Hello everyone, welcome back to the keep productive YouTube channel, it is francesco here welcome to another video today's video
We are pumps and over to Brian from Automate your life
Brian runs a YouTube channel dedicated to talking all about Amazon smart devices and on today's video
Brian's gonna deep dive into how to connect Todoist with your Amazon smart devices
This is going to be an exciting feature because I know many of you have some Amazon smart devices and would love to connect it
with to do it and some of you guys need a bit of explainer and also how to use these simple list abilities that has
So guys I'm gonna pass you over to Brian. I've been a follower for Brian for quite a while now
I've been enjoying his content
So if you want to go over there and subscribe and actually learn more about Amazon smart devices in general
That's the perfect place. So I'm gonna pass you into the capable hands Brian. Thank you very much and over to you
Brian Thank You Francesco. I am so excited. This is actually my first full collaboration
I am so excited to do this with you
so
What I am and who I am is I am part of a channel called automate your life and what we do is we help
You apply home automation and life
Automation technology to you your life and even your business to help you get further and further ahead and keep more
productive
So let's go ahead and what I want to show you today is how to integrate
To do it with your Amazon echo series of products, so let's get going
So there's two components that I basically want to start with here before we walk through how to actually apply this to your life
You need to get some of that background
Information in order to kind of do things right now to do it is an application
I think most people on this channel will be familiar with so I'm gonna really briefly go through what it is what it can do
You can create different tasks in different projects
So you can create different projects break up how you're managing
different components of your life or your business and you can also attach things like a
Schedule or when you want to complete each task and then you can go ahead you can label those with different
Labels for how they apply to a project or to something in your life
And then of course
You can invite other people in and go ahead and utilize that functionality of having someone else actually complete a task
For you and really start to manage a business or even in your own household manage household tasks
So really it's a task management suite and that's what we're here to
Integrate with these eko products now switching over there
you're going to need the
Application and I'll just put it on the screen here because I never want to say that weak word
It always triggers devices like these now
Amazon echo has a whole series of products
Well kind of run you through a couple of the products here and we'll talk about the application and how they do their own lists
Capability here. So this is an older echo. Plus this is the first generation device the echo plus two
This is the second generation of the device. You can see much shorter a little bit wider and
Overall, I think they look a lot nicer. They're intended to really sit anywhere in your home
But these are really really powerful devices moving over here
We have the Amazon echo dot. This is the third generation of their tiny tiny little speaker
so to give you an idea this is fifty dollars us so you can have this capability in your home for
$50 u.s. What's amazing is this is called a Fire HD tablet
this is the eight and they actually have the same voice assistant on board that all of these devices have and
You can now basically set this up as a display device and in Canada here
There are $80 Canadian
I mean, it's it's ridiculous actually the price that you're getting that
kind of level of
functionality from so this is just some of the devices that
Amazon has in their echo series or fire series in the case of this tablet and
All of them have that voice assistant on board which allows you to use this great list functionality that I'm going to show you next
So I'm inside the application here and I'm just on the main page or the home page here
And what I want to do is I want to show you the list
functionality and actually my device is going through an update here, but
Inside that menu here are the lists and you can see there's some really good functionality here
you have a shopping list and you have a to-do list right off the bat and those are
those are native capabilities so you can always ask your device to
Create something on that on either of those lists. So let's go ahead and do that echo add
milk to my shopping list
I've added milk to your shopping list echo ad create Francesco's video to my to-do list
I've added create Francesco's video to your to-do list
So there you go. I just added two items of an and let me show you here in the shopping list
I've added milk
You can see it right there. And in my to-do list, you can see it even spelled Francesco's name right here to create
Francesco's video so a really simple functionality or really simple management or creation of
Items in those lists so you get those two basic list
capabilities here within your echo suite of devices
But you also get the ability to create custom lists and then manage those
Tasks and lists within those so let's go ahead will create a new whole list a whole custom list
And then we'll go ahead and we'll manage some of the tasks we have
Throughout the day here. So let's go ahead
Echo create a new list called Francesco's video
Create a list called Francesco's video, right? Yes
I've created Francesco's video list. What should I add to it film?
I've added film to your French esko's video list any other items No
Okay
So you can see right there
As soon as I created it Francesco's video list came up and you can see the task right? There is already there
So now I know that I have to film now if I want from the application I can add additional thing
So we'll just say okay I've got to edit
Francesco's video because he's a slave driver but you know, there it is. I have now two different things in that list
It's a it's a task list now
What I'll tell you about these custom lists is they don't integrate really well with to do it
But you can access them on your device. So let's go ahead and access some of these custom lists echo
What's in my Francesco's video list?
You have two items on your french ESCOs video list edit in film echo
What items are in Francesco's video list?
You have two items on your french ESCOs video list edit in film
Echo remove edit from Francesco's video list
I've checked off at it from Francesco's video
So there you go you can manage items within here so this capability is the same when we talk about
Integration with to do it. So let's get into that integration. Now. I've actually already
Connected my services, but I'm going to show you where you can go inside the application to do that
So in the top left, there's the menu button and down to settings at the very bottom
Now you have to scroll all the way down and you can see lists right here and when tap on lists
There's a number of connected services and Francesco and I talked about
rolling through lots of these but you know, I think to do us really hits most of the notes at you know,
I've used cozy in the past and I have some friends who use cozy as well. The integration is really similar
there's some little nuances between each of these but
Ultimately, all I had to do was hit the plus and then what I got was an enable button on this page
So instead of it saying settings and disable skill
It's at an able and when I hit enable I had to log into my page
that's really all that has to happen here for you to integrate your todoist account and
your Amazon echo series of products
So once you've done that the really interesting piece to me here is you can integrate your shopping list
You can integrate your to-do list and that's integrated natively
Those those two things are basically they're natively and so what happens over in todoist here as I switch over to that
Application is you end up with these other?
this other project here called the
shopping list now the
Shopping list basically has on it and you can see there's the other thing that I added I added milk to the list here
Today on this demo with that device
So that's as fast as the passing of information can be between these two applications
There are times when I see a delay of passing back and forth
But in general this works completely seamlessly
So now over in todoist if I'd like I can go ahead and you know that you can manage all of these different things
I can edit for when I'd like to do it and I can move it to a different project if I'd like
So just in terms of a shopping list, I'll go ahead and I'll check off melt there and that's now gone
so if I head back to
The Amazon list, it's it's just getting taken away here
You saw as I switch the screen sometimes again, it'll take a minute or so to actually have that show up as remove
But you can see how quick that
Integration can be when all the services are basically running at full speed. Now, of course, you already saw me do that by voice
I could remove eggs by voice and it will proliferate all the way to
To do it. So, you know, that's really powerful functionality
but we're getting and I kind of saved the best for last here the to-do list what I really love about this is
the
fact that your to-do list
Shows up based on some rules coming from todoist itself
Now you can go ahead and you can put anything on your to-do list and I'll show you how that works and what that shows
up like over and todoist
But whenever you remove one here it again
it removes it from todoist it it closes off that action basically as of today and the other piece that I love is
It's only showing you here in your to-do list
What you have to do today, so it brings that up and it also brings up things that are overdue
So you're able to just ask what's on your to-do list through your echo device
So let's go ahead and see all these different items. You can see there's five on my
To-do list today
echo
What's on my to-do list for today?
You have five items on your to-do list create Francesco's video film ee one of course testing again
Alexa integration make an echo setup video and test this out remove test this out from my to-do list
I've checked off test this out from to do alright
so you could see I was able to ask what was on my to-do list and I got everything back and
Then I was able to actually mark something off as completed on my list
I marked off the test this out now as I skip over to
Todoist you can see that test this out is not here on the today schedule. So
everything basically that's here for today or that has already passed is
Showing up in that to-do list now, you'll see here. There's five items here and let me skip back to my
Act echo application here. Sorry, I almost said the wake word, but you can see there's only four here now. Why is that?
Well, that's because I set an actual time for prepping marks video
So that's why it's not showing up
You have to be mindful of when you create a task here in todoist
What time you set four that will actually say when it shows up on your to-do list
So some other things to note here
You'll notice that as you roll through the different tasks here I have today
Some of them are in one project. Some of them are in another project and to be honest. It doesn't matter which project list
They're in it. Also doesn't matter the labels or any of those things that just doesn't matter
What matters is has the time passed then?
It will show up on the to-do list in your echo device. The other thing you can do is you can set
You could set or create to-do items to head over to to do it
so let me show you what happens when you create an item here and
How it integrates with to do is add an item to my to-do list
What can I add for you?
San Francesco a message Tuesday send Francesco message Tuesday added to your to-do list
Now what you saw right there and
This this will I'll probably have to replay that on the screen here. It showed up on the screen
that San Francesco
Message Tuesday showed up and then it disappeared. No, I could have just created one. That's a san francesco
Message and it would stay there
So I'm going to create a second one and then I'm going to show you the difference between the two
Create an item on my to-do list
What's the to do
Send keep productive a message
Send keep productive a message added to your to-do list
All right. So moving over to todoist here again, just to show you kind of those nuances. You saw me do two things. I basically
created one without a
Day or a time and then I created another with a day at a time and if you've used to do this before, you know
That basically putting the word Tuesday or today, which does work here on your echo device
Creating that putting that in the name of the list actually means that over here and todoist
It will move to that day now. I didn't put one on this end keep productive a message
So it just stuck it as today
it's like it stuck it as something I have to do immediately so you can go ahead and you could just manage as
You go if you if you think of something and this is the real power of using this with todoist
you think of something you just simply tell it to add it to your to-do list and it shows up here as
An item now you can go ahead of course and you can manage that item so you could set
Reminders you could do anything basically that you can do with this. Of course, you can check it off
You can move it between projects and like I said, it doesn't matter if it's in the business tasks project
It will still show up in your to-do list. It doesn't matter which project that's in here
You could of course
Assign it to other people set it as a different priority
All of those different things and the labels and the parents you can go ahead and you can do that
I'm not gonna tell you how to do that because you already know how you want to organize your to-do list here
But you can see I've adjusted it
It's business tasks and it's still over here in this application in the echo management
Application here. It hasn't moved. It's not going anywhere
But we still haven't found that other tasks that I said on Tuesdays
So I'm going to go back here and go to the next seven days and scroll down basically to Tuesday now
I was creating multiple here just to demonstrate some things for myself and then prep so you actually can see two of these messages, but
Basically the San Francesco a message is showing up here on Tuesday. It will show up in my application on
Tuesday in on this device as a to-do item and it won't show up until
Then so I can still come here in todoist and review. I can't access these from my echo device
I can't access these ones that are in later days
They're just not showing up in the application yet
but what I can do is I can create them for those days by simply adding that word Tuesday or
Today to any of the tasks that I create in that to-do list on my echo device
So now of course, that doesn't mean that I can't manage here in todoist
I can totally manage these tasks. You've seen this before in the video
I can hit the completed there
And as soon as I go back here, we've seen it where it will manage it
I can hit refresh and then I'll pull that out of the application
You can see it deleted that task from my to-do list. So there you go guys
I think this is a really good
Setup and tutorial video for how to apply some of these echo devices to your life and to keep you more productive
Here with Francesco in his channel
You can really get integrating these so of course
Thanks everyone for watching me here for sticking with me through this tutorial if there's any questions
of course Francesco and I will work together to answer your questions here and
Thanks again to francesco for having me on keep productive and I can't wait to see you all come on over to automate your life
join me on that channel there and you're gonna see all kinds of integration and
create creative ways to basically
Implement this technology in your life. So thanks for watching and we'll see you next time