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It is so good to have you back now in today's feature
what I wanted to do is talk to you briefly about how I moved from barre notes and
Trello over to notion now
Hopefully and the outcome in this video is to show you how you can potentially combine an experience
but also giving you some advice on how to do this effectively because I think a lot of time people rush this and
It's important to notes that you don't necessarily need to rush this
Right away, of course. It's important to take that time. Make sure you've got the right application before you make some big leaps
So let me explain I actually started using Bear Notes when I started actually
Investing time in the YouTube channel scripting so I would spend most of my time on bare notes writing out scripts to future videos
Now, of course, I'd use Bear Notes pretty regularly because I liked how it broke down the text
I liked the markdown. I liked that it was a writer application that had distraction for experience
I could quite easily write notes store them in a scripts hash tag
Which is the notebook set up inside a bear and I found it a really good experience now
I don't want to take away from this. I actually really do like bear and I do still recommend
It is a great note-taker and writer application
however
at that time I was using it for about two years and then I sort of felt like
I could be doing this inside of one application
now obviously I had a key interest there and that was to script videos and
I was also using Trello now
I use Trello for a solid two years as well in the same sort of time zone there that I used Barre notes and
Of course, both of those applications worked pretty well, and then I started using notion for about a year
So about a year into notion use I thought okay
I could actually combine both my scripting which was all my notes for future videos and
My actual plan my sort of schedule my content calendar from Trello and put them together
No, I was using Trello is essentially my content calendar. I had a full year worth of videos using thumbnails
planning what the topics were and you know actually tagging the videos that I
Linked in so it was all very helpful and actually hannah is an access
Open so that people could suggest future videos now. I'm really not knocking Trello here. It was a fantastic experience
I just personally noted that I was using two applications for the experience
So I started using notion as my content calendar and I did it very very lightly
Actually starting with the editorial calendar with me and Alice and then I started using it for the YouTube calendar
Now just to be clear the editorial calendar use was almost like an experiment
I would start by creating a very simple table and
Embedding everything that I would for example all the upcoming features on the blog for and what I did inside of Trello
Inside of this table now when it comes to scripting I'd open up the page
That was actually about the certain topic or the certain video and then start writing about it
Now as you can imagine this combined both uses bear and Trello now
I definitely had some reservations to start off with I really didn't like the fact that I didn't get that markdown ability
For example, I really like the way that bear delivered the script because I would open up bear and it'd be really accessible
I definitely found the bear application faster and something that I find really liking to write
for example, I just liked to write out long form pieces of scripting and
Also, I liked Trello because it was colorful and and very useful and I was using with a lot of clients at the time
So it actually became an application. I'd be opening a lot of during my day
However, after I started using that editorial calendar as a sort of starter
I think that actually really helped is actually having a smaller project to work alongside. There's not directly correlated
So I was still using barren Trello at the same time
But I was experimenting with an element of the work I was doing so actually having
Those sort of mini experiment gave me a lot more time to think about whether this was suitable
Now after 2 months of using that I then invested into creating the YouTube content calendar there and I then put more time and attention
Into the property's experience inside of notion
so now I have a lot of different properties set up and actually have a full content calendar here and it has really really
Helped now what advice I'd give to people who are looking at actually combining two experiences
maybe you're looking at bringing some of your meeting notes from Evernote and
Maybe some of your project planning into notion now, that's actually a genuine
You know actual opportunity and of course, it's something to definitely consider
But the thing that I'd know it's just making sure whether it's suitable for you
I would definitely recommend running a one to two months trial using a very simple
Element of your existing work. So for example, if you are planning projects and your mate taking meeting notes
Why don't you pick a certain topic or maybe even the people you work with?
So for example any future meetings with Bob
I will now and and in manage and
Project manage inside of notion in one experience and in trial it see whether it's suitable for you giving yourself
time to breathe understand the features and actually
So that you're not fully moving your experiences over now sadly
There isn't a import from Bayer so I wasn't able to import all of my previous scripts
However, you can import from Trello if you're looking to move your projects over
so there is some possibilities with that now obviously that was just a short story about me using Trello and bear and how I
Combine the experiences but one I definitely recommend is sitting down and evaluating your ones
I noticed that I was using two applications for something that I could fix with one. So it's definitely something to consider
Now, I've only recently been looking at this with for example, Google Calendar
I was you know when I come back from holiday
I notice that I was booking a lot of meetings and now I'm actually considering do I use Google Calendar and calendly or
Do I just combined my experiences and use woven calendar?
Because that might be a better way of doing it is just having a fewer
Google Calendar application which is woven and the scheduler in one so that I'm not necessarily
Duplicating my experiences. I'm just using one application that will then combine those experiences
so I definitely recommend continuing to look at your systems without necessarily going to
Aggressively do this in and with lots of plenty of time. That's my biggest recommendation to you guys
Anyway guys, please let me know in the comments, which is useful. I'm planning to do a all my tools feature
so I'd really love to hear your opinions on whether you'd like to see that because I'm
Would love to plan and release out and even guys a big. Thank you and I'll talk to you guys in a future video
cheers, everyone