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Motion Task Manager — Get 25% more done each day with zero manual planning
Motion takes all of your tasks, external meetings, internal meetings, routines, and personal commitments, and builds the perfect schedule for you, like a personal assistant. With Motion, you'll never need to manually re-prioritize things when plans change.
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Motion is simply the best tool. I’d hesitate to call it a productivity app only because that makes it sound like there are many other products to compare it against - the reality is that I’ve never used a tool that comes close to Motion in helping me focus, keep track of tasks, schedule time with my teammates, etc.
It’s hard to choose a favorite feature but here’s one that is simply brilliant: Motion makes it easier to find a good time to pick when someone sends you a Calendly link. When you click the link Motion pops up and shows you the Calendly time slots superimposed on your own calendar. Genius. It’s this level of product thoughtfulness that makes this product (and the incredibly responsive team behind it) so special.
Motion is changing the way I think about time management and task
management. Incredible team and product.
Highly recommend checking it out!
WOW! I think I either stumbled upon an earlier version of Motion in the past, or a similar service. At the time it didn’t look fully fleshed-out, but this definitely does. If it really does everything it claims, then 20$/mo is a steal.
The thing is I feel that the 5-day trial is too short for me to judge whether Motion would make a noticeable difference in my workflow. 2 weeks (at least — one month would be better) would make much more sense. Plus, after a longer trial, it’d guess it’s more likely that the user ends up subscribing, since they‘ll have gotten used to working with Motion and won’t want to go back to the old way.
Thoughts ?makers
@anna_0x n=1 but I tried Motion and had multiple moments in the first day alone that made it clear this was well worth the money. The way it makes it easy to hop into a Zoom or Google meeting that is happening (or notify people you are running late!) with one click is worth the cost of admission on its own.
@matthew_foley whoa, I didn’t even realize they ask for credit card info to let you start the trial… Not very nice. As you said, it’s really easy to forget to cancel your subscription if something comes up → instant income for the makers but angry customers who’ll never buy again.
@anna_0x @julianweisser I agree with the "had multiple moments that made it clear the first day". As someone who tried up Akiflow, I never had an "aha", just thought it was cool.
With Motion, I knew after a day that I was going to be a customer, after 2 days that I was going to pay for the year + get my team onboard (and that was before the task manager was even in the works).
It's just a way better scheduler, so much thought and care has gone into that product alone. The calendar is always living right there with you, joining the meetings with Alt + M from anywhere, jotting down private team meeting notes to be reminded of when a future meeting starts.
And now the task manager. Sure, there's cheap or free tiers of products in the project management space, but I've tried them all and Motion is something special.
This is the first task manager that I don't feel like I have to fight with on a daily basis. The "due date" options are thoughtful and intuitive. It just works, and I'm coming in as a huge Asana fan and customer of 6 years.
I'd just give it a shot, I happily bought for the year after day #2, and that was before task management, and wow does this team build fast.
@matthew_foley The worry is legit! Our cancel is one-click, and we refund within 14 days no questions asked.
@matthew_foley @anna_0x Legit concern! We always offer full refund for 14 days, and anyone dissatisfied.
Hi! I tried the product, and it is great. Congrats! However, I did not seem to find any integrations available. Are you planning on building that soon, so that we can pull our tasks from Notion/Asana... ?makers
The speed at which this team releases new features and responds to feedback is incredible. Changs the way I worked!
I spend a lot of time just juggling tasks, calendars and email.
This looks like Superhuman for Calendar and tasks -- exactly what I was looking for -- signing up now!
Hey Product Hunt!
We are releasing our biggest product update to date: Motion Task Manager. With the addition of this functionality, Motion can now manage every part of your day for you - tasks, internal meetings, external meetings, routines, personal commitments - so that you'll never need to manually plan or re-prioritize your schedule. When conflicts happen, things don't go according to plan, or emergencies come in - Motion will resolve them and update your schedule to your liking, automatically.
The old way: manually plan and manage your schedule
👎 Write down a massive to-do list each day. Feel discouraged when you don’t finish everything.
👎 Spend 25 minutes prioritizing tasks every day. And waste 5 minutes figuring out what’s next when you finish a task.
👎 Reschedule everything when tasks take longer than expected or meetings run over.
👎 Stay up at night wondering if you forgot about a project or deadline.
👎 Stress when back-to-back meetings fill your day. And you need to work nights to actually get work done.
👎 Keep reopening your to-do lists and calendars every few hours to remember what you need to do next.
👎 Work bleeds into your personal life. And you sacrifice your mental and physical health to get stuff done.
New new way: let Motion create an optimized schedule with AI that constantly updates as new information comes in
✅ **Feel good when you check off everything.** Motion builds a daily schedule for you and automatically adds tasks directly to your calendar and schedule. To make sure you actually do them.
✅ **Know exactly what to do next.** Motion prioritizes your tasks based on your deadlines, meetings, and how many hours you work each week.
✅ **Don’t worry when plans change.** Motion will shift your uncompleted tasks to new times and days.
✅ **Never forget about a project deadline again.** Motion will put the highest priority tasks on your task calendar first, so you complete them on time.
✅ **Limit your meetings.** Set a daily hour limit for meetings. Motion won’t allow people to schedule meetings on a day where the limit is exceeded.
✅ **View your calendar, meetings, and to-do list all in one place.** No more toggling between. Motion takes your outdated to-do list and calendar and combines them into one — a task calendar.
✅ **Take care of yourself.** Create recurring tasks for exercising, meditating, eating, and reading. And Motion will block time on your calendar for self care.
Check the new Motion out at http://usemotion.com and let us know what you think!
Best,
Ethan, Gareth, Harry, Omid, Phil
Founding team of Motion
@harry_qi Wow- I've needed a solution for this for so long! Excellent work, can't wait to investigate.
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