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hey guys it's Branham in am in front pocket now Android has the most powerful notification system of any platform and there are certain things you can do to get more out of the notification system certain tips and tricks that I use to be more productive and to remember to do certain things so in this video I wanted to talk about some tips and tricks on being productive and reminding yourself to do things using androids notification system so let's get to it okay so the first step I want to talk about is called node in and I actually put that in my debt to put it in my dock down here and no didn't just lets you put things into your notification shade whether it's a phone number or a sentence or a word or really anything don't forget to take the trash out and when you press + you just get a new item in your notification shade right there it's super simple and the cool thing about Nodin is that if you have a blackberry phone with a remappable hardware button or an HTC phone with a remappable squeeze gesture imagine linking node in to one of those functions so that wherever you are in the operating system you can very quickly add numbers or whatever you want to your notification shade and just have them have it there waiting for you for whenever you need it so a really powerful app called node in I'll put a link in the description so you can download it and try it out for yourself the second thing I want to talk about is unique to Android Oreo and later devices and I think it's something that a lot of people forgot about which is notification snoozing so for example notification snoozing lets you remove notifications from your tray that you might not need to action on right now but you want to remember about later so for example let's say I want to remember this notification you slide slowly to the right or left and you click on the clock and then you change the snooze interval to change it to two hours that way it's gone from my notification shade but two hours from now it will come back so super duper helpful another thing that I do to remember things is by using Google's inbox email app so this really this tip really only applies to people using inbox now inbox lets you treat your emails as tasks by letting you swipe them away when you're done with them or snooze them for later and alongside your tasks you can also have reminders and actually there's a reminders widget that comes along with inbox and I'll show you a really cool use for it so I'm just gonna go over here to widgets gonna scroll down to inbox reminder just pop it on my home screen and then from here don't forget to call the accountant you can save reminders that will appear right next to your email list so you're not going to forget to do them one thing that I like to do and I actually already have it set up is if you're using Action launcher or Nova Launcher or or another third-party launcher that lets you put widgets inside of folders down here this might look like just a link to inbox which it is if I tap it once but if I swipe up it contains the reminder widget that I brought over from the home screen so that way kind of all-in-one here I've got a shortcut to inbox to check my email or a shortcut to add a reminder if I want to so a really cool way just to keep track of things on your phone especially if you're using inbox the last thing I want to talk about which is not specific to a particular app is geo fencing and geo fencing has been around for a very long time in Android but it's gotten better and better over the years because it uses a combination of Wi-Fi GPS and cell phone triangulation to determine your location at all times in a low-power state so that you can tell your phone to remind you to do something when you get to a certain location so for example remind me to pick up coffee when I get to work yes so boom geofence created now when I get to work within seconds really I will get a notification that tells me to get the coffee or whatever now the way that you set this up is actually through Google Maps and you go into Google Maps you click on the hamburger menu and you click my places and then you could go ahead and specify all the places that you go to and their address so you can put in grandma's address there your favorite bar and restaurant of course you want to put your home address and your work address because those are the places that you probably spend the most time at and that way you can use Google assistant to say remind me to compliment grandma's haircut when I get to Grandma's house so those those work a look at of a few ways that I use notifications and Android to the fullest potential Android notifications have come such a long way in the past years you can now triage almost all of your communication from your notification shade with a combination of quick replies swiping snoozing notifications adding notifications with Nodin and so on and so forth so I really hope you got something out of this video 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