Hello everyone and welcome back to another video. It is Francesco here and welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel so in today's video
I'm going to be riffing and
Sharing a few of one thoughts on the future of productivity apps you guys know this channel by now hopefully
And you understand then I check out a lot of productivity apps like the fair amount of them and of course
I want to share some of my opinions and where I think it's software in this space is going
And how I think it's gonna pan out so today's video is going to be dedicated to that one
The timestamps as well, so you can do and skips at the different sections that it might take your fancy
Because this one might be me rifting off and doing them a random time
Hello guys. See the first thing oughta mention is this whole focus on an all-in-one
Productivity app I do think that's going to be the future. I think of course
We're going to have this one application the does tend to fit to all our needs
And I think that's gonna be about ten years away
It's been talked about quite a lot especially with such a growth in
Applications recently and of course it's gonna take time to do now
I think I did a four for medium article on this one, so you could probably checking out my musings
I think they're the same as what they were before, but I'll include them a description below
So you can guys go away and fully read about that
but it does leave me on to a real topic that is quite hot and moment and that's
Flexible modular productivity apps now. This is a huge space. I wrote a piece on this a couple of weeks ago
I think it's going to be 2018 and 2019
biggest growth I think we're gonna see a lot of new productivity applications come out and there, but this idea of
Modular software is so that you can build your own
Software so you guys have seen my sort of notion set up if you haven't included up in the cards
But you guys know that from seeing that notion set up that there's little
micro elements of a Productivity application that you can create so in my area
I've created my own dashboard, which is pretty much a modular set up, right?
It's basically going to be a wad of focus towards people's experiences
We've seen it recently the last week with Evernote spaces ever new of creating a dashboard inside of your Evernote experience
they're going to roll out a personal - that this idea that you can create your own experience and
Software which is pretty amazing now air table
Which is a project management application has just come out with pretty much this
It's almost like a Gantt chart or Excel the dole project management experience to some extent like Monday. Calm, but it is a
Flexible experience so you can actually go around play around with it set up whatever area and field. You've done now
I've talked about this a little bit before
In in terms of multiple view options like for example Zen kit is one of those resources it allows you to plot
Different modules and create your own fields and create that and I do think it's a massive
Play I think that's all of the applications will soon move to this now allowing you to take the reins and move
Wherever you like now. I do think that we're on the cusp of this we probably gonna see this over next year
But do keep an eye on it because this is probably
How things are going and the reason you probably wondering? How has it come to this how has it come to a modular productivity software
and the reason behind it is because there was like I guess this five to ten year block of time just from my
You know view the web productivity apps came out people started to get them like within five years
Pretty much everyone knows about them
Whether they use them or not it doesn't really matter like you could use paper or whatever, but they know the way
That's done like for example with let's say tomorrow a to these applications comes out you're gonna get used to it in the first
20 minutes let's say of course you can go and learn more about workflows
But of course you're gonna know how to use it and that's pretty much why the module the technology is coming out now for software
It's because people know how to use them. We've gotten so equipped with
Knowledge about those tools that the modular software's coming in and going okay cool
You guys can go and create your own base because you know what you're doing so basically that is why it's here now
over that five ten years
We've just gotten used to productivity apps
So I think it's gonna be a massive hit over the next couple of months on that sort of topic
I do think that niche productivity applications are still going to fill the space now
You've seen me talk about a lot of different to do this applications
Note-takers calendar apps time trackers resources like that and there are so many
but I do think there's a space for a lot of the resources that I talked about and that other people check out and I
Do think it's because we're getting more and more specific with our needs
And we're also getting more and more specific on our scenarios and situations
So for example, let's say
For example myself, I've been using to do this for like mmm
Six seven I don't six years ran about I think I started it just before I joined
University and of course my times have changed now
I've moved it and grown into the freelancing space and we my experiences will change in the future
Let's say I'm having kids in the future
and that's actually quite an important change to my routine so I might be then looking at something like picnic or
Cozy with your family organizers
So you know there's that knowledge that there are niche applications that can map to your scenarios in the future?
Maybe it wouldn't stop me using the big ones like to do is store thing you for work
But it would help me in a different aspect of life, so we do think there's room for these new applications
I do think there's a lot of them, and you have to sift through a fair amount of them
but then again you're trying to fix a problem in your daily routine to some extent you're trying to fix a
You know organization problem, or you're trying to do more in your day, so I definitely think there's space for them, although I do think
It's going to be refined a lot more the next topic. I want to talk about is premium now
We have seen a big trend in last couple of months on premium. I did a full article on this one again. Sorry about
a premium and sort of subscription-based application
And I do think it's going to be the future of this space now
we were previously have greeted with productivity applications being one of payments the
Downloadable software that would go and pretty much just use
But now these applications actually do need to make money and to grow and to expand
And of course that comes with a responsibility a responsibility of making revenue from us the users
To then move and grow their applications, so it's important that this descriptions are out there of course
They're you know también mentor is a developer. You know charging
Helius amounts but
Enough to sort of support the growth from the future of the network is very very important
So I do think that more application is going to be charging subscription fees and we're also going to see I think in the future
Just to expand revenue for companies of course. They'll hit a certain subscriber amount and but of course. That's that's good
That's positive, but actually getting more out of the user and of course it might sound a bit marketing or something
But I'm just making you aware
if this comes out of course that the productivity apps will then look to
Go a bit further with you
So there will maybe add an additional feature that isn't included in a premium
That when you'll have to buy outright or something like that so they're going to work out ways to
Grow you as user and sort of tie them into the network a little more
And I do think this will be part and parcel of the modular technology
So for example when the modular software comes in
Of course description fees will be a bit pressured because there's going to be more and more
resources and flexibility in this putting more strain on like
The whole network like having your own setup making sure it's stored making sure it's safe making sure it's backed up, right
And of course the additional integrations that come with it, so I do think that there will be a sort of blend between
Modular software
descriptions with
Modular integrations and actually they're being fees involved there
So I just think that's going to be where it's going. I do think as users
We need to be pretty comfortable with the subscription model, and how it works and sort of I guess
Put to the one off payment thing in the past for us. That's just my opinion anyway guys
That was my few thoughts on
Personal productivity applications for the future. I think a lot of it evolved around
sort of growing to the users needs so we think it's going to change over time of course but
Hopefully that gives you a good indication to where I think it's going in the next year or year and a half anyway guys
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