Hello everyone and welcome back to keep productive YouTube channel and today's feature
We're taking a look at NotePlan 2 for the Mac
we're going to be diving into the
application giving you a bit of a quick review now for those who don't know noteplan is a
Sort of like a blend between a note-taker a task manager and a calendar application
but in a very subtle way and it's available on iOS and
Mac and what we'll be doing today is digging into the new Mac version
giving you a bit of an outline of some of the features and
Also giving you a recommendation of where this is suitable for if you're planning or looking to use it
so hopefully you get a good idea of where the note plan - is suitable for you that rhymes and it shouldn't
So without further ado guys, let's jump into this video
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Let's jump into notepad. Okay. So here we are with no plan - for mac in front of us
And before we begin, let's start with the pricing and positioning of this product
So how much is no plan - now it prices at?
14 days free and that's the trial period of time and then after that on the iOS device it is
14.99 which is a one-off fee that you pay out right now
You can also get it through what's called the set app plan
Which is available for Mac devices and that will be obviously free based in this description
Now the new Mac version actually is priced a little bit differently. It's actually priced at
$29.99 filio you might be able to get $5 off during their launch and they let me know that but of course
I apologize if I'm posting this late and I've wasted you $5
Now the way that no plan positions itself is more of a work planner it tries to combine
To-do lists note taker and calendar in one application
Now the way I put it is
Agenda and sort of Diner lists had a baby with this application and that is what no plan is it's been around for a while
Now and it has been very popular. It's got a
4.6 iOS App Store rating which is fairly strong for a Productivity application and it's a german-based company
Run by I think it's a single developer with a few helpers in the marketing department
Now, let's go ahead and take a look at the Mac version
So as you can see here on this left-hand side, you've got the sidebar which indicates your calendar and notes
Which you can switch to and when you go in the calendar, you also get the mentions for example
If somebody else mentions you or you've mentioned yourself it will appear in this section
You've also got hashtags to organize your notes to and it sort of combines both the calendar and notes experience
Which is a little bit different, but it seems to work fairly well
Now as you can see here in the center, you've got mainly the calendar
But you can toggle this view to a ListView which allows you to see all of your different occasions viewed here
And also if you have any tasks you can see them all in line as well
So if I go into this area?
which is the main area I can actually turn this into a
Full sized display and as you can see here at the top, you've got all of your calendar events
Now this actually integrates with Aikau iCloud
So you get all of your Apple calendar events of reminders and also notes as well
Which is fairly attractive for those already using
Apple's devices as you can see here if I click in I
Can actually edit the events directly and as you can see, this is a repeated event. So you see that throughout the calendar events
I have I can even go ahead and change the calendar the details like alerts repeat and
Even and this is a reminder instead and all I have to do to make any changes is press save
So up in the top right hand corner if I wanted to go ahead and create a new event
You can go do so here and it's very smart to use smart date passing to be able to add more details
So for example if I want to say meet mark at 11:00 a.m
It automatically detects all of that stuff and will add it in the information here
If I wanted and this is a reminder. So for example, I could say pick up milk
for today at 12:00 I can add that as a reminder and it will be able to add into the sort of timeline feed of
The day so you can see there
Boxing and then pick up milk and then cook and eat lunch and these are all recurring as you can see
So this is quite a nice view
It's very similar to the likes of things 3 when you're actually seeing the calendar events that they have
Now you can scrub all to the next day ahead if you want to just by simply tapping forward
Now as you can see here, here's a day in the week
then I have more things to do and as you can see I've added sign up to
Nhpc now as you can see
I've created this as a star and I've just simply added an Asterix which automatically appears if you've already created one
But let's go ahead and type in Asterix
that is how you go ahead and create a tick Abul task now, for example if I want to say
Get quote
for present
gift
Voucher for the zoo I could go ahead and see that as a task. And if I go out of this I
Can actually see that as a task inside of here and actually this week signed up to the nhbc
So you can see that task ticks off and in side of the day view
It actually appears as a grayed out item so you can sort of see what you did that day, which is quite nice
So that's how to get tasks up and as you might have noticed up here as well
You can see the completion of the day, which is quite nice
if for example
I've completed half the tasks of the day and it's indicated by a pie chart
Now if I wanted to I can actually move this to the next day so I can for example move this to tomorrow move it
To today actually complete it. I can complete it just by ticking off that I can click ctrl
Z to undo if I want to and it could also cancel it as well
Now I can move it to a specific day in the future
So for example if I was like, okay, I'm gonna set it to Saturday. Then it you can see it's deferred
It's almost like a bullet journal to some extent because you have the ability to see things
Advanced and as you see up here
It is ticked off now if I go back out into here and I scroll ahead to may be week 20
I think it was a week 20. I don't know it was this this Saturday?
I should see it appear there and as you can see I can click into this Saturday and see all of the relevant details
Now up in this top right-hand corner
I can go ahead and copy the URL to no copy link to no show in finder now
This is quite useful because if I wanted to see this as a text document I can easily do so
Which is very useful in case I wanted to export something
Now you're probably wondering where did the notes come in now? You can do notes in two ways
For example if I wanted to not necessarily add tasks here
But for example and some may be detailed headings and I can add a heading down here and I can say notes for the day
Maybe I was in a meeting and I can go ahead and add bullet points down here all the relevant details
and if you want all of the stylings and information
You need to know about headings how to make lists bold stuff like normal
You can access it all in these styles and shortcuts area, which should be available when you download
It sounds very neat and I can even write agenda in minutes here
Associated to the day, which is handy now if I wanted to take more serious notes in more detail
I could go ahead and create notes in this notes area
So as you can see here, you can start going with some notes
And if I want to go ahead and create a brand new note I can do so up here and I can even give it
a basic title
So for example, if you want to say meeting notes and be able to start tapping away now, for example
If I wanted to go ahead and tag this as books for example, maybe this is books that I'm writing or something like that
I've created a hashtag called books in this notes area now if I go ahead and put it in the search bar
You'll see that it actually won't appear it nothing appears inside of here
but if I've got a hashtag selected, for example
If I added a hashtag to a day of the week and I said this one's at meetings, for example
And I go out of this
You can see meetings was added to the hashtags area
And if I search meetings I can find the notes for the day on this and actually be able to access that quite easily
So if you want to be able to use hashtags, you can use them to organize any notes
Do you have on specific days which is a really handy experience?
So with the same concept of hashtags, I can mention people for example
If I put Sam or Francesco say or Bob it would come up in this area
Selected at Sam and you can have mentions to whatever you want
it could even be another context point like how long a task and it take you or
For example a reference to someone who the meeting was with so you can see all of the times that you interacted with that person
so as you can imagine this is a more of a useful experience for those who already use an app like for example
Dinah list or an app like agenda who like to associate notes to specific calendar times and
use this almost bullet journal like
Markdown editing to be able to plan their day ahead now
This application works pretty well in terms of me able to plan your week ahead
But it doesn't have any methodologies attached to it. Neither. Does it have any smart abilities?
It's a very raw application in a sense. But this is an experience that a lot of people will find helpful
Now there's a range of different things you can change in settings
But the concept of this application is to try and combine your calendar notes and tasks into one application
So guys, hopefully you found this video useful whether you chose or when ahead would know plan
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