Motion: The AI Promise
Motion's pitch is seductive: "Tell us what you need to do, and our AI will figure out when you'll do it."
No more manual calendar Tetris. No more deciding "Should I do this at 2pm or 4pm?" The AI optimizes your entire schedule based on deadlines, priorities, and your calendar.
Sounds amazing, right?
Here's what happened when I tried it: The AI scheduled me into oblivion.
What Motion Does Brilliantly
- Auto-scheduling: Add a task with a deadline, AI finds time in your calendar. No manual planning.
- Smart rescheduling: Meeting gets moved? AI instantly reorganizes your whole day.
- Calendar sync: Deep Google Calendar integration. Meetings and tasks in one view.
- Project management: Full PM features - dependencies, teams, milestones.
- Time blocking: AI protects your focus time automatically.
If you're a busy executive juggling 47 tasks and 12 meetings, Motion's AI is genuinely helpful.
The Problem Nobody Mentions
Motion optimizes for maximum productivity. It will pack your calendar as tight as possible while technically leaving "breaks."
But here's the thing: productivity and well-being aren't the same thing.
Motion scheduled me perfectly. 8am: Email review. 9am: Deep work. 10:30am: Meeting. 12pm: Lunch (blocked!). 1pm: Project work. 3pm: Another meeting. 4pm: Admin tasks. 6pm: Done.
On paper? Optimal. In reality? I was exhausted by Wednesday. Every minute accounted for. Zero flexibility. No room for life to happen.
Life Balance: Motion Doesn't Care
Motion sees "tasks." It doesn't distinguish between:
- Working on a presentation (draining)
- Going to the gym (energizing)
- Calling your mom (connecting)
To Motion's AI, they're all just "30-minute tasks to schedule." It doesn't know that you've scheduled 8 hours of work tasks and zero self-care.
Funtasking's Purpose Wheel? It knows. Work is purple. Body is green. Mind is blue. You see the imbalance immediately.
The $408/Year Question
Motion costs $34/month. That's $408 per year for AI scheduling.
Is it worth it? If you're making $200k+ and drowning in meetings, maybe. The AI genuinely saves time on calendar management.
But for most people? That's a lot of money to be told when to work harder.
Funtasking is free (premium coming soon). We're not trying to optimize your productivity. We're trying to prevent your burnout.
AI vs Human Control
Motion's Approach: Trust the AI. It knows best. Let it schedule everything.
Funtasking's Approach: You're human. You decide when to work. We just show you the balance consequences.
Some people love giving control to AI. I found it claustrophobic. The AI decided my day, and if I didn't follow the schedule, it felt like I was failing.
With Funtasking, I'm in control. I schedule my day. The Purpose Wheel just reminds me: "Hey, you've scheduled 6 hours of work and zero fun. Maybe reconsider?"
Gamification vs AI Optimization
Motion has no gamification. It's serious. Professional. "Here's your optimized schedule. Execute it."
Funtasking has coins and rewards. Complete a task? Earn coins. Spend them on rewards you actually want. It's playful.
Which motivates you more?
An AI telling you to work on Task #47 at 2:15pm?
Or earning 2 coins for completing a 30-minute task and knowing you're 8 coins away from that massage you promised yourself?
Who Should Choose Motion?
- You're a busy exec with insane calendar complexity
- You want AI to auto-schedule everything
- You need project management + calendar in one
- $34/month feels reasonable for time saved
- You trust AI to organize your life
- You already manage work-life balance well
Who Should Choose Funtasking?
- You want to see life balance, not just optimize time
- You prefer human control over AI scheduling
- You're motivated by rewards, not algorithms
- Free (or cheap premium) matters to you
- You want a daily planner, not enterprise PM tool
- You need burnout prevention, not productivity maximization
Can You Use Both?
Technically yes, but it's expensive ($408/year for Motion + whatever Funtasking premium costs).
Better question: What's your actual problem?
Too many meetings and tasks, can't schedule it all? Motion's AI helps.
Feeling productive but burned out? Funtasking shows you why.
The Trust Factor
Motion's AI is impressive. But I found myself fighting it constantly. "No, I don't want to work on this task at 2pm. I'm mentally drained."
The AI doesn't know your energy levels. Your mood. Whether you're in flow or forcing it.
Funtasking trusts you to schedule yourself. We just give you data (the Purpose Wheel) to make better decisions.
Final Thoughts
Motion is a powerful tool for people who need AI to tame calendar chaos. If that's you, it might be worth $34/month.
But if your problem isn't "too complex to schedule" – it's "too burned out to continue" – Motion won't help. It'll just schedule your burnout more efficiently.
Funtasking won't auto-schedule your life. But it will show you the life balance truth. And sometimes, that's more valuable than AI optimization.