 thank you to Lenovo for sponsoring this video. What's up everybody as you can tell I no longer look like a caveman anymore. I got a haircut and I feel 10 pounds lighter and it's just way too hot to maintain all that hair and I even shaved my beard down a little bit. Just also want to look a little bit more presentable on camera. Also remember when I told you all that my dunks were too small and I sold them to the local sneaker store I used that money to get the undefeated airmax 97s and these are too clean perfect for the summer really comfortable and then I got the Travis Scott shorts. What is good everybody jossie here and in today's video I'm going to be talking about the best applications for windows 10 in 2021. Be sure to give this video a thumbs up it helps out with the algorithm a lot subscribe to the channel for more content like this also give me a follow on instagram because I make more like micro style content on there and as my instagram grows I'll continue to make more and more content on there. Before we continue this video I want to take a moment to talk about the Lenovo 7i 14 inch 2-in-1 laptop that Lenovo sent me a few months ago. If you find yourself always on the go or you're a student this laptop will be perfect for you. The specs on the Lenovo yoga 7i 14 inch 2-in-1 that I've been using the past few months now is powered with an 11th gen core i7 evo platform processor and it's also equipped with a full hd display with a resolution of 1920 by 1080. Of course I would prefer a 4k display but I will say the screen is pretty vibrant kind of more importantly the colors are very accurate that's one thing I notice and really like about this laptop and also another reason why I gravitate to it so much so if you do pair this laptop with a animated wallpaper from wallpaper engine it'll make your setup look really cool. The yoga 7i 14 inch also has 512 gigabytes of storage 12 gigabytes of RAM which is something that's pretty underrated and on top of that it has the iris xc graphics and 13 hour battery life and from a real-world perspective the battery life does last pretty long so I would say 13 hours is pretty accurate. This laptop is really lightweight and that is something you're going to appreciate if you travel and want to make sure that your luggage is very lightweight and minimal and then of course if you're a student and you live on a large campus like I did where one class can be 20 minutes away from another or 30 minutes and on top of that heels are involved in that commute you're going to appreciate having a laptop that can reduce the amount of size and weight of your book bag. The first application that I want to talk about is Notion. Notion has been my favorite I say app probably that I've used in 2021 and the reason why it's my favorite productivity app is for the simple reason that I can store everything from my software development tasks and things that I want to learn and organizing all that information along with keeping track of my youtube content creation and using a can band board to move tasks around from you know something that needs to be worked on to do specifically to doing and then to done. Shout out to David Zhang for bringing wallpaper engine to my attention. This application has been really fun to use. A lot of you all asked me where I get my wallpapers from in my previous test setup video and it was from wallpaper engine. For those of you all who aren't familiar with wallpaper engine it's actually an application you get off of steam which was confusing at first because I thought you only buy games from steam but clearly I was wrong. Wallpaper engine offers animated wallpapers which is really a game changer for any desk setup or laptop. Something about having a landscape or abstract wallpaper for your windows computer really sets the mood and creates an inspiring environment and setup. You can find wallpapers based on a category you prefer. I'm always looking for landscape or abstract animated wallpapers because for one they look incredible on ultra wide monitors and vibrant screens like the Lenovo yoga that I've been using the past few weeks. Focus Journal is an advanced pomodoro timer app. Now y'all know I love me some pomodoro timers to help me stay focused, organized with my approach to being more effective and productive. I already have been using a pomodoro timer app on my phone for a few months now so I figure why not try a desktop version to minimize the amount of devices I need to use when trying to stay focused. Focus Journal also is much more powerful than the mobile pomodoro timer app I've been using. It has a very simple UI. When you turn on the timer and keep focus to the end of the pomodoro timer you get rewarded with a nice red pomodoro and in other cases when you get distracted or stop focusing early you get a green pomodoro. The main point of this app is to be able to track when you're focused from when you're distracted and creating different pomodoro timer contexts like maybe programming and reading to track which context you find yourself being more or less distracted. Basically you get a digestible context of your productivity that will boost your productivity over time if you take time to analyze where you're going wrong. The next app that I want to talk about is Visual Studio Code. VSCode is my go-to app for software development especially web development. For one the UI is very easy to navigate and I can do everything from pulling down my code through git committing and pushing changes and there's a built-in terminal that I use all the time to install any dependencies that I need like node and pm react and the list goes on and of course just developing through Visual Studio Code is a great experience. One other thing I like about VSCode is the high keys that it has like commenting a block of code using command KC command KU for uncommenting that same block command shift up arrow to copy the current line to the next line and the array of helpful extensions that allow me to develop a lot faster and painless. The next application is the Microsoft to-do app now I know I mentioned notion earlier as like my project manager kind of to-do list main application but when it comes to creating tasks that maybe are smaller or maybe at a higher level and I want to keep track of my progress or just have them somewhere that I can see consistently so I don't forget Microsoft to-do app is perfect for that pairing notion with with Microsoft to-do is an excellent way to keep track of my to-do list items along with you know organizing the project itself. Interestingly Microsoft Edge has been like my go-to browser the past six months I don't have like a specific like reason why that is or to pinpoint why on earth I chose Edge as my go-to browser opposed to like Chrome or Firefox and don't even give me started on internet explore. I think maybe one of the main reasons is because of the collections I never really found myself using bookmarks I don't know why I can't really say that they're unintuitive I'd say the process of creating a bookmark is pretty unintuitive but I like the idea of collections like you can have different categories and you can store as many web pages for that specific category as you want once I saw that I was like okay this is my go-to I think it was back when we started doing wedding planning so that's actually like a year of using Edge and that's when I started you know building out collections so I can keep track of all this stuff that we need for our wedding. I know my wife is watching this video talking about wedding stuff really Jossie come on you didn't do anything. 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