Motion Pricing Overview

The auto-scheduling is my favorite feature. After I carefully tend my tasks, I go to my calendar to see what I should do next, and Motion tells me. Not much thought is required on what to do to achieve my large and small goals together. Requires less thought to get more done.

It's pricey. Even with the annual subscription, which I have, I feel that the cost is high compared to its competitors who don't have the auto-scheduling feature.

Motion is helping me solve the problem of when to do the tasks in my to-do list. Lots of project management tools can help me catpure what to do, but this is the only one that suggests when I should do them. With the way that Motion connects to my work calendar, I can see if I have too many tasks this week, or if I actually have spare time at the end of the week if I work hard enough. Helping me understand if I have not-enough-time or a little extra time is a valuable insight.

Every week (or whenever i feel overwhelmed) I spend time putting all my tasks in Motion and instantly feel better. It helps keep me on track and see how manageable my week can be. I love that if I don't check things off that it automatically finds a new slot for that task.

Wish there was an easier way to tick off tasks or add tasks within Google Calendar rather than having to be IN the motion app as it always feels a bit clunky. Being able to manually assign tasks to certain days myself.

Keeping me on track and efficient with my time. Being realistic about what I can get done in one day and one week.

The fundamental ideas about Motion are good. When it works, it feels great. Specifically, being able to toss all my tasks & priorities into a bucket, and have a planned list for accomplishing them in a sane order, is a great feeling. The booking links are convenient as well, and the team features have potential.

The product has been highly buggy for years. They removed functionality - e.g. it used to be fast to navigate around the calendar with keyboard shortcuts - removed for some reason with no replacement. It's very expensive for what it is, support is slow to respond and is unhelpful, and it feels like the product barely improves over time. In addition, extremely basic features have been missing for ages - e.g. multi selecting todos for bulk actions. Want to add 10 tasks to a project? Open each one individually, hit the dropdown, hit the project - 10 times. Delete 10 tasks? Same thing. This is table stakes for a todo app, let alone a team todo app.

Was helping with calendar management and personal task & project management. I'm still using it as my calendar for the moment, but am actively looking for alternatives.

The AI auto scheduler is good, it comes with google calendar sync and eliminates mental fatigue on decision making process and you dont wonder what to do next, if you need a system or hierarchy for this, its great

Charged twice by usemotion, they assured me they'd refund me, and it's been almost a month with nothing received on my end, their customer support ignores it and connects you to a chat bot. Even the trial of seven days has a shady system going on, after expiring, you're charged a full year by default with no option to access a monthly subscription unless you contact them directly, which again you're gonna be put on hold on a chat bot, until they decide if they wanna get back to you or not by a real person on the customer support. Ultimately what really did it is that they now auto archive tasks and dont let you keep an active backlog, just another feature that implies they are smarter than everyone else about what you need yourself, instead of allowing you the free will to decide yourself for you I've tried cancelling my subscription and get back a refund for the one that was double charged but of course, usemotion team sees no urgency on this. I wonder if there's even a customer support at all. Not a good look for a startup with lots of bells and whistles about revolutionizing the way one person works by speeding up your workflow while simultaneously being a drag on your life's finance and logistics. I'd give less than a one star but this site won't allow that. Usemotion changed the terms on archiving your tasks without your consent, charged twice for a full year, they change the rules and the system you bought mid subscription but are skeptical of refunding or cancelling your plan as byproduct.

Deciding what tasks to do next, prioritize work, schedule appointments.

Motion combines meeting scheduling with a good reminder system for tasks that are otherwise forgotten forever

It rapidly loses its value if you as a user are not actively following the planned schedule and instead do things in accordance to your whim. But it can still provide value even in this case as Motion will remind you

It allows me to be a bit more personal and send meeting booking links with different layers of priority baked into the booking itself. The biggest thing is that it allows me to add tasks with one simple keyboard command in a way that autoschedules it and makes sure that it keeps reappearing in my calendar until it is done. I also like how they keep on improving and small things like being able to add multiple time zones.

The fact that I can quickly and easily share meeting availability from Motion is one of my favorite features, and it saves me a lot of back-and-forth emails. It also feels less impersonal than just sending a standard booking link. I also love that there is a desktop app, so I can open that in the morning without having to open my browser and immediately get distracted. Not having to reschedule tasks when something comes up manually is also a huge time saver.

For a while, Motion did not have recurring tasks, but now that they have built-in recurring tasks, I can't think of anything I don't like about Motion. It really has everything you need and nothing you don't.

Being able to quickly and easily share meeting availability and customize that meeting availability is a massive time saver, prevents back-and-forth emails, and feels much less impersonal than just firing off a standard booking link.

It automatically grabs all my to-do list items and squeezes them into the time that exists for me. It's helped me to know what's realistic and what's not because very often I'm trying to fit in more than is physically possible with my time.

It only schedules things in for 2 weeks at a time. I feel like it could schedule my whole year, but I'd be happy if it could do 6 weeks...or just up to where my to-do list ends.

I have a lot of ideas, and run multiple businesses. I used to write lists that I would feel overwhelmed by or would lose. Motion helps me get my ideas moving by scheduling them in and helps me know what area I have time to focus on and when. You know when you've only got 30 mins left in a day and you're not sure what you can fit in that time? Motion tells you.

Motion is extremely helpful with prioritizing. It naturally figures out based on timing and urgency what you should be working on. As life goes on and more things to do come up, I've found Motion really helpful with keeping my schedule organized, under control, and making me feel like I have the time to get everything I need done.

Motion also thinks you're a robot that will constantly keep doing work. All you need to do is build in some breaks in your schedule where the program won't add tasks, otherwise it makes you feel like you have to nonstop work!

When you have a "To-Do" list, it can be overwhelming looking at it and thinking that you just want everything done RIGHT NOW. Motion helps organize the things you want to do in a controlled manner over time - helping you realistically achieve your goals. I've found Motion really helpful with organizing the chaos that is inbound requests and projects.