If you’ve been following my blog, you would know by now that I run at least 5 KM run every day. You can follow my running journey. It’s been over 3 years since I’ve been doing this and during my runs, I’ve been listening to Podcasts and audiobooks.
During these runs, I do tend to think of ways to improve my productivity and this includes optimising my time to learn more. So in this post, I’m going to share with you a productivity tool I’ve been using and loving it. It’s called StoryShots and it’s basically a book summary that gives you the important points from the book. It’s a mobile app you install and from the app, you can listen, read and even watch the summaries. Yes, it’s similar to Blinkist but it’s a lot cheaper.
You can read the difference between the two in this article: Blinkist vs StoryShots: Which Quick-Read App Wins the Showdown?
There are many StoryShots summaries available in the app and so far here are some I’ve already listened to or planning to listen to. For some books, there are also short podcasts you can also listen to.
- Millionaire Success Habits
- The Millionaire Next Door
- Extreme Ownership
- The Mamba Mentality
- The 48 Laws of Power
- The 5 AM Club
- The Almanack of Navl Ravikant
- Surrounded by Idiots
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- How to Get Rich
- The Laws of Human Nature
- Ikigai
- Pitch Anything
- Do The Work
- Getting Thing Done
- Think Like Monk
- 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Can’t Hurt Me
- The Alchemist
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Crushing it!
- Sell Like Crazy
- Building a Second Brain
- Words That Change Minds
Another hack I use within the app is to increase the speed of the audio to 1.15x and this saves a few minutes.
This is the speed that I find most comfortable with and the voice doesn’t sound like a chipmunk. Here’s a video review of StoryShots which includes some of the features in StoryShots:
Let me know which book you liked the most and if you like this productivity tool at all.
