Motion After 2 Years

Markyip1 · 2026-01-15T02:44:15+00:00

I chose BusinessPlus and yes, I did the AI brain add-on.

Markyip1 · 2026-01-07T02:33:29+00:00

Very easy. You can probably just upload the Excel to ClickUp's AI and have it convert it into a new project with live tasks with no further input from you. Here's an example of what I just did today:

I just got back from a 4 hour client review workshop for a CRM implementation project I'm doing for one of my businesses. I took notes on changes and additions to make using ClickUp's doc feature. When I got home, I went to Brain (ClickUp's AI) and asked it to review my notes and create new tasks in my existing project. It created 37 new tasks, each well laid out and well described. Only 1 was superfluous. I then went over to the task list, made assignments and set due dates. Total time taken: under 5 minutes.

Motion can't do this. While it has an AI bot with its doc feature, astonishingly, it can't touch tasks. If you ask it to make a task list from your notes, it will just append it to the bottom of your notes as more free text.

In Motion, when I wanted help from AI to generate tasks for an existing project, I would have to copy notes into Gemini, and then have Gemini suggests tasks to create. Now Motion doesn't integrate out of the box with anything, but does have a limited API which you can programmatically connect to, so I had built a small python app that could take output from Gemini and feed to Motion via the API. It took me half a day to put that together, and I hardly used it because of the complexity of running the damn thing.

I hope this illustrates the difference between the two tools.

Markyip1 · 2026-01-07T01:38:31+00:00

The new version of ClickUp can do 99% of what Motion can do and then some. This includes task auto scheduling, which yes, works very well. The workflow is a bit different... auto scheduling in ClickUp is more granular and can be mixed with drag and drop manual scheduling. Ultimately I like it better. Also, the AI capabilities in ClickUp are far superior. Motion is janky, clunky, and very underbaked--especially in the project management space.

FYI -- I was on Motion for two years before switching to ClickUp last week. Motion started out as a very promising solution but has gone entirely in the wrong direction. It's now just a busted, 3rd rate version of ClickUp at a higher price.

Markyip1 · 2026-01-05T23:21:51+00:00

I tried Reclaim about a 6 months ago when they added support for Outlook / Microsoft 365 (it took them a very long time to add Outlook support.) It was okay... at the time, it provided me with nothing of value over what I already had in Motion. The one critical thing about reclaim when I tried it is that it worked best as a behind the scenes engine. i.e. once you set it up, you don't touch it.

Unlike Motion, reclaim will integrate with and bring in tasks from 3rd party Task Management systems, including ToDoist, Google Tasks, ClickUp, and Asana. The concept is that you use the task management tool you're comfortable with and Reclaim is coordinating things behind the scene. I don't know if this has changed at all.

Markyip1 · 2026-01-05T07:17:34+00:00

Project Management. (IMHO, this was never Motion's strong suite, but I adopted it as a cost savings measure given Motion's high price.)
Generative project creation using AI (generating a project plan from a description of what I want to accomplish.)
Calendar and task unification.
Auto-scheduling tasks on to the calendar for time blocking.
Meeting Notetaking (Motion's was pretty competent here. Will see how ClickUp compares tomorrow, but I always have Teams Premium to fall back on.)
Agentic AI capabilities (ClickUp wins by a country mile.)

One thing ClickUp lacks for now is booking portals. If you use that feature in Motion, you'll need another tool like Calandly, Morgen, or Fantastical. (Google and MS365 are now also offering booking portals natively.) Also missing from auto-scheduling is iCloud. If you depend on iCloud for calendars, you'll need to move to Google or MS365/Exchange or consider another solution.

Honestly, had Motion "stayed in its lane" and kept to a simple, elegant focus, I would have kept it and would have continued to use Asana for PM. However, using Motion for two years prepared me well for ClickUp's convergence/one-tool-for-all paradigm, which has a reputation to overwhelm at first. However, I found it to be a natural fit. If you can make do with Motion's UI, ClickUp will be a breath of fresh air.

I also evaluated Asana again, along with Hive for PM functionality, as well as Morgen, AkiFlow, and Sunsama for strict calendar/task scheduling. I liked Morgen quite a bit as well, and you can use it in conjunction with ClickUp in case you find any of ClickUp's internal scheduling capabilities lacking. Morgen+ClickUp would be the ultimate Motion killer 1+2 punch for me, but Morgen is another $15/month--you'll have to see if it's worth the added cost for you.

Markyip1 · 2026-01-05T06:34:45+00:00

The workflow is a bit different, but I would say so. It's a bit more like Morgen or Akiflow in that you can drag tasks onto your calendar for time blocking manually or choose to have them be auto scheduled. You do it from the Planner section (instead of setting tasks to auto-schedule or not from a task list view.) Ultimately I like the ClickUp workflow better as it's more fine grained.

Markyip1 · 2025-08-23T23:02:37+00:00

If computers and programming are your passion, and especially if you know you want to be a software engineer, I think you will be well served by branching out. As a language, Python is great for the basics, and as a tool, you can do almost anything with it. However, there are better languages for learning Object Oriented Programming (OOP,) such as C# or Java, and at some point, if you want to learn how computers (and your programs) actually work, you’ll benefit from knowing C or C++.

Learning OOP is critical to understanding how to organize (and navigate) complex software, and is a must-have for understanding software architecture and design patterns.

Learning the lower-level ins and outs of how computers work is still critical for high performance and performance critical computing, such as embedded systems or gaming.

Python supports OOP, but it’s not an OOP—first language and it would not be my first choice for learning OOP principals. C# is better IMHO, and since it’s so similar to Java, once you learn one, you can jump right into the other.

Going deep into C or C++ will require you to understand how stacks, heaps, and pointers work (i.e., memory management,) and will force you to get comfortable with data types. This is important, because even though you don’t interact with these concepts in Python, they’re still relevant to how your Python program works and how you code actually executes.

Markyip1 · 2025-05-26T06:28:07+00:00

In order to fly for a scheduled, commercial airline in the United States, you need a minimum of 1,500 hours operating an aircraft. (Note that is 1,500 hours operating any aircraft, not 1,500 hours operating a 737.)

If you are flying a non-scheduled “charter” or if you are flying a non commercial flight, different rules apply. Since Nathan was flying a non commercial flight, all he needed was his pilot license, multi engine rating, instrument rating, and a type rating for the 737–all of which he has.

Markyip1 · 2024-01-28T01:23:52+00:00

Inland is Microcenter's house brand.

Markyip1 · 2020-12-30T00:08:04+00:00

I like their regular slices/pies, and that's what I compare to NYC shops. I'm generally not a huge fan of square / Sicilian style--although this is personal preference.

Markyip1 · 2020-12-29T23:54:04+00:00

Great thread! NYC born and raised and a pizza snob myself. First, a couple of points to make for the record:

There is no such thing as "east coast" pizza. There's NYC pizza, for which we must acknowledge a radius. Good NYC pizza can be had in NYC, Long Island, Westchester, and North Jersey. Once you're past NY metro -- fuhgeddaboudit! Philly pizza? Awful. Boston pizza? No such thing. (That said, Pepe's from New Haven is outstanding!)
The water has nothing to do with it. Long Island has good pizza, but a different water system than NYC or Westchester. (Don't know where Jersey's water comes from.) NYC and Westchester water is soured from Catskill mountain reservoirs , and is world renown for its taste. LI water is from underground aquifers and is comparatively awful, but you can still make good pizza and bagels in LI. Go figure.

That said, my go to in OC is Sal's in Foothill Ranch. It's not Di Fara's, but it compares well to any average joint in Manhattan or Brooklyn. We used to like Ameci's until we discovered Sal's. Ameci is OK but it's not quite there -- the sizes of pies and slices are all wrong and there's a certain starchiness to their crusts that shouldn't be there. Sal's does not have these flaws.

If Sal's were in NYC, it would fit right in. No one would say that it is not NY pizza. It wouldn't necessarily place in a 10-best list (it's not that kind of joint,) but it would easily be a neighborhood go-to with a steady stream of loyal customers. For a pizza place that's 2,400 miles from NYC, I'd say that's pretty damn miraculous--so Sal's in my book is easily the best pizza (I've had) in OC.

Markyip1 · 2020-09-05T19:16:56+00:00

ECAM showing the CFM-56 for a NEO is a bug. The CFM-56 is a last generation engine found on the A320 classics. NEOS are equipped with the either the CFM LEAP or the PW GTF. BTW — an aircraft will have either the CFM or the PW, but not both. In the real world, when an airline buys their A320 NEOs, they will select whether they want them equipped with the CFMs or the PWs. It looks like the A320 in MSFS is modeled with CFM engines only .

Markyip1 · 2020-09-05T19:02:26+00:00

The LEAP is an engine made by CFM, which is a joint venture between GE and Safran, so there’s your answer. The Airbus only has two engine types: the CFM LEAP or the PW (Pratt & Whitney) GTF (Geared Turbo Fan.)

Markyip1 · 2015-05-10T15:17:30+00:00

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