 In this video, we're going to have a look at workflows that can help you spooze the process of managing your studies. So workflows are often overlooked when people think about how to be more productive, but they are just as important as the tools for achieving the particular tasks. I would say even more so. And one of the best tips I was ever given when learning how to play the guitar was not to just learn the chords and the shapes of the chords, but learn the transitions between chords. So going from a G chord to a D chord is different than going from an A chord to a D chord. So you have to learn the different pivot fingers and different ways of arranging that process. And that actually is going to make your playing of music much smoother. And that's the same thing for work. So you don't want to waste a lot of time on getting from point A to point B. You want to make sure everything works smoothly together. And there are some examples of workflows that you may want to think about. How do you get readings to your iPad if you use an iPad for reading? How do you get the annotations from your notes into your note-taking apps? How do you convert your notes into a document that you're writing? How do you collate all the information that's coming in? And for example, one example of this, you can have a look in the Learning for Activity and Study Skills site on the referencing guidance. And I made a video of how I have a workflow for getting annotations into my reference manager. And what you're trying to do here is always rely less on memory. And remember, all I have to do is have I copied this? Have I put this in the right place? But use tools to automate the processes. I want to talk about a few tools that I use for automating some of these processes. We'll talk about password managers, clipboard managers, file synchronization, and workflow automation. We've mentioned some of these already, but I think this would be a nice summary. So here are some tools that I think exemplify these options. So last pass is a password manager tool. There's PushBlood that makes it easier to send files back and forth between devices. Bitto manages my clipboard. OneDrive syncs all the files. And there's if this and that. That's great for workflows, but there's also other tools for that. So last pass is a tool that allows me to essentially have just one password and store all my other passwords in it. It's free to use. It works. It synchronizes across all of my devices. And it fills in the passwords as I go through the website. I don't have to completely retype them. But most importantly, I can have secure passwords on all my accounts that I use. PushBlood is a really interesting tool. It lets me send anything between devices really quickly. So for example, I'm on a web page on my phone, and I want to read it later on on my computer. I use PushBlood to send it there. The same thing going the other way. If I'm reading something on the web, but I really want to sort of read it on my phone later on or on my tablet, I can send using PushBlood. And essentially, it lives as an extension in my browser. I clicked on the page. When I'm on a page, I want to send something somewhere. I click on that. And then here, it gives me an option of all my devices that I want to send this to. And then I can easily send this back and forth. Now, the tool that I think most people don't know about, but it could benefit greatly from, is a password, is a clipboard manager. And a clipboard manager essentially keeps track of everything that you've copied using Control-C or copy. And instead of replacing it when you next use copy, it just keeps track of it. And it keeps track of pictures. It keeps track of text. And you can just search the text very easily, simply bring it up, and you search the text and sort of remembers all the things that you've copied. But you can also organize these things into groups and have them for later. And many other things, for example, you can paste things as plain text. You can paste multiple clippings at the same time. You can invert case and so many other things. So that is a very useful tool. Again, I recommend that you look into one of the other clipboard manager, but the one that I use and recommend is called Ditto. In terms of workflows and having things flow from one part to the other, one of the best known is if this, then that, if this, then that. And essentially, this is the thing that lets you take an online service and connect it with another online service. And there are others such as Zapier flow, and I'll mention flow in a minute. But here's how I use if this, then that. And for example, I can use it with my Google Assistant. So if I say something, it's going to add a note or document. Or it's going to send my favorites from my reading app pocket to one note. Or for example, if I have a task created, it's going to send it. It's going to append it to a document in my Google Drive and so on and so forth. Here's another example of a workflow that I use outside of Clift. I use something called clippings.io. If I read a book on a Kindle and I make a highlight, it's actually quite hard to get the highlights out of that in a usable matter. So what I do, I use a service that's free called clippings. I import my highlights from my Kindle. And then I synchronize them with Evernote. And I just send them all into Evernote. And then I have them all in a nice manageable list of notes here in my Evernote. So that's another example of a workflow that you can use. And you can also integrate things with Evernote using if this and that. So clippings does it directly, but I can use if this and that for that. So for example, if I read something on InstaBapor, I highlight something and it's going to send it to Evernote. And again, then in Evernote, I'm going to list of all the things that I've highlighted. Now there is a tool that you can also use as part of Oxford University called Microsoft Flow. Or it's called Microsoft Power Automate. But you'll find it on flow.microsoft.com. And that allows you to automate various tasks using your Office 365 tools. So this is quite a more powerful tool than if this and that, but it also requires a bit more work and a bit more understanding. So I highly recommend you spend some time with that if you would like to connect things. For example, connect things that come with your email, how do you process forms, how even you're going to create approval flows and things like that. So that is something that you can use to improve your workflows as well. But that may perhaps require a bit more effort to get it all set up and working. So that's all about workflows. That's also all about the tools for your study productivity and best of luck in your studies.