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Now what's quite exciting about this application is it's been out for a while
it just sort of had every jig and
The as you can see on the homepage here
The sort of kicker is it's a priority planner for effective people now they claim they have four hundred twenty
Thousand users. It's currently available on iOS Android chrome Windows Chrome extension
They also have an inbox zero progress expansion and a new tab extension. So let's dive into this application today
I'm really looking forward to showing you around this experience. So all I'm going to do is go to login
I've got a week plan account, which I've been sort of toying around with for you guys
and of course
I will be demonstrating how this works today now just to give you a bit of an indication on pricing now
It does have a free trial. I believe its 14-day free trial
they have two core accounts and you've got the pro account which is
Two dollars per month and you've got a three dollar account, which is the ultimate plan, which we're demonstrating today now
I will show you around a bit more detail of this application
But we can dive back into pricing there with the endless feature
So here we are with week plan, and we're going to start with the planner element now
You can see from the top up here that you've got different experiences in your week plan account
You've got vision everything starting from vision to objectives to weekly reviews to your journal
But in this case were actually gonna be planning the week ahead so you can see here that you've got
all days of the week from Monday to Sunday and
It might be a little bit scary as you get started, but it's actually quite a simple process
So we are on Thursdays
So that's why this is opened up like so and of course it's transferred some of the tasks that I had from last week
hence
You'll be seeing a really belated prepare
Valentine's Day meal and actually did that one and as you can see once you take off an item
You can see it completed below there
Now, of course, I need to write an article still so actually this item can be moved to tomorrow
So as you can see if I click into tomorrow
Tomorrow's task is write a article now. Maybe I want to record the patron video on Sunday as you can see here
I've moved it across but if I want to add any new tasks
I can simply press this and task to the day and this is quite nice. This is really easy to do
for example
Let's say onto the record at YouTube because I am as you can see you've got you can mark it as important
So for example, I need this is important
It's not urgent so you can actually tag it as urgent if you wanted to you can give it a role as well
So for example, in this case, I've created an area I call this a role
they call this a role of YouTube so you can see I've given it almost a project title and
Also, you can assign it to an objective. So that comes a little later will describe how to use the vision and objective sections
So if I hit save you can see that I've created a new item and of course it's colorized itself in the YouTube
projects area which is quite nice so you can see you can start to begin to see this schedule of
Tasks that you need to do. For example tomorrow. I need to record one module of the course
I'm creating so I'm gonna say that's urgent as well
And I'm gonna give it a roll of work now
If I press save it will obviously come up differently
The red text indicates that it's urgent and it will give you a bit of more of an indication
You're probably wondering what does this left-hand side mean? This actually allows you to plan
High-impact tasks. So for example across a week. Let's say you've picked up a few high-impact tasks
Like I don't know book doctor's
Stuff that really needs to get done
And you can add sub tasks to it. But let's say you've got a few here
Let's say I've got a notion and book doctors
I'm gonna drag these in so you can see any time it can be completed during the day
And in this case, I've dragged the notion course here
I'm going to drag it to the top there as well and their high-impact are said tasks that are going to be
Dramatic to your day. So for example, I've just added those to there so you can start to see that obviously
I've got two of these scheduled now and you can give an indication of what?
They're you can see where they are
So it's quite a good way in being able to plan the week ahead
You have this thing up here called a timeline
So for example, these will show events and I believe later on you can connect your Google Calendar with it
This is something that a lot of people will like to have but for example, let's say you know on Friday
I've actually got we've got a house appointment meeting
There we go
And I add that one end and press save you can see that it gives a time
Specific task and if I click into it like with all of these
Tasks once I click into it I can start to see more detail
So you're probably wondering it looks a little bit bunched. How do I make it a little less intense?
You can go to my day view and skip to the day of the week it is and for example, see that like that
But if you're looking at my week for you, you're gonna get a bit of a bunch, too
Look now if you wanted as I mentioned see the house appointment in more detail
You can change the time here. You can add a recurring you can add a little like a reminder to it
for example
If you wanted a reminder fair
SMS or email then you can do so you can add it to a list
You can give it a role in objective which will describe in a minute
you can actually track the task, which is quite useful and give it a
duration, so for example
I think actually that one's gonna take about two hours so you can see that the timeline up here is actually updated
Based on that if I click close and save you can see in a bit more detail that the time has changed
if I go back into this if you were using this as team, you could add comments and
Attachments and that's quite useful, but there's also this progress bar
so for example
If I wanted to give it like a 28% progress you can see at the bottom here that's indicated there
But in this case is actually not something. Sorry if I go back here
It's actually not something that it needs an indication of progress
So for example, if I said maybe here like okay, I'm actually you know
71% of the way through this video
I don't know
It gives you a bit of an indication of that timeline and you can do this with any of the tasks
You just click in to them and you can add subtasks notes and even take them off up here
You've also got up here a copy to clipboard and also remove it from the high-impact
tasks and this essentially pins to the left-hand panel so that you can see the most
high-impact tasks to get done
And obviously you can see this slightly bolded as well to indicate more of an importance
now if I wanted to and I wanted to associate this notion course recording to a specific time I could do so and
Naturally, I can get a plan for my day of what I want to see and a plan for the whole week ahead
No, it's really cool
And this is something that you can obviously change views on whether you want to see it per month or per day
if I scroll across to a day that you can see and start to see a bit more of a
Indication of what you're getting on with so that's a schedule view and that's something that a lot of people like to do
But there's also board abilities
so for example
if you want to see a
backlog by rolls of some of the tasks that you have on so for example, some of the personal tasks
So for example, I put organized list of questions for mortgage advisor
You know, these are all things that you can add to this list
And you can obviously add them in more detail giving yourself some more notes up here
So these are all the ones per role I've created three roles personal YouTube and work
And it's quite a neat way of doing it and if you wanted a backlog by objectives
Which will show you the objector section a bit you can do but you can also add these area called boards
So for example if I had House tasks
You can obviously have a board per that and you can even edit the board
You know that the title of the board that all it is and also in lists
So for example if you want to add it to a new list to the position
Then you can do so so you can actually have a couple of house tools to do here if you wanted to in this case
You can have a parking lot which is quite a nice way of having a few lists for different things
So for example, you've got like gift ideas and you know, like by opacity, you know books to read
You know things are pending
Go to Denmark the bucket list, you know, so you can have start and start to have some sort of list based stuff that hides
subtly behind this area here
So if you wanted some more static stuff
That's where you'd find it there now just to give you a few notes as well
There is a Help Center here, but there's also a sorting ability
so for example
If you had multiple users
and a specific role you'd like to apply a filter on so for example
If I wanted to see only the YouTube stuff I've got to do today
I don't actually have anything but if you for example wanted to see the other work stuff you had to do
So here we are. You can see it start see some of the tasks
I had the wrong filter setting on I didn't give it a specific user, but you can do as well
You can even search and filter for text as well as what quadrant they appear in
So for example urgent important important urgent and non important so you can do that really easily and you can reset it if you like
now each of the day's comes with for example in the ultimate plan is
prioritize so for example
if I wanted to
I can see the emergent an important the important but not urgent
Not urgent and not important and you can start to see what stuff you should do
Now and watch stuff you should schedule it for later and also delicate. So once you start giving it an importance and urgency
Whether it's high importance high urgency, etc. It will use this methodology this quadrant methodology
To actually organize some of your tasks
So that's something that is a effective technique for a lot of people as a way to really prioritize what you're working on
So you're probably wondering
What they're heckie, heckie is all this stuff up here. You can go over to vision and this is quite cool
So for example, you can say you can define yourself. You can be like, I'm an independent
Creator
or
Maybe I'm really all for typing and you can add a core value to yourself
You can give it an indication of how you envision your personal life. How you envision your you to work in this case
How you envision your work and giving yourself a mission statement as well
I've awfully spelt that so I'm going to use grandma Lee to correct it. That's not unhappy either
You can give yourself a mission statement here, too
so this is a nice place to see if you are giving yourself a bit of a
Grounding of what you're working on and where you'd like to aim to and in this case
You can go to something called a objective area now all you have to do and this is for the quarter one is
Create an objective. And for example, let's say I have an objective of
65,000 subscribers and just thinking in this case you can say okay key
Results line. So for example, you can say the starting value is I think I was 60,000
So here hopefully this will work for example if you give it a unit say for example
If you're losing weight or something like that, this might be useful or you're working on a project that has some specific weight
for example
10 clients
and you could put clients as your unit there and what you'd like to start and target on so you can see here that I
Have since 2000 subscribers here and you can see you can tick it off you can also
You know give some
High-impact tasks that are associated to it. So for example, if I go back to planner and
I'm like, ok. The notion course is going to move some needles
I'm going to associate it to this objective and I'm going to move out and you can see that the milestone it appears
So this task is aligned with an objective
So you can see here that if I click in with the key results, you can see that you know
This is zero percent completed but obviously, you know
For example once I get it done if I'm going to get it done in that week
it's gonna take me three weeks to do so you can give yourself a
High-level action plan and it's essentially like a Gantt chart a mini Gantt chart of what you actually want to see
So for example, if I run over this, I'm obviously gonna be late. So if I
deselect these
You can see that I'm obviously late on this target
so you can start giving yourself like a
Breakdown of all of the plans that you've got and if you want to show those action plans you can quite easily do so
So if you wanted a list, for example, you're like okay. I need to release like I
Need to release
Big to-do list video. I don't know
You can give it also a role
So for example in this case
it's YouTube and you can give it an indication of what weeks you'd be doing on so you get an idea for
Some of the scheduled tasks you've got and if I go over to planner and I go over to the week in advance
Yo, yeah
there you can see a high-impact task is ready for me to drag in and work on so you
starting to get an idea that this is like really for the sort of goals the way that you check in on this I
Guess is if you wanted to add another key indicator
you could do so but the idea of it is really to help you think more about your objectives and and which coves
correlated to it because sometimes
We add a bunch of tasks to our to-do list and then we don't think about how they will result in at the end
Goals, so you can see here
they have a week planner as well, which allows you to scan the week that you've just been on and
Actually drag stuff onto your plan so that you can organize your week ahead and there then you can start planning your actual
You for example go to all of the different board views and you can start planning the week using the board views
So that's quite a neat way and then you can go to your schedule and block specific time
That you're working on and it gives you a bit of an indication up here to start working on
So if I press finish review, it will move over to the planner section and finally have the journal as well
Now the journal is a separate part and you can essentially add a new entry. I am not sure what that is a new
cogito Rama
Apparently is a tool for raising self-awareness. It's like Twitter for journaling
So that's an additional tool you can use but the journal will allow you to keep track of your emotions and feelings
but if I go back to the week planner
I'm not sure whether the entries get added here
But I can imagine they do
Now a few of the small
All the things designed this application as you can see at the bottom of each one
You can see three hours scheduled. That's something to note. You've also got the ability to search up here
For example, if you're looking to find a specific thing
then you can do so and it will bring you to that task which is quite easy to do and
The other thing as well is you have got an inbox top right-hand corner
If for example like plan visit to see a liter and I wanted to do that on Friday
You can just drag these in and and Saturday I'll seek a better phone contract apparently
So this is a neat way of doing it and something that you'll find some time to do
So top left hand corner, you can obviously add more teams
You can change the team settings, which is something that you can obviously change the workspace name
You can email into week plan
and that will add a new task to your workspace and you can even sing cravat synchronize on the pro account with Google Calendar and
Outlook calendar, so if you have already populated your calendar you can have that in there, too
So it's quite easy. There is really simple plans involved. They do not have a free plan
So just take that into notes as I mentioned
It's available on iOS Android Chrome windows, of course a web
so I don't think you'll be too far from
Finding a really good experience now over here. You can find your account settings
So some of the additional notes
you've also got the ability to change font and
Detail some of the preferences as well as all of the user stuff and the avatar picture details there too now
I'm trying to find pricing the pricing options for the pro are two dollars per week
And that works out at about eight dollars per month
But I did check it again in its I think it was like ten dollars with a V eighty per month
So, you know that two dollars does work out to about ten dollars
You can get it billed monthly or yearly and that gives you access to that quadrant view the attachments and the team
Features as well as the goals or the okay arts
Now if you want the ultimate plan
It's an extra dollar per week and that totals to sixteen dollars
Twenty-five monthly and that's everything in here everything in the pro plan as well as repeating time subtask calendar sync
Reminders SMS access to date to download and a Pomodoro timer which we didn't demonstrate but you also do have that too
So that's gonna be a bit more expensive
but again
I really see this application as
Those who know they plan their week tweak like this and who want to correlate their objectives. I find this would be suitable for
Someone who is maybe a freelancer or a professional who tends to plan their week week to week at least and that
Would take advantage of the vision and objective features as you can imagine
It's very similar to Trello other applications that use similar Kanban boards
But this is bit more different because it's more correlated to the week
so guys I have a good opinion of this one only issues I have is that the iOS and Android applications aren't
Too attractive the web interface is a little bit old-school
but again, you're sort of you're you're looking looking a bit more in the method that you are necessarily the
Delivery of the application and you can access on Windows and it does have a few extensions to make the job a better
So guys let me know in the comments below whether you're using week plan
Of course, it'd be great to hear from those users out there a big THANK YOU to Skillshare for sponsoring today
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