so zenkit projects is now a reality they released last week and it adds an addition to the zenkit
lineup they have a suite of applications in today's video we're going to give you a review
of the project management application overviewing some of the features pricing and details about all
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want to check out our productivity classes so zenkid projects is now a reality and it
joins the lineup of a few sweet tools as you can see projects to do hypernotes zen chat and bass
zenchat being a slack competitor to do being the wunderlist sort of competitor hypernotes as well
allowing you to take really powerful notes and connect them together but this new zenkit projects
aims to be the project management solution for successful teams now it's released and it
is one that a lot of people quite like having under the same suite if you're already using
to-do or another sort of experience this could be a good option and it touts some great global views
and reports as well now as we all normally do let's start with the pricing now as you
can see let's convert this over to dollars and as you can see they have a free plan but
they also have a plus plan which is priced at nine dollars per month per user which is fairly
on price with the standard project management applications in the space this one is much more
new obviously so obviously doesn't have a long-term reputation in the space however
it does have a good record being is part of a suite so far now there are some limitations to
these plans as you can see you've got a personal and plus plan and you can see that the difference
between the tasks and projects is quite vast so if you're looking to use you know for example project
management with zenkit projects then a plus plan is probably more suitable for not worrying about
hitting a thousand tasks however if you're using it on your own to plan out projects organize your
own gantt chart and you know be able to organize things through the kanban boards and things like
that then the personal plan is suitable but with the plus plan you do get a better improvement in
terms of additional features like gantt chart and some early access features as well as improved
access to the amount you get in tasks projects and folders they do have a business plan which
is priced at 25 per month which is more aggressive giving you unlimited almost unlimited uh 800 000
tasks and 800 projects and 50 gigabytes of file storage whereas with the other ones you get six
gig and one gig so this isn't really necessarily the place you'd be storing files but if you're in
a bigger team then you'd have more accessibility to transfer things over okay so in terms of
features as i said their realist sort of big ones are advanced reports and the global kanban
and they do have a fair different range of views in particular we'll come to it in a moment and
show you it and they've got a team wiki ability which allows you to convert for example a kanban
into a team wiki quite easily they do have gantt chart global calendar team tasks as well and
obviously a to-do list but this is all sort of varied depending on the plan you go with so let's
go inside of what we have in zenkit projects okay so here we are in zenkit projects and then you can
see straight away it's very similar to most of the other zenkit applications that you already have
if you are using one for example this is pretty much what zenkit to do looks like
in sort of very old school looking fashion but one that works pretty well so for example
what you can do is can have a range of different views you can go with my day for example and start
dumping projects there if you want to you can go to my week view and what it will do is it'll
filter out the task based on the due date and you can see the ones that are assigned to you here as
well now if i were to go ahead and create a new project you can see that obviously it pops open
and i actually chose one of these views but you can choose from a range of views so for example
you can go with list view which is very simply a list of all of your tasks a kanban view for
creating different stages or columns and being able to add tasks below them you've also got a
calendar view which might be particularly helpful for organizing what you have in um
different sections um you know for example if i wanted to put okay it's monday i'm a little bit
far ahead but let's go to calendar so today there we go so if i want to add something like uh record
like recording you can see that now appear and as you can see if you've already sort of experienced
zenkit to do you get the notes to outline you get reminders repeating assigned to tags and subtasks
as well and you can obviously in team member side stuff be able to go to comments and activities
but with this experience obviously you get the ability to add dependencies and milestones which
is something that is particularly helpful when you're trying to work in teams and especially
when you go to the gantt chart because the gantt chart view obviously if i were to zoom in
so obviously you can be able to extend them and naturally the dependencies becoming particularly
helpful when you're organizing a project and this is really well demonstrated on the video that they
created so you can also change the view as well the gantt as i said there is part of the plus
plan i'm not sure why it's showing it on the our planet currently maybe i'm on some sort of trial
but you've also got a table view which is quite helpful if you're used to things like notion
databases and also a hierarchy view as well which might be helpful for being to organize content and
that is hierarchically organized you've also got a mind map as well which is particularly helpful if
you're trying to you know organize um some notes for a project or you know there's things that need
to be done for a particular particular project and you can start to create um connections between the
tasks as well so over here with the plus button you can go ahead and create a folder a project
or you can add a task and you can even import from vunderlist and microsoft do as well as
asana as well if you want you can create what's called a smart view so for example if you want to
see a global kanban of all of your tasks across all of the different projects you're working on
which is particularly helpful for being to narrow down what you need to do then you can do you can
do that with task and kanban view as well as being able to see things like resource planning reports
and reports as a sunburst which is a very uh big sort of pie chart and you can see that those
reports can be particularly helpful for filtering down what exactly team members are working on and
what they've done in the last week now you've also got assignments which means that you can see what
other people have assigned you across all of the projects you work on as well as a completed area
and what you need to work on today and the week ahead now there are some improved smart plans in
here so for example you want to have more views then you have to upgrade to their premium and as
i said here if you want to go for the monthly fan it's nine dollars um and as you can see here that
gives you the monthly plus plans for the zenkit uh projects now one thing i didn't mention at start
is you can install this on all devices including linux so for example if you want to download it on
mobile and also desktop then you can do and you can do all of the regular stuff that you would
like to be able to change the background in the plus plans there are improved ways to set that
up you can also have sound on sound off and be able to change the authentication that you have
as well as some of the installed products you have in the area too now this is particularly
helpful when you're looking at adding all of the different other products that the
zenkit team have like for example the base and also hypernotes and to-do and zen chat um bass
is pretty much what this used to be so obviously you'll be able to have that product there and and
bring that all up but this is where you access all of your smart views and sort of everything
that you've got inside of your plan now this is a global calendar so obviously you'll be to see
everything across all of the boards but you can always come back to this page which allows you to
see all of your to-do projects and what status they're in and also you know all of your tasks
down this wing here so zenkit projects is a pretty light-hearted project management application
it's definitely something that for those who are project centric that work in small teams
could be suitable for but it doesn't have the level of design as does the likes of click up
and monday have um however it does the job fairly well if you're someone that already uses the zenki
to do application or any of their other products you'll be used to the way that they design things
and i really like the way that they bring this dashboard into feature as well as being able to
use tasks to be able to filter down what you need to do for the day and the level of detail that you
get inside of managing a specific task one thing i really like is the ability to change between the
variety of views like list kanban calendar gantt table hierarchy and mind map obviously i think
gantt is part of the plus plan or maybe if you want a secondary gan it's part of the plus plan
but that's something that's quite rare in a lot of applications they tend to hide things like gants
or table or even mind map under pro plans but this is actually keeping it inside of the plans
although you do get some limitations when it comes to the you know for example task projects folders
and some of the storage there are some obviously limitations but it's definitely nice to have that
from day one i see a lot of people finding that very beneficial so this application is a light
project management app it's easy to use and it can be used in a variety of different situations
i think that this is perfect for those who aren't necessarily sold on an application like to advance
like click up on monday and want something a bit more light-hearted to be able to manage
their projects quite easily and to be honest i'm actually impressed uh with this application but
not like completely blown out of the water with its abilities but i think it's a great medium
ground project management software so folks hopefully you found this video useful there's
a full list of features that you can dive into and what's fully included for example they've got
some great advanced filters bulk actions and also some more micro experiences that allow you sharing
a little bit easier like commenting and mentions as well as a full zapier integration which might
come in handy so i'll include the link to them in description below but thank you very much folks
for dropping by hopefully this review gave you all you need to know about zen kit projects thank you
very much guys make sure to have a great week keep productive and i'll see you guys very soon cheerio
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