today's video we are super lucky to have Danny Hatcher here on keep productive to dive into how
he uses Morgan for tasks and calendar now Morgan's fairly recent application if you want to see the
review to it we've done it and we've made it in the link in description but this gives you a
working example of how somebody is using Morgan for balancing both situations a big thanks to
Danny Hatcher for coming on he has a fantastic YouTube channel which you can find in the link
in description thank you very much folks and make sure to join us here on keep productive while I'm
on my PC working I use a global hotkey to open up Morgan to check on doing what I meant to be
doing I can go backwards and forwards in days with the arrow keys on my keyboard change the
view with d w m and control one two three four five six seven eight nine zero for a 10-day view
pushing D then T to go back to my today view going back a day with the arrow key and pushing Ctrl 3
gives me yesterday today and tomorrow for a quick planning and reflection session or when planning a
bigger I head to the month view with M and use a pre-made calendar set to filter out or filter in
the calendars I want to see pushing one on my keyboard shows me all of the events and tasks
two shows me events three brings up my content calendar for my research calendar and five my
action tasks xero is for all my calendars and shared calendars linked to my Google account
pushing space brings up my tasks that don't have dates yet or are overdue I can add sort filter
or move them onto the calendar for scheduling to move to any date I can use the calendar picker at
the bottom and jump straight there adding an event in the day in the appropriate calendar
or making it a task that can be ticked off and completed bye for those of you that don't know me
I'm Danny I am an internet academic researching educational science online with free resources
normally I'm talking about philosophy psychology education or productivity related science but
Francesco asked me to talk about Morgan my task and calendar app of choice what you just heard
was a snapshot overview of most of my use cases in Morgan all of those features that were mentioned
are completely free but now I want to take you through the app a little bit deeper discussing
some of the other features settings and options Morgan offers I want to mention at this point
I do know the team behind Morgan because I've been beta testing and Bug finding the app for
over a year now so this is biased but I don't earn anything from what I'm going to say and my words
are my own taking a step back to look at Morgan in the wheat view there are the all-day tasks
and events at the top a week schedule in the main view with the days in the past being grayed out
and the current day is slightly larger than the other dates this View and all the other views can
be changed at the top allowing you to hide or show weekends and completed tasks widen the current day
and also merge identical events from different calendars as I mentioned earlier I mainly live
in the day pop-up but by clicking on a day in the week or month view I can jump straight to
that day narrowing in for planning for me the interface is really nice it allows me to drag
tasks and events from the all day section to the day I want or from the day to the all day section
I can change the event start or end by dragging either the start or the end I can also unschedule
a task for the day putting it back into my task list a task has a tick box that can be ticked but
it is also Hollow I guess you could say whereas events are full of color the event color is the
color of the calendar they are in which can be fully customized the task color is a mix of the
calendar they are in but also the task list they are in my green tasks are all habits in the habit
calendar but the green task in the all day has a red start line which is the content calendar
so the task outline is the task list the task color line is the calendar this is helpful in
my content calendar as I can see the content I need to do and the content I've created with the
different colors green done red not the green are in the task list the bread are in the Inbox and
obviously the posted content is hidden as they are completed tasks the difference between a Morgan
task an event is mainly seen inside of Morgan as Morgan is like a costume around my Google
Calendar a Morgan task in Google Calendar is seen as an event that is identified by The Tick Emoji
I don't look at my Google Calendar anymore but if I do I know what are tasks and what are events a
task once it has been scheduled has most of the features an event has it is in a calendar plan
start and end repeating options so my repeated tasks or habits can be put in Morgan and an
estimated duration box which I don't personally use it then has a due date which can be different
from the planned end it is the due date that the overdue task section looks for not the planned end
so I only put a due date on high priority tasks like project deadline tasks that keep me on track
because these tasks are like events you can change the status of a task and add notifications each
calendar has unique notification settings so if a task is in that calendar they get
those notifications my action calendar has a five minute notification my habits a 10 minute
notification and my events and content both have a one day notification for all day events only so
I'm reminded the day before this helps me Keep On Track during the day so I don't spend all of the
day doing one thing or forget to do something really important there is a priority tag but
again that is something I don't personally use in the general settings you can change the default
calendar I have mine set to actions because that is where all my tasks go but it can Auto Select
the most recent calendar if you want the time zone and Regional time format can be changed
the first day of the week can be changed the initial View and the theme be it dark or light
mode can be changed changing the day Grid's start and end time is helpful to really focus on the
time of day I want so I don't have to scroll down each day because not everyone wakes up at 6am in
the morning the display resolution is basically how big the blocks of time are and the dragging
resolution is the jump distance the blocks move when you drag to reschedule them the day limit is
for the all-day events and tasks shown at the top of the day week and month view I start Morgan on
my PC as a startup and use the open sidebar as the global toggle because I need to check what
I'm doing at the beginning of the day otherwise I could go in literally any direction now this
confused me a little bit to start with but you can link One calendar account to Morgan in the
free plan so I have one Google Calendar account linked and have as many calendars in the account
as I want you can see I have a fair few that calendar account can be any sort of account as
you can see in their website if you want to link two calendar accounts then you need the personal
plan and any more than that requires the Pro Plan if you can link your candles together
before putting them into Morgan you can stay on the free plan my sister is at University
and has her University calendar and Outlook because University but uses Google Calendar
she has synced her Outlook calendar with the Google Calendar and linked the Google Calendar
account to Morgan you can also see here on the pricing page that if you want to use Integrations
you need either the personal plan or Pro Plan the other differences of scheduling links and branding
on the booking page but before we get to that there is another difference which I do use quite
a lot the added time zones when I hover over the time it shows me what that time is in the selected
time zones which makes checking the time really easy instead of searching the time in whatever
place over and over and over again the free plan gives you one added time zone and the personal and
pro plans allow for 10. so inside the settings there is an availability tab for selecting the
calendars that you don't want to book over I have my events calendar and John my podcast Partners
calendar selected in case we want to book a guest I can make sure it doesn't clash with John or me
the booking page is the page that people will be directed to if they click on a link or the
embed that shows on a website like on mine as it shows in the settings removing the Morgan branding
is a pro feature but brand color and logos can be added to the page you can set up permanent virtual
rooms with zoom Google mates Etc and add the room directly to a meeting instead of having to find a
link attach the link and go through that hassle every time adding the room is on the free plan
or if you are on the Pro Plan you can integrate to zoom and have it generate a new meeting link
for you the search feature in Morgan is one that I don't often use but when I do it is so
fast just like obsidian and I can find any future or past task or event with ease and for those of
you wondering about a mobile app it is amazing as a paying member of Morgan I have access to their
mobile beta which has tasks the calendar syncing all the Basics and it is being developed all the
time so if it doesn't have what you want now it will do soon the calendar sets at the moment are
not on the mobile app but when you open the menu on the PC each calendar can be added to any number
set then pushing the number of filters out to the calendars you want as I mentioned earlier I have
tried to cover as many of the features as possible in a fairly short video but with the rapid
development of Morgan I'm sure there will be new features out by the time this video is published
and my workflow will probably have changed if you are interested in my Morgan workflow I have
a section in my course all about it from setup to daily use or you can look through any of my
work in my online notes they are all linked on my channel and on Twitter which is my main social
media platform thank you Francesco for having me on the channel again it is always fun talking Tech