hello everyone welcome back to the key productive youtube channel it is francesco here today we're
diving into llama life and you're probably wondering like why are you finding these very
obscure applications to review francesco well this application is particularly interesting to
me because at the moment we're in the background working on a focus application which i won't tell
you many details about just yet because it's probably going to be later in the 2021 however
they're sort of of interest to me at the moment um i find them to be companion applications to
what we're already doing with to do the snaps and i thought i'd check out this one called llama life
um the main reason i'm sort of jumping on this now is because they've recently added a todoist
integration so the concept behind llama life is that it's aiming for you to focus on your work in
for example smaller stint periods it's basically a timer combined with a micro to-do list application
to be honest i i like the concept there are a few flaws in it that i'll be going for in today's
video however i'm mildly impressed with its fairly first take on what it's doing now as you can see
here it does things like task timer mojo grouping and some of the sort of alarm-based stuff um but
um and as you can see here is what it looks like we'll be diving into it in a moment but
before we begin of course i want to talk about the pricing and availability now this is the pricing
it's an early adopter pricing of 29.99 a year in my opinion too overpriced it should probably
sit at like 14.99 per year at what it is however obviously that's um you know i'm looking into
pricing at the moment something's really quite hard to hear um we recently did doing a video
an article about premium pricing and productivity applications if you'd like to read it but it's
always hard to price it but i think they've overshot it by roughly 50 uh which is a bit
of a pain um and they're only available through uh this sort of like uh web application so here
we here it is uh what you can see here is is what will appear on the screen obviously
light enlarging it like this if you want to um but it looks better when it's sort of this format it
does look better on chrome just to be clear um and as you can see it's it's very simple
when it sort of looks nothing too extravagant but the the basic premise of it is you can add tasks
below here add nice emoji to it for example if you were like um you could be like clear emails
and as you can see the timer is populated at the top so you can start the timer and as you
can see you can add a nice relaxing music in the background so there is that sort of like
uh very similar pomodoro concept inside of it and you can see the timer starts uh bringing down it
what i quite like about it is it gives you down the bottom it's list time 24 minutes and the end
time that you'll be finished out based on you going back to back with them now you can clear
all if you want to so you can just clear all your tasks for the day but it is very much it doesn't i
don't think it brings over tasks from the previous day however you do get a report at the end of a
day seeing how much you completed and the summary of time that you've done inside of llama life so
i would say there's two additional features that may be more interested in this um i'll touch on
more of the details is the todoist integration so i've connected my todoist account and what
it will do is it will bring in it will load any preset tasks inside of todoist onto the llama
life setup so you can see here that got to script the walling course and record maybe this will take
a little bit longer so i can add 60 minutes to it and i can move the position of these guys and
i can start the timer based on it and obviously things are going uh and rolling now as you can see
super basic there's nothing really much more than that in terms of what the application
does there are some micro abilities like being able to modify some of the settings
um so if you go over to settings you can do things like take the pie timer off you can see here it
looks slightly better with in my opinion without the pie timer but that's because i'm i'm not as
uh sort of visually led smart time detection uh numbers entered into the task title will cover
to a duration of minutes and you can see the default time as well they've got some soundscapes
and some chimes of when you're setting intervals for example when you're coming to an end and
an alarm as well and you can also see an auto nag when the timer is up the alarm will play
once every minute and you can reverse the order of your tasks if you do want to so some of the
basic sort of settings are there the other thing you can do is if you didn't want to bring in the
todoist integration you could i created this one a moment ago if i press edit say i want to do a
week review these are three tasks i can bring in uh you can add any more you can delete the preset
remove the duplicates and i changed them for example email 15 minutes to do this 10 minutes
of journal five and what i can do is if i press load you can see there it automatically starts
loading up the tasks and i can do so it gives me an idea okay i'm going to finish at 130 um i
could start going through these tasks so it's very much a focus application at that and you can see
here that um this is the account uh plan and as you can see here you can hide any completed ones
and you can clear the completed if you want to i don't have any at the moment but as you can see
really super basic i quite like the ability to create a preset in terms of like uh you know
bringing up all of your tasks is a really nice but my problem is it is for example let's say you were
buying this plan to um you know like load up your todoist task for the day if you loaded up your
todoist tasks yes that's it's really handy because it's being able to see it in a different type of
view it's a companion application but you're paying only six dollars lesson to do it so your
overall to-do list application budget is roughly if you're paying for the annual planner to do is
coming up to 60 66 just for all your to-do list application experience so i think it's overpriced
um but at the same time these applications are evolving pretty fast um and there might be more
features coming soon but i would say this works on its own as a fairly good sort of to do this
application as a sort of focus application um obviously the thing that i'd say is that
you'd have to look into whether this is more suitable for you or not because some people don't
tend to work better with companion applications they like having simple to-do lists but the other
major flaw is that whilst all of these todoist is available on all of these other applications
this is only available through the web browser at the moment which sort of is painful because
you want to be able to get this potentially um on another device naturally you can't which sort
of sucks you know if it's this it was on mobile devices i think it would go down very well at
a 40.99 pricing per year um but they're my early opinions on this application so obviously not as
sort of positive as i normally am with applications but at the same time i
think this application's got a place i think it's going to evolve and obviously when it
releases mobile applications and reduces that price maybe i think they'll start to really
gain a lot more traction but interesting and we're reviewing llama life today these application names
are getting crazy my editor said uh i was uh he said you know steve he said uh does does this one
make a llama noise when you take a note um just because they're getting crazy i think people are
running out about names um but it's quite good to see anyway but folks i hope you enjoyed today's
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