productive the applications have been vastly growing in price and as you can imagine costs
have increased but also the range of opportunity in the market today we're going to be looking
at an application that's going to cost 400 bucks per year versus an application that costs just 27
these are similar in experience and we're going to explore the core differences between them
as well as teach you some of the most valuable lessons about how to pick the best one for you
so welcome back folks it is Francesco here and we are going to be diving into one of the most
interesting Topics in productivity is pricing and we're going to be looking at two vastly different
priced applications but similar in nature to some extent so welcome back and let's roll into today's
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keep you updated with productivity software so it's my first video back uh on from paternity
well I'm still on paternity so if I look a little bit rough take that into a consideration so let's
dive into these two applications now we've picked two applications that are fairly similar in nature
task management application in the likes of motion yes motion not notion and the other one being tick
tick which has been a long-standing to-do list application which rivaled the likes of todoist
and they are vastly different in pricing thirty four dollars if you were to go with the monthly
price information for an individual account which equates you well over well not well over just over
400 bucks per year if you're going without pricing and looking at for example TickTick which has a
two pound fifty at least in the UK pricing per month which is a little lower than 27 pound for
the whole year which is fairly oppressive so I Want to Break these down in terms of three
key areas features build quality and speed and finalizing it with value and I think hopefully
at least you'll get some takeaways from looking at both of these applications into bit more detail
and exploring um the the core differences but also some of the lessons that you might be able
to apply to picking your next application so if you look at motion first off motion is incredibly
well designed and produced and formally it was not available on desktop or mobile but it actually
had released that recently but the application itself when you look at it it looks more like
a fully fledged application to the extent where you're going okay this isn't just designed for
somebody at home that's making grocery lists this is an application that has projects it
has kanban it has advanced task management calendar AI in there and also a booking and
scheduling function so the application itself it actually presents itself as a really clean
looking experience and brings together all of these features that are going to be used by prob
probably working professionals and those who are quite time intensive who are in a lot of meetings
or potentially need to look at high level urgency items and need that almost stability with AI to be
able to organize stuff around now if you can pair that selective tick tick now tiktik in its nature
is a lightweight todoist application but it does have some great functionality for example being
able to organize your inbox next seven days today and using lists as well in the premium
which is priced at the what we offered what we mentioned at 27 that is actually inclusive of
something called calendar view which allows you to see it in month week and day view allowing you to
plan and block much like you would in motion it also has some other additional functions like a
habit tracker in it and a really good mobile and desktop applications that have been in the wild
for some time now so in nature these applications are fairly similar but in features you can see
that motion goes incredibly much more in depth when you look at the strength of the features
for example being able to plan a project and add lots of tasks and add lots of context to tasks
is incredibly different to what you get in tiktik also the ability to arrange stuff in the calendar
is vastly different as well because it utilizes artificial intelligence to reorganize sessions for
you now this isn't necessarily beating on tiktik they do offer some fantastic experience when it
comes to General functionality and having a habit tracker in there is also a bonus so you don't get
inside of motion and they've also made this almost very much a personal application in nature so you
can't begin to share it with other people so when you're looking at features of productivity
applications one of the lessons that I want to introduce you to the lesson one is needs evaluate
your needs before researching your productivity application it's really important to get like a
a core list of things that really matter to you whether that's five or seven features that really
just are no-brainers that your application needs before you do the research for example booking
scheduling if you were to look at tiktik maybe it ticked all of the boxes for all the other stuff
but when it comes to that motion is probably going to offer that for you or another application in
that similar space so making sure you really evaluate the needs that you have and another
really popular tip that I always recommend is when you're writing out your needs list
is actually going what hasn't worked in the past like for example if I've used Trello why didn't
I like Trello why didn't I get on with Trello and really establishing some of the lessons from that
so that you can apply it to Future choices and research that you do the next thing about these
applications is build quality and speed now to be honest tiktik is really well designed it's very
easy to use and it actually comes with a sense of cleanness the design is really well and its
speed is good but when you compare the speed of a 400 application it's definitely a lot different I
find that motion and applications like for example Vim cow acouflage low to be considerably faster
than those that have been developed with a lower price in mind and I think that's probably because
there's a lot more focus on in a normal budget to be able to spend on faster platforming underneath
and things like that but it's something to consider when you're using these every single
day now to be honest at the common eye you won't probably notice a huge amount of difference in
speed between tick tick and motion but at the same time it's something to note when it comes
to utilizing the application a lot of people have found that applications like Evernote have
recently been stability and I've always had some stability issues so it's really important lesson
number two is to look at the speed quality and bring that together and really try and establish
good knowledge about it and you can do that through Reading user reviews but you can also
do that through testing out the application in the free trial and really try and throw
up a lot of issues at it like for example open up a load of tabs open up a load of applications and
see what the speed is like once you're doing that but you can definitely see in a 400 productivity
application compared to 27 the speed is a lot faster in terms of the build Quality Function so
finally is a sort of combination between the both its features combined with build quality and speed
and they really establish to establish something called value the value of each application is
sort of like an equation to some extent it's features uh divided by build quality at us and
sorry features plus build quality divided by price and that will probably give you the value of the
item I failed maths in school and at University so at the same time um I'm just making this equation
up but it will give you an understanding of okay if the features are good and the build quality
is good and if I divide that by Price what is the output for this so for example with something like
motion yes you do have some pretty decent features and the build quality is good but divide it by the
price and I think you get a lower score in terms of value than you do with something like tick
tick I think the value of tick tick in a package and pricing is actually considerably better than
something like motion but of course that's really differentiated between the person who's using it
for example if you considerably get on well with motion and it's in your budget that is going to be
good for you because then the value doesn't really matter as much but that's just something to note
budget is something that people always ignore with productivity applications and it's really
important because you need to know where you spend your money I think it's Ramy Sethi who does a a
book about how to teach yourself to be rich the one of the lessons from it skimming through all
of that is the importance of of picking the things you want to spend your money on for example I love
going to the coffee shop and I don't mind spending money towards it but for example um I don't know
buying uh really really expensive clothing is not something that's really valuable to me so I
don't spend a lot of money on that so it's really important to be able to establish what you like in
your system mode how that relates to productivity is very simply I've got my to do this app I've got
my notes taken out calendar app and you look at them you go how am I going to wait my monetary
input to them maybe you're not paying for all of them maybe you are but it's really important okay
I'm going to spend 60 of my money in that budget on a to do this application and 10 10 on the other
ones that doesn't account to a hundred twenty twenty but you get the idea you're um picking
the ones that work best for you it's going to be different for everyone and budget is really
important when picking a productivity application so what have we learned today well we've learned a
lot of different things let's summarize it really quickly now it's important to look at needs before
you do your research the second thing is to make sure that you look at the build quality and really
be able to establish the value that that has in mind and also take a look at the budget before
you jump in with the productivity application these are all really fundamental things and can
help you pick the best productivity apps so that was fun I hope you enjoyed today's video again
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