
Explore how to set up and use Ticktick, the inexpensive to-do list manager with a free version, as part of your time management system to boost productivity.
Meet Jay, a musician, professor, and entrepreneur, as he explains tick tick and its time-management features for setting up a personal system or using it out of the box.
Explore Ticktick as a multi-platform to-do list manager with seamless cross-device sync, supporting customizable lists and tasks, recurring items, scheduling, and themes.
Sign up for a free TickTick account, install the apps on your devices, and set up basic lists like work, shopping, study, and birthday with cross-device sync.
Learn how to get up and running with TickTick by creating custom lists, deleting defaults, and adding tasks due today grouped by list for quick daily focus.
learn how to add and organize tasks in TickTick, assign due dates and reminders, create sublists, move tasks between lists, and use voice input for quick task creation.
Set up a repeating task for go for a run on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday with 2:00 pm timing, a 30-minute alert, and due today; it repeats forever.
Explore appearance and theme options in TickTick, including color, dark mode, and pro account features, and adjust display settings like strike-through and note tasks for a personalized to-do view.
Open preferences to manage info, backups, devices, and premium options. Turn on productivity tools like the Eisenhower matrix, habit tracker, and Pomodoro timer, plus enable smart lists and calendar integrations.
Create and customize TickTick lists by type, color, and folders; choose between task and note lists, and use smart lists and actions like edit, pin, duplicate, share, archive, and delete.
Create and organize tasks by dragging a list onto another to form folders, grouping lists under a folder like 'making things,' and use color coding to distinguish items inside folders.
Master grouping and sorting lists in TickTick by editing colors, reordering with the hamburger, pinning, duplicating, sharing, archiving, and eventually deleting or ungrouping lists.
Create tasks quickly across platforms by typing in the main task bar, whether on web or mobile, and using dictation, with smart recognition to set due dates.
Enable smart recognition to automatically fill dates and times in the task. Tune settings to turn smart recognition on or off if parsing gets in the way, including recurring reminders.
Record tasks by voice in TickTick's mobile app using the orange button; hold to capture 'don't forget to order flowers for mother's day' and set today.
Discover how to add tasks to TickTick via a unique integration email, forward emails to it, and use subject cues like a carrot to assign tasks to today.
Manage tasks with TickTick by using four priority levels—none, high, medium, and low—and applying tags like outdoors or indoors to customize sorting according to your workflow.
Explore TickTick’s contextual menu to assign dates with buttons, manage priorities and subtasks, move between lists, and handle deletion, completion, and actions like copy link or convert to note.
Create tasks, attach files, and add subtasks to outline steps, using groceries with lettuce and orange juice as an example. Check items off on the go and uncheck if needed.
Learn to sync calendars with tick tick by linking a calendar in settings and choosing bidirectional sync, where calendar events become tasks or tick tick tasks appear in your calendar.
Demonstrate the calendar view by showing how tasks are smashed into each day, with today and future items accessible via clickable popups.
Explore alternative calendar views in TickTick by switching between week, month, day, and multi-week layouts to see timed and untimed tasks, all-day entries, and multi-day windows.
Enable the Eisenhower Matrix in TickTick via settings and calendar, and sort tasks into boxes: urgent and important, not urgent and important, urgent and unimportant, not urgent and not important.
Use the Eisenhower matrix to sort tasks into urgency and importance in TickTick, with examples like videos and groceries, while noting it isn’t a built-in TickTick feature.
Master the pomodoro timer to create focused 25-minute sprints with 5-minute breaks and longer breaks after four sessions, with adjustable durations and automatic transitions.
Enable the habit tracker to create daily routines, set reminders, and track progress for habits like drinking water, standing up, and exercise, while also monitoring negative habits to reduce them.
Learn to collaborate in TickTick by sharing lists with your team, using the share menu and invite link, and guiding teammates to join or create a free account.
Share a list to track teammates' tasks and see completed items, assign items, and mark priority; red signals my work, blue signals Dave's work, helping divide and conquer.
Explore how TickTick connects with calendars and apps through api and integrations, importing calendars and syncing Todoist, iCal, and other to-do tools, plus using url schemes.
Explore TickTick's URL scheme to manage tasks via email, sorting by subject and routing to an email address, with guidance on integrating apps via URLs in the TickTick support site.
Explore the statistics feature to track your productivity, see daily progress and task counts, and enjoy badge achievements that come with occasional emails.
Hi – I’m Jason: Entrepreneur, Ph.D. tenured University Professor, Inventor, Author, and Musician.
I have over 75 courses with a rating of 4.5 and higher, and hundreds of thousands of happy students.
I'm not your typical Business Class, suit-wearing Productivity Guru. But I've been using Ticktick for a long time now, and it has allowed me to work multiple full-time jobs at once, while still being creative.
As an outsider looking in, I provide instruction that ignores the structures of the business world to run circles around the Business Class. You can get more done than your Boss's Boss, all while taking time for health and creativity.
Why choose this course?
You want to master Ticktick, one of the best to-do systems available today.
You're a hard worker but you want to do more and get more done.
You want to learn from someone you're more likely to meet at a concert than at your next conference.
Course Highlights:
Task Lists.
Calendars.
Collaboration with others.
Additional tools and extra features.
For years, people have asked me how I get so much done. I'm happy to finally share the secret, it's Ticktick!
See you in Lesson 1.
All the best, Jason (but call me Jay...)