Chad Byers

Plan 1.0 - Manage & organise your life

Plan is a collaboration software that intelligently organizes projects, tasks and meetings from all the tools you and your team use: calendar, email, JIRA, Zendesk, Salesforce, and Github. Think of it like a work concierge. Currently, teams and individuals at Buzzfeed, Uber, Twitter and JP Morgan use Plan for a total of 20,000 monthly active users.

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Ben Tossell
Tell us what the big updates are here since the post 10 months ago? The long-awaited iOS app is now out I see 😊 - what were the struggles in fitting such a sophisticated web-app into an app?
Darshan Desai
@bentossell @chadbyers Thanks Ben & Chad! Since getting feedback here in May, we went heads down and started making sure you could rely on Plan entirely for everything you'd need to manage your day. That meant fleshing out both the tasks and meetings side of things, in addition to creating a mobile experience that rivals the desktop. Some of the features we've added in: support for multiple Google accounts, meeting invites, and a smart input that does a pretty good job of figuring out what you're trying to say. One of the biggest challenges for mobile was figuring out how to keep the connection between the two most integral parts of the app -- the tasks list and calendar, so that you can effortlessly organize your work for the day. Long pressing on your agenda view in Plan slides in a calendar view that lets you easily drop-to-create and rearrange time to work on tasks and meetings. Around all day to answer questions + feature reqs! 😄 😁
Marie Lotode Chandra
@darshan1394 What are your plans in terms of integrations with other apps (Trello, Wunderlist, etc)?
Stowe Boyd
Without sharing -- task assignment, @mentions, and so on -- this can't really displace other tools except for soloists living in an ice cave in Antarctica. Nice UI, though. @darshan1394 @bentossell @chadbyers Likewise, integrations: doesn't even post dated tasks on Google calendar.
Dave Guilford
@darshan1394 Really like the interface. How long until tasks sync with Google Calendar? I need coworkers to be able to see that I'm not available because I'm on something else. Also, I realize there's no Android app yet, but without the task sync to Google Calendar it's really tough to go mobile if you're on Android.
Darshan Desai
@daveguilford Tasks you create after toggling the sync should show up instantaneously on GCal -- let us know if you're having trouble still!
Marie Lotode Chandra
This is great and I'm a fan but is there a way to sync tasks to and from another platform (trello, wunderlist, etc.)?
Darshan Desai
@marielchandra Definitely on our list! We're starting with ones that add more functionality than just task management (ones geared towards collaboration, etc., like Trello) soon, and then at the very least offering one-way sync with other services.
Morgan Salama
I've tried out more than 10 task manager, to-do and scheduling apps and this one just... blows it out of the water. I've been on the beta, so I admit it might take a few tries to figure it out but this app is the closest I've found to a "lifechanger".
planetMitch
@mcsalama would love a bit more... WHY? what makes it so good?
Prabhu S
Could you increase the contrast on the text etc. Its very light hard to see and sometimes irritating
Leonardo Zizzamia
@prabhu1101 we've been focusing only a few devices so far, but we are definitely going to test more devices and improve the color contrast on PCs and Mobile Web.
Paul Sturrock
I've been using this since the beta came out. It's deceptively powerful. It forces you to address the fact that you are constrained by how many hours there are in the day, and you need to decide what will make a difference. Which means you need to admit what you won't get done.
Roman
I've been looking for a GCal replacement for a while. Sunrise was good on the Web, but not so much on mobile. Android in the works?
Darshan Desai
@romanzadyrako Loooots of requests for Android in the past 24 hours. We're big fans of making sure the Plan experience is high quality on each platform we offer, so after our Mac app is out of beta we'll start focusing on Android :)
Nik Sharma
I don't see any pricing. Is this a free platform now?
Darshan Desai
@mrsharma Yep Nik, it's free now and will always be free for individual use!
Bob Minkus
This is a very interesting concept for scheduling tasks and I like the promise of the metrics per list (which I can use for clients). One question for the makers: is it possible to assign meetings to lists so that they show up in the metrics? Or is it just best to schedule (or reenter) meetings as tasks and move them over?
Darshan Desai
@askminkus Thanks for the comment! Right now, you can assign a meeting to a list by making sure the list title is in the name of the meeting. So, if you had a "Design" list, you could title meetings "Design Meeting", or "Design: Call Jeff". Then, those will appear in the metrics! We'll also let you customize this a bit more in the future so that you don't have to explicitly name meetings this way.
Caitlin Kawaguchi
@darshan1394 @askminkus Would love if in the future (this may already be in the works) we could assign all meetings from one calendar into one list, i.e.: so meetings from a work email cal goes automatically in that work list. Thanks for all you're building with plan - it's been such a game changer for me :)
Ian Mikutel
When does Exchange support come? 😎
Pedro Ruíz
Great concept, I've been playing around with task managers and calendars and this is a pleasant surprise. I love the feature for rescheduling events that didn't take place and consciously blocking out time for getting things done. What kind of users do you keep in mind when designing?
Mario 🦊
Recurring appointments would be huge.
Darshan Desai
@mdagabriele Agreed! We were waiting until we nailed the relationship between recurring tasks and recurring times to work on tasks (Memo due every Thursday v. being able to say you'll work on that memo on the same day every week). We're beta testing that approach now and will roll it out to everyone soon!
oty
Love the UI and the aim of the Servie too, very good Job from this team +1
Merek Davis
Been beta testing this for a while. Beautiful product and you are consistently releasing new beta builds, which gives me a lot of confidence that you're actively committed to the long run. Kudos. One question I did have was iCal integration. Is that something that will be coming?
Darshan Desai
@merekdavis Thanks for the comment! We'll roll out official iCal integration in the next few months, but if you set up iCal to Google Calendar sync, you'll be able to see all of you events in Plan from iCal!
Shayne O'Sullivan
really smooth guys. This is a cool concept. Any integrations going?
My User
Very Nice! @darshan1394 Any plans to add repeating tasks? (or maybe there already is a way to do this).
Helen Crozier
I really like the mobile version - the only thing Plan is missing is the automatic scheduling that Focuster has. It moves your most important things into spaces on your calendar like magic! Still Plan is a very solid product - so much better having time and tasks integrated imho.
Darshan Desai
@helencrozier Thanks Helen! One of the big things we want to work on is making it easier to schedule and re-schedule tasks and meetings, so expect some features in that vein! We think those kinds of intelligent features are the most helpful when they have a high % of accuracy (instead of having to constantly reschedule automatically scheduled tasks), so we're going to focus on really getting it right 99% of the time before we release!
Zach Sherman
Great work, really big fan of this UI/UX.
Keith Kurson
I love this.
Robert Gourley
Going to try this out, I'm a sucker for productivity tools.
Ben Quazzo
well done @darshan1394