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Getting Started with Todoist
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(343 ratings)
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Getting Started with Todoist

Learn how to be more productive today with one of the most powerful task management tools available.
Created byDan LeFebvre
Last updated 5/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand how to navigate Todoist's many features.
  • Take advantage of many of Todoist's hidden, more advanced features.
  • Start getting things done by integrating Todoist with other tools you use.

Course content

2 sections • 23 lectures • 2h 22m total length

  • Course introduction1:09

    Explore Todoist and its interface to manage tasks and projects, and learn to organize with projects, tasks, subprojects, subtasks, hierarchies, boards, lists, sections, and recurring tasks.

  • Getting familiar with Todoist's interface7:59

    Discover Todoist's web interface, focusing on the inbox, today, and upcoming views, and learn to navigate projects, labels, and filters across free and pro features.

  • Adding projects and tasks5:35

    Create a new project, color it for quick visual organization, and rapidly add tasks in Todoist; then build a hierarchical task structure with subtasks up to four levels.

  • Overview of the task screen5:58

    Explore the task screen in todoist, including subtasks, comments, and activity log, then move tasks between projects, set labels and priorities, use reminders (pro), rename, share, and hide completed subtasks.

  • Working with projects and sub-projects6:57

    Create and organize projects and subprojects in Todoist, using drag-and-drop to nest items and apply color coding. Manage hierarchies, move and archive projects, and use calendar feeds to streamline workflows.

  • Using smart date recognition6:54

    Explore to do lists and smart date recognition in Todoist, auto-placing tasks in current projects or the inbox, adjusting priorities, moving tasks between projects, and creating recurring tasks.

  • Understanding list and board views6:23

    Explore list and board views in Todoist, switch between views to organize tasks by sections, and learn quick tips like duplicating sections and using an asterisk to hide checkboxes.

  • All about karma in Todoist9:19

    Learn how Todoist karma gamifies productivity by earning points for completing tasks, hitting daily and weekly goals, using labels and reminders, and managing streaks, days off, and vacation mode.

  • Options for customizing Todoist5:57

    Customize Todoist across devices with a dark theme, synced appearance, backups, and tailored home views, notifications, and reminders. Manage account options, upgrade to pro, and connect integrations like Google Calendar.

  • Sharing projects with others6:14

    Learn how to share a Todoist project, invite collaborators, and accept access. Use the activity log to track assignments and comments, noting that sharing applies only to the main project.

  • Adding attachments to tasks3:20

    Add attachments to tasks in Todoist by posting in comments, using drag-and-drop or voice recordings, while noting file size limits and automatic playback for supported types.

  • Organizing tasks with labels4:17

    Learn how to organize tasks with labels, apply multiple labels, color-code tasks, and filter by label to focus on what matters, boosting productivity.

  • Working with filters9:59

    Create and use filters to view tasks across a project hierarchy and subprojects, using queries with two hashtags, overdue or due today, and labels like work, internet, phone, and Jira.

  • Saving time with project templates6:06

    Learn to save time with Todoist project templates by exporting and importing recurring tasks. Export as shareable URLs or CSV, apply relative dates and labels, and recreate entire projects.

  • Emailing tasks to Todoist6:16

    Email tasks to a to-do list project using its unique email address, with the subject as the task title and the body as the comment, enabling due dates and labels.

  • Syncing Todoist and Google Calendar4:45

    Learn to set up a two-way sync between Todoist and Google Calendar, enabling bidirectional updates by due date, and explore one-way sync with Apple Calendar or Outlook via a link.

  • Stop forgetting things by using reminders7:05

    Learn how Todoist reminders prevent forgetfulness with time-based alerts, multiple reminders, desktop, mobile, and email notifications. Use time, date, and location reminders, plus snooze, reschedule, and completion to dismiss alerts.

  • Overview of the mobile app6:02

    Get started with Todoist by using the mobile app to mirror desktop workflow with projects, tasks, labels, filters, reminders, and smart dates on Android.

  • Steal ideas from how I use Todoist14:40

    Learn to organize Todoist around areas of responsibility using projects and labels, adopt a GTD-inspired workflow, and manage daily, biweekly, and monthly inbox and someday maybe routines with reminders.

Requirements

  • You should be familiar with general web practices, such as navigating websites and installing browser extensions.
  • Before following along with this course, you should have a Todoist account. You can follow along with a free Todoist account before deciding if a Pro account is for you

Description

You can be more productive right now. Learn how by taking full advantage of the popular task management tool Todoist. Millions of people around the world rely on Todoist every day to help them get stuff done.

We'll start this course by getting an overview of Todoist's interface. We'll get familiar with some of the terminology and features you'll come across when using Todoist. Some of the features we'll cover include:

  • Understanding projects

  • Adding and using labels

  • Search queries and syntax

  • Saved searches with filters

  • Gamification with Todoist karma

  • Setting up mobile, location and time-based reminders

After we're familiar with some of the core fundamental concepts, we'll start learning some more advanced features. We'll learn how to share projects, assign tasks to others and how we can save time by using project templates. We'll also learn how we can organize tasks using labels, work with filters, list and board views, use sections, sync Todoist with Google Calendar, take advantage of reminders and so much more. We'll wrap up this course with a look at how I use Todoist so you can steal ideas to help you hit the ground running.

By the end of this course, you'll be armed with the tools you need to be a more productive and effective person using Todoist's powerful features.

Who this course is for:

  • This Todoist course is meant for anyone who needs to get familiar with Todoist's interface, features and wants to dig deeper into being more productive with it. This course isn't for someone who's just looking to play around with Todoist, but instead is targeted at someone who needs to start being more productive as soon as possible.
  • While Todoist's mobile apps are powerful and definitely something you should be using, this course focuses on Todoist's web interface to discuss the features and tools.

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