🌐 What is Smartsheet?

Smartsheet is an application that tracks and stores information. Think of an Excel spreadsheet.

Now I thought I was missing out on something when someone went on and on at work talking about this software.

I am sorry but no. Just no.

💻 The Interface

I will say the majority of me veto-ing this software is the interface. It screams 90s. And not in a good way. If they removed the "Upgrade" and "Invite now" ribbons on the website we might be somewhere.

👀 Views

The views are nice. Something Excel cannot do - however other Microsoft products like Microsoft Lists and Microsoft Planner can do.

📦 KanBan

It's a bit basic. Its words on a card. It doesn't look pretty to me either. Let's be honest it has the personality of toast 🍞. Notion does it better in my opinion (I could be biased because I do love Notion lol).

📅 Calendar View

Again, just no. It screams corporate. It screams outdated. Even just looking at the boxes on the calendar. Ew. Sorry!

📊 Grid View

This is kind of where I lose it. Why would you use this interface? There are slim to none shortcuts. Its slow. Maybe if I didn't know alt+a+c is how you un-filter in Excel - I might be inclined to use this.

I do like the feature that you can directly add people. But is it worth it?

📈 Features

There are some additional features that make Smartsheet interesting. The project dashboard seems intriguing. Something you would have to make in Power BI to get - but here it seems easy.

💼 Reporting Feature

I am immediately overwhelmed with this view. No.

📊 Project Dashboard

This I am a fan of. To set this up in Notion or Power BI would take a significant amount of time.

📝 Conclusion

Am I missing something? Why are people so bent on using this software? Even at Intel, I have seen this being used. I see some interesting features that I like but it is not enough to convince me to switch out of Excel.

🔎 Behind the Scenes

My Skillshare class got removed because they consider pipe, conduit and wiring "engineering" related. I am trying not to be mad - but I spent so long on that Excel course. I will put it on Udemy and LinkedIn after I cool off haha.

I have some new software videos coming out in the next few weeks:

🌐 Framer: Website builder which I think personally is the best one I have found.

📧 ConvertKit: Great for managing your newsletters and sending out lead magnets.

🤖 Bubble: Website builder BUT has automations - which is a cool and unexpected twist.

🎬 Latest Video

This weekend I posted a video on my favorite SOP and training manual software called Scribe. I think everyone should use this. I pick on software a lot - but this one gets it right.