Do You Offer Motion Setup Consulting?

We do not offer consulting services anymore, but we've done one better. For a fraction of the price from what we used to charge for software setup, we put together everything we know about Motion in our new Motion Course. We bring you inside of our account and show you exactly how we're using Motion here at Efficient App to create content and build product.

Does Motion Replace Google Calendar?

There are a few times where you'd actually want to open back up Google Calendar for certain things, like proposing a new time for example, or editing a team's calendar event (even if you're invited to it), so fixing these things will greatly improve the UX. It would be nice to be able to have all of the normal Google Calendar functionality within Motion. That said, it does 99% of what you need on a daily basis, and in comparing Motion with the best calendar apps on the market, they all have these same limitations at the moment.

Does Motion Have Subtasks?

Motion allows for task chunking, breaking down larger tasks into smaller tasks. So the way we handle that situation is we'll create sub tasks just as checklists in the task, set the task to be a larger chunk of time (e.g. 4 hours) and then "enable chunking" and selecting say 30 minute chunks or 1 hour chunks. That'll put the task on your calendar in 30–60 minute blocks of time, to which you can work through completing the entire task, completing the task chunk will update the task completion time accordingly.

Does Motion Have Gantt Charts?

Gantt charts are officially in Motion! We cover how we use them internally at Efficient App in our Motion Course. Motion Gantt Chart (watch the Motion Tutorial video for a full breakdown and more screenshots)

Can Large Teams Use Motion?

If you're looking at Motion to manage your tasks, it's an incredibly robust task management tool and has just about every full-fledged project management feature that you could need. That said, if you're a large team with many layers of management, then it might be missing a few of those milestones and goal type reporting views. That said, Motion has teams of hundreds of employees using Motion, so unless you're an enterprise team of thousands, you should be able to get away with using Motion as a large team.

Does Motion Have Reporting?

Motion has one of the most robust ListView and grouping/filtering features of any PM tool on the market, so while they don't have the traditional reporting functionality, you should be able to get much of what you need by simply building the view for the data that you're looking to view within the "All Tasks" view of Motion. That said, what you get with Motion is customizable reports, or any reporting dashboards for that matter. That's not to say this won't come in the future, but for now the Motion team is focused on improving productivity for small + medium sized businesses and often times reporting features are required more at the enterprise level.

Does Motion Allow for Habit Tracking?

Yes, Motion allows for tracking habits by simply using recurring tasks, as while other tools talk about habits as if they are a totally separate feature, when in reality, all they are is a reoccurring task within a schedule restriction (e.g. nights only, 3 days per week, weekends only, etc.) Motion actually used to have habits as a standalone feature, but they rebranded it to recurring tasks to enable others to benefit from being able to have tasks reoccur as well.

Does Motion Do Time Tracking?

Time tracking is pretty core to Motion—for example, whenever adding a task, there's a "time estimation" field (duration), and a "completed time" field (completed X of Y hours). You can either manually update the "completed time" field after doing work, or "start task" which begins tracking time against the task while you're working on it. Upon stopping the task, it adds the time you've worked to the task's "completed time" field. The cool thing here is that you can even tie in calendar event meetings into projects, so not all "work" needs to be tasks (unlike other time tracking software/PM tools).In terms of now how you get this in reporting though... You would need to organize a Listview to show all your tasks for the week/month, and then it'll show each task/meeting, and then have a rolled up "completed duration" field, grouped by week/month as an example like this: Completed Duration = total time tracked from tasks completed; Duration = Time tracked + Meetings Tracked This view is super customizable, so that's just an example. I don't think you can export, but you can just screenshot and it gets the same point across. You can do the same exact thing as the screenshot above, but have it grouped by assignee instead, to show the entire team's time tracked: Full team's time tracked based on month task was completed