for
Speaker 4: chatting with someone, the reminder will pop up, which is
Speaker 4: great when I'm talking to my mum because there's always something.
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to ask her and I always forget.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's pretty could use things.
Speaker 1: Like that wow, okay, And you can also schedule it
Speaker 1: when you're arriving somewhere.
Speaker 2: Because I was on a walk with a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Yesterday and I did the Siri trick where we were
Speaker 1: walking and I said, remind me to send my friend
Speaker 1: Steph this particular information, and I I said a time
Speaker 1: when I knew I'd be home, But I could have
Speaker 1: said when I arrive home.
Speaker 2: Is that how you Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you can set a location so you can be
Speaker 3: arriving and you know it has your home or your
Speaker 3: work as placeholders in there or getting in the car
Speaker 3: or getting out of the car, so it knows when
Speaker 3: you're getting in the car.
Speaker 4: So you can have it when you're arriving, or you
Speaker 4: can have it when you're leaving.
Speaker 2: Hang on, it knows when I'm getting in my car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the getting in and getting out of the
Speaker 3: car option. And I guess it's it's it's I don't
Speaker 3: know how it works. Is it to do with Apple
Speaker 3: car plays or it knows when you've got into the
Speaker 3: car play and then you turn car play off.
Speaker 4: I'm assuing that's how it works. Otherwise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh this is great. This is improving my
Speaker 2: serious skills. I'm loving it.
Speaker 5: But I think, Amantha, what it really brings home for
Speaker 5: me is that we have these really powerful apps on
Speaker 5: our phones, on these you know, reasonably expensive devices, you
Speaker 5: know when you consider people's household, but so few people
Speaker 5: take the time to spend five ten minutes reading up
Speaker 5: on the capability of these apps. And you can invest
Speaker 5: five or ten minutes and it can save you hundreds
Speaker 5: of hours down the track by just investing that a
Speaker 5: little bit of time in getting your ability that bit
Speaker 5: higher in those apps that you're going to use every day.
Speaker 1: After having this chat with Mea and Dieta, I felt
Speaker 1: very inspired to spend more time getting to know the
Speaker 1: technology that I use regularly. And even when I was
Speaker 1: recording this my Favorite Tip episode today, I.
Speaker 2: Thought to myself, I really need to get.
Speaker 1: To know Google Nest better, and so tonight I'm going
Speaker 1: to spend ten minutes to get more out of the
Speaker 1: features that Google Nest offers me, which I think is
Speaker 1: quite a lot. If you're looking for more tips to
Speaker 1: improve the way that you work. I write a short
Speaker 1: fortnightly newsletter that contains three core things that I've discovered
Speaker 1: that helped me work better, ranging from software and gadgets
Speaker 1: that I'm loving through to interesting research findings. You can
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Speaker 1: you to Matt Nimba who does the audio mix for
Speaker 1: every episode and makes everything sound so much better than
Speaker 1: it would have otherwise.
Speaker 2: See you next time.