meetings meetings meetings you probably spend so much time in them and there's this new movement
called asynchronous collaboration which is becoming a lot more popular with remote
workers a lot of people are deciding to stay at home and work and um don't blame them it can be
pretty stressful having to commute every day and there's a lot of sort of upheaval on your day
now i wanted to suggest some no meeting tools that you can use at home with you and your
team if you're looking to reduce or maybe even eliminate the meetings that you have in a given
week so i've picked out seven applications which are quite popular on the market there is a blog
post to this below if you do want to read that as well welcome my name is francesco we run keep
productive which dives into plenty of productivity apps and tools so we'd honestly love you to have
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video like it as well so the first one on the list is one that i've actually been using for about
four or five years now and it's called twist the application is very similar in structure to slack
but it tries to approach it in a different fashion it starts with threads versus sort of channels of
communication that just on endlessly um focused on chat and sort of conversation threads are more
focused around more structured work i guess so for example you wanted to start a thread
on a specific video we're editing like this one we could and it makes that thread more intentional
and more clear and as well with asynchronous collaboration it really does help me and steve
who's probably editing this right now as we speak he we don't have any meetings apart from every
two weeks where we get to do together to do some filming and play a little bit of fifa but twist
is one of those apps that helps you to be a bit more intentional about how you're focusing on work
and it really does help you to stay clear on what the focus is you can still do dm private messaging
on there but it's an application that is trying to be more intentional at how you use it for example
a good example of this is a notifications ability where you can actually notify specific people
without having to nudge everyone else in the conversations and sort of constantly keep updated
with it so next up number two is slack now slack's been around for a while and it is a way to reduce
meetings they've actually added a brand new video clip ability and this is something that i think
is massive for asynchronous communication and remote work is being able to record stuff on your
own time it's um a little bit like really slow version of tennis the way that i see it you record
something and send it over and wait for their reply and be able to get that back but the videos
i think help um paint a picture that's bigger than just what you're typing on the screen so you can
do that natively inside of slack we actually have the video on how to do it in the link inscription
however slack's new introduction of that is definitely heading towards no meetings which
i think is a really good philosophy they do have the ability to do threads like twisters but not
in the same fashion in my opinion although that is something that you can do so next up is yak yak is
an application which um really is is very similar to cloud app which is our next app on this list
but yak allows you to record your screen um and even send a voice memo but what's nice about yak
is it uh transcribes it in real time um a very accurate transcription as well it's also got a
great ability that reduces background sound as well so that for example if you're in a coffee
shop and you record something then that's really effective it gets across really easily without
having to necessarily shout or go above the noise and what i liked about it is i actually
tested the feature when i was next to my washing machine which was really loud and actually worked
really well and i don't know sometimes you don't expect it to work well but at the same time it
does do a good job of that and you can also create channels and conversations inside of yak as well
so it does have a sort of ecosystem platform built in so number four is cloud app now i
used cloud app before um i think before loom which is our next app but stop doing this francesco
so basically cloud app allows you to record videos or what's on your screen even gifs as
well and it's nice because you can send them over to somebody and um what i like about it
is if you have the mac version you can quickly record something and it will instantaneously
get you the link which you can send on and i really like that and it's actually one of the
faster ones out there from the ones that i've used so far so number five is loom now loom has been on
the market for some time now it's my go-to choice for screen recording and sending something over
when i'm trying to explain something in the email and i don't necessarily want to jump in a call
loom is the tool that i go to use i record something whether that's me
webcam or me screen recording showing them how to use a specific feature
and i send it on and it's really nice because you can see um for example when somebody views it when
somebody replies or when somebody comments on a specific timestamp as well they have some great
team abilities for creating libraries with your fonts too which is really nice a nice addition for
sure next up is click up now click up does have some native recording abilities and it's something
worth checking out but i wanted to mention it because it's one of those applications that does
um have a lot of templates that sort of promote and have that ecosystem of remote work in it
and as you can imagine they are cashing in on that market it's a big market remote work at
the moment so it's definitely worth checking out clicker we've got a brand new channel called keep
productive click up if you did want to learn more about new click up updates the final application
is droplea and it is an application that has been around for a little bit of time now now it's it's
very similar to lighter cloud app and the likes of loom allowing to share create and record anything
on your screen or video but the one that i probably would go for above those two is probably
loom or cloud app or even yak um just because i i have experience using it but not as much as as
those others so folks hopefully this was useful um i can see all of you just canceling every meeting
after this and having nothing in your calendar um it's really worth having a look at whether you can
convert meetings into short looms or maybe even things like that so definitely something to check
out for the future anyway folks a big big thank you make sure to subscribe down there it'd be
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or share your experience if you're already using one thank you very much hoax and i'll see you soon
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