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Everything starts with your first step. You'll create your own task and understand how a task works. From there, you can begin to understand the context and where is best to store your initial tasks before you organize them into projects.
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Creating Your First Task
Adding tasks inside of Todoist is simple. A task is the starting point for creating your to-do list experience. Getting all of your tasks down into your task manager will help you de-stress and begin the planning of your week. Todoist provides you with a way to create all your tasks and order them into chronological order. There are so many additional ways to make tasks more accessible, mentioned in this section.
When to use
- To set-up your task list
- To understand the full workings of a to-do list application
Instructions
- Begin by logging into Todoist
- Go to Todoist Inbox
- Hit "Add a New Task"
- Capture your task
- Add as many tasks as you like
- Set-up your quick-capture experience
- Add a task using a quick add shortcut: CTRL + Q (Mac)
- Or "Q" on Web to add tasks with speed
- Review your task list
- Add any additional items to this Inbox list
Hints & tips
- Aim to clear your head of all of your tasks
- Using the shortcuts will save you time and effort
- 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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