Creating and Editing Filters

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, guys, welcome back to the GoSkills course all about Todoist.
• 00:08 In the last module, we talked about how you can create labels.
• 00:11 We created a few example labels, on this left-hand panel you can access them.
• 00:16 We created 5mins, town, errand, and
• 00:19 30mins as some example ones, as well as creating a few tasks in this center box.
• 00:24 Now you're probably wondering, of course, now you've got labels in there,
• 00:27 how am I able to sort these with even more detail?
• 00:32 So for example, let's say you don't necessarily want to use Today or Inbox, or
• 00:37 Next 7 days as your viewing angle for your Todoist account.
• 00:41 You can use something which is accessible in this left-hand panel called Filters.
• 00:46 Now filters are really, really easy to use, they come pre-created inside of this.
• 00:51 However, you can create them from scratch.
• 00:53 And there are some really simple examples here.
• 00:55 So you can see here that they've got any items of Priority 1.
• 00:59 I can see on my list that I've got Priority 3, so
• 01:01 I'm just going to click Priority 3.
• 01:03 And these are any tasks that essentially have Priority 3 inside them.
• 01:07 This is a great way to view your account.
• 01:09 But also, you can see, for example, what items are Assigned to me and
• 01:13 what items are Assigned to others.
• 01:15 So at any given point, for example, here I can see that this Plan Event Conference is
• 01:20 already assigned to Bob, and I can see any other items there.
• 01:24 I can also see any items with no due dates.
• 01:26 And I can see View all, which opens up all projects and
• 01:30 all areas inside of a Todoist.
• 01:32 Now if I want to create a new filter, I can easily do that.
• 01:35 And remember, that you can add a whole host of query points inside of filters.
• 01:40 Filters allows you to sort tasks so that you can see your own viewing angle.
• 01:45 So you can add anything from what projects you want to view,
• 01:48 what priority you want to see, due date, labels and much more.
• 01:52 And you can combine them as well to make it a lot easier for your account.
• 01:56 So let's demonstrate one, for example.
• 01:58 Let's put a red icon on this, you can change the color.
• 02:01 And as I mentioned, filters is a premium function, so
• 02:04 you can do that with a range of colors.
• 02:07 Okay, so I've got Taxi Tasks, so these are items that I need to do inside the taxi.
• 02:11 They can be a range of things, of course.
• 02:13 But in this case, I'm actually going to put anything with the 5mins label on.
• 02:18 And of course, that's the start of your query.
• 02:21 Now you can also add, for example, whether you want to have it for today and
• 02:25 you can add today or even tomorrow.
• 02:31 And you can see all the detail there.
• 02:33 But in this case, I am actually going to put phone as one of my items, and
• 02:37 hit Add Filter.
• 02:39 Now at the moment, there are no tasks @5mins and phone, so
• 02:42 what I'm going to do is I'm just going to add a few in Projects.
• 02:46 Okay, so as you can here,
• 02:48 I have a few tasks that will start to appear inside of this filter.
• 02:52 So if I go down to the Filters section and click on the filter Taxi Tasks that
• 02:57 we've created, anything that has @5 minutes and @phone is added here.
• 03:02 Let me explain the benefit of this.
• 03:04 Let's say you were in a taxi at that point and you were like, okay,
• 03:08 I actually do want to complete some tasks.
• 03:11 But of course, I don't and
• 03:13 I can't complete all of the big tasks that are inside my to-do list.
• 03:17 So you can start using the filters to see exactly five-minute tasks
• 03:21 that you can do with your phone.
• 03:23 Now this is a great viewing angle.
• 03:25 Because then, you can actually see, okay, I can get these items done using
• 03:30 my phone and in five minutes, because a taxi ride may be five to ten minutes.
• 03:35 This is a great way to skip past any excuses as well as improve
• 03:40 your productivity, because you're not necessarily limited to your experience.
• 03:45 And it's a quick view way of being able to filter what exact tasks you have to do.
• 03:51 So in the next section, we're going to be talking about managing labels and
• 03:54 filters in more detail.
• 03:56 So this was almost a sampler function to get you started with creating your first
• 04:01 few filters.
• 04:02 As you can imagine, there are a few pre-created for you.
• 04:05 But you can, if you want to, delete these filters at any given time.
• 04:09 And you can even add them to your favorites as well,
• 04:11 which means they will appear up here.
• 04:14 Hopefully, that was a nice introduction to filters.
• 04:16 I look forward to the next section, we're going to be talking about task project
• 04:19 management and labels and filters in more detail.
• 04:22 Thank you very much, and I'll see you in the next feature, cheers.

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