That sounds frustrating, hopefully, they have a way to recover that for you.

Hey Hoang, appreciate the kind words, that said with Tana, we're a B2B software comparison channel, and we wouldn't recommend Tana for business or team use. For individual/personal usage, sure, give it a shot!

Awe, we're glad someone appreciates it! 🙏

Yep, we have an updated Motion video coming in a couple weeks, have been working on it for quite a bit now. If it's after mid-January and you're seeing this comment, this should bring you to the new video: efficient.link/yt/motion

@efficientapp erm no that link takes to same video. Uploaded 11 months ago. Unless you meant mid-Feb? Which means someone is being disingenuous putting in 2025.

We used Asana for 7 years before switching to Motion. We talked about it in this video: efficient.link/yt/pm

🙏🙏🙏 So glad it helped!

Client portal for what specifically? What are you looking to share/collaborate on?

@@efficientapp some tasks get assigned to clients, in a web project it might be website copy or photo assets, for ongoing work it might be approval of ads where we start the task but then need to assign it to them for approval or just have them collaborate on tasks. We augment existing marketing teams at clients and typically have 1 person who we're interfacing with at the client.

Hey JB! We do-we actually have an updated video coming out about it soon, we also launched a course showing exactly how we use Motion in our business that would probably be helpful if you want to check it out: efficient.link/courses/motion Since we're a content and product business, our growth workspace covered in the course would actually match a creative agency pretty well. Have you signed up for Motion yet? Or just considering it still?

Haha makes sense! Now I'm curious, are you familiar with efficient.link/r/bill given you're in finance? Spreadsheets work from time to time, but managing expenses in spreadsheets is still SOOOOO manual 🙈

Haha it's all in good fun! Come on now 😁

For what? Airwallex? You can have a bank account in the local currency with them, so you wouldn't even need to be doing a Wire transfer in that case. What specific use-case are you referring to?

Glad to hear we could help!

That's a good call! Notion for knowledge-base is what it's good for 👌

Guessing you're just using Amplenote for personal usage though, right? I wouldn't exactly recommend it to businesses who are working with teams is the thing. For individual usage, sure, I can see that.

Safari seems to be a bit better with memory usage, that said, I'm not using Arc just because it's lightweight, it's the main program I'm using on my computer on the day-to-day, it should be using a lot of memory 🙈

MLM and pyramid scheme aren't the same things my friend, the former is legal.

Hey @LiyaaHuang, I'm in the same boat as a social media manager running a digital agency, and I recently started using Mydrop AI. I used to juggle multiple tools like you, but Mydrop’s cross-posting feature has been a game-changer for me. Imagine duplicating an Instagram post to X, LinkedIn, and more with just one click. It helped me cut down my daily posting time dramatically. You might find it solves the exact hassle you face with juggling those tools. Have you considered giving Mydrop a shot for your workflows?

Ayyy, glad to hear! What did you end up going with in the end?

Not building a platform to solve that problem, instead building a platform to help businesses pick the right software stack for their team, because the solutions already exist, people just don't know how to find that or which to use based on their needs.

Hahaha I mean hey, I'd be proud if I were them, that's a pretty big statement 😂 Are you using it with a team? Or just personally?

@ It is just such a relief that something I dreamed of actually exists. I have been using it personally but I know enough now to be sure I’m hooked for a long time to come. Especially with Ramadan coming up, I really, really needed something to put my planning on auto pilot so I can have some peace mentally. This thing is perfect.

Woop woop! Glad to hear we could help a fellow KZbinr! Buffer sounds like a great choice! Good luck on KZbin, and see you around our new friend! 🎉

Awe, so glad to hear! What project management tool did you end up going with in the end?

Appreciate the comment! Curious to hear how it didn't work for you as a solo business owner? It's definitely better for teams as the video covers, but personally I used Motion myself for quite a bit before having a team to onboard to it, and got value from it as a solo user. When you say a more dynamic style business, what do you mean by that? Couldn't you create a separate workspace for each type of business or aspect to your business? Curious what you are landing on instead of Motion, as I'm not sure you wouldn't have the same experience using Asana or any of the other PM tools on the market?

@@efficientapp Hey :) Thanks for the question. I do a lot of different things (probably too many) with varying processes and work flows - and while I do have different workspaces for different projects, how I work with clients is more dynamic and I find "everything must be a task" philosophy quite reductionist. For instance, I use have found using forms for client's to raise a ticket for tasks they need me to address has reduced back and forth emails and gets it into my calendar very effectively - and can send automated completion emails (I've been using ClickUp for this, amongst other things) - but Motion doesn't have a native form feature. I think the calendar works well (although there is no month view which is weird and not helpful) but yeah, for me, this hasn't been a great transition. I recognise of course that all platforms come with their own strengths and weaknesses, I wish I had heard from someone like me who before I took the plunge and through money away.

Sorry to hear that, maybe closed captions can help!

Sounds like you're probably working at a large enterprise possibly? Smaller and more nimble teams tend to lean toward Google Workspace. Our content is more for startups, small/mid-size business, not so much enterprises with hundreds/thousands of employees. The truth of the matter is those companies tend to get the... Well... Not very user-friendly software let's just say 🙈

Huh?

Lol for taking notes? 🙈 You'd do what then? Use Git to backup your notes by running a Cron job or something? Maybe if you're a technical engineer using it personally only and not collaborating on notes with any one else, especially not a team, then sure, go for it!

Not sure I follow? 🤔

@efficientapp i am working on building something like a personal Knowledge management app from scratch. Its a side project. I even plan on setting up an SQL server and everything myself lol

@efficientapp lowkey making my own knowledge management tool as a side project, even added sql to it.

Haha sounds like a fun personal hobby! Definitely not recommended for businesses to follow, but for learning and fun, sounds like you're on the right path my friend!

@@efficientapp thanks, for some reason KZbin app on my phone is not showing my replies in the comment so apologies if you see duplicate messages 🙂

Lol this not the real difference. If you are in a high cost of living city, like Austin, what would cost you $12K/mo (in mortgage plus property taxes) can be rented for half that, at $5-6K/mo in rent. So what you get into higher cost of living areas, it almost only makes sense to rent, UNLESS you have enough money and want the ability to have more choice over where you're living. We are not landlords, we do not "want people to rent", we are renting right now because the math doesn't make sense at all for where we want to live. Check out NYC or San Francisco, it's WAY worse there. You buy a $4-6M house with an INSANE mortgage, or you rent. Most people rent because they can't afford to own in high cost of living areas. No one talks about high cost of living cities in this equation. Renting is the only option in many of those cases.

Alternative to what aspect though? For personal note taking? To-do list? What aspect to Notion? For personal usage though, if you're just looking for something that's free, Notion is fine. We're more focused on recommendations for businesses.

Curious if you run a business? Feels like those who don't understand the point of this video are actually using Notion for personal usage. If you're a business and you understand the actual pain-points/needs of a business, you wouldn't see the alternatives segments as "ads" so much as solutions to specific pain-points within their business.

Haha sorry, what do you mean? I'm missing the context from the video, curious what you're referring to, the setup time? 🙈

All research is heavily skewed to enterprises, as they are the largest cohort of meetings. I can assure you that the most efficient teams are working more async and having less meetings. I would not make business decisions as a startup/SMB/mid size business, from general "reports/studies".

Aweee, thanks for seeing it this way friend! This genuinely means a lot 🥲

It does, it's not a feature we focused on in this video, have an updated video coming soon, and they are focusing more on upgrading the time tracking feature this year as well it sounds.

Browsers haven't changed much since then, crazy, right?

We are a software review and comparison website, sorry you feel that us recommending software to a business is "shilling". We're trying to recommend the best software based on our experience having consulted businesses between 2-200 employees over the past decade, on the best software stack based on their business needs and internal processes. So us calling out other creators for recommending a solution for potentially a business, that isn't the right solution for a business, is exactly what we're trying to do to help these businesses out. Surprised that's shilling to you though 🤷‍♂️

You did watch our Notion Failed You video here, no? efficient.link/yt/notion We literally called out Thomas Frank for his templates because they are extremely flawed for businesses and teams 😅

@@efficientapp Your channel (and opinion) is losing credibility. At no point did he advertise his templates as a solution for "businesses or teams". His template does as its advertised to do, to serve as a second brain and help organize your life. Both of which it does extremely well. Do you fault a can opener for not being able to open a bottle of wine as well?

Yessss, you said it! For "personal productivity", it's about using what is most convenient. Where your personal notes end up at the end of the day is not going to make or break you. Thanks for the subscribe my friend!