Tag: Todoist

How to Time Block with Todoist and Google Calendar
Time blocking can help you intentionally plan your days. And with Todoist’s Google Calendar integration, you can make it pretty seamless too.
4 October 2021
How Todoist Can Support Your Work and Life
School, work, and life are complex. You need a way of managing your commitments. If you’re looking for this, Todoist might be the tool for you.
19 July 2021
Daily Gleanings (17 July 2019)
David Allen shares how he would design software for GTD if he could. And he invites those who are able and willing to take a crack at it. But even for those of us who don’t fall into this category, the sketches may still provide some helpful workflow models for improving whatever system it is…
17 July 2019
Daily Gleanings (20 June 2019)
Michael Kruger gives “7 Tips on How to Survive an Ordination Exam.” On reading these suggestions, it strikes me that they are also fairly applicable—some with a little tweaking—to surviving the interview process for a faculty position at a confessional institution. Todoist discusses how to “eat the frog”—i.e., how to focus on one next high-importance…
20 June 2019
Daily Gleanings (13 June 2019)
Todoist has a helpful guide on getting started with the Pomodoro technique. The guide comments in part: half of all workday distractions are self-inflicted — meaning we pull ourselves out of focus … It isn’t just the time you lose on distractions, it also takes time and energy to refocus your attention. After switching gears,…
13 June 2019
Daily Gleanings (11 June 2019)
Michael Thomas discusses the importance of sleep for knowledge work through the lens of a couple key anecdotal narratives. Todoist has published a helpful introduction to “GTD practices and what [they] think is the most intuitive way to implement the[se practices] in Todoist.” The essay comments, in part, that “the key to GTD isn’t the…
11 June 2019