Creating Your First Task

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, everyone.
• 00:05 And welcome back to this GoSkills course, all about Todoist.
• 00:09 We are into section two, and we're diving into the Todoist task.
• 00:15 Now, in this section we are going to understand in full, how you can
• 00:20 optimize creating a task inside of Todoist, whether it's in a project,
• 00:24 whether it's in the inbox, or whether it's in the today or Next 7 days section.
• 00:29 We're going to explain all that you need to know.
• 00:32 So for this introductory session, we're going to create our first task and
• 00:36 that's going to be quite interesting because when you
• 00:39 create a task inside a Todoist, it's a great starting point.
• 00:43 Now, as you can see here, this is a sort of explainer to this left hand side.
• 00:48 This is quite a interesting left hand side.
• 00:51 As you can see on the top here you've got inbox.
• 00:53 Inbox allows you to add in tasks that you have not sorted yet.
• 00:58 It's essentially the way that your email works, you need to process them,
• 01:02 put them in the right place whether that's a folder or
• 01:05 whether that's in the Next 7 days section so that you can plan ahead.
• 01:09 But it's very easy once you get started.
• 01:12 You've also got Today which is an indication
• 01:15 of all of the items that have a due date of today.
• 01:18 A very easy way to plan your day ahead.
• 01:22 Then you've got Next 7 days,
• 01:24 where you can see an outline of the next 7 days of activities as you can see here,
• 01:30 all the way up until Wednesday and also today, you got included that too.
• 01:35 Now of course you can add task inside of projects as well.
• 01:38 We'll talk about that in another section which we'll dive into more detail on.
• 01:43 But for this example we're going to add a inbox item at the top.
• 01:48 So this is our first Todoist task.
• 01:50 So I'm going to click Add Task.
• 01:52 And as you can see here you're opened up with a screen.
• 01:56 It's very easy, you can see here that you just add the task title.
• 02:00 So in this case I'm going to put Cook Salmon.
• 02:06 As you can see here, the title has been added.
• 02:08 I can add lots of different contacts points.
• 02:10 We'll be diving into this across this section, and
• 02:13 there's some really exciting elements to this.
• 02:16 There is so much that you can add to a task,
• 02:18 and once you master it it becomes very easy.
• 02:21 But in this example, I'm just going to click Add Task.
• 02:25 As you can see here, what it does is it will add this task as a very simple to-do.
• 02:31 And you can also add another item just below it, which is very handy.
• 02:37 So this becomes a tickable item so I could tick this one off and be able to complete
• 02:41 it, or if I had a bigger inbox I can move it around and really go into detail.
• 02:46 We're going to do a full section on that inbox so
• 02:49 that you can understand the best way to process it.
• 02:53 Now of course there are many different ways you can add tasks inside a todoist
• 02:57 and adding them really quickly I guess is important
• 03:00 when you're trying to capture all that good stuff,
• 03:02 whether you're in a meeting, or you're just taking notes or you've had an idea or
• 03:05 thought, it's important to be able to capture it at a rapid rate.
• 03:09 So inside of the web version,
• 03:11 you can use Q, which allows you to use something called Quick Add Task.
• 03:16 You get this panel that appears on the top where you can add
• 03:19 all of the relevant details.
• 03:21 So in this example, I'm going to say Buy Ingredients,.
• 03:26 And be able to press Enter.
• 03:28 And that is automatically added to my Inbox,
• 03:31 mainly because I didn't state whether I had a project or information there.
• 03:34 So it is really easy to be able to do that and create your first task.
• 03:39 Now, up in the top right-hand corner, you notice this cog here,
• 03:42 this is the settings area.
• 03:44 We'll dive into that further later on in this course.
• 03:47 But as you can see at the top, it's got this element called Sync.
• 03:50 Now Sync is really easy,
• 03:52 Sync basically allows you to sync your activity between your Todoist devices.
• 03:57 So for example, if you've got it on web, and
• 03:59 you sync it, it will update the Mac version or the Windows version or
• 04:03 the mobile versions that you're using to give you the best todoist experience.
• 04:08 Now there is a manual sync here, if you want to press it, it will refresh the page
• 04:12 essentially updating any of the other devices manually.
• 04:16 However, it does automatically update so there's no need to do this necessarily.
• 04:20 And it will keep all of your tasks in tandem
• 04:24 running all together at the same time.
• 04:25 So for example,
• 04:26 if you tick off something here, it will be replicated on another device.
• 04:31 Now in the next feature, we're going to dive into some of the most important
• 04:34 parts of the experience which is due date.
• 04:37 Due dates to task allow you to add a definitive time that you would do them.
• 04:41 So we'll start to talk about that in the next feature.
• 04:44 Anyway guys, hopefully this gave you a nice introduction to the Todoist task,
• 04:48 we're going to dive into due dates next, I will see you in the next feature, cheers.

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