Hello everyone and welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel on today's video we're diving into Milanote
I reviewed Milanote a fair while ago now but in today's video we're giving it a full
Recap giving you a bit of an insight into what's changed in the last year or so since we've reviewed it
For those who don't know Milanote is a creative planning workspace view to map out ideas thoughts boards
Tasks pretty much anything and it's really perfect for creatives designers
And even those casual graphic designers, etc
All those who love to visually create so in today's video. Let's explore Milanote
So hello everyone and welcome back to another video as you can see by in this video
We are taking a look at Milanotes
You can find Milanote at Milanote.com and as I was mentioning
It's a place for planning creative projects and activities. This is it's lovely homepage. It's been around for a fair while now
It's got an iOS application coming very soon. But right now it's only available through web now
I'm going to just log in. I've got a free account
So I'll be demoing what I have inside of my account and also showcasing you around the application
Then we're going to talk about a few of the things that have changed
So hopefully this video gives you a bit of an insight
So as you can see
This is the millah note workspace as you can see I've gone into this board
So I'm actually go back to the home page. You can see here that you basically get to create your own workspace
So it's really really simple you obviously got these
Interactive elements think of this as a canvas in front of you a creative canvas now
I've created different areas from my previous video. So as you can see personal and professional
that's really simple to do and all you have to do is
Drag on the board section and they're basically a new area think of a new page
Inside of notion, so I'm just gonna create a new area and title it new area
actually, let's make it something a bit more interesting like creative ideas and
As you can see a icon has been assigned to it. If I wanted to change the color I can do
Let's make it a blue and I can change the icon too
You can so give a few more
icons that are
Related to it the keywords they bring up or even upload your own image
And if I wanted to and change the icon to maybe a piggy bank
With a little icon that now you can lock the position of it
So for example, if you had your own structural laid out in front of this, then you can do this lovely
Locking so that it doesn't move now if I go back out of here and I click in it
Creates this own workspace here. And as you can see this canvas allows you to start annexed up
So if I wanted to start, you know mapping out ideas I could add an image
For example if I click it
You can see a recommend recommended images and you can even see that it's Google searched a few things ready for you
So the two keywords creative idea, but you can upload your own and that's really really easy to do. So, let's upload an example
Let's upload some of this
inspiration that I have and as you can see
It goes automatically into unsorted which you can drag it out to
You can make it larger
And as you can see, you can position it anywhere you like if I click into this
I
can actually give it to a color that means it gives like this almost like manner across the top and I could also add a
Caption to I can say like Japanese
style
building
If I wanted to and that caption just goes below it. You can see when I added the caption
I also have the ability to go bold italic even add a hyperlink as well as highlight
strikethrough and add some code
So it does have quite a few abilities there if I click into it again
I can lock the position of that and that's fixed
So for example when it comes to try and move it across it won't do anything now
You can handle lots of different things to this board. It can be a note
For example, you can have a really simplistic note if you wanted to something that you could just start going into like for example
if you put
Japanese style
Building and you could maybe add some notes next to it. You can even add bullet points, so
let's try to
Apply
This style
To a new house. I don't know. Maybe this person's building a house
Um, and you can click in and even do all the same
You've also got something called power-ups which has been something they've recently added
So for example, if you wanted to convert it to a long-form piece, and that's just make it scrollable
um, you know
Like almost in its own page then you can do and that's perfect for designers that almost collaborates as a document there
So that's something that you can do with power-ups you can switch that off as well. You can also add a separate like description
That's just an additional field as well as make it transparent, too
So if you wanted to make that note just like clear then you can do now power-ups a fairly new feature
So that's something that they're gonna be rolling out
Now one of the things I missed in here is I just wanted to make this
This heading just heading one so that can be nice and clear
And if I wanted to I could do something very similar to what you could do in
Google keep but I guess just have the banner
There so it gives it kind of a nice structure when you're finding different notes
Now you can also add links hyperlinks an ease
So for example if I found a really good article
Let's find an article on Japanese on let's paste the link here and press ENTER and as you can see
What should appear is a full bleed art cornice?
So that's quite a nice addition
If I wanted to put this one over here
Then that means that I can click into that whenever I want any inspiration to it
Now you can also do to-do lists as well
So for example, if I dragged it on you can see a to-do list appears now
It's a very simple to-do list. You can add a title to it. So for example if you wanted like
list of
places to visit
In Japan a so I'm gonna not lie to you guys. I definitely use Siri there to ask
Whether Japan what places in Japan I could visit so that I knew exactly what to put there so you can see a good demonstration
Of how the list works here. I particularly like the organizing list
So for example, you can move and change and tick off any of the list items, too
So for example, I could say I visited nagger yo
I'm probably putting that pronunciation if I wanted to I can add a line to now the line could be
Manipulated and also you can add a curve to that line too. So for example, if you're visually demonstrating something
Then you can do so if I just get rid of that one, you can also add a board
So you're almost adding pages inside of this say for example, if you want an answer specific
like for example, the
Building designs. I don't know
Then you could have something that resembles that and obviously that would be clickable and the breadcrumb would appear at the top of the page
You've also got a column too. If you drag the column out, they almost act as boards
so for example if I just typed in board and
added a card to it just below so if I put something like
Alternative places in Japan and
I clicked off this you can see that the board the card becomes available and if I click in and click out you can drag
The card out too
Now that's a very smart thing that you can do and the board obviously
Allows you to add all of the no text formatting abilities that you do there
So it's almost like having a mini board inside of here
But again, these are the title of boards inside of here. So they're called columns. They're called boards
You can also add a comment which is helpful
If you are a team member and you can obviously tag people relevant to the comments, so why not try?
another look and
You could post it here
and
As you can see that it will appear inside of something called
Notifications in the top, right?
If you had a team added to it now
You can upload files and something I want to talk about in there at the end is templates
But this is that's a general view of all of the features
if I go up to the top
right
you can invite other people to edit to view and leave documents or just send a read-only version as well as a
Secret link to this board so that it will be viewable now something that's brand-new in this
Edition is well since the last time we reviewed it is the ability to export in PNG
I don't think that was available. You can export in PHP DF
You can also convert it to a linear document like a PDF a Word document markdown or plain text
Which is very good. So up here. Obviously, you've got I'm on the free plan, but very similar to like some notion
You've got a limit of how many
Insights, you've got say for example on my one
I've used 28 of the 200 news so far
Now if you had for example, you have seven notes aren't that seven notes one comment
four images one length 15 to-do lists, and you can get
Okay, looks like about a hundred cards
extra cards, but you can get this like a referral scheme in here if you click refer-a-friend you can copy and
Increase it by 200 cards 20 cards each time. So there's a maximum of 100
so I think that I've done that before but if you're looking for more then you can do
As you see you get hundred notes as your sort of minimum and you can add up to 100 cards with no time limit either
So that's the plans there. You've got the free plan for on sharing unlimited boards
You've got the ability to add 100 notes and upload 10 files. Whereas with this professional monthly one its pro account. It's nine dollars 99
And that's billed annually, but if you wanted to build build monthly that's $12
53 plan and Limited notes unlimited boards unlimited search as well. So that's in the upgrade
so as you can imagine probably something for you to explore but
What I want to what I wanna what I want to quickly do is demonstrate the new templates function
This is something that's only been added recently
I'd say probably
Something that's been added in last
year
At least and you can see that there are some popular templates so you can see a weekly plans been already
Created as a board. So if I go into it, you can see a weekly plan
Structure has been laid out so you can copy that you can basically change it to whatever you want
And you can also unclear example content so you can just start fresh. That's something I wish I would have seen inside of notion and
I'm sure they'll probably be adding it soon
If you wanted to you can add another board or another page inside of here and as you can see
This is a nice team planner what's on my list to do? And also I've got like creative briefs persona
These are all things that designers will use there's any one design section
So if you want a design brief
Let me just demonstrate that cuz I know a few
designers follow this channel so you can see here that you've got a few design briefs a
Layout about the client and things like that so you can view all of them. They've got more than just that
Project workflow social media video creative brief project plan sales pipeline might be useful
I know a lot of sales individuals use it as you can see these in the actions
So as you can see
You've got a nice column here with the ability to see all of the notes from the meeting and the actions below
So that's quite a nice addition. So there are few examples you could use
for templates
but again
One thing that one the dimension is the iOS application is coming out currently only available for web works. Really?
Well, one thing I would say is it's a lot smoother than the first time
I tried it a few a year ago now so I think they've worked on a stability of it
But I'm gonna see how the iOS app comes out because a lot of time like with the likes of notion
It's gonna be hard to try and replicate especially how visual this experience is to create in the iOS experience
so I'm looking forward to seeing how they
Make a take on it. Anyway. Anyway guys, hopefully that give you a nice review or overview of Mullah note again
It's very competitive application. They're looking to develop further, but they're really trying to hone in
this is really perfect for those designers out there those creatives and
Those people who'd like to collaborate now
One thing I want to say is there is a Mac app coming too I believe so do check that one out
I'm not sure it's whether it's readily available yet. So include the link in description. Anyway guys huge
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