Welcome to State of the Workflow. In this special series, we're going to take a look at the apps and the devices that a variety of creative professionals use to get their work done to manage their lives and develop their creativity. I've always been fascinated in hearing how creative people get their work done and how they think about it. I find listening to somebody's method to be both equally interesting and inspiring.

In general, I find that creative people can be humble. They think that what they're doing isn't

unique. But when you get them to open up about how they think about their work and what they do,

you hear little insights and rules that they make for themselves that make them excel and stand

out. And there are sometimes things that you can pick and add to your own work or to your own interests. For our first episode in

this series, I invited Austin Evans to the show. Austin has been making tech-focused YouTube

videos for over 15 years and has amassed over 1.5 billion views.

Over the last five years, I've been lucky enough to spend a bit of time of Austin and Eddie

Studio Space in LA. One of the things I find so fascinating about watching him create is I've

never seen someone who can so easily switch on and off. He goes from chit-chatting to me

and drinking a coffee to present him directly

right into the camera in just a split second. Also over this time, I've been fascinated to see him

grow his team and hear him talk to me about the way in which they all work together, and I've

actually seen some of it too, to produce fun and engaging content that pleases both them

as creative people, but also the

algorithm. Whenever I visit Austin, I leave feeling invigorated about my own creative work. He has a

fascinating mind for creating engaging content and he approaches everything with professionalism

and authenticity. So I thought he would be the perfect person to kick off state of the

workflow. Austin, I want to get started by asking, what device is most important to you? Like a single

device in my entire life? Yep. It's got to be phone, right? I mean, I think it's got to be phone for

everybody. I could name a bunch of devices that I need and rely on every day. But if I had to pick a single one, it's got to be phone. Okay. Which? I'm a dual phone boy. So I do my best to split up pretty evenly, or at least as evenly as I can, between iOS and Android. I think that there are

pros and cons to both. If I had to go to one, I mean, I guess it would probably grab the iPhone

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