today we'll be diving into catalog 2. now catalog 2 is essentially the second version of catalog
and for those who don't know I've done a full review of the initial version of catalog here on
the channel and very simply catalog is a project management application that has a few differences
and combines I guess the traditionality of the project management like Trello or
Asana with a more no code or a flexible basis like notion encoder today we're going to look
at the release statement from catalog 2 and what it means for the role and future of productivity
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so catalog's a company that I've personally been interested in for quite a while and I think
catalog is a good example of what the next step of productivity could look like in my opinion I
think the role the catalog plays right now is very small but this new update is fairly interesting as
a step forward for productivity and the embedding of AI in there so what catalog is releasing today
is something called text to product Ai and you're probably wondering okay I've heard of all this AI
stuff how is this different and how is this something that could be beneficial so this
is different to a lot of AI that is out there in the moment because what it does is it's focused
on the core structure of workspaces versus being a generative AI system so right now if you go into
notion and you're luckily out of that wait list you want to use AI you start typing away and you
can use it to prompt and prove it whereas this starts from the beginning with this new catalog
text to product AI feature you can type in what you want a workspace to build around you so for
example when I was on the call to demonstrate this product with them I said a pet shop in San
Francisco and what it did is it built a basically an entire structure and Company layout based on
this now this this is pretty cool and I guess it's probably what templates do right but what
was different was it built objects around that and that's what is different with this catalog
setup is it understands objects and it understands the sort of backing background and what you need
for that so when you go ahead and type in say Media company in this department or real estate
firm what it would do is it will build the system around key aspects that the AI has picked out that
are objects to what can be useful and then you could further refine that in the experience but
from then on your system is built around objects versus being built around your own structure which
something like AI might not understand it might not allocate as something that's beneficial so
from the ground up this structure is actually built using artificial intelligence versus the
other way around where it's plug and played or layered on top now this new version has a lot
more more abilities and it's something that I'm probably going to do catalog 2 full review on
very soon but this new update is something that's super interesting in the space as a way to fix the
templatizing problem and it probably causes a lot of issues for those who are potentially building
notion templates or community-based templates like that but at the same time it definitely
solves an issue of actually setting things up for people that want to go and get started doing
workload-based work but not necessarily want to have that initial startup time
so I'll include a full announcement of what they had as a Blog piece below so you can read all
about it but it's definitely something that is super interesting in the space right now and I
think solves a real big need for that and I like this concept of object-based um structures in
productivity because I feel like that's the way that we build it from the ground up to introduce
Smart Suggestions improve the quality of our day plans and also get it to do small errands for you
that you might want it to do in the future which is where I think this application is heading so if
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