hello everyone welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel today's video
we're going to be diving into walling this is an application i reviewed some time ago
however i didn't actually get to do a official review now we have this format so for those who
don't know walling is a app that you can use to collect ideas and organize them for later
it looks like notion but acts like applications like column and my mind it's an exciting twist
we're going to be diving into it today in a review and at the end we'll be giving it
a score as well so today's video is sponsored by superhuman you can check out superhuman below and
use the link as well to skip the cue but here's a little bit more about them today's video is
sponsored by superhuman superhuman is regarded as the fastest email experience ever made their users
get through their inbox twice as fast as before with many seeing inbox zero for the first time in
years curious how it works well there's three parts to it first superhuman delivers fast speed
in app with super speedy interactions allowing blazingly fast startup search and sending mail
speeds second by introducing workflows with carefully crafted snippets and keyboard commands
you can power through email at rapid rates unknown in current email software and third some of the
most powerful email triage out there with split inboxes email becomes easier to manage with more
urgent emails front and center and no email overflow all personalized to your needs
superhuman is currently invite only right now with hundreds of thousands of people on the list
we've got a special link below head to superhuman.com keep productive and learn more
there thank you to the folks at superhuman for sponsoring keep productive this month
okay so here we are with walling now before we begin i'll get some of the
more granular details out of the way walling is available on desktop in windows and mac
editions as well and you can also download a chrome and firefox extension for clipping
and they do make it available through web at the moment they don't have an
ios and android application however i believe they're running a test flight edition on ios
for some of the users who want to test it out tell you about pricing pricing wise it's not
too bad they have a free plan that is up to 100 bricks we'll talk about bricks in a minute it has
unlimited walls up to three members per wall you get access to the connect wizard which
we'll explain later and also the ability to collaborately the ability to collaborate
on and share walls i want to keep saying boards i don't know why they do have a paid plan which is
four dollars per month i believe that's the annual pricing however so maybe five dollars per month
uh billed monthly but four dollars built annually so round about the notion sort of pricing when it
had a pricing but with that plan you get unlimited bricks invite unlimited members to your walls
global search which includes the ability to identify text colours and objects in
images priority support and everything on the free plan so there are limitations in the block
brick limit i want to say block limits as well brick limits of 100 when you're using the free
plan which is a little bit of a pain so this whole idea of walling is built off a premise of
collect connect and plot out so basically let me break it down pretty simply for you collect
is basically picking up ideas and things inside of an area called dailydesk connect is basically
allowing them to have tags and connect them to a new project or board that you may have created
and finally plot out is where you use your folder or your board or wall to actually organize and
plan a certain project so it's it's much more of a process led application than say applications
like notion and trello that sort of let you free reign and the experience so i have the free plan
in front of me i'll probably do a premium based feature so do make sure to check out more videos
as we talk through this so i'm going to create a project about getting a house and i'm looking sort
of at ideas and things like this so i'm going to use firstly the clipper which is available
on chrome it is also available so as you can see here it detected the article and what i'm
going to do is i'm going to put asking price article and i'm also maybe right about here
and i'm going to save it into my daily desk area naturally you could automatically save it
into a project that you already have or a wall you already have and you can add these nodes
up here however i'm going to talk through the connect wizard and how to bring that together
so once i save it if i go over to warling it's arrived the sync works pretty fast and what i
can do from here is actually add a node to it so i'm going to call this one home buying research
and i'm going to go ahead and create it so that node is created and it is available through
connect so before i actually go ahead i'm going to go ahead and create a new wall for house buying
it's about buying you can also change the icons for this one so if i wanted to find one that had a
house on it and i'm going to make a section called research another section called finance and then
i'm also going to make a section called moving so i've got my primary sections ready so this works
very similar to applications like to do is to some extent you can separate things in sections
and naturally start adding stuff to them so if you want to add to them and automatically work
on the project you can use the new brick feature let's demonstrate how the actual collect i've
collected something connect and obviously plot out works so i'm going to go over to
connect and what i'm going to do is i'm going to find anything that i've tagged with the node home
buying research you can connect two nodes at once if you want to and that's helpful if you've got
say notes inside of a specific book on a specific topic and that could be helpful if you wanted to
create like a wall dedicated to a specific area or notes that you want to sort of make a collection
of so as you can see here what it can do down here is actually go ahead and make a new copy and move
it to house buying and i can move it to a specific section as well so in this case it's research
and as you can see if i go down to house buying i can move it into relevant area but i can do that
with multiple bricks so if i had a ton of articles that were about home buying i could automatically
organize them into the relevant areas and if i had multiple ones just about home buying in general
i could move them down through that so the idea behind this is to help you to go through a collect
connect and plot out process and once i'm in here i can start working on the section so for example
if i add a new brick i could say things to do if i'm working very specifically on an item i can
pop it up here and make it more central i can also use a range of formatting as well to change
things around including adding links images files and much more if i wanted to as well i could even
create a brand new wall out of this so we can also export the wall into a range of different formats
pdf html markdowner json but i can also share it using the shareable link which allows up to
three people in the free account now one of the features that i talked about a few weeks ago was
the graph abilities so as you can see here as you add nodes you can make these obviously bigger and
be able to see you know uh what specific items you've got in the home buying research section
so if i added more and i added different notes and connected them to projects it would help grow
that graph now when you go say to capturing ideas for tomorrow a brand new daily desk appear so any
ideas you create will be landed on this desk but as you move forward they will no longer appear
which is quite a nice because it replicatory of your desk experience now as i said they do have
a firefox version and there are a few examples of some projects for example redesigning the website
that makes it look a lot more attractive you can add your designs down here you can resolve
specific bricks as well you can add in thoughts and collaborate with other people so it actually
does make a nice uh team ideation setup as well now inside of the setup as well you can see
how many bricks you've used in the free plan you can change it over to dark mode if you want to
and even go into settings and change your default page so if you wanted to land on a specific area
um like you could create yourself an inbox wall inside of that then that could be quite good
so all in all walling do keep the roadmap pretty updated they've post pretty regular change logs
so i feel like this application is a little bit of a hidden gem because it like tasks in i say does
a lot more than you expected to and when you compare it to applications like columns which
is very similar in design and i guess sort of functionality to some extent helping you
to collect things and organize them and also my mind as well because they've got that connecting
ability to help you to automatically tag things and and do that with images and colors but i think
this works a little bit better although that's locked under premium it's definitely something
that i think encapsulates encapsulates personal projects and also idea collection a lot better
than these sort of applications in my opinion yes they do need to add an ios application and android
one in the next couple of months for sure and it would be nice to have global search inside of the
free plan that's something that i would definitely think would be available inside of a plan but
then again four dollars isn't gonna break the bank necessarily with an application like this could be
a little bit cheaper three dollars i'd say would be more of a better price for this especially
when you tally up all of your other tools as well it's not going to replace notion but if
you're looking for an application that takes you through a process and works a little bit like you
would with ideas then this is a cool application so what you've all been waiting for the review
side of stuff and for design i'm gonna give it a solid 9. i think the design is really attractive
they keep up the experience pretty updated and i love the design um it definitely looks really
attractive notion-esque but have a little bit more sort of bear-like animation to it features wise
i'm going to give this a 7 because i think it's really once it's good it's focused more on ideas
and i think task management it would be pretty complicated to do something like that in there
pricing again i'm going to give it a 7 because i think
it could be a little bit cheaper if i'm honest because this is only an additional experience to
something you probably already use like a wiki um i don't know whether somebody would entirely
replace it from an applications like evernote or notion usability again i'd say seven again you do
have to learn it and you do have to um you know sort of embrace their approach to productivity
whilst other applications give you a little bit more freedom and finally my opinion on it i think
it's definitely an eight from me i think this is a really attractive application as i say underrated
in the market so if you weld that through that to 38 over 50 if you do the maths that's a 7.6
and if you compare that on imdb you'll get movies like kick ass and harry potter 6.
kick-ass was a good movie harry potter 6 was also a good movie but harry potter 7 part 1 is
dreadful so hopefully it doesn't continue i'm joking but you know what i mean uh
this application is really interesting i think it's i got a really exciting future
in the market anyway folks i'll see you in a future video make sure you're subscribed
and do check out the obsidian made simple course that we launched very recently cheerio folks bye
you