The way we work and organize ourselves has changed over time. In the increasingly digital (and fast-paced) world we live in, dynamic work environments. For example, collaborating in real time with a physically dispersed but connected project team.

Notion was one of the first companies to respond to this need with a true Swiss army knife in productivity. And its success was such that it penetrated deep into organizations at the level of IBM, Pixar, or McDonalds. Microsoft did not want to be left behind. Office developers are working on their own offering called the Microsoft Loop.

We can now try Microsoft’s Concept Loop

We had to wait quite a while before we started testing Microsoft’s Notion equivalent. Even though the folks at Redmond presented their vehicles in 2021, they finally enabled access to a vehicle until this week. trial version. We’re not before the deadline, but we can test it already, as we’ll see later.

If you’ve never heard of Loop before, you may be wondering what this app has to offer. First of all, we should point out that the essence of Loop is very different from what we know from a lifetime Office suite and apps like OneNote that are part of it. We are faced with a proposal with a futuristic hue that is useful for many things.

In the Loop we find three columns: components, pages and workspaces. When we talk about components, we refer to items such as: text block, table, or task list. Pages are the result of one or more components, and workspaces are shared areas of components or pages.

In this way, we can create projects according to our needs and invite people to collaborate, even using templates. Changes are applied in real time. We are editing one column of a table and our teammates (up to 50 maximum) are in charge of editing the other components of the environment.

So are those in Redmond, who are adopting AI and porting it to Bing. It will feed the Loop with AI. This app will have the new Microsoft 365 Copilot, meaning we will have a kind of ChatGPT to help us brainstorm, write articles, get suggestions and more.

How to get started with Microsoft Loop?

The first trial version of Microsoft Loop is now available to all users. Simply go to loop.microsoft.com, sign in with your Microsoft account and start testing it.

There are also apps for iOS and Android. In the case of the latter, it has not yet reached Google Play. This iPhone apphowever, it is available through Test Flight for Microsoft work or school accounts. If you meet the requirements, you can go to aka.ms/LoopiOS to download it.

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