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Todoist is one of the fastest growing task management platforms in the world. Available on many platforms, Todoist provides users with a way to tally up their to-do list, manage projects and coordinate their next move. 

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Introduction to Todoist

Todoist is one of the fastest growing and popular task managers. With millions joining yearly, Todoist has become an actionable resource for many to manage tasks as a team and also for personal projects and goals. From working professionals using Todoist to manage their work schedule to the stay at home moms taking advantage of the tool to organise their week ahead, Todoist has many different use cases that all work beautifully in motion. Todoist is scalable and practical for most to-do list management situations.  

When to use

When starting out with Todoist and downloading the app onto your devices.

Instructions

  • Start by creating a Todoist account 
  • Head to todoist.com 
  • Hit "Sign-up" 
  • Choose between Google, Facebook or email sign-up
  • Enter your email, password and full name 
  • If you're happy, tick the terms of service and privacy policy
  • Follow the pages after sign-up 
  • Begin to install Todoist on all of your major platforms  
  • You can download on any of these platforms 
    • Web (via browser)
    • Desktop (MacOS, Windows, Windows 7/XP)
    • Android
    • iPhone & iPad
    • Android Wear
    • Apple Watch
    • Google Chrome Browser
    • Firefox Browser
    • Safari Browser
    • Email Plugin: Outlook & Gmail
  • Use the devices section to make sure you have installed correctly 
  • Open Todoist on the devices 
  • Sign-into your new Todoist account

Hints & tips

  • Always install Todoist on all of your major tools/devices
  • Remember to install Todoist on Chrome to capture tasks within the browser 
  • Todoist does have a web edition, so don't fret if you don't have space/storage 
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  • 00:04 Hello everyone, and welcome to this GoSkills course all about Todoist.
  • 00:09 Now in this course what we're going to be doing is diving into the world of Todoist.
  • 00:13 Describing how you can use it in everyday practice,
  • 00:17 managing all of those tasks and activities that you have.
  • 00:20 Now my name is Francesco D'Alessio,
  • 00:21 and I'm going to be your instructor here on the GoSkills course.
  • 00:25 I will be taking you through Todoist, and we also have an essential productivity
  • 00:29 training course here on GoSkills that I've already created.
  • 00:33 Now I've been a user of Todoist for a fair while now, about five years.
  • 00:38 And I've also been actively creating videos on YouTube
  • 00:42 about how to really maximize your experience.
  • 00:45 But this is going to take you from beginner level all the way to advanced in
  • 00:50 helping you to get started with this task manager.
  • 00:53 If you've not heard of Todoist before,
  • 00:55 it's one of the worlds most popular to-do list applications.
  • 00:59 It's one that a lot of people praise and find most suitable for
  • 01:02 their productivity system.
  • 01:04 In this introductory session I'm going to show you how to sign up, and
  • 01:08 I'm also going to describe how you can get started with todoist.
  • 01:12 Todoist is accessible through todoist.com.
  • 01:15 And if you go to the top right-hand corner,
  • 01:17 you'll see a button called Sign up.
  • 01:20 Once you go to the Sign up, you'll get prompted with this screen.
  • 01:24 You can use your Google account to get started or your Facebook account,
  • 01:27 this means that it will take the authentication through those accounts.
  • 01:32 Or you can go through the traditional route of setup
  • 01:34 which is creating an account through your email address and using a password.
  • 01:39 Now, Todoist has over 10 million users worldwide, and the first thing to do
  • 01:43 when you get started with Todoist Is download it on all of your devices.
  • 01:48 So let's take you through on what Todoist is available on.
  • 01:52 Now Todoist is available through a multitude of platforms.
  • 01:55 The first and the one we'll be demoing throughout this course is the web version.
  • 02:00 The web version can be accessed through any browser,
  • 02:02 including mobile browsers, too.
  • 02:05 Now, you can download it for desktop, too, which means that you have it accessible on
  • 02:09 the dock and task bar via Mac OS and Windows 10.
  • 02:13 If you're using an older version of Windows, like Windows 7 or
  • 02:16 XP, there is a download available from the Downloads page.
  • 02:20 If you want to download it on the go, you can download it on the App Store for
  • 02:24 iPhone and iPad and also on Android through the Google Play Store.
  • 02:29 Now if you want to use it on your wearable devices, For example,
  • 02:32 your smart watch, you could use it for the Apple Watch.
  • 02:36 And you can download that through the App Store, and
  • 02:38 also the Android Wear through the Google Play Store.
  • 02:42 Now, there's so many deeper ways to use Todoist in your everyday activity.
  • 02:45 Now browser extensions are one of those.
  • 02:47 They're good to install when you get started.
  • 02:50 So you can install it for Chrome, Safari, Firefox.
  • 02:54 And just a note on the Safari side of stuff; it does require Todoist for
  • 02:58 Mac to access that one.
  • 02:59 That will allow you to turn any email into a task and
  • 03:02 you can install that through Outlook and also Gmail through this downloads page.
  • 03:08 Now the downloads page will be available in the reference guide that we've created.
  • 03:12 And we recommend you use the exercise to get you started with your Todoist account.
  • 03:16 Now 1 billion tasks have been created inside of Todoist and
  • 03:20 it's being used by so many different people.
  • 03:23 That's what actually we're going to talk about in the next module.
  • 03:26 We're going to dive into the use cases for Todoist.
  • 03:28 How you can use it in daily routine and also go through some of the features and
  • 03:32 functions.
  • 03:33 I look forward to teaching you in this GoSkills course.
  • 03:37 I will see you guys in the next module, cheers.

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