For Professionals

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello everyone and welcome back to this GoSkills course, all about Todoist.
• 00:09 In this feature, we're talking about how professionals
• 00:12 can use the application to really take advantage of their time,
• 00:14 and also manage all of the different projects they've got coming in.
• 00:18 Now whether you using this as a freelancer or
• 00:21 you're planning to use it as an employee of a company, this works all in the same,
• 00:26 and the features can be really optimized for your account.
• 00:30 So let's start, what are some of the objectives?
• 00:32 Of course, we talk about the personal life situation.
• 00:35 You can use it to manage your routines, habits and daily activities and tasks.
• 00:41 You can review the week ahead.
• 00:42 But the sort of bread and butter of this experience is planning the work day ahead.
• 00:47 Now insode of Todoist you can use some of the features to shortlist
• 00:51 your most important task for the day, you can also create an outline of your day and
• 00:56 week ahead using Next 7 days section and the today tab.
• 01:00 And that's what we're going to talk about in the next feature.
• 01:02 We're also going to tell you, about how you can track projects and
• 01:06 assignment as well inside of your account.
• 01:09 Now, as you can see here, this is a worked example, we're going to guide you through
• 01:13 a few of the things that makes this worked example, very well put together.
• 01:18 This is the task for tomorrow, of course, you can plan the entire week ahead and,
• 01:22 you can also assign a specific time tool of this task.
• 01:25 So, you don't necessarily have to do this, but
• 01:27 I find this particularly helpful when I do recommend it a lot to people.
• 01:32 You can see that all of these are fully timed-out for the week ahead.
• 01:35 You can plan an entire week ahead without any worries, and
• 01:39 they also have clear task details and comments.
• 01:43 Although this looks like a different language in terms of the task details,
• 01:46 it actually makes a lot of sense to myself for example, because this is my task list.
• 01:52 If you can make it detailed and add as much context as you can
• 01:56 without making this too lengthy, then that's important.
• 02:00 You've also here set priority levels, you can see that a P1 priority one,
• 02:05 has been assigned to the two recording tasks for the day, and
• 02:08 also, they've all been assigned to a work project as well, which is good.
• 02:12 You can click into that work project, and find all the tasks that you need to do.
• 02:17 So the best practices, you can also give yourself time between tasks and
• 02:21 that really does help, and you can also be concise and outline the best task titles.
• 02:27 Now in terms of projects, my recommendation for
• 02:29 you guys is to keep things really simple, although you might be working with a team,
• 02:34 assign simple personal and work tasks, into personal and work projects.
• 02:41 This is a really simple way of doing it.
• 02:43 For me, I only have two core projects that I use, that is work and
• 02:47 personal to manage the majority of my tasks.
• 02:50 And that separation really does help.
• 02:53 The exercise will actually help you to determine your work day,
• 02:55 helping you outline your typical work day, providing insights to how you organize.
• 03:00 In the next section, we're going to dive into the advanced experiences of Todoist.
• 03:05 So, I'm excited to bring you that, and I'll see you in the next feature.
• 03:08 Cheers.

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