Pack everything like if you were about to move to a new house. The idea is to pack your house entirely in boxes. That’s why I decided to set up my iPad Pro completely from scratch, similarly to the “Packing Party” concept described by The Minimalists. This new version of iOS brings lots of new iPad-specific features and changes, so my habits will be different anyway…
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Especially that with this new iPad I chose to install the pre-release version of iOS11. Wouldn’t it be great to take this time and once a year review all my apps, workflows, processes and habits? Now it’s July 2017 and I’m setting up a 10.5” iPad Pro. With iPads I was busier as I tested all of the available iPad Pros: last time I set up my 9.7” iPad Pro was September 2016 and my 12.9” iPad Pro in November 2015. Last time I set up my iPhone 7 Plus, was November 2016. It’s not like I’m changing my iPhone and iPad every month. Old habits and old crap - shouldn’t a new machine be a motivation to start again? To review my old habits? To decide which apps I really need and which I keep there just in case? It restores everything from my old device, including the crap that I kept there and wasn’t ever going to use anymore… basically, it comes with my apps, settings, data… and crap. You see, this two step process is a quick win, but comes with major drawback: I can almost instantly continue working the same way I used to.
The result is that after a short while my new device has the same apps, settings and data as my old one had. I boot up the new device and restore it from the old backup.I backup the old device and shut it down.Whenever I set up a new device - iPhone, iPad or a Mac - to maximize my productivity and reduce the pain of not having everything set up correctly, I do two things:
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