Hello everyone and welcome back to another video, it is Francesco here
So in today's video what we're going to be doing is checking out an application a calendar application at that called Sunsama
now I know a couple of the people be mentioning in the Facebook group about it, and I thought it would be a
Convenient point just to grab a few moments to take a look at it
What I'll do in the description below is include all of the lovely time stamps, so you guys can go away
if you want to skip ahead to those and features, it's on some have then you can do so now the
real premise of this application so this application has been around since
2014
It previously was more of a meeting
Resource like an agenda tool than it was a calendar application
but now it sort of evolved into a team calendar application that tries to rival the likes of the
recent
sunrise application you can even see by the logo that
They've sort of taken that very similar inspiration in their recent rebrand so here
I'm signed in with my Google login
Which didn't take long and as you can see this is the sort of home panel you get met with?
We'll start with talking about the view options because I think that's quite important
you with some salmon, you don't really just get the
Calendar view you get calendars
Or tasks view or even calendar and tasks or tasks and calendar view so you have a multitude of options
So this is the calendar view the bomb and you also get a time frame option
So you can either choose between?
One day three day view which is actually quite a nice view because it's a bit more detailed in terms of
Seeing your next three days ahead week days and that's you can use all the shortcuts on side like five
So for example five like five now go over the week day view
Week view so that's four seven day view from Monday and month view a month you is pictured out like that so you can see
You can toggle through them obviously so that was February
and
Like that so it's quite a neat way to visualize all of your tasks so for example
Let's say you only go on weekday view just in this case imagine. Haven't got anything on this counter for this week
Let's move over to task views because task views are guests another important thing
Essentially tasks are associated by date
So for example if I wanted to add a task all have to do is hover over on the Bay View or the day
Area and as you can see what opens up is very similar to a sign of boards in some extent you can see that
I've got an icon that
Automatically detects that I'm gonna be doing the task
There is a one called move to backlog which we'll explain in a bit
And you can also add it to an additional channel as well, so that's a sort of addition to it
But I'll explain as I typed away a task, so let's say. I just need to take out
the rubbish somebody nice and simple
And as you can see once I've got off it you can see that I can click into the item
And the great thing with this set up the actual tasks is you actually have a clickable task off
so if you did want to complete it then you can do so
Up here, you can actually add it to a channel you can create a channel so that can be based around teams
so you can have a marketing channel a
You know sales channel etc. You could take notes down here comments are and even attach a file to the certain
Item so you can also add a due date as well, so you can all of course have a start date
Which is today, but you can also add a due date
so let's say at the end of the week all the activity log appears down here -
You've also gotta turn the ability to change and you can even just unassign it or assign it to another person
I'm pairing the right you can make it private or actually disable notifications
You can export tasks, or delete tasks and copy the link as well, so if you want to do send it to a teammate
Then you can do so there, and you just close that window. It's quite a nice little panel. I have to admit
I it's well designed
Let's let me just demonstrate what it looks like when you've got this one here
So you can create a channel and you can give it a purpose and you can add the slack integration as well
Which actually does a save at a time or the github repo integration which will allow you to?
Link all of that good stuff up, and you can give it a color too, so I'm gonna just gonna give it
For the purposes if one marketing, and I'm going to create it and you can see here
I can edit it or hide it and add any more additional ones here
But in this case as you can see I've created marketing so I've just given that a bit of an assignment which is quite nice
So if I hit that backlog one it moves to the bank log, which makes it unavailable with?
Essentially I think that means that it's gonna go in this side panel here where you can essentially
Bring it back for later, so if I wanted to drag it back onto a certain date
I could do just from there so it's almost like a pausing spot personally
Not used it back log before so it's quite new to me
But you can add additional tasks that backlog making it a lot easier now essentially
This is a Kanban view so you can drag it across dates
And you can even check the item off once you've done it
Not sure why you would do take out the rubbish from marketing, but it's an item
I put it there
So you can see up here that?
Because I've got it in that sort of three windows it brings up a hover view which is quite nice at just a small addition
The design itself is actually very very attractive and something that was quite notable when I started using
it so just look at so there is a tertiary view and a
quarter review for for you, but I'll just go under third view you can see actually the
tasks and the items and
The actual hystory history of the day so for example if I hand a certain item I can actually see okay
I completing that task it's 326 p.m.
and then I can click in and actually create a
Specific event here, so let me just go through what it is like creating an event so maybe I want to say
conference I
Can add it to the marketing channel or a great one from there?
I could give it a specific time, or I could just say it's all day, or you know even time zone, which is quite nice
Whether it's repeatable. You know all the regular stuff that you do on a channel and a location even at a room as well
So if your team have set rooms like five rooms that you name it number five you can add a description
That's not necessarily the agenda or move on to that and SEC invites use via email
And the actual organizer calendar - so you can actually plot up there now
There is settings you can add a reminder a 5-minute - to our reminder whatever anything in between which is great
And any blocking - so you can appear busy on that one
It depends on your calendar default settings now notes down at the bottom
You can start creating an agenda which is quite nice and so maybe for the conference. I'm gonna say
kick off the keynote
Take notes
During the third guest speaker
And you can see when I hear that I can add a timing to it, so let's say you want to enter 10 minutes
Or 20 minutes here, and it can even assign it to a sent us in this case. It's me
And you can actually see that now you're probably wondering
probably wondering
What is a playbook and play books are really simple?
We have to do is create a playbook you can even browse the play books they've got there
And you can even clear the agenda from here, but I would spend that in a second
But it's just something extremely useful when it comes to moving about the page now if I go to
That's very very odd. It's disappeared. That was probably because I didn't save it
If I save it
That's actually a feature that maybe they should take note of but maybe that was just me being a bit silly there
So once you've saved it obviously have the details there, and you can even add once it's up
It's a good excuse for me to go back in it once. It's up
You can add attending not attending canceled event you can either add the notes from there
You can add actionable items from there and comments - and you can even share it change the privacy and go into display mode
Which is quite cool so for example. Let's say you were in a meeting
Mode you can actually see the agenda view as you go through it
So you can pin that up on the board which is quite nice. I think and once you started off
There's a timer and they all move on to the focuses so if I had lots of different ones than I could
And I could even look at live event logistics
Just by snapping or way through there
So it you know you could even have the Wi-Fi pass or anything on that and even add comments with your team
So I guess that's quite a nice experience. I accidentally didn't that of course
But it's something that I think
Will be very trying to so you can see
Let me just go back to that calendar task for you
That you can start seeing a outline of the day just by there so that's a very
Nice new addition you've also got tasks and calendar view so you can see the tasks as a main set up
Versus actually in the layout and you can plot any calendar items here now
It's really simple to find all of the calendars that you have and even activate them. Just by tapping them which is quite nice
Which is very easy to do?
And if you wanted to you could hover over one change the edits
Settings on this one whether its primary current get the primary
Access and all the color options and things like that so I guess to some extent. This is very similar to sunrise
- the integrations with the ability to do tasks and can banning to some extent
So this is quite a nice view you've got up here
Just a little zap which gives you all of the new features, but apart from that this is
very much available for
Those who want to use it individually or team members it really is up to you, but I guess it's sort of like get plan
Combined with the likes of sunrise so guys. I hope that you found this review
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