Motion

What is Motion?

Motion is a productivity platform that uses artificial intelligence to plan your daily tasks and schedule. It monitors your to-do lists and calendars, figures out what’s most important, and builds a plan so you can handle your workload without feeling overwhelmed. Its goal is to help professionals make time for critical tasks, avoid missing deadlines, and manage meeting interruptions more smoothly.

Features like automatic task prioritization, effortless rescheduling, and deadline reminders simplify how you manage tasks and organize projects, whether you work solo or with a team.

Who created Motion?

Motion was founded by Patrick Lee, who also co-founded Rotten Tomatoes. The company offers a platform that brings together task, project, and meeting management to save time. Its AI automates scheduling, prioritizes tasks, and handles project management to keep teams coordinated. The platform is designed to help you focus on deep work, cut down on manual planning, and protect your personal time.

Over 40,000 paying users from leading companies use Motion, and its user base is growing.

What is Motion used for?

Motion covers a wide range of planning and coordination needs:

• Automatic daily planning: Builds a personalized daily schedule for each person, with no manual planning required, so you always know what to work on next.
• Task prioritization: Turns overwhelming task lists into a clear, actionable plan and identifies which tasks to tackle first.
• Deadline management: Sends proactive alerts and automatically reschedules tasks so deadlines aren’t missed, while helping you set realistic, achievable deadlines.
• Calendar consolidation: Combines all your calendars into one master view.
• Meeting scheduling: Automates the process of setting up meetings.
• Team workload management: Plans your team’s workload, optimizes capacity, and predicts whether you’ll be short-staffed or over-staffed.
• Workflow automation: Automates repetitive daily routines and standard operating procedures.
• Centralized communication: Lets you discuss projects without jumping between different apps.
• Project management: Organizes and manages all your projects in one place.
• Low-friction adoption: Team members don’t need to change their existing habits to use it.

Motion’s automated planning is driven by what the company calls a “happiness algorithm,” which aims to produce schedules that keep you satisfied and productive — prioritizing important work so you finish serious tasks efficiently and still have time to rest.