I was going to say please make a video differentiating what you use your calendar for vs your task manager but I continued watching and this video explains it perfectly. Thank you for your work.
One of the things why I mostly use Things 3. Carl, you are always well informed... do you know if Doist has said anything about integrating a start date? That's probably the most requested feature next to the calendar (which is there now).
Using Carl's great system. However, how do I move a new (or any task) out of the "inbox" into the Favorites ("Today's Focus, Today's objectives or Tomorrow's Focus.) Carl says he uses it 70% of the time but I cannot drag and drop or any obvious way to move it. Love any help as it is stopping me from truly implementing the system.
Great stuff, Carl. My challenge is about long-term commitments that require significant work. I have a conference workshop 6 months out- it will take me a day or so to craft the agenda, prepare the handouts, put them on my website so that folks can access them during the workshop etc. What’s your piece of advice for these situations?
There are a few ways to manage this. With what you write, there seems to be a natural order of events where things can be broken down into segments. Depending on how soon you want to begin working on this, you can focus your attention on one segment over a week. The deadline itself is the date of your workshop. All the other 'deadlines" would be milestones and you can keep them in the project note and review those as part of your weekly planning session.
The deadline date would be in my calendar. The task itself can be done anytime based on other priorities and time available and so that would be in my task manager.
@@Carl_Pullein😂If I understand correctly, since I have deadline on the calendar, it’s ok for me to add a repeated task everyday before the deadline? Even if I cannot and will not finish it everyday?
Very very rarely. I don't like the crazy mad rush to complete something, so I will, more often than not, begin well before the deadline date and have it finished beforehand. On those rare occasions where I do need to be aware of a deadline date, then I will put it into my calendar.
Why wouldn't you make those calendar events (which are day specific, but not time-specific on your calendar) your P1 tasks in Todoist like your Time Sector System advocates? Aren't these high priority tasks, put in Todoist on a specific day, that are perfect for that?
I know it’s not your cup of tea but do you have (or could) make a video on how to use the TSS in OmniFocus 4? Or how you would have gone about setting it up?
@@Carl_Pullein okey. Yeah I have just tested it from time to time and it’s a pretty solid application, but I think it’s probably a little overkill, especially if you don’t use a GTD-workflow. And TSS just works perfectly with Todoist 😀 I just wish I could find a great workflow for OmniFocus.
This is one of the features where Things 3 is better than Todoist (currently that is) 😊
I was going to say please make a video differentiating what you use your calendar for vs your task manager but I continued watching and this video explains it perfectly. Thank you for your work.
You're welcome.
One of the things why I mostly use Things 3. Carl, you are always well informed... do you know if Doist has said anything about integrating a start date? That's probably the most requested feature next to the calendar (which is there now).
I don't know. (Personally, I hope they don't. It's another level of complexity Todoist doesn't need.)
Thats really useful, thank you
You're very welcome.
Using Carl's great system. However, how do I move a new (or any task) out of the "inbox" into the Favorites ("Today's Focus, Today's objectives or Tomorrow's Focus.) Carl says he uses it 70% of the time but I cannot drag and drop or any obvious way to move it. Love any help as it is stopping me from truly implementing the system.
Hi Mike, The tasks automatically show up in your filters (favourite) after you have applied the dates and flags.
Great stuff, Carl. My challenge is about long-term commitments that require significant work. I have a conference workshop 6 months out- it will take me a day or so to craft the agenda, prepare the handouts, put them on my website so that folks can access them during the workshop etc.
What’s your piece of advice for these situations?
There are a few ways to manage this. With what you write, there seems to be a natural order of events where things can be broken down into segments. Depending on how soon you want to begin working on this, you can focus your attention on one segment over a week.
The deadline itself is the date of your workshop. All the other 'deadlines" would be milestones and you can keep them in the project note and review those as part of your weekly planning session.
nice video, carl, but may i ask if a task has a deadline on friday, but i should actually do sth before friday, then how do i set up my task manager
The deadline date would be in my calendar. The task itself can be done anytime based on other priorities and time available and so that would be in my task manager.
@@Carl_Pullein😂If I understand correctly, since I have deadline on the calendar, it’s ok for me to add a repeated task everyday before the deadline? Even if I cannot and will not finish it everyday?
@@hujack3747 Yes,. That would be the way to do it. As long as you are consistent with your weekly planning, you are not going to miss any deadlines.
Hi Carl, thank you... So you write tasks with due time on Calendar, and tasks without due time on Todoist?
Very very rarely. I don't like the crazy mad rush to complete something, so I will, more often than not, begin well before the deadline date and have it finished beforehand. On those rare occasions where I do need to be aware of a deadline date, then I will put it into my calendar.
Why wouldn't you make those calendar events (which are day specific, but not time-specific on your calendar) your P1 tasks in Todoist like your Time Sector System advocates? Aren't these high priority tasks, put in Todoist on a specific day, that are perfect for that?
For me, you're right. I would do that. I wanted to show others who like to add hard dates an alternative way.
I know it’s not your cup of tea but do you have (or could) make a video on how to use the TSS in OmniFocus 4? Or how you would have gone about setting it up?
Sadly I don't have a subscription to OmniFocus and it's been about ten years since I last used it.
@@Carl_Pullein okey. Yeah I have just tested it from time to time and it’s a pretty solid application, but I think it’s probably a little overkill, especially if you don’t use a GTD-workflow. And TSS just works perfectly with Todoist 😀 I just wish I could find a great workflow for OmniFocus.
I just hate the whoosing sound of a deadline passing by 😜
Hahahaha. I had that feeling many times before.