hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is francesco here and today's video
i'm diving into an app called catalog which is a team productivity tool that is interesting and
the main reason behind it is because what it does is it's moving back into a world
of sort of dashboard based productivity for teams versus build your own setups and i'm interested
in this application for a multitude of reasons however i'm here to give you a bit of a first
impressions feature on it i've actually just sort of set up an account sort of been playing around
with it for the last 20 minutes and i wanted to give you information like availability pricing
and a bit more about the product and what it does so as you can see it's called catalogue
now i actually was pronouncing it quite a lot i don't know why but basically the main first time
i actually saw it is again because it won product hunt of the day but what it does differently
is it brings sort of your layout together by organizing your projects your goals your workflows
and it makes everything searchable um in terms of bringing it all together so think more like a hub
for your team versus a build-your-own layout and i'm going to give you a sort of overview of how
it works let's start with pricing though so there is three types of pricing starter plan gives you
free forever up to 10 people you can pretty much go at it with integrations all features
sign in with google microsoft but it says that there's no from what i'm aware of there's no um
limits to storage but obviously you're searching through other applications the only limit is
your five integrations if you want to see the integrations there's only a few at the moment
there's only like sort of the sort of regulars like slack teams and you can see which ones are
available in the different sections so it's not like boundless amounts of integrations but it's
a good start and then the pro is nine dollars per user per month unlimited people so um obviously
it depends on how many other people you've got above 10 people um so if you've got 10 say 20
people using it that want unlimited access to the 15 integrations then it's going to cost you 90
i think by maths isn't very good enterprise you've also got sso and also custom features
custom branding but there's still early days this application let's have a little dip inside
of what it looks like so when you're when you enter the catalog you can essentially start
giving yourself like a home page much like you would on like an apple homepage you can uh go down
here sort of edit them like a icon you can add new ones you can add shortcuts to existing services
catalog which is already in your sort of projects and goals and things like that i've connected
google calendar and google drive but you can also connect dropbox asana jira trello and clubhouse
which are other applications and you can also add the card down here by pressing that but
you can see here that i've added the tools academy but you can see here that if i i
have to have that set up so that it uh be able to move it across um but what's really nice is that
it's just quite clean quite clean and simple and i can see the project here calendar here link
here and link to drive so you can search stuff straight away if i wanted to find an interview
i did with chris could find it easily inside of this and the search was fairly fast when i was
using it but obviously if you add more across different services the integrations obviously
make it easier to be able to access that information um so that's quite nice and
that's probably where this all uf usp i know other cloud services can do this sort of thing but it's
very nice having it alongside your projects now let's talk about projects because this is
a different approach on projects it's not like micro managing project it's more like creating
a project so i created one called bento let's see let's go and edit this project so you can see here
that i can add sort of all the regular stuff like um you know the members the integrations i have
connected can connect it to like slack and things like that so that any updates come through here i
can see recent activity and i can also add key resources that people might want so for example
upload specific files that people need access to here what i can do is i can change the progress of
the project so i can change it to like at risk uh on track and things like that but i can also add
milestones so for example let's say a milestone would be add beta let's add a few more um i could
say launch week um let's say it's this week here go ahead and press save you can see here that the
key dates appear below now i can actually go ahead and start posting updates with other people here i
can see the resources that are currently available and i can see goals so i can create goals
for my organization my team or personal so if i was like okay for personal i need 50 users
for the beta and i can choose a metric in which uh it's actually targeted so in this case
i need initial value the target value is actually 50 and i've only got five people on board so far
and i've got a due date of end of q3 you should be able to add yeah you could be able to add a
specific date so in this case i might add the okay start date and as i said i was trying to release
it by a certain day so i can go next i can do a check-in reminder if i wanted to i can add other
the key metrics so how will this be measurable so if you had multitude of them like i need to hit 90
happiness rate on beta users under 50 beta users so i need i need uh 45 of them to be
happy and two of them are happy so far and that's a number so there we go so if i go next um i can
add collaborators and i can go ahead and press create so we can start to see a bit of a like a
road map of key results that i need to target so for example if i like okay next week i've
got like all right yeah we're up to seven i can add some comments like oh brilliant
i found three more i think three more anyway um and you can start to see that whether you're on
track and things like that so you can see here that you can actually give an update
on the project and how it all sort of relates to the project in total so that's a goal uh you
can pin that so if i go back to the home page you can see my goal and how far it is into it
so that's quite cool i like that the only thing i struggle to really understand a bit more of
is like how does it really relate like a project i i guess you've got goals here and what they're
on track and threads and conversations that you're having but there's not really any way to sort of
micro manage the project to some extent but then again does uh do we sort of like do that
as a sort of default when again tasks might not be really that vital to a project um dependent really
is but again is aiming to take the sort of the the goal the goal as the focus not necessarily
the task but i can create a goal for personal as well if i wanted to um i can create one for the
organization so you know win big contract it's a very generalized goal and it's going to have no
metric because it doesn't really have really any metric and i can make this one a company-wide goal
and obviously invite people and connect them to the resources that they need i can connect i can
create projects based on this objective so if i zoom out you can see here that this is obviously
got a bit of a different status and i can see the sort of ones that i'm contributing towards giving
the status and updates to be honest i i think it's a little bit sort of less granular as other stuff
but then again this is probably where some project managers can sometimes go overkill
when they're using an application so workflow is something quite interesting so you can have
workflows for things that you do they give a great example in the video of like somebody uh
doing a workflow for somebody on boarding them so you could create an onboarding workflow like
where things get updated to so just to give an example of what a workflow looks like
you can connect up things like text at to-do's so it could be a simple list forms embed approval
email post slack sauna so things can be updated automatically like for example you have a new
employee you could do a to-do list get ready sort of make a to-do list of what has been done email
them post on slack when it's announced introduce some access to box um you know what actually
maybe create a folder based on them and start connecting box etc so you get the idea and you
can sort of automate step-by-step workflows for yourself so here we go turn your day around in
15 minutes this is a template that they've made available so here we go turn off notifications
practice gratitude what are you grateful for so let's just do this one very briefly
let's run workflow so you can see here that if i mark these steps as complete i've moved on and you
can see the timestamps being indicated what am i grateful for catalog i don't know and i can also
do this one mark step is complete and as you can see i'm done so that's the whole process done um
but it's quite helpful for being sort of if you had a more sort of work based one then you can do
um you could create little workflows for your own sort of wake up and you can see it's sort of a and
the assignments that have been done across the day too so you can also see the people inside certain
teams and things like that using that which is quite cool i'm just going to quickly show
you what a workflow added to the home page looks like let me demonstrate that let me find a way to
pin here we go so you can see the workflow here that's come on and i can see how many
times i've executed it as well so if i want a workflow there so the one thing i really like
about this application is you've got everything in a glance right here you can modify it create it to
what you want i like the fact that you can really go deeper on goals and sort of look more focused
towards it it takes the whole like micro managing of a goal out of the way i like the workflows
i think i mentioned that the projects are very bare and basic i like the fact that you can search
things that you do there and i love this home page as a modification set up so this at this
application actually has some potential i like the way that they're bringing it closer to the heart
of what's happening in a team and i like the way that it sort of focuses a bit more on your own
productivity too still um i wouldn't say this i would say this application is very early days
i think it's got some good potential but i'd like to see how it evolves how it becomes more
of a dashboard for your own team productivity but interesting but interesting at that and i will
be keeping my eye on catalog and how it evolves in the next couple of weeks i think that's very
cool in terms of the team postings and things like that i love the design like the design is stunning
minimal easy to use and i think it's uh got a good start to it but guys i hope you found that this
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