Hello folks, welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel
Today's video will be passing over to will Nutt who is going to be diving into how you can
combine the use of notion and todoist the task management application now this isn't a
official integration but it's a way to actually access your to do is dashboard inside of your notion account and
for some people that might be a good workaround so wills actually going to show you how he goes about doing that and
Obviously it's a little bit of a you know, playing around with process, but I think it would be very useful a big
Thank you to will for coming on to do this tutorial. You can check out his fantastic newsletter called Notion VIP
It also has a bunch of resources around video content tutorials on his own YouTube channel
And of course a big thank you for coming on and diving into this
So without further ado I'll pass over to will to dive us into how and you can connect up Todoist with Notion. Cheers guys
Thank you so much francesco. It's a pleasure to join the keep
productive channel here
once again as francesco mentioned i'm william nut of nut labs and we're an integrated digital strategy firm and
notion consultancy based in new york
And I also run the independent website notion VIP where I publish tools and insights
About all things notion you can access that at notion dot VIP
So for today's little quick tip
We're gonna talk about how how to add to do is to your notion
pages and a lot of users kind of grapple with whether to use notion for they're just
Quick tasks and simple checklists or to stick to a more minimal tool light todoist for those needs
But by adding to do is to your notion pages
You kind of get the best of both tools and you're able to manage them in a single place within?
Notion and the way that you're able to do that is through notions embed block
Which is going to embed to duysts web app within your notion pages and it'll display to do is just as you'd see it
on your mobile devices and if you choose to do is
Neutral theme it'll display really nicely within your notion pages. Its aesthetic will integrate
almost seamlessly
but initially
Configuring to do is within the embed block can be a little bit tricky if you're going to be using it across multiple devices
Including your your smartphone. So I've got a method here that's gonna allow you to
configure it in the most seamless way and
There's a post on notion VIP that describes this process
through
text and that's gonna allow you to copy and paste some of the URLs that you'll need so you may want to reference that as
You initially configure todoist within notion. So to get us started here
I'm going to delete this existing instance of
To do this within notion so that we can build it out together
so you'll start by adding a new block and you're gonna add an embed block and
For the URL you're gonna want to paste to do is sign in URL
So I'm gonna paste that here
And
choose embed link and
Then you're gonna want to sign in and you're gonna want to sign in on every device where you'll be accessing this block
So if you use notion on your tablets on multiple desktops on your phone
You're gonna want to sign in on all of those devices and if you try to sign in with Google
It's probably going to give you a hard time
so you're gonna want to
Set up your to do is to account with a password and then sign in on all of those devices. So
After you've signed in on all of your devices on any of those devices and it's kind of easiest on a desktop
But you can do it on mobile too. You're gonna want to replace that embed URL with just the standard
todoist URL
So what you'll do is at the top right of the embed block you're gonna want to click
Three dots and those three dots will not be visible on your mobile device
But if you fidget with it and click around that top right area
It'll prompt this menu that'll give you the option to replace the URL
so it'll be the same to do as URL, but you're just gonna
Erase all of the content that follows that back slash and just stick to two todoist
com and then you can click embed link and
Having already signed in it'll take you to your content
so here you have the ability to click the menu and choose any of your projects configured within todoist and
that update is going to be reflected across all of your devices so you don't have to worry about updating the URL on your
Tablet or on your mobile thumb. You can just do it on one device and you're good to go
so there todoist is fully configured within notion and after that you can just
Resize and rearrange your blocks. However, you want them to display. So I like to include the todoist
Block as a
Column, so we'll drag up this other content and it'll refresh
But we from there you can
Do a little bit of resizing we can extend the width of todoist
while minimizing the width of these pillars
And again, all of these changes will be reflected
across all of your devices so
That doesn't that's how you can manage to do this directly within notion
if you have any trouble getting configured feel free to tweet at me at William Nutt and
you can also reply to the notion VIP newsletter if you like and
Thank you for the opportunity to share this little quick tip
integrating todoist with notion