Hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel it is
francesco here
And what I thought I'd do is a bit of a video of my sort of opinion on what I'm using at the moment
So many people have asked me over the last couple months and Francesco. What are you using as a task manager now?
You've invested a lot of time into notion
So for those who don't know I am a notion user
I have been using it for maybe about a year and a half fully now
But obviously I checked it out first almost two years ago about a year and 3/4
I first discovered it and
Over that period of time I've built my use and it's almost fully replaced
note-taking
essentially
Scripting and a couple of other experiences like project management
And it's can it's bought together a lot of applications that I didn't use. So I use previously like Trello for video calendar management
I used mainly to do this for project management and
Used the likes of Evernote for note-taking. So obviously now it's sort of embedded a lot of that together, but people have been asking
That sort of conversation about task management inside of notion and to this day. I'm not entirely sure notion is
Suitable for task management I did
Medium piece a fair while ago about what I think it's suitable for and now that's changed because they've added so many different features
I think it is a really good housing base for projects for notes
not for calendar necessarily but for being able to plan and organize yourself as a
Almost like a life management tool that doesn't necessarily have any automation yet
But I think it's a good way to be able to organize
Everything it's almost like you're a second brain. I think more so than ever knows sometimes
I think that the way they've structured itself is more like a brain
Than Evernote to some extent so that's sort of my opinion on at the moment
But people have asked me what are using as a times manager now
So my task manager of choice has always been and is todoist so I've been using todoist
probably since
2000 and I'm gonna say twelve maybe roughly. Um, it was just before University
I obviously made a decision to go with an application and I chose to do it and over the time
It's obviously grown and got a bit better. So you're probably wondering first off my reasons why I'm with the application
So I'm going to talk about features and number two my sort of future
Progression with this because obviously there's that conversation so number one the first sort of feature set
The reason why I'm with them is because I actually really like having a to do list applications. It's separate at the moment
For me when I'm using todoist. I know that I can see a linear version of my tasks
I have all of the relevant functions
Like Jude 8 being too organized next 7 days
being able to see and search all my reminders and be able to find everything there and at the moment, I don't think
Although they do have and I keep saying this do have the ability to do something like this
The to do is like futures inside of notion. You can build something very similar, but I don't think it's fully there
It's like not like a design task manager. It's sort of like the Evernote conversation as well. It's notion is not
Necessarily a full note-taker. It does like 80 to 90% of whatever it does
But it just loses out on being a specialist note-taker, but I think that less of a case in the task management space
Now I use notion as my project manager
So I what I do for those who don't know is I plan most of my my finance most of my key productive projects
All sort of stuff like that. I can show you on the screen a few of the ways that I plan
And I find it a good place for that
And mainly that's because the board experience and also the visual planning
I quite like then I have a page to design what I can see ahead and it helps me with goals as well
Whereas day to day in the next 30 days at least of actionable items
I normally store in my to do list account and although my traduced account has changed over the last couple of months
I'd say that it's still really important. I tried to keep between five and ten at the maximum tasks inside there every day and
Every evening I spend five to ten minutes priming the next day
So now I have an idea of one any to focus on for the next day. I find that
Bass is a lot better and I find that bass is more suitable for me right now
Now I'm not dissing the task management design a notion what server I think it's totally possible
I've got a good friend cojo
Who's a subscriber and he uses todoist as a way to sorry
He use his notion and he's mocked and mocked up the todoist layout on it. I'll try to include a screenshot it few cents Mia
And it's it works. It works for him and it is a way to manage his tasks
But I find that using application. I think I saw someone else in the comments put some unwrapped things three again
It's whether you're using like things. Sorry with notion notion is your almost
consortium of information for notes and projects and management wiki and
Then things is your like channel base of actually having your tasks
So the second part of this is obviously the future of the task management in notion
I know that this is only going to get better. It's very similar to what we saw with Evernote
I think notion is slowly progressing the way they're building in a database out, especially the April 29th, which is
yesterday's
Future release was very extensive in terms of what they're building and allowing you to build. So I think that's only going to be
exciting and
Opportunistic for those who are looking to do task management inside an ocean now
I did actually their full course a
Mantra on this inside of the course because I believe if you can do task management inside an ocean
But I don't necessarily for me think it's suitable right now. It might be suitable in a year's time, but I
Personally, I find like having those two separate applications a good way to view now just for those who are curious about what that looks
Like here is my to-do list and here's my notion
You can get an idea for okay, I use notes and projects and most of the other stuff inside an ocean
but then a sort of idea of my next seven days and what I'm going to do actually would take of all items inside of
todoist, but again
I'm open to experimenting but I really find this application is is more suitable for me in
the short term at least and I do see myself using it in a long term as well because I don't like I'm
very fixed with my focus on switching
I don't like to switch unless it suitable for example, it took me with notion probably about
six to nine months fully to not move over my stuff but to
migrate to notion from Evernote so you can see the sort of
the focus that I actually
Had when I tried to do it
I try not my best not to switch as much as I can and when I do it's it's a long term migration
So I don't really see myself moving it in in the next six months
Especially with some of these todoist features in building it out a little bit better. Like I know section headers are coming
I know. I know that a calendar view might be coming and also project
Kanban view so this could be albeit very exciting. So guys, I really appreciate stopping by today. Hopefully this gives you a bit of clarity
Again, there is the notion made simple course below if the total newbie to notion and you're looking at it going actually it could be
A good base for me or you want to start from scratch. You can learn everything there, and I'm guys a huge. Thank you
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