Like @IvanPsy I’m keen to know as well. Never really opened Keynote or Pages.
Floating text blocks, floating images, and so on. The slide size is 16:9 and the Zoom level is usually “Fit Slide”. Usually I use only the “Blank” slide layout.
The font is always PragmataPro. Text size is usually 25 or 20 points, sometimes smaller.
I don’t use text styles. If I need to make a heading, I will create a text block with style “Body”, and then adjust its font size to 50pt manually, that is.
I try to make each slide a finished thing. That is, if I would write a book, each slide would fit an entire chapter, no matter how tiny the font size will be. (Well, probably not, but my aim here is to demonstrate the idea itself.) (The issue of using too tiny font size can be probably solved by using a home projector, though I don’t have one.)
As you may see, this approach is very opinionated. I switched to it several years ago because it helps me to think about the content instead of about appearance of a document.
Another way to describe what I think about this approach is to quote a guy named Artemy Lebedev, founder of Art. Lebedev Studio (in case it does matter, I strongly disagree with his political views) (translated from Russian, https://tema.livejournal.com/981141.html):
Maketicus (Макетный нож «Макетикус»). This is a very important project for me and for the studio. Because this is not just a design for fun and joy (like, say, Ароматус Тоире), but a real serious thing. It is based on many years of analysis of the ergonomics of surfaces and shapes. The reader has probably noticed that things created specifically “for the hand” or an incredibly anatomical chair seem comfortable for the first ten minutes. And then the hand starts to hurt, the back aches, but nothing can be done - the comfortable shape does not change. On the other hand, a parallelepiped mouse may seem uncomfortable at first, and a stump seems hard to sit on. But half an hour, a day, a month passes, and we do not get tired. Due to the fact that each time the body micro-adjusts the position, constant comfort is obtained. These are the considerations that form the basis. The handle is comfortable to hold in a million different ways, each time finding new comfortable ones. I am sure that this is a new limitless direction in design. And this is definitely not our last product using the above principles
And here is how I handle “todos”. All the software I tried for this is a waste of time. I use paper and cheap blue and red ballpoint pens. Each morning I write down the current date and day of the week, and the things I’m going to do today. Some of these things comes from the previous day. Each “todo” is marked using an empty circle. When it’s done, I fill its circle, and so it becomes “blue”. When “todo” is done only 25 %, 50, or 75, I may fill it accordingly or instread stroke it, but I do it very rarely. Some “todos”, e.g. “strategic” ones can be marked using squares instead of circles.
Wow, it’s been interesting coming back to this list a year later. It’s all the same except:
A longtime Safari fan, but I’m back to Arc. Although there are some annoyances, it’s fantastic for multiple tabs in long research sessions. I prefer how Arc handles multiple profiles too.
Speaking of research, for notes I’ve moved to Heptabase, which just keeps getting better and better. You could argue that it’s more of a tool for thinking; or, as they market it, a tool to “make sense of complex topics.” Cards, whiteboards, PDFs, highlights, linking it’s all thoughtfully designed.
I still use Apple Notes for personal and quick notes though.
If you are interested, the Decoder podcast has a recent interview with Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company. Note: It was recorded before Arc’s recent security issue.
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I haven’t listened to the episode yet (it might be mentioned here) but apparently The Browser Company is focused on Arc 2.0.
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