Hello everyone and welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, my name is Francesco D'Alessio and welcome back to another video
So guys today's video. We're uncovering Todoist filters
We're going to be giving you a masterclass on how to create Todoist filters also
diving into applying them to my own account
I'm going to be opening up my personal Todoist account and
Making a view to do this filters as well as sharing the ones I've already created and then we're gonna leave you with a few
recommended resources to dive into so run the introduction
So guys in today's video we are diving into todoist filters as mentioned
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So be prepared this week. It's gonna be quite an exciting week for that
I have been a longtime user of todoist
So filters have been an area where has taken me a lot of time to dive into I've only created some really
basics ones at the moment
But what I wanted to do in this video is create a few for myself
Demonstrate on how to use them and also uncover some of the more advanced setups that you could have
This is going to be a useful tutorial for you to really get started with your filters
So guys, I'm really excited for today's video. Let's jump over to laptop and dive into to do his filters first
I want to show you some other filters that I create and also I'm going to show them up on the screen
What career is I have with them so that I can give you an outline of?
the ones that I use in my daily routine
I'm
Then going to be diving into how to create a filter from scratch as well as all the query elements that you may need to
Get started. So here are a few filters in my situation. This might give you some basic
Outline of what I go for when I'm using filters so filters down here for me resigned in these three areas
It's the first one is called plan highlight and that's really simply a way for me to plan in
my most important tasks across a week
So if I click plan highlight I can see the upcoming most important that I have for the next three days
I tried to only have one highlight per day
this is actually from a book called make time which I
Stole the idea and applied it to todoist and it's actually become a very helpful way of
Being a bit more cleaner in my approach to my tasks once I complete my highlight
I feel much more productive to a lot of extents. So in the next one I do have is
schedule week
Schedule week is allows me at the end of as I mentioned in morning notion plus todoist featuring I did on Thursday
P.m. Afternoon, I tend to sit down and review my full week
What I do is I get this one out and plan the week next
So that I have a full outline of what I have here
and that's just very simply a query for next week, which I'll demonstrate and finally a
low-priority
Folder that allows me to complete emails mainly the ones on my tag
in that low priority folder with a
P3 are all email based so that helps me that so you probably wondering what are the queries behind that if I click Edit filter?
That's ten days
so the next ten days and act highlight anything with a highlight in it as a label very simple and we'll talk about
Through this in a minute and when we dive into the filters area if I here edit here
It's next ten days for my scheduled week. I don't even have to click the next it doesn't have ten days and
Emails to send are in the project tasks with p3 as a priority
So that's how I mainly set up the three filters that I have right now. Let's dive into how to create filters
So let's give you a little outline of how you can create a filter
All you have to do is open up this filters tab on this left-hand panel and hit add filter now
let's decide we want to choose anything that's priority one for today or actually
Let's say tomorrow. So p1 for tomorrow
Let's say is the title
So that we can be a bit clearer and we'll add a red icon so you can give a color to any of the filters
you have
For creating the theater query
all you have to do is press P 1 which is Priority One if you wanted priority 2 or 3, for example
You'd put p2
but in this case
We're having p1 and we're gonna put hand
tomorrow as
The do day so you can add pretty much anything to your query you can add in the most popular ones aren't due dates
Priority projects and labels, you can add a project really easily
so for example
If I wanted to choose only ones from my tasks inbox and I have then I'd use
Hashtag tasks to be able to organize that if I have a project within that project
All I'd have to do is add another hashtag and find that name there if it was underneath another one
So that's if you've got any sub projects going
Now if I wanted to I can add a due date too
If I wanted to add the next five days, for example, that could be the one that you select there
You could also have a Jew before. So for example if I wanted to put
Jew before
let's say the
20th of October instead of this tomorrow due date
then I could do that quite easily and as you can see here any
Priority one tasks to do before to twenty of October in this case that's already gone
But if I put 30th, for example, it would come up all inside of this one now
You can also put assigned to two if you want to as a way to
Indicate if tasks are given to other people and you can also have and you can create your own symbols
So for example in this demonstration, we put and and literally means and as a symbol
But if you wanted to put or you can do this very simply and put a it's almost like a line
I don't actually know the technical term for it
But I will add it below and if you want to include not anything that does not include anything
It's gonna an exclamation mark. So for example, let's say I change this one anything do before the 30th of October
Let's say I've got a holiday coming up and that's gonna be one of the demonstrations. Will you later?
We'll call it p1 30 as you can see here. All of those priority ones Ljuba Thor the 30th of October
Aren't created there now
if I wanted to create two lists inside this it would be really simple if I click Edit and I put a
Comma between it that's creating two lists, essentially
So if I wanted it my own view with these two different areas or filters running
Let's say I wanted that p1 for tomorrow or p2 for tomorrow
Then all I had to do is hit save and as you can see here a separate one is created just below it
So comments do help to break it out and you can have multiple of those going on which is quite helpful
So that's a really basic way of setting up your own filters. Now, let's put this into practice with my own setup
I've got three or four filters that I want to create here
I'm going to put the queries on the screen for you to go away and maybe apply
so what I need to do and what I want to do is I want to create a
Priority one for today in case I have any really important tasks that need to get done during the day so priority
today and give it a bit of a
big red one here
and that would just be simply p1 and
Today you can put Tod if you want to and if I hit add filter you'll see I actually don't have any
Priorities today now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag this to the top because I'm going to prioritize it in this
Filters box. Now. I also have an idea that for example, I've got a little vacation jus I tripped a bath let's say
but you could apply this to any holiday you want and for example
you could say any tasks that I created at a p1 and
Anjou before
the
26th of October and if I click Add you'll see all of those tasks appear
These are the ones pretty much during the week that I need to complete
This is useful because for example with your heading for a vacation
Which I am and I don't want any work on this weekend. Then these are the major tasks
I actually need to complete before I go away
So that's kind of helpful one
If you're very vey keishon orientated and you want to really get away
Now if I want to I can actually see the tasks that I created
Yesterday and that's something I do want to start seeing so I'm gonna put tasks
Yesterday I'm gonna give it a nice now
lavender
If I click Add filter you can actually see the tasks on I created yesterday
I only added the additional shopping list to yesterday's items
So it gives you a good idea of the tasks that you've already implemented from the day before
Now I need a task with actually anything below 30 minutes that I can do at during the week
So for example, let's say I want to put 30 minutes or less as a task title. I'll give it a nice like brownie
Look and enough. I add five minutes
Because these are all the five minute tasks
And I put or at 10 minutes or at 20 minutes
these are all the tasks in labels that I have that are below that so these that's what's gonna appear because I only have
One that has a five minute label right now. So that's a helpful one if I need to do that
so when this left-hand panel
I've almost got a rainbow of
Filters and I can get started with a priority today a trip to bath and that's can be related to any holiday
One that I can see all of my most important tasks for the week a schedule of my full week
emails that I need to send tasks that I completed uncrated yesterday and
Anything that will take 30 minutes or less and I can start applying this label to more of them
And of course, it will start populating that which is very helpful
Now what I recommend to go away from this video and check out is the Mike Vardy video
We did Mike Vardy combines his day themes with his labels and day views
He has a really advanced methodology method methodology around
Filters and I definitely recommend checking out I recommend checking out. Dandy wood lens
He has an ultimate going to do this filters, which is a perfect outline. So it's definitely worth checking out now
The one thing that I would answer this is if you get a filter that you truly truly, enjoy
Let's say I'm standing to use this one a lot more
You can hit me add to favorites and that can pin quite nicely at the top. I know guys
Hopefully you found some value in this feature today
so feel free to pop some to do is filter questions below and I'll happily answer them or
Recommend a few resources that you can go away into detail. Again. It's something that I need to dive into more
But this is a really basic outline of the deduced filters function if you are not subscribed yet
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Thank you very much guys, and I'll see you guys in a future video Cheers