Todoist, why I use it and why I stopped using Pipedrive & Asana
Today I had a great conversation with a friend about his workflow and how and what apps I use for the running of my business.
I’ve helped him set up his system and love geeking out with him about all this stuff! This is an excerpt of the full conversation where I talk about Todoist and why I keep going back after using other tools like Pipedrive & Asana etc.
The conversation was done with Zoom, so the quality isn't as good as my 4K camera, but the content is pure gold.
Transcript
yes oh you saw Mike todoist video watch
the todoist video definitely watch it
and it makes then it all makes sense
because I actually haven't changed
anything the point isn't the tools the
point is the system yeah if you have the
right system you can hop between tools
pure and simple I need to know the tools
because I used to choose the tools or
particular clients kind of need to know
the tools so I use all these other tools
and think oh this is great oh this is
great yeah but when you work for your or
yourself whoever that person is you need
to have your own system whether you
steal it from someone else or get ideas
from someone else or whatever once you
have the system you can move that you
can choose a different all my original
was FileMaker I built my own farm maker
everything's fantastic did my invoicing
it did my reports at the end it did
everything but I didn't have the
information at he everywhere so when I
went over to the cloud of like how can I
do stuff one time where I was using
Moore's Apple knows I'm still doing that
for my projects yeah right then again
it's the same but the system is exactly
the same it's just the tool is tiny the
reason why I went to todoist two reasons
one earth 381 it was service really swim
simple to you could use it anywhere yeah
and three I love the company ethos okay
and that was very important for me
that's why I'm pulling away from asana
again is it's like they're doing these
things we're marketing and the bean
counters were winning and the engineers
opening but but the actual clients are
not winning
yeah what they're doing it's insane yeah
his latest one latest it's been going on
for a while so if you go to it if you're
using the free assignment they use it
you can use it for free you have an
upgrade button understandable so you
upgrade to see if you could use the
premium yeah and you go actually premium
isn't good for me so I'll go back to the
free one when you do that you get this
huge then I mean huge yellow banner
saying you should upgrade and when you
ask them can you take this away yeah it
will go away in seven days that's
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reason I heard that I learnt about this
yesterday and I was like okay I'm gonna
stop and there was other reasons why so
before where I'm gonna stop now if
you're using premium which you're paying
for 35 euros a month right which is what
I'm doing you still get an upgrade
button to business at a hundred and
twelve euros a month why I'm paying for
why this is the problem I had with with
pipedrive the the forms can build forms
the leader all their little apps that
are client facing have their name on it
so company ethos means kind a lot to me
before I have what I used to do is when
I started a project with a client I
would give them an access to that
project so they can see everything right
so you can see all the tasks they can
see them I'm gonna start doing again I
was doing it it's on that wing and
diplomats
again it yeah they can see the whole
list only the project not not everything
else it only again the system hasn't
changed just the app has changed what
enjoy I just wanted to throw this out
there
the system is the same it's not to do
this video if you do anything today
sure oh yeah I'm gonna do that for sure
yeah want to come over for dinner again
one of these days yeah absolutely I'm
waiting for the barbecue invite okay
okay sure all right all right man take
care have a good day care bye-bye