Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here. I hope you guys are doing very well in today's video. We're diving into a
Productivity problem that I had maybe about three or four months ago then I guess I've been able to solve with an application
I'm still very early days with this application
So again, it's it's still learning the ropes of how it works and and you know
like when you get an application is making the most and optimizing it and
I actually am looking forward to using this application a little bit further. So the application is called woven
I was trying to fix a calendar issue. I was having where I was trying to organize all of these meetings and
I found it became a little bit overwhelming when it comes to managing time slots and
Of course with the podcast and even interviews for the YouTube channel
I wanted to make sure I was bringing in people but also delivering a professional way to sort of organize meetings
So again, this is where this problem and solution has come in
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So what I'm gonna do is take you through a little bit of that journey show you the application I chose and how I'm using
At the moment and how you could be using it as well. So here we go. This is my
woven account now the one that can say is
Again, I found a problem. My problem was
organizing meetings
And there is a feature inside of this that is specifically good for that but my go-to solution and in typical
Recommendations I even posted on social media was calendly because commonly is a good scheduling application that provides
Really robust scheduling experience like you have someone has the ability to go in a plan
But again, I had used this one in the past and I thought this was a go-to solution, but then I remembered about woven
And a lot of people was nudging me about it, and I was actually like, okay
This could be a good solution because it has a dashboard like the experience with Google Karen so you can see into your calendar
It's not like calendar Li where you you set a link up and I guess you send it out to people when and that
It's like a one-way experience. Whereas with this it was to fixing
I guess two solutions my Google Calendar use and my scheduling needs but
Blending him into one because I can view my calendar. I can make events and do all the regular stuff
I did with Google Calendar in this but at the same time be able to schedule links and send them out and
What I quite liked about is is this application reminds me of a lot of sunrise
Sunrise was an application. It was developed way back when 2014 I think it was purchased by Microsoft
2015 and it was loved by many people and there was a feature inside of it called sunrise meat which was a this keyboard
experience and I actually did reviewing it back and day and
I loved it because you could pop open your keyboard option
Send someone a few suggested links and literally
Send them that suggestion and it would weave with their both with their calendar and with your calendar now, this is pretty similar
So I will show you the feature that I am most using it
And you can see here that they have this planning tab where I've got all of my sort of active schedule links open
And it's quite nice because I can see what I've actually done. So I haven't touched a surface on this application yet
But if I go to the scheduling link and say I wanted to plan an interview
With someone I'd go ahead and press the new scheduling what I quite like about this is it brings in existing and past events?
which is quite cool, but if I go to the new scheduling link
You'll see that it works in a very similar way to other applications
But what's cool about this is has three options so you can schedule any time
Available in the calendar. So it basically just blocks out any time that's free and your calendar whatsoever
Anyone with the link can schedule specific time?
so for example
I could go ahead and and plot out a few of them a few times that I'd suggest
And of course they appear all here and you can remove them if you want to
This is something I did review ages ago when it first come out and producthunt
But you know when you do you sort of touched a surface on the application. Well, this is
The the application in usage. It's much more sort of fluid once you've applied it to your situation
So what's quite nice panelist is of course, like if you don't just want an hour block you can go to availability
You can block off days. So for example like Fridays sometimes like I'm like, I don't want any meetings available then
and
You can sort of make sure Fridays are blocked off
and also you can go to limits like what are your limits like in the next two days or next two days is the only
Limitation that you've got the buffer times nice as well because if you're planning one that's near say a meeting
and you're in the other mode, so let me just go back to the
The can church of any available time mode if I go to this area here
You can see that obviously
It's limited to next day. So if I take all limits off its just gonna pick up all the available areas
But as you can see here my Friday's off
So if I click Friday back on it appears
So it's quite nice to see it sort of interact and sort of maneuver to the limitations you've set
So if I set Friday off and go to the next week, you can see here that all these are available
and of course
This is where you can you know allow anyone to sort of jump in your calendar and organize
But let's say I wanted to go actually Monday's are a bit tricky and I want this one to be half an hour
So you can start setting parameters and it will damp to it, which is quite nice
I also like the élysée availability thing because I know in the next few weeks you see here. I've got an operation
So I'm not going to be trying to even do anything for maybe two weeks
but when I'm back at least I have a sort of layout so I can go ahead and go back to this link and
I can choose a few other key things like what people I want invest involved what what conferences I want
linked to so for example if I normally have this as my preset and this will be hosted on a Zen caster and I can
add a
Description of that if I if I want to I can also set the location. It's got a few location abilities
I haven't used them yet
I'm not a big traveler myself, but I did demonstrate that in the first feature
So you can actually set where this is based
you can set reminders to be nudged when the event starts or when the events sort of organized and
also private
information
So obviously this is pretty similar to most calendars in terms of that other additional bit
It's the schedge only bit that really matters
but there is a certain third third process where you can essentially suggest a few dates and
When you go ahead and create the link, it will allow that person to vote
Exactly when they want that one so they could vote for this one and it to be the chosen one
but I tend to use this one can schedule for specific times and
Just dump loads in and then send it to someone but how do you go about sending it?
Because that's the thing that you want to be able to send what I quite like about this is it doesn't like force
someone to go over to
Anything you go ahead and press crate link and this is why it reminds me of sunrise meet because you've got this
scheduling so I go ahead and copy the link or I can send an email there and I
Just send that link and what's cool is even if I'm like. Oh I
I've picked up a
Link let's say I'm like, I've picked up a link like for example here
I've suggested a few to Ally like that. He can't do any of them
But I can always go an aunt more and he will see that on his end
So for example if I just go and copy the link and paste it into Google
So this is what he will see on his end
if he for example
he selects that he typed in the information and he scheduled it instantly and then it goes into my calendar and
He can connect it with his calendar as well
So guys that's a main way I'm using this application in terms of sort of like a planner a plotter
You can see here that I've been planning like crazy
Especially for the podcast and been to organize stuff and I found it to be a fairly good process so far
I do want to reach out to a few people would see how they're sort of landing experience were
It was like how they found the application to use
especially when planning do the other things I like is the update section so you can see an update of
one your shitter links have been interacted with and also a bit more about what events you've been plotting in your calendar and
Also over here you've got ability to see all of the calendars that you interact with
I've got the f1 race calendar there so you can see all my f1 races one
and what's quite nice is sometimes if you schedule an event and over the top of another calendar emails you saying there's a conflict and
Sometimes it does that with my f1 which sounds really desperate
But again a priority, of course, they've also got templates. This is really something I haven't touched on
So template will help you to save time, especially when it comes to podcast booking so that you can set up an availability
So for example if I'm like, okay, I want a podcast every Tuesday or Thursday
only and they can only be 30 minutes and I
Want a 50-minute buffer time if I've got a meeting before?
You can create that as a publish scheduled link and then send out every single time when you're scheduling to someone
all you'd have to do is go to the shed to event and you can even use the templates here to
Customize it to the event name so it just saves you time
This is something I want to do just need to sit down and set it up. It's probably something that will take only
15-20 minutes to properly do but save me 15 to 20 minutes every week
So I just need to get on that
now as you can see here, the reason why I quite liked it is because I have got and as you can see here, um
my week
I've got my Google Calendar in front of me and it's got a range of different views so I can do month view I can
Do week view I can do three day view which all I quite like about it. And you also got column view as well
So it does pretty much what you've what it says on the tin
there are a few things that I've mentioned to the team that I don't particularly like but these are the small things is the
For example if I type in an event and I'll just type an event and I go ahead and press schedule. I
didn't get that instantly come up I Lunken Google Calendar that I just have to swipe or
Drag and it instantly comes up but here I have to do a secondary option of scheduling
But I guess that comes with this sort of nature of the tool is just making sure that you're sort of going in there
One of the other things I did like about this application is when I was in Tel Aviv
and and when I was in different time zones it
Actually changed to those time zones. They have a Mac application. They have a web application
They have an iOS application
Which I haven't currently set up
Still using time page because I find that to be a nicer iOS viewer on the experience side
And I don't tend to go about scheduling podcasts on the go, but I guess with the template set up
I might actually consider doing that because if you're on the go and you're like need something to be sent quickly for email
Then that could be quite cool now things. I'd like to see in this application
They've got a new group whole feature, which is coming. It's the essential doodle
Alternative solution all in its application things are probably like to see is a keyboard experience. I don't know
Well, they do have this here
They have an iMessage experience where you can send an iMessage someone but if they replicate sunrise me
I'd be the happiest chap in the world because that would save a lot of time especially when it comes to
You know even scheduling events on mobile
but again, I'm not a big federal event on mobile now and you know other things I guess I think
That I I'm not really sure I'd say their UI is nice
But it's still
Not as attractive as Google Calendar
Only because Google Calendar has like some fluffy rounded edges and it looks a bit more colourful
Whereas it seems a bit more but these are all very minor things
So this is something that I don't necessarily
You know, I'm not betting on because I don't necessarily find the attractiveness of the application necessarily the biggest feature
Bloody out to be in 13 minutes. Anyway guys a big thank you. Hopefully you found this video useful
Give me let me know if you want me to do more tours like this. Let me know your opinion on this application
I'd happily sort of dig a bit deeper and sort of talk about this a bit further
But let me know because I want you guys. I want your opinion. Anyway guys big. Thank you
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