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How to Use Motion App for Project Management (The Most Detailed Tutorial & Review!)

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🥇 Motion: https://efficient.link/r/motion?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024&sid1=youtube&sid2=motion+tutorial&sid3=2024 *(7 days free + exclusive 🎁 below)* ↳ Use our affiliate link & get $100 off our Motion Course: https://efficient.deals/motion?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024 _*(New 2025 terms)_ ↳ Already a Motion customer? Get our Motion setup course: https://efficient.link/courses/motion?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024 🔥 2025 Updated Motion Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwF87OU2Euo 🎁 *LIMITED TIME DEALS* (Efficient Exclusives) ↳ Get $100 Off Our Motion Course (New Customers Only): https://efficient.deals/motion?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024 🎁 ↳ Purchase Motion Set Up Course (Existing Motion Customers): https://efficient.link/courses/motion?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024 🎓 🤔 *Take The Quiz* For personalized software recommendations: ↳ https://efficient.link/quiz 📰 *Subscribe To Our Newsletter* ↳ https://efficient.link/subscribe 💬 *Description* This is our most requested video! We're going to be covering: ↳ The first steps that you should take right now to setup Motion ↳ How to leverage Motion so that it feels like you actually have an assistant ↳ The best way to use Motion as a team and why we think they're changing the game when it comes to project management ↳ Some unreleased features coming to Motion later this year 🤫 ✍️ *Full Motion Deep-Dive Review* ↳ Motion: https://efficient.link/motion 🚀 *Other Software Mentioned* (Affiliate) ↳ Superhuman Mail: https://efficient.link/r/superhuman-mail?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024 (Get 30 days free) ↳ Screen Studio: https://efficient.link/r/screen-studio?ref=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=motion+tutorial&utm_term=2024 ↳ Learn more about the best software & apps: https://efficient.app 🎥 *What We Covered:* 0:00 - How We Use Motion 0:44 - What We'll Cover 1:06 - Add Calendars 1:30 - Adding Tasks 2:15 - Set up Workspaces & Projects 2:46 - Why Statuses Are Important 4:07 - Create Task Templates 4:36 - Don't Forget Labels 4:50 - Set up Project Views 5:36 - Auto-Schedule Tasks 6:37 - Team Blocking 7:12 - "What Should I Work On Next?" 7:23 - Urgent Tasks 7:36 - Email Your Assistant (AKA Motion) 8:03 - Siri + Motion 8:15 - Don't Want To Follow Motion's Schedule? 9:15 - Meeting Scheduler 9:39 - Motion For Teams 9:43 - Migrating Tasks From Asana 10:49 - Capacity Planning For Teams 12:38 - Motion Saves Us So Much Time 13:12 - Onboarding Your Team 14:02 - New Features? 14:12 - Reinventing Gantt Charts 15:00 - New Custom Fields 15:20 - Flows 17:12 - Long-Term Planning 17:40 - What's Next? 18:07 - Try Motion For 7 Days! 👀 *Watch This Next:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwF87OU2Euo https://youtu.be/3-lIQBARGHc *After being customers of Motion we asked them if we could invest, check out the full story here: https://youtu.be/YamC4Rx9NFo _*Affiliate/Investment Disclosure: This video is not sponsored; all opinions are our own. Many links used above and across our channel are affiliate links. This means we may receive a small commission if you use our links to sign up for software at no extra cost to you. In fact, in some cases, we have negotiated discounts or extended free trials if you use our affiliate links to sign up, or we provide access to additional free or discounted training to help you set up the software. View https://efficient.deals for full details of the associated deal for each software. Purchasing through our links helps us continue to create free content. We occasionally get the opportunity to invest in some of our favorite tools; this does not impact the outcome of our opinions. You can read more about how we make money and learn about which software we’ve invested in here: https://efficient.app/about_

About This Video

You asked how we’re using Motion, so in this video we go inside our actual account and show you how to go from “blank slate chaos” to a real project + calendar system that runs itself. Alex and I run Efficient App with a remote team of five, and after 7 years on Asana we switched because Motion isn’t just task management—it’s time management. The core idea: tasks don’t live in a list, they live on your calendar, auto-scheduled around meetings, personal events, priorities, and deadlines. We walk through the setup step-by-step: connect your work + personal calendars (so nobody books over yoga), add tasks fast (Option/Alt + Space), keep Auto-schedule ON, and then build your structure with workspaces (departments), projects (initiatives), statuses (your pipeline), templates (repeatable processes), labels (extra grouping), and views (we like Kanban grouped by status, sorted by priority). Then we show the “assistant” workflows we use daily: assigning auto-scheduled tasks to teammates so they land directly on their calendars, forwarding emails to tasks@usemotion.com, using Siri on the go, and adjusting priorities instead of dragging tasks (dragging can lock them). Finally, we cover team rollout and why Motion wins at capacity planning: it actually knows the real availability of your team because it’s tied to calendars. We also share unreleased-looking features we found (Gantt charts, custom fields, and “Flows” that turn tasks into automated handoffs between teammates).

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