The killer features that help
When I’m using an app, or better still, when I’m searching for an app to use, I always look for that killer feature.
Now don’t get me wrong, I always figure out what I need the app for first, but if there were one or two (or three) to choose from, I always go with the one that has a killer feature!
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I'm very particular about the type of
app I use it takes me a long time to
decide what apps you use because of the
way I work and I generally do that with
my clients as well so when we're working
together and we're trying to work
through their workflow takes me a bit of
time to understand how they work but it
also takes me a lot of time to figure
out the best app for the client the the
thing that I think about when choosing
my own personal tool stack and the
personal sorry individual tools in my
tool stack I should say is that they
have to have a powerful feature they
have to be simple I mean simple as there
is the underlying thing here but they
have to have a really powerful feature
that pretty much no other app has or
does in the way that the app that I want
to use does that makes any sense so an
app recently I started using properly
because they went into a subscription
mode that I talked about this before and
I didn't want to pay the subscription
but when I found that this particular
app and I'm talking about fantastic hell
here had this particular feature it was
a game changer for me and the feature or
fantastical is actually just being able
to propose times where then the client
can pick which time and it's kind of all
done automatically I like to call it and
it's actually a really really great
solution for times where you actually
need to send out you know you need to
make a book an appointment with someone
outside of your organization or whatever
but you can propose different times than
they could choose and it's done things 3
is another app that I love using
obviously it works on the phone as well
as on the Mac but the powerful feature
for me with things is the ease of use
the simplicity the the beauty of the way
it actually
looks and works on the phone is amazing
because it's very gesture based and it's
almost the same on the Mac where it's
just seamless and you can just get
around it so quickly and get the details
get to the point of what you want to do
very very quickly my last one for now
there's many many more but the one that
last one I want to talk about is base
camp now base camp again stupid simple
it's it's such an amazing overall app
that works seamlessly but the killer
feature is the automatic check-ins it's
a it's I mean III was actually talking
to someone about this earlier today
yeah the features automatic check-ins
now you couldn't build that with
creating a tasking a task manager things
three to do it or whatever it will
remind you you would have to go and
create in the email set it up and send
an email and they might miss the email
and so on if you're working with a
client stick him into base camp do an
automatic check-in they will get that
message through their app through a
notification and they can answer it it's
invaluable it's such a powerful feature
if you're a coach like me or a trainer
or a educator facilitator and you work
with other with clients it's a no
brainer I don't care how much base camp
cost it's a lot of money but I just
don't care because that one feature
alone I think is worth its weight in
gold basically there's two base camp so
go through your tech stack figure out
the killer feature that you're really
looking for and see if there's actually
that available I'm sure there is
depending on what you want to do anyway
it's a short video today episode I
should start calling an episode I keep
saying video anyway short episode have a
great day
remember wash your hands keep it simple
we'll get through this together
and I'll see you tomorrow ciao bye bye