2022 saw the launch of plenty of calendar applications we saw daybridge Amy Mayday and
even rise calendar make it to being able to be looked at but not available to download
today we're taking a look at vimcow I've been using it for the last couple of days and I
wanted to share some thoughts and opinion in this in-depth review it's more of a premium
calendar application but it's an interesting one and we're going to dive into it in full
in today's video hello folks welcome to the keep productive YouTube channel my name is
Francesca Alessio I'm very excited to dive into vimcao today it is part of our new in-depth
review series but if you did want to find any calendar app you can find them over on
tool finder which will be linked below and if you want an in-depth review as well in
tax form of vimcal you can find it linked in description below so Vim cow has been an
interesting experience I actually been using it for the last couple of days I'll show you
around it I'll give you an idea for how it works and how it operates but I always like
to start with the pricing and details of the availability of this application so vimcal
have an interesting setup they do have the devices available on iOS Windows Mac and they
have a Chrome extension but they have a weird pricing setup so the concept is you can access
the IOS app for free getting a few features along with that as well but the premium or
the general availability of the desktop version on Windows and on Mac it's naturally part
of their premium experience which is priced at 15 per month this makes it the most expensive
calendar app we've reviewed here on keep productive now there is a little bit of a discount if
you build annually you can get it down to 12.50 but at the same time that experience
of iOS and desktop brings it up to 15 bucks per month now you can get a full outline on
one actually is included in both of those but it does come with a Mac menu bar a Chrome
extension and it does on the Mac version have an apple silicon version which makes it a
lot faster so in terms of the general experience this application wants to be the fastest way
for you to do calendar and they're really taking a lot of notes here from superhuman
which is the email application which tries to be as rapid for you to manage your emails
so let's take a look at it and give you some of the features that are notable and give
you some of my personal thoughts on them for using them for the last couple of days so
here we are on Vim count and you'll notice the design is really nice I have been using
it for last couple of days and actually creating and booking stuff was actually really easy
and very fast but the design very noticeable notable and the one thing I liked about it
is you can pop it down to four day view month view week view and day view which is really
nice you can do things like pop this sidebar open I found the experience not too overwhelming
and quite easy to manage from day one now vimcat actually have a really not complex
onboarding but they sort of push you towards doing a one-on-one onboarding meeting and
you actually at the moment have to request access to it because they're individually
getting people through to vimcal so that's just something that's notable now it works
with Google workspace Google accounts and also Outlook at the moment and it does offer
a nice experience because one thing you can do is at the top you can use these tabs to
manage all of those which is nice because I can Scrabble team personal and work which
is really clean and easy to do you can set your calendars down here as well if you have
multiple calendars attached the same email address now one of the things that they say
is they want to be lightning fast and from my last couple of days of using it I did find
that now I don't have a great deal of events and calendars items but you can see here that
the application is pretty Snappy at being able to quickly do stuff it's as fast as superhuman
but four calendar now one of the features they have is something called availability
and you can pick slots on your calendar and you can see how Snappy there is and basically
you can copy that to your clipboard and send it on to somebody now on the iOS version they
have the feature for personal links which allows you to basically send a booking availability
a little bit like calendly that will allow you to copy the link send it to a person but
to be honest that's something that's Limited in the free version on iOS and it's a little
bit weird I find when you send this to people but at the same time it does a good job of
it especially when you've got more people who are following a more ad hoc process instead
of going through booking links now you can also in the premium pricing use group voting
which allows you to book a slot that everyone can do and find them in your calendar this
is really nice for being able to find whether people are polled and find the right time
for them now as you can see just from being able to do a few things like that you can
see the speed that I was talking about to be honest it was fast rapid and easy to use
and that's really nice but of course that comes with the premium pricing now there is
a feature on the command center which allows you to use time travel now not the time travel
you're thinking of because I'd definitely go back and try and sort my hair out earlier
with the receding hairline and you can naturally go in the time travel and find a date that
is in another country which is perfect for travel but also seeing the view with other
people's mindset in in plan which is perfect uh just be able to book with other people
now I really liked the design and function of this application and one of the things
you can do is actually go and press zero which allows you to pop it into this Focus mode
which is really nice now there are loads of keyboard shortcuts so that sort of thing I
had to double check but like with superhuman they do the onboarding to help teach you those
keyboard shortcuts so it's almost like a second nature to you when using it but I had to sort
of learn them myself so there are plenty shortcuts in the bank now here we go this is a 25 minute
time that you can start and naturally you can jump to a clock mode if you want and there's
also music down in the bottom right hand corner which is great for Focus you can see your
rent in the top right corner and you can organize a break just there so you can start the timer
and have a real focused session there I like that feature small but notable on desktop
so there are two other things that I found notable with the templates function which
you can access and create an event template which will save you time booking one-on-ones
or things you have pretty routinely and a sticky note which allows you to add a sticky
note of maybe it could be like objectives but that will allow you to pin it to your
areas which is great I couldn't actually find that um where is it I don't know where it
went I actually don't know where it went I thought it came up here my bad There's a sticky
note function yeah so the other thing that I really like is that in settings you can
go into quite good amounts of detail like secondary time zones and if I add adding um
what you actually want a specific type features painter which is really nice for adding particular
types of labels to events and things like that contact groups and what's up next and
things like that there's also a way to you to see my calendar and what access you have
as well as general abilities to change to a light mode and things like Nana so there
is an AI function they recently released called time finder which allows you to for example
if you get sent an email with a load of sessions on there and you find it and struggle to visualize
that on your calendar where you can copy and paste it into the feed which is great because
it will plot it out I'll show a video of this because it's not actually officially released
until this week I think as we're doing the review but as you can imagine helps to save
a bit of time on where the availability is for somebody else a nice utilization and function
of AI and what's cool is you can actually screenshot it and do the same which is cool
because again AI is helping us in smaller ways but I can imagine this application will
probably continue to add AI functions because it's that sort of application with a more
premium audience so that's a little bit about Vim cow in terms of how it works and after
using it for the last couple of days I found that it was fast easy to use and really functional
I'm not somebody to use a calendar a hideous amount I use it lightly currently use Chrome
calendar and I basically don't have many meetings but if you're somebody that is investing a
lot of meetings much like you are with superhuman for emails vimca wants to be that for meetings
so it's offering a more premium experience to help you manage that all in one vimcow
offers a good reliable premium experience to your calendar but it comes at a premium
pricing of 15 per month if you're paying monthly so again it's an investment for those who
using it on a routine basis and this will probably be something to really consider as
I mentioned for superhuman for email it's really important to consider whether this
investment is good for you for calendar so that was a full overview and in-depth review
of vimcal I have enjoyed using it I maybe will switch over to it I don't know I'm because
of the pricing it's not really as valuable to my setup but of course I check out some
of the better productivity apps and if I had the choice if money was of no mention this
would probably be the app I go with but at the same time this is something to consider
depending on how much you actually use of calendar so if you're continuing to explore
them cow we have a full in-depth feature which you can find on tool finder it breaks down
a beginner's guide to understanding some of the features and much more in detail also
we have a lot of calendar apps on till finer so you can find them all there and we look
forward to helping you find the best please do subscribe a big week thank you from myself
I'm excited to see you in a future video I'm sure and help you find the perfect productivity
tool so let us know what you think about Vim cam below and I'll see you all very soon
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