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• 00:05 Hello everyone and welcome back to this GoSkills course, all about Todoist.
• 00:09 Now, we have dived already into how small businesses can use Todoist to coordinate
• 00:14 their activities.
• 00:15 Now, we're going to dive into how students can use it to coordinate some of their
• 00:20 academic work and outside of academic work when it
• 00:23 comes to coordinating career goals and planning like that.
• 00:26 In terms of objectives, as a student begins their Todoist account,
• 00:30 they really need it for managing their personal stuff so routines and
• 00:34 daily habits and reviewing the week ahead.
• 00:37 The other core area is college, school workload so actually managing those
• 00:42 deadlines you have, tracking and planning assignments and also planning career
• 00:47 activities so that they're thinking ahead and they're thinking of the future.
• 00:52 Now, I was very lucky to use Todoist inside of high school and college, and I
• 00:57 found it a very beneficial experience for managing all those important deadlines.
• 01:02 So let's start off with the personal life side of stuff.
• 01:05 Of course, when you're doing the course or anything like that,
• 01:08 you need to be able to manage this effectively.
• 01:10 Because obviously, all of your daily stuff,
• 01:12 you don't want to get overstressed with it.
• 01:14 Because you've got too much stress necessarily going on in
• 01:17 the classwork stuff.
• 01:18 And some of the routine elements include, for example,
• 01:22 daily habits you can add to Todoist, chores, morning routine, bills, fitness,
• 01:27 finance could be absolutely anything there, and also social stuff as well.
• 01:32 Events, birthdays, family, friends,
• 01:34 all important stuff that you can add inside of your Todoist account.
• 01:38 So in terms of best practices, a good way to think about it is Todoist is could
• 01:43 be a hub for managing everyday activities and social events.
• 01:47 Now, you can take advantage of the recurring reminders feature
• 01:50 inside of Todoist for actually creating some of these habits.
• 01:54 For example, in the morning, you can add your morning routine as
• 01:58 a recurring reminder for 7:30 or 8 AM, whatever time you wake up.
• 02:03 And you can even add in dates like every Wednesday you go to the gym at 3 PM.
• 02:08 You can add all of that lovely stuff in there.
• 02:10 And you can even remind yourself of when you're going home,
• 02:14 whether you need to buy a train ticket to go home and see your family.
• 02:17 And it's a great way to coordinate all your personal life.
• 02:21 Now, in terms of your student life,
• 02:22 there are a couple examples in how you can use Todoist.
• 02:25 You could create a project per module or assignment.
• 02:28 This is a good way to keep ahead and see actually what you need to get done.
• 02:33 I did this for a lot of my modules in my classwork.
• 02:36 And I found it very beneficial to actually see all of that and
• 02:39 what I needed to do in the next few weeks.
• 02:42 I also manage my deadlines using Next 7 Days function so
• 02:46 I could see all of what is in front of me.
• 02:48 I also set priorities to my tasks.
• 02:50 Sometimes, you'll get a paper that needs to be due tomorrow.
• 02:54 And you can P1 that, priority one that task and smaller stuff,
• 02:58 like write 500 words for this assignment.
• 03:01 And you can P3 that, priority three that for now.
• 03:04 And you can use those functions inside of Todoist, to really determine what's
• 03:08 important and really focus on what matters when you need it.
• 03:11 Inviting other team members to projects is another thing you can do.
• 03:15 If you've got some group course work, this is something that's become very popular.
• 03:19 In terms of best practices, assigning your work to the start date,
• 03:23 not the due date, is very important.
• 03:25 I see a lot of students when they download Todoist or
• 03:28 some of the other alternatives, they get a task like write 1,500 word essay.
• 03:34 And they tend to put it on the due date, at the deadline it's due on.
• 03:37 And then they find it and they go, my god, I haven't completed this yet,
• 03:41 when they should be adding it to the start date.
• 03:43 And the second thing they need to do in order to improve success,
• 03:47 is chunk down a task.
• 03:48 Maybe 1,500 word essay could be daunting to you, why don't you break
• 03:53 it up into three or four different tasks of 350 words maybe per task?
• 03:58 It's a good way to actually visualize what you've got coming up.
• 04:02 Now the exercise,
• 04:03 we're going to actually tally all of your projects together that you need for
• 04:07 personal and student life will hopefully help you to really define that list.
• 04:11 So you can use the exercise to outline that.
• 04:14 In the next section, we're diving into how you can use Todoist for professionals.
• 04:19 So this might be a good next stage learning for
• 04:22 any students that are out there looking to move to a new job, and also for other
• 04:27 people who are looking to really take advantage of professional use of Todoist.
• 04:32 I hope you enjoyed that one and I'll see you in the next feature, cheers!

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