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you have hello everyone today's video i wanted to dive into the bento application we're going to
give you a guided tour of how the app works and how to really optimize it in the daily routine
now as you can imagine there's plenty of applications out there and we've tried to
approach this in a very different way our mission is to help you do less but more meaningful tasks
and we've designed the application to be simple and a bit easier to be able to achieve that goal
of doing less but more meaningful tasks in your day and the great thing is bento isn't just an
app it's a methodology so it's designed to help you grow and improve in the way that you manage
your tasks and prioritization so let's dive into the application and i've included below
in the link in description some more about the methodology if you wanted to explore that
so as you can see from the outset this application is very simple
but it is very relaxing to use with these beautifully designed animated themes now
i'm going to start off by creating a new bento box and to do that i press this button here now
before we go ahead and pack our box we need to choose a workflow that best suits our day this is
very simply the order in which you do the tasks and this can be changed each day for each box
so for example eat that frog is great for people who want to start with the hardest task first and
finish with the smallest one and slow burn is more suitable for those who start with the smallest
task and work to the largest task in this case an example we're going to choose eat that frog
so as you can see here we've got an empty bento box to start us out now what i'm going to do is
i'm going to give this a title and in this case we're going to call it monday i can also choose
an emoji if i want to maybe i'll choose something like a sunny day background so as you can see here
there are three different areas large medium and small tasks so let's go and populate these
so as you can see here a large task appears a large task should be about 90 minutes long
and should be a lot more sort of creative or deliverable led something intense enough to do
that will produce a good quality output so for example maybe it's something like write report
now i'm going to go over to my medium task now this might be something process based so for
example in my case it might be an email campaign and they should be between 45 minutes and 60
minutes long you can change the time here in this case i'm going to choose 60 minutes for this task
and i'm going to go over to small small should be anything that's
administration based or personal well-being based so for example i might even put yoga session here
for 15 minutes now the reason we kept it three is because we wanted to limit you on how
many tasks that you can add in the system we typically overwhelm our systems and as this is
a companion app we wanted to have you do less overall so here are my three tasks for the day
now as you can imagine it's really key for me to start focusing in on each of them
and as i said i chose to eat that frog methodology so as you can see the largest task is at the top
and the smallest task is at the bottom but i can naturally change that about if i want to if i
hold down on a box i can change the workflow for example if i wanted to start with the medium task
go to the large task and finish with the small one that's called climb that summit so there we go
it's changed around for me so that's perfect for example if your energy levels change across today
so obviously i'm now going to start with the email campaign so i'm going to press this arrow button
on the right hand side now as you can see i'm going to start a timer and focus on this work
now the great thing about the timer is we've actually included some really relaxing music so
that you can focus in on your task and as you can see it blocks out any other distractions
for example even the list of other tasks that you've got so that you've got that one
task mode a real focus mode that means you're channeling your attention into this one task
and it reveals the gorgeous animations for you to have a look at while you're working on the task
but don't get too distracted even though how relaxing they are so as you can see if i pause
the timer the timer will pause in that location and a progress bar will pop up at the top now as
you complete your tasks say for example in this case i actually did complete the email campaign
you can see that the celebration appears but that progress bar drops down indicating how much you've
got left of your day's focus now as you can see i can work on my other tasks if i wanted to which
is really helpful and it can even go in and modify what those tasks are if the day changes around me
now some of the few things that i wanted to talk about are the themes as i said the
experience is very relaxing so if i go to the top right hand corner and press the settings cog
you can see other themes become available for example we've got this beautiful sushi bar theme
and you can see it's gorgeous really relaxing to use especially when you're in
that focus mode you can see the fish pop up and you can also choose our zen garden mode
as you can see really relaxing to use as well there's also light mode as well if you switch
dark mode off you can now get light mode which is also really nice during the daytime let's
go back to dark mode you can also see that you can switch the haptics and audio off here too
and you're probably wondering what this book is over on the left hand side this is a simple
methodology guidance helping you to understand how the bento method works in a bit more detail
so let's talk a little bit about templates now we're evolving this concept for future versions
but templates are a handy way to implement three simple tasks that might be something
you do on a routine basis let's say you have a 15 minute journal routine you could use this one
to accomplish that for example if i press use template it populates the bento box and i can
start working on three successes in five minutes two gratitudes and one improvement
and that helps me to really focus in on the task at hand
and i can use and choose a few others and we're going to adapt this in future versions too
so that's a little bit more about bento now the concept itself is something that we're
continually growing and the methodology is something that we're really excited that you
can use in a wide variety of applications but bento is the main place to use the application
just a few extra things that might be helpful for those users who are looking to take it a bit
further one of the things you can do is reset the box this is quite helpful if you wanted to
restart the box and accomplish new tasks and for example you can delete it if you want to it does a
confirmation on whether you want to delete it but that's quite helpful for example if you wanted to
set up your whole week worth of tasks then you can do we'll do a few more videos about how you can
use bento a bit more in your routine but this is really an overview of how the application works
thank you very much folks and we hope you found this video useful
you can download bento on ios day and android is going to be coming very soon
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