How Can Microsoft Loop Improve Project Management?

[@psykecarlosmadeit]

I think it has a lot of potential. I personally use to for classes note-taking, and at work we use when we need to collaborate on the same documents, my department loves it ever since I showed it to them!

[@IsmailkhanAliZai]

Jonathan, this is the best video I have ever seen for LOOP explanation. Subscribed

[@westcoastdoglover]

I just came across your channel and have been devouring your videos. My organization uses the MS suite (much to my dismay - I prefer a mix of tools like Google and Asana). However, there are SO. MANY. TOOLS available, and 99% of the people I work with still use paper notebooks (again, much to my dismay, as I love tech and paper is inefficient!). How do you narrow down the tools so you aren't all over the place? Like, when do you use Loop versus Planner or Teams versus Sharepoint? Halp!

[@bearded365guy]

@@westcoastdoglover I know what you mean. Perhaps there are too many tools? Note taking is a must for me as is a to do system. That is my personal productivity sorted

[@davidadams421]

A consideration, particularly related to project management, is that in larger organisation, cross functional teams tend to work on 'configuration baselines' for example, v1.0 of the design, v2.0 etc If that design was implemented as a loop page, the design that you were developing against would become 'a moving target'. Though I guess if the design was implemented as a loop workspace with multiple baselined loop pages, that might work. Typically inter-operating teams needs to understand changes in order to assess any potential downstream impact, being able to change everything from everywhere on a whim could create chaos unless managed carefully. There is value, however, in always being able to 'see the latest'. I do genuinely believe there is a very positive part to play for loop within project management. Great video, as usual! I really like this 'I go to a conference, and bring you back the highlights' content!! You have a great skill of 'making it real' for your viewers. Thank you.

[@bearded365guy]

@@davidadams421 Thanks again David!

[@jensoffermans5154]

How do you handle meeting notes for recurring meetings?

[@sharmilmckee1]

Recurring meetings appear under "meeting notes". Each occurrence create a new loop. The loops will cascade under your meeting title in the "meeting notes" section. GL.

[@Simo355]

Microsoft could just enhance Onenote to do this and more? Why do we meet yet another app to confuse everyone

[@parthisachdeva1232]

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[@byrnemeister2008]

@@Simo355The underlying tech is different. Sharing the content across multiple applications etc

[@sEboissa]

@@sharmilmckee1how didn’t that work for me?

[@lauramccullough8633]

What a fabulous video! It will make it so much easier for me to explain to my team how we can leverage Loops to keep track of tasks, project details, and meeting notes all in the same place! Keep up the amazing work!

[@hotdogmike2248]

Excellent workflow! This is exactly what I have been looking for.

[@cathyverreault4523]

our organization uses a lot of templates to reply to our clients what is the best way to store those large documents as it seems that there is a maximum size to import

[@breathinglogic]

Boom! Great walkthrough.

[@lucachannel7805]

thanks for the great video. is there a way to combine the tasks from several meetings into one task list for the workspace? hate to have to go through all previous meetings to see if all the tasks are finished

[@PardeepKumar-lq3wi]

Great question, host please answer

[@PardeepKumar-lq3wi]

Just a thought, wouldn't that be seen in Microsoft teams, under Task assigned to me. What I understand is that Loop in itself is just UI, using different components of 365 family. So all tasks created in meeting would fall under Task or get sync to Task So if you would go to teams, should be visible.

[@videoscivici]

Is there any way to add outlook e-mail to Loop as we can do with One Note? This is the feature that prevent me to try Loop... Did someone found a nice workaround?

[@Anna-gc8li]

Question for @Jonathan because in the introduction of this video he does say that one can bring all the data, belonging to the project in other apps (like Email, OneNote) together in Loop but in the video it is only shown how meeting notes are connected to the project in Loop (great option, by the way). So yes, Jonathan please elaborate a little on this?

[@PardeepKumar-lq3wi]

What do you mean by adding outlook email to loop, is it like we export email to onenote where entire content of email gets copied to OneNote?

[@blackscreenproject1]

Same question here, if a meeting is set up by another person it is not possible to add emails in that meeting.(emails discussed during the meeting). But with loop the non-organisers of the meeting can add information. Really a big +. But where can we keep a copy of the email we want to discuss?

[@RichCinema]

How would MS List and Loop coexist in a workflow?

[@blackscreenproject1]

Can we add emails as attachment in a page?

[@voigtjessica]

Excelent!

[@fbahhady]

How can I get loop to organize notes and tasks for recurring meetings in a manageable way? I would really like to see all pending tasks from all meetings in a series in one view.

[@KimberlyHornby]

You need to add the agenda through loop initially to the series. Then once you log into the individual occurences it will use the same name and automatically append the date. This is very important for recurring meetings

[@fbahhady]

@@KimberlyHornby Thanks. I was referring to the assigned tasks of every occurrence in the series showing up in a single pane of glass so we can see what is completed and what is pending for the series as a whole.

[@lamredkoala8463]

could they add also translation function inside there ?

[@Pippono1]

Love this ❤

[@michaelfreitter9803]

Hello, you show the link with the normal MS Planner. Can Loop also be linked with the new Premium Planner?

[@bearded365guy]

@@michaelfreitter9803 As far as I am aware, the feature to “Copy link to Plan” isn’t yet available in the new Planner Premium.

[@agustin007]

I understand how Loop works!!

[@MadChickenz42]

This is so fascinating. Microsoft really have not done a great job of actually explaining these things to the public. This is not quite ready for total implementation, but I think it will be brilliant if they can trim the fat off everything that currently has doubled functionality. It seems like Loop at the moment is an ad hoc solution to unifying the old Planner/new Planner/To Do/Outlook/Teams/Whiteboard/etc, but it doesn’t seem like anything was designed with Loop in mind originally. Thus the competing and redundant features.

[@davidadams421]

They also saw Notion impinging on their market share and decided to 'nip that one in the bud'! Poor Notion...

[@PardeepKumar-lq3wi]

No loop has lot of value. It will compete to confluence. Confluence cannot integrate this good with doc and excel and updating confluence is just big headache. Loop should come out as winner

[@sumitdas5176]

Awesome tips! Did it rain after 2 hrs?

[@three3thou]

Love your videos mate. Very helpful. Cheers from down Under.

[@bearded365guy]

@@three3thou Thanks mate!

[@danielseaton984]

Jonathan, sorry but this question has to do with a video you posted about two years ago. I followed your instructions on how to perform a backup from my laptop to an external ssd. I thought everything had gone well until I opened the file on the external ssd. It had formatted the transferred data into many folders and in a zip file format. This has made it difficult to locate the information that I want to open. What did I do wrong and how do I correct it. Thanks

[@bearded365guy]

What video?

[@davidadams421]

You can still reply within the comments of the video you are referring to, comments on videos years since past still appear within his comments feed.

[@N.D-j1w]

Please can you do a video on permissions in MS Loop. Particularly for sharing entire Workspaces (not individual pages which is of no use to us) and which no one seems to cover. We've worked on a big MS Loop project at work but our manager can't add the SharePoint permission groups she usually does within SharePoint so we are not allowed to go live with it. I understand MS Loop sits under SharePoint embedded, but no one seems to understand what this is or how to change access permissions.

[@camarell7449]

How do I delete the test Planner in a group?

[@armankarambakhsh9863]

Damm man the Loop wjole workspace tip im teams was craaaazy useful!!!!

[@ianbird6997]

Very interesting 👍

[@MarekLiban]

I have a totally different view but when I click plus or add workspace nothing happened - what a bad first experience with Loop. EDIT - OK, I now tried another way and there was an error that my administrator has blocked the access to workspaces. I will contact the IT department.

[@FRANKWHITE1996]

Subscribed 🎉

[@maximrybchenko6578]

Why make mail for that loop if you can share it with Mickey? Or loop doesn't support sharing?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, that’s true. You can share the whole workspace or a page with Mickey - or just a small part of it, the loop component.

[@der_klee]

Which event have you attended?

[@bearded365guy]

It was the European Collaboration Summit in Wiesbaden.

[@der_klee]

@@bearded365guy nice! I went this week from Germany to Workplace Ninjas UK in Manchester. Great event, too!

[@bearded365guy]

@@der_klee I was going to visit the Manchester event but couldn’t make the time. Was it good?

[@der_klee]

@@bearded365guy I liked it! A lot of nice technical sessions about Conditional Access, Intune and Security. Unwille be at Pax8 Beyond Berlin and MSPGlobal in Barcelona. Maybe, we will meet some time and have a chat!

[@ianhulbert]

Loop feels like a good start. The mobile app is extra limited (but even newer). Keeping an eye on it. Especially making my own meeting templates to chose when scheduling a meeting (agenda/minutes).

[@taco-loco]

So much similar to Craft Notes app. Hey MS…copied a lot from them, didn’t they? 😜

[@JeffWaters1]

I love Notion and can't wait to switch to Loop/Planner for work. The big hole preventing that is the ability to see a filterable view of ALL tasks for all assignees across all my Projects, Plans, or Loops. Have you seen any roadmaps that indicate this might be coming?

[@maccomplex]

could you do that by having youself as an assignee across all those plans so you can view them in to do?

[@JeffWaters1]

@@maccomplex I don't think I'd be able to filter based on "the other" assignee. So, no. Also, it's a bit of a hacky solution to something that should be much easier.

[@aussiegruber86]

I use planner for work and the website planner does not have a search bar, but the planner in teams has a search bar. I have not tested with loop

[@davidadams421]

I think Microsoft has Microsoft Project in mind for that capability.

[@inajosmood]

I want to be excited for this, but Microsoft is too all over the place. It looks like Microsoft don't have a coherent product vision for how their pletora of apps should integrate and where one ends and the other begins. For me as a user there is too much overlap. Too many different places to check things and do things and manage things, all with a slightly different featureset that is doesn't integrate to the level I need it or want. It's either that OR They have a coherent product vision, but fail to delivier OR They are now making the moves to do so. OR They are very unwilling to communicate that vision and how they want to get there. Loops is promising in concept, but it's awfull that a Plan that is connected to Loops, can't be connected to Planner Premium or to The Planner in Teams. Little things like that accumulate and get me really iffy. But as companies have mass licenses for Office 365 products, in many cases I'm kind of forced to make it work as I want my teams to collaborate.

[@bearded365guy]

@@inajosmood I don’t disagree. I think there are too many new products that aren’t finished yet.

[@michellequinn7721]

Yes! I'd love to know what you doing to "make it work" . For me, I've moved my team from network drives to Sharepoint , and am now trying to use Teams channels to consolidate communication on projects (vs 100s of random email threads). I also want a way to assign and monitor tasks on projects (dozens of small projects over the course of the year, not a few larger projects) Any thoughts that work for you would be appreciated

[@robertpearson5069]

Why even use planner at this point?

[@bearded365guy]

@@robertpearson5069 It keeps all of your tasks from all MS 365 in one place.

[@chrisginn5073]

Hi, it does not accept PDFs

[@stevewaddell345]

Has anyone figured out how to add your own image to the top of a Loop page? I'd like to add my own image, and perhaps our company logo for our multi company team.

[@SonnyLearnsToRock]

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