Hello everyone, it’s Francesco here. Thank you very much to Scott for having me on the Symphony channel here on YouTube, and I really do appreciate him having me on here.
I’ve been up here before, and I love talking to you guys about productivity apps and resources. If you haven’t checked out Scott's content, if you're brand new to this video, go over and check all his stuff out. There’s everything from inbox to calendar features; it’s really amazing, so definitely worth checking out.
But in today’s video, what I wanted to do is cover Todoist. I run a very simple YouTube channel to Scott, covering productivity apps and going a bit deeper with them. So in today’s feature, we’re going to look at five Todoist hacks that you can use that will help benefit you for any day.
So let’s get stuck in.
Start Page
Over here, the first one I wanted to talk about is in the settings: it is Start Page.
Now, many people don't know about this tip, and it's actually one of the best ways to really optimize your experience.
So once you're in settings, whether you're using the web, mobile versions, go over to Preferences and you'll see Start Page.
Now Today is obviously set by default—that’s what I use personally—but you can actually create a specific thing.
So you can actually have Next Seven Days appear, so whenever you open up the app on Mac, Windows, etc., you’ll get this page.
So this is a Start Page that you land on.
Now you can see everything from Overdue, Today, or you can actually delve into a project.
Now, I previously used Todoist for my project, which had all of my sort of main targets there, but it got a bit too weird sometimes, so I just kept it with Today.
And that’s one of the best ways to start, but if you want to modify that, that’s available in Preferences and can easily be changed.
Labels
Moving down to labels as well, this is one of the things I'd recommend to everyone because, as you can see on my actual timeline of tasks for today, you can see their association to time.
So replying to all YouTube comments will take ten minutes. I have these labels set up.
So if you're in Premium, you can actually see these labels appear, and once you sign up, once you create the color, it will actually appear for five minutes when you create a task.
So, like "Eat cheesecake," for example, you can assign it with the label “Complete in five minutes.” Once that appears, you can actually click in and see all of the other tasks that you can complete in five minutes.
Now, this is actually a really effective way to keep productive and a great way if you've got five minutes to be able to spend it wisely and actually help plan in advance.
So that's one of my top tips for people who want to optimize their Todoist account.
So the other thing as well...
Project Comments
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So for those who don't know, you can collect projects down the left-hand side. I have mine for all of my different activities.
But the one thing that people don't know is and do, like for example in the project.
So it can be home.
If I click project comments, you can actually add any comments here, any attachments as well, audio files, and emoji if you like.
So it's a good way actually having project comments there to add to me, maybe if you want to add targets to a specific project, or an attachment, or a voice recording telling you what that project's about for example.
So virtually a very handy way to have that, especially when you're working in teams and you want to add some more information, members, and guidelines, and information about how to use to do.
You can just pin it there, so it's actually a very useful resource.
So the other thing that I want to recommend is being able to segment to do.
So if you go over to your settings page, you'll be able to see that you obviously got your account and login information there.
But you also have this thing in projects called email in.
So you can actually email tasks into the project using a specific URL, sorry not URL, email address.
So if you copy this email address to the clipboard, all you have to do is whenever you go into email.
So if I'm on my email here and I want to send it to that.
So if I open it up, you can see that it's specific to this account.
And I say, get groceries, groceries.
Howdy's for groceries, this is a learning point for me today.
And there we go, I send that into the Todoist account.
It takes a few moments to appear, but obviously the sync works really well on Todoist.
But once that appears, I, so here we are, the email appeared and actually links back to all the other information inside the email.
So it's a great way for you to actually just quickly email in tasks, or if you want to add a thread.
Very helpful as well, so there are some of the useful.
Conclusion
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Tips I have inside of Todoist.
The only other recommendation in the final hack is actually on your iPhone.
To make sure that you've got Todoist saved in an extension.
I'll include the link to that in the description so you can go away and install that.
But every time you see an article, save it into Todoist.
Because it's actually a great way over here in my section.
I save any articles that I need to read and have actually been very helpful of them to clip them for later.
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