Episode 61 –  Do you keep your tasks on a post-it note? Or are you happy using technology? We look at how “todoist” can help a range of people across a variety of situations. (Warning – episode features multiple references to Findus Crispy Pancakes.)

Look at all this stuff we covered:

• Amir’s story – the brains behind todoist
• How a ‘rootless’ upbringing seems to have resulted in a great business ethos
• If you’re using pen and paper what could an app like todoist do for you?
  • Freeing up your mental space
  • Keeping track of what you’ve got on
• Introducing the 3 levels we’re going to explore:
  • Wanda – who doesn’t like technology and has simple needs
  • Emma – with a more sophisticated life, Emma has a need for something more structured to help her manage lots of variety
  • Theresa – a full project and team manager who has complex needs
• Why I converted to todoist
• Level 1 (Wanda)
  • Creating a shopping list
  • Using Alexa – (if you have one, you might wanna turn it off while you’re listening)
  • Sharing lists with people (unless you’ve bought fungal foot powder)
  • Setting up folders for her other stuff
  • Setting up tasks for future activity – cutting the grass
  • Recurring tasks – recycling and cuddles
  • Using todoist’s amazing ‘Natural Language’ to easily set tasks up
    • The tasks we created looked like this:
    • “Alexa – add Findus Crispy Pancakes to my shopping list“
    • “Cut the grass on Saturday“
    • “Take the recycling bins out every other Thursday at 7pm“
    • “Cuddle my partner every other Wednesday” (perhaps don’t do this)
    • How todoist uses this natural language to put everything exactly where you need it, ready for action
• Using your inbox as your master list (this is level 1 don’t forget)
• How all this can give Wanda (and you) clarity of mind
• Letting you try this all out before we move onto Level 2 in the next episode where we’ll meet Emma

Here are the links to what you need, and where we did our research for the episode:

• Todoist features
• Integrating with Alexa
• Integrating with Google Assist
• Using Siri
• The difference between the inbox and a project (folder)
• Sharing folders like your shopping list (and other projects)
• Amir’s interview on Founder Chats at Baremetrics

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