Automating my Schedule - Joan Meeting Boards Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,584 words · ~7 min read
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Have you ever walked into a meeting room assuming that it'll be free only to discover that it is
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Occupado
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Look, I'm gonna cut you off right there because you don't really do anything here anymore. So I really need you to sign this
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well to avoid that kind of awkwardness and
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To help prevent James from being constantly pestered by people who want to know who who's in the meeting room?
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What are they gonna be done in the meeting room? When do you think I can use the meeting room?
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Yeah
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We've deployed a Joan board
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Basically, this tells you everything you need to know about this meeting room and they are the proud sponsors of today's video
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Look at that. It's got a little cap of face on the
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Cap of face not included. So believe it or not
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the meeting room is actually one of the least difficult rooms to to get your hands on around here and
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My office is a much much bigger problem
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And while I do have this
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Low tech solution to whether or not I am in the middle of meeting or doing something important
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Nobody ever really looks at it or that is to say they do look at it
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But they just assume that it's irrelevant when they see do not disturb. They just like kind of point at it
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And then they just come in anyway
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so today Alex and I will be deploying the
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Deluxe version of the Joan meeting board the bigger one for my office. Oh, wow. This one is way bigger
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Oh
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Ah
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Dang it. Well, it was only a matter of time before I dropped it
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Surely Joan knew what they were getting themselves into when they sponsored this video
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What is this then? It's another small one. Oh, we got another small one
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I told my wife that if you have the choice, you should take the small one
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I was trying to convince
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No, let's get those take the big one, all right
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Okay, fine you tell me how to do it smart guy
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Well, you want to do it like by your door. So you take this part of it. Oh
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That's another piece. Okay, so this goes like right on the window then so this actually replaces my other one out, right? Okay
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Yeah, that seems like a suitable. I never noticed before that this isn't centered
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It took until I was replacing it to realize
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For how heavy this thing is. I'm surprised that it mounts on a magnet
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What are the chances of it falling down? Look it also has like VESA mounting on it too. Just in case you are afraid of the magnet
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Wow, oh
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Okay, create your Joan web portal account at portal.getjoan.com. All right. Well, don't we already have one?
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Yeah, but you might as well just make a new one. What? You didn't save it. Did you?
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Put all accounts in LastPass
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Here we go. All right
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Now what do we do?
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Set up
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Follow the instructions in the Joan portal to set up Joan. Oh, you don't have to cloud post it
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No, you can do an internal hosting thing. Oh cool. Okay
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Did you jam that in the wrong way? Oh, no, you know, it's fine
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so
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The proof that anyone can do this is gonna be if the two of us managed to set this thing up
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30 frames per second. Wow, they couldn't go higher apps. No, it's up to 58 now. Oh nice. Oh
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Wait, what is this? No, not that what is that? What is LMG plify?
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I've never seen that before
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Okay, can we?
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figure it out
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The ink is so cool because it just looks like completely
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Dead like it just looks like a tile. Okay, I created a new Wi-Fi. Go ahead and scan
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Yeah, wow. There you go. Great reception on that one. What is the password all caps suck it Alex. I
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Wow
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Connecting to Alex sucks Wi-Fi, you know what I bet. Oh wait. Hey
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Ah
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All right
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Here we go
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Okay, big X small x 8 6 small left big C for
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Suck it Alex all caps. Oh, no. No. Oh, don't yeah. Yeah, that wasn't gonna work. I
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Did make him type it again, though. So we need to go into your calendar now. Oh boy my calendar
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Okay, why don't we just turn off everything that could have embargoed information on it and or information about like
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So this is all oh I gotta know I got a room with that
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Wow
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Okay, so we could just sync it to an existing calendar, but we're gonna create a new one for my office here
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How about how about you learn to spell you're literally a professional writer?
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What it's a sex dumb on
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hopefully like Joan meeting boards and watched one or two of our videos before her sponsoring this of
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All right.
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Okay, Linus office.
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Okay, cool.
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Then what we just scroll down, get shareable link.
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I think that's it.
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Okay.
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No one copied that.
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No one copied that either.
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Yeah, don't copy any of those.
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This entire calendar is gonna be full
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of so many troll events.
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That would actually be hilarious.
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You know what?
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Everybody go ahead and copy that.
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I don't even care.
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I'm gonna leave this on my door.
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You can schedule any meetings for me that you want.
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Do we have to like link the Joan portal
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to my Google account?
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Cause right now it's yours.
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Or we could add you.
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Yes, add people.
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There you go.
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You are now the administrator of my personal calendar.
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Yay.
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It's official, you've been promoted.
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You're now my personal assistant.
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You and Joan, you put the ass in assistant.
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Like you're an ass, not like that kind.
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No.
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So we got that working.
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Okay, now what?
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Okay, devices.
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Now we can make this device manage that.
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Yes, device.
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Sweet.
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Joan premium.
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Heck yeah.
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She's in Linus's office.
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Wow, it even keeps the cap face.
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Nice, is that like company wide?
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I guess so.
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Heck yeah.
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Okay, so let's go put it up.
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So now we just have to rely on our community
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not to be immature.
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Linus office.
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So today is the 17th and time to go home.
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And it starts at a time of six o'clock PM.
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Now, theoretically, we could do that.
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And then we could have, so Tuesday morning, Colton firing.
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And we could add a time for that.
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This is actually pretty cool.
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I'm not gonna do it first thing in the morning.
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I don't like firing Colton,
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like right when I get into the office.
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So we can do that at 10 a.m.
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And then serious business planning session with Colton.
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Well, we're gonna hire him back.
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Executive lunchtime is the best lunch.
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I'm gonna take a long lunch tomorrow.
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Two hours.
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All right, let's see.
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Boom.
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Current meeting, gone.
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And it shows the next meeting.
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Yeah, like look at the app.
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It's just like Linus office.
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Oh, that's cool.
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So really the best way to use this
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would not be to just have it up.
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Right, that's why we're doing this.
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Because having it in just one room was kind of stupid.
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Oh no, they're all on here now.
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Check this out.
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So that's cool.
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So then we can have one for my office,
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one for that office.
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We could have one for the one over there.
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And then when you need a meeting room,
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you don't actually have to get up and go check.
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Right, that's the whole point.
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All right, yeah, the day's over.
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Yeah, it actually knows that.
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Cool.
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I guess we should also say that the battery lasts a year.
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A year?
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Yeah, a year.
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Lasts all year, does it?
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Yeah, the smaller one's a couple months, oh God.
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But I guess that's why an E Ink device like this
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needs to be this thick.
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So there you have it, everyone.
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That's the Joan meeting board.
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Feel free to book your meetings with me
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at linusmediagroup.com,
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underscore R-T-K-L-Q-R-Q-4-T-1-L-1-U-J-B-K-S-I-S-7-7-H-I-O-K-T-0
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at g-r-o-u-p.c-a-l-e-n-d-a-r.google.com, okay?
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Thank you, everyone.
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And thanks to Joan for coming to work here
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at Linus Media Group and also for sponsoring this video.
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If you guys dislike this video, you can hit that button.
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But if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed,
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or maybe consider checking out where to buy this stuff.
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We featured at the link in the video description.
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Also down there is our merch store,
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which has cool shirts like this one
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and our community forum, which you should totally join.
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And for those of you who dislike the video,
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I know who you are, Alex.
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But you can still suck it.
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I like my part.
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I mean, you're making this...