Brilliant! / Week Plan

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Aymeric Founder

11 år siden
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Thank you for your kind words.

Yes an iphone app is in consideration as well as the keyboard shortcuts. I am struggling to get everything done :)

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Ian David

9 år siden

I just registered for the tool yesterday - I'm hooked!

It's a fabulous bit of software, and after a bit of trial/error, I'm finding it a pleasure to use, having struggled with 'Asana' overload for way too long.

Love the Google calendar sync too - It's even populated my weekplan with details of webinars I registered for...

Love it! Well done Aymeric - you've done an awesome job

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Aymeric Founder

9 år siden

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I just registered for the tool yesterday - I'm hooked!

It's a fabulous bit of software, and after a bit of trial/error, I'm finding it a pleasure to use, having struggled with 'Asana' overload for way too long.

Love the Google calendar sync too - It's even populated my weekplan with details of webinars I registered for...

Love it! Well done Aymeric - you've done an awesome job

Thanks Ian, I am interested to hear your experience with Asana.

What did you like about it, and what made you look for something else?

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Ian David

9 år siden

Hey Aymeric

thanks for the prompt reply - here's some thoughts that hopefully you & other users will find helpful - feel free to use as you see fit:

I've used Asana on-and-off for over 2 years.

Asana is a great tool - don't get me wrong. Its excellent for;

creating plans
to do-lists/checklists
having multiple users
cloning 'projects'
free for 15 users (I think)

However, it can also be 'overkill' on creating 'things to do' - and what I mean by that is that after the initial 'feelgood' factor of setting up all of the 'to-do' items and getting that nice warm feeling of 'getting organised', you can then be faced with a big list of actions that can be overwhelming, so each time you log in, it can be daunting in terms of everything that you need to do

What I like with weekplan is the simple division between;

to do lists (immediate)
goals for the week (weekly)
parking lot / ideas (longer term)

also, the ability to set up different workspaces - so I have set up, for example, one purely for work, and one purely for personal stuff (and a 3rd to show 'everything') - this way, using the filter view, I can see easily by flicking between workspaces, stuff that is for 'work', 'personal' and also 'everything'

I love the journal - the only negative I would say with the on-screen version of the journal, is that it picks up all of the completed tasks - however, downloading it filters out all of that, and leaves you with a nice spreadsheet with just the important stuff....

Parking lot - love this - a great way to be able to stick ideas down into categories, without having to 'commit' to them in the short term - way better than using post-it-notes and writing notes in pads

Nice to have things on weekplan would include:

a filter on the online version to be able to show 'just journal entries' / cogitorama's (rather than logging everything including completed tasks)
option to be able to view upcoming month (rather than just 1 week at a time)
option on the timer to be able to select more than just 25 min timer
Easy access to FAQs/How to (eg in menu below blog link)
Quick guide to shortcodes / tagging etc
change background colour per workspace (for clarity)

To summarise;

as a user who's just been introduced to weekplan for less than 24hrs, I have to say that hands down, it's one of the best productivity / planning tools that I've used, and I've probably tried most of them out there, coming from a project management and 'big agency' background.

It's simple to use (but has enough complexity to satisfy the most demanding of users)
It's very intuitive
pricing is very competitive
Aymeric really cares (unlike dealing with a large, faceless organisation)
It brings order to chaotic thinking very quickly
It just works

Looking forward to using it for many years to come and seeing how it develops :-)

Ian

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Aymeric Founder

9 år siden

Quote from Ian David

Hey Aymeric

thanks for the prompt reply - here's some thoughts that hopefully you & other users will find helpful - feel free to use as you see fit:

I've used Asana on-and-off for over 2 years.

Asana is a great tool - don't get me wrong. Its excellent for;

creating plans
to do-lists/checklists
having multiple users
cloning 'projects'
free for 15 users (I think)

However, it can also be 'overkill' on creating 'things to do' - and what I mean by that is that after the initial 'feelgood' factor of setting up all of the 'to-do' items and getting that nice warm feeling of 'getting organised', you can then be faced with a big list of actions that can be overwhelming, so each time you log in, it can be daunting in terms of everything that you need to do

What I like with weekplan is the simple division between;

to do lists (immediate)
goals for the week (weekly)
parking lot / ideas (longer term)

also, the ability to set up different workspaces - so I have set up, for example, one purely for work, and one purely for personal stuff (and a 3rd to show 'everything') - this way, using the filter view, I can see easily by flicking between workspaces, stuff that is for 'work', 'personal' and also 'everything'

I love the journal - the only negative I would say with the on-screen version of the journal, is that it picks up all of the completed tasks - however, downloading it filters out all of that, and leaves you with a nice spreadsheet with just the important stuff....

Parking lot - love this - a great way to be able to stick ideas down into categories, without having to 'commit' to them in the short term - way better than using post-it-notes and writing notes in pads

Nice to have things on weekplan would include:

a filter on the online version to be able to show 'just journal entries' / cogitorama's (rather than logging everything including completed tasks)
option to be able to view upcoming month (rather than just 1 week at a time)
option on the timer to be able to select more than just 25 min timer
Easy access to FAQs/How to (eg in menu below blog link)
Quick guide to shortcodes / tagging etc
change background colour per workspace (for clarity)

To summarise;

as a user who's just been introduced to weekplan for less than 24hrs, I have to say that hands down, it's one of the best productivity / planning tools that I've used, and I've probably tried most of them out there, coming from a project management and 'big agency' background.

It's simple to use (but has enough complexity to satisfy the most demanding of users)
It's very intuitive
pricing is very competitive
Aymeric really cares (unlike dealing with a large, faceless organisation)
It brings order to chaotic thinking very quickly
It just works

Looking forward to using it for many years to come and seeing how it develops :-)

Ian

Hi Ian,

Thank you for the detailed answer. Very insightful for me.

I also wanted to let you know that I have just implemented a way for you to filter out the activity logs in the Journal (you will find the filter icon in the Journal in the top right).

Thanks!

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Ian David

9 år siden

Quote from Aymeric

Hi Ian,

Thank you for the detailed answer. Very insightful for me.

I also wanted to let you know that I have just implemented a way for you to filter out the activity logs in the Journal (you will find the filter icon in the Journal in the top right).

Thanks!

No problem Aymeric - happy to provide any constructive feedback you need as I get deeper into using the platform!

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