How to Use Different Views In Todoist

[@meeluanistyn1644]

I use the Time Sector System and copied your filters - learn from the expert! Must say, it all works great and I can’t think of any reason to change. I use the list view much of the time and only turn to the board view at the weekend so I can see what’s coming up.

[@Carl_Pullein]

That sounds like a good system 🙂

[@michaelfinz]

Very helpful. Thank you Carl. I was using something very similar to this in Evernote with Evernote tasks, but found the lack of control and formatting to be too difficult to follow and it is extremely difficult to move tasks between lists (notes). I'm just getting started exporting all of those tasks into ToDoist and I can already tell that it's way more user friendly. Thank you!

[@Carl_Pullein]

You're welcome. Happy to help.

[@vishal80]

Thank you 😀

[@Carl_Pullein]

You're welcome.

[@devarni]

As always, dear Carl, very helpful to be more productive with Todoist! BTW. do you still use Asana as a weekly content tracker? There is no video about that yet, is there?

[@Carl_Pullein]

I do. The video I did on it is a bit old, but I still use it in the same way. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKOwe2SEjJ15nKs

[@devarni]

Great! From the workflow (I don't think you said that in the video). Do you transfer tasks with dates from Asana to Todoist or Google Calendar?

[@Carl_Pullein]

@@devarni My calendar is subscribed to the Asana board. I put the publishing date as the due date, so it drops in the right day as an all day event.

[@devarni]

Great! Very good workflow that I may adapt for myself. I've seen my complex Notion setup and I've been wondering why I'm spending so much time on it instead of maybe thinking about a more minimalistic approach. One key feature I was still missing: how can I schedule my content and have a calendar overview at the same time! I have release dates that I absolutely must not forget and also milestones along the way....

[@mintypockets8261]

how do you get the completed icon to show, I'd like to review completed books I've read

[@Carl_Pullein]

There isn't a "completed" icon in Todoist (or most other task managers). Task managers' tasks disappear once they are complete. If you want to track what you've read, you would be better using a notes app and create a checklist.

[@mintypockets8261]

@@Carl_Pullein Thanks for the good idea, I could just see the green icon on your screen capture below 'filters & labels' and it's missing on mine todoist. Thought it might be a good way to see how productive I'd been :)

[@Carl_Pullein]

@@mintypockets8261 Ah. That’s a list of all your completed tasks that Todoist is planning to introduce very soon. (I’m using the beta version of Todoist)

[@maikeru_pk]

Carl, ofcourse I have different system than you, but what you think: is date set to today determine priority of task or the red flag even without date? What is stronger :-) I know, it's a bit silly ;)

[@Carl_Pullein]

I don't add red flags to tasks without dates. Priorities change and what you might think is a red flagged task when you add it, is likely to not be a red flag when you date it. I don't add flags to undated tasks for the same reason. I normally add flags when I do my daily planning (and occasionally when I do my weekly planning)

[@rahulpandit4564]

👍👍

[@robfuzz]

Gotta general question about Todoist for you. The #1 thing I struggle with is that TD treats everything as a Project. It's not "Lists" or "Areas of Responsibility"(like Things.) It's PROJECTS. What if I have a task that's not a part of a project? Then I have to make a "project" called something like "Home Misc". If I just say Home well Home isn't a project, its an area. Alright enough of my rambling. What's your take on this?

[@Carl_Pullein]

Hi Robert, it’s just a name/label that Todoist uses. They could easily have called them “lists” or “folders”. When Todoist was first developed (I believe 2007), it was the fashion to call these things “projects”. So the name has stuck.

[@jimmcculloch3786]

This is interesting as i am a user of Tony Robbins RPM / TOYL system, and am currenly using Outlook/365 and speadsheets!

[@Carl_Pullein]

Hi Jim, Todoist makes it very easy to chunk your tasks as per the RPM Method.

[@jimmcculloch3786]

@@Carl_Pullein Hi Carl, thank you for your reply _ my ideal would be that RRI do a revamp of the old software they have partially done that! Closest i can fine do date is the FCov Plan+ !! Need to watch more of your vids :)