welcome back to another video it is francesco here for keep productive we're going to be diving into
friday which is a planner application and it's also a team os for managing
work now as you can imagine there's loads of applications like this and it's quite funny
that this one's called friday because there's another project manager called monday.com this is
more of a asynchronous remote work tool um with some helpful productivity uh sort of personal
productivity management and i want to dive into in today's video giving you things like availability
pricing and how it works in a bit more detail so let's dive into today's video so over here we have
the pricing i always like to start with this one they do have a free plan which includes to
plan a function calendar task integrations you do get posts which is something to do with the
team element of this application we're going to be mainly zooming in on like sort of the
individual functions you also get focus time unlimited users and chrome extensions as well
there is an individual plan and a team plan and the company plan starting from four dollars per
user per month but it is billed annually and same with the team plan which is six dollars
uh however if you wanted to go for a monthly plan it's gonna be nine dollars per user per month and
the company plan 12 per user per month all fairly reasonable in the sort of grand scheme of things
it was sort of regular sort of pricing so you're probably wondering what does this application do
now as i sort of said i'm going to be focusing on the personal productivity side of stuff but
you can see here that you've got a sort of today area and a planner area you've also
got the sort of team aspects so the feed for being able to sort of communicate and post
updates your posts which are where you can share comments and interact with other team
members and integrations as well but with the team plan you've got things like profiles kudos
icebreakers goals and things like that so it's more for managing team sort of morale and also
being able to coordinate updates and things like that so this is really nice this is the planner
experience and this is what i think applications are starting to get right so let's talk a little
bit about this experience so just zoomed in here as you can see here this is the day view
and i can also see the weak view here so this is sort of the week ahead i can jump to you can see
really small details like the weather as you can see it's raining at the moment which sort of sucks
it also gives you the celsius and things like that and uh sort of information that you might
need to know but it's almost like a dashboard of everything in one glance you can also see events
because i've plugged it into my google calendar and if there is a meeting with a caller link i
can actually join it or i can even add notes to it so that's something you can do inside of posts
if there's meeting notes you can be adding that so you can add summaries or you can start typing
away and even use some of the sort of basic text formatting options like heading images and giftly
but if i go back you can see here that uh meeting notes i can see any other ones that i've done
before apparently i was making notes on england versus czech republic game but i'm gonna go back
here to plan a view and you can see here that as i hover over the planner for today so let's say
i am actually going to try and get some work done i can go up here and add some focus time and i can
choose to make that start right away or i can actually choose okay 1 32 at 2 30 it's gonna be
some focus time and i can even make it recurring i can block certain sites like facebook and i
can also display it with the integration they have with slack and in the calendar so let's
say i schedule that out you can see here now i am focusing on the work and i can even extend it if i
want to i can add more to my calendar you can see here that i can see actually a sort of breakdown
of my day already meetings one hour focus time one hour and that's 25 of my scheduled day so it
really hones in on the calendar experience helping you to really instigate what you need to get done
and the cool thing is you can actually add a task so you can say edit youtube and i can add that one
and you can see that that's now a um sort of experience and i can go ahead and drag that into
the calendar and i can schedule it in so it's got sort of like uh time blocking abilities with your
calendar you can see near here now that that gets updated so it's more about focus time meetings and
tasks to sort of bring things together i can upgrade the planner settings so for example in
this case i can see the calendars that i've got connected to it i can see the chat apps
i've got connected to it so this actually shares updates and statuses through teams and slack and
i can even integrate with other applications like todoist asana trello google tasks microsoft to do
click up jira gitlab and github and just to be clear on this that i think you have to upgrade
if you want to go extend past one integration you can also have default focus time website
blockers as well and also when your day starts and ends you can also see the location you're at and
and whether emails pop up and what sort of time they come up giving you a daily agenda integration
now what's cool is i can manage the apps here and connect whatever i like but what's nice is it
consolidates it inside of one application allowing me to do potentially you know like somebody's like
oh i've signed you something in trello i'd be able to capture it in there oh i've signed you
something in asana you know let's say a team uses multiple applications you can bring that all sort
of in one place now what's nice is here this is where all my to-do is tasks will appear and
naturally helps me to start the sort of syncing but the instant syncing actually is limited to
the free trial so it's in the individual plan so i can go ahead and i can plan certain days ahead
as well and i can start adding stuff to my agenda which is really nice the insight is actually part
of the individual pro plan as i said four dollars per user per month build annually and you can
see here that you get multiple integrations by directional task syncing and unlimited routines
which i'll touch on in a moment as well as productivity insights so i think it's pretty
well surrounded as a personal experience as well so the routines are available here and you can
create one from strat scratch if you wanted to but there are some ones that sort of get you get you
going this one is actually a morning plan allowing you to spend a little bit of time focusing but you
can change it to team focus so weekly kickoff standups and that helps you to sort of get the
questions answered for teams you can have a week review that's something that is something that i
actually would sort of implement in their routine week and you can see here that it sort of sets up
all of the things um that you traditionally would prompt yourself with but these prompts for example
how are you feeling how productive were you you could customize this and sort of motivate this and
change this and change your motivations you can also see that goals are available that's coming
soon i think i believe it's i thought it was not in the premium plan but it isn't a premium plan
i thought that was coming soon but goals allow you to connect certain pieces of work to uh your
goals for the future which is quite nice in the long term but you can see that this is what it
looks like when you're going through a routine so they're really trying to minimize the effort to
really capturing stuff so that it's really zooming in at hound which i really like now if i'm going
to go exit this i'm going to discard this routine however i can add those to my layout and it helps
me to you know start the day with a bit of a sort of morning preparation you can also start making
meeting notes here and add routines and this is all the sort of team elements as well and who
you want to invite to your day now you can see here i i clicked that um plan day but you can also
start day as well so if i wanted to zoom in okay two minutes time i can start this focus time but
what i really like is that i can actually zoom in on this task and i know it's currently in progress
i can even end it early and see what is ahead i really like some of these additions overall
this application is pretty good for a freemium experience the planner is a nice way to visually
organize what a workday ahead looks like what i quite like about it as well in particular is if
somebody you know this is something that a lot of these applications project managers don't actually
focus on is your own personal productivity for the day more focuses on the team's productivity
but i really like how even the small things like being able to add a rating for the day and how
productive you deemed yourself that also fills into the insights in the individual plan but i
really like their approach to the way that they're setting this up and you can obviously modify
your integrations and what plans you're on and stuff like that down here but a really nice
starting touch with the planner experience and good as a free plan anyway folks hopefully that
was a nice overview i'll include all the links in description to things like this
and the planning and pricing and everything like that but i hope you found this overview of friday
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our other resources thank you very much folks and i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
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