hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep productive youtube channel on today's feature
i'm going to be diving into five applications i'm excited for in 2021. this is a list with
some productivity mentions but also a few others just outside the spectrum of productivity and
they're all in my opinion so hopefully they help you and i'll include all the link the
description below so before we begin make sure to check out the keep focus community it's a new
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check out the link in description so first on my list is an app called clay and this is a personal
crm tool that's designed more for individuals who are looking to manage their network it's really
interesting the application i'm actually testing it out in sort of its private beta at the moment
it's quite expensive but the concept of it's quite cool where you connect it to say your linkedin
and your email contact and basically it brings up your network but allows you to go a bit deeper
with them by adding actions taking notes for each person and being able to see specific updates it's
sort of like a really condensed linkedin that allows you to keep fresh and updated with each
of the contacts i think the most exciting thing about this application is that there are these
applications that are like highly developed for specific areas and i think this is going
to be a massive trend in 2021 we've seen it with superhuman who took email and really beautified it
or blue beautiful applied it something like that but basically i reckon more companies will start
to do that take a small segment of a productivity application and just make it a really well
produced experience with a higher price to it and clay is one of those applications that does that
and it could be quite interesting for those folks in the future who are looking for a personal crm
but don't necessarily want to invest in a really highly priced one for the enterprise plans so clay
i'm keeping an eye out it's a very gorgeous and well designed application and i'm sure it'll be
coming soon in 2021 next up is daybridge this is an app that i have been checking out for a while
it's very interesting the way that it's set up so why the reason why i'm sort of excited about this
is because it's giving me sunrise vibes although i think definitely woven at the moment is the
new sunrise it's a really well put together application but i think this will really change
the way that the calendar market is positioning itself now so what's interesting about daybridge
is it's bringing together lots of different formats of your calendar for example your daily
routine but also adding stuff that other people have invited you to and travel plans connecting to
apps that are just outside the calendar ecosystem to help you make a calendar that's very smart
and intuitive and really almost like a personal assistant more than it is a calendar application
i really like the design as well it's it seems to be really well put together and i'm super
interesting because the developers are working very hard behind this at the moment i'd recommend
checking them out on twitter because this is where they're sharing updates regular news about
what's happening but they've definitely got some good investment behind them i think this could
potentially be the next big calendar application of the future number three is obsidian now this
the reason why i'm sort of talking about this is because whilst this is out in beta at the moment
it's actually super well put together and i think it's definitely especially in this bi-directional
linking world that we're about to be living in rome is getting a lot of attention but i think
obsidian is that sort of like really underplayed uh competitor that in the future will make a lot
more sense for example they're adding ios and i believe uh ipad and android applications soon they
said mobile i assume it will be that in the future which is a huge leap forward especially for you
know what they're doing and especially the fact that it's free obviously it's from the creators
of dynalist so you've got knowledge that it's from a good developer who've put together a good app in
the past and it's sort of like dynalist 2.0 to some extent but i'm really excited for when they
actually release in 1.0 in their public facing launch which will be really exciting because i
think they'll start to sort of put it together for the basic user to understand i feel like it's a
lot easier to understand than say rome if you're someone that's so new to bi-directional links
so number four is read-wise now read-wise is an app that i've been using for my kindle and
my notes when i'm taking kindle highlights but i really like the way that the application sort of
brings up well you know all of the highlights but in this sort of like space repetition methodology
i really like that you have 10 daily highlights which you can go into the app and you can review
each day and it helps to build your learning i really like that concept but i really like the
way that they externally help other people follow your highlights as well that's part of the premium
feature but i think it's a pretty good tool um to have so i think read-wise next year we'll continue
to add more features and make it more exciting to read even though it is quite exciting already to
read number five this is an app that i've talked about over the years we've talked about time page
flow and actions which are all basically moleskin studio apps now i am excited for monks and studio
in 2021 mainly because if they continue the rate that they've been going and adding new
applications and building really well put together ones i think that they will potentially position
themselves as the ios productivity suite of apps that a lot of people would jump on board in
and pay their like one-off subscription to have all of their apps under the same roof and for
a lot of people having a suite of apps under the same developer is something that they like because
it's under the same roof all your data's on the same roof but also the fact that it's built well
if the developer is a good developer for example zenkit is one that is developing
like lots of different apps under one roof and they're continuing to add to that suite todoist
is sort of one that is going to be doing that in the future they've talked quite widely about
note-taking application adding that to their suite and having you know to do is twist and noticed
let's call it notice so i think that it's quite interesting what moleskin studio doing especially
because they put such well put together ios applications and i'm sure they'll be looking in
android as well in the future anyway folks those are the five apps that i'm excited for in 2021
let's go through them clay daybridge obsidian and read wise and moleskin studio they're
five i'll probably dive into them a little bit deeper and maybe share a few of my opinions on
other apps but hopefully sort of give you an idea what i'm thinking is gonna be hot
in 2021. anyway folks i hope you enjoyed today's video please do make sure you hit
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