Hello everyone and welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, my name is Francesco D'Alessio
And if you're brand new here welcome, but if you're a regular, welcome back, so today's video
I'm going to be talking a little bit about why I'm back with todoist now
You probably have seen a little bit about the todoist
Sort of conversation of you having one myself
so the last three months actually probably longer conversation than that, but the last three months I
Changed from to do is two things three for three months period in order to try it now
You know at the end of the day I am back with todoist
But I wanted to explain a few
of the reasons why and backward to do this and I wanted to talk in a bit of a dose about how I
Sort of loved to do it versus things free and why it was more suitable for me
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So if checking out below so the sort the story of this dance with to do is back in
2012 or 13
When I started pretty much university I was using todoist and my main reason behind it was because I knew
That to do this to escape pool after University
I was thinking maybe a couple years in advance when I was picking my to-do-list application
Of course when the list was still available
Which is much more of a college Spanish University option and one I recommend there a lot more
But I was thinking maybe startups and freelancing a little bit too early and a big a bit too nerdy
but my premise of using todoist was really to
use the sort of functions there the delight so it was a really simple task manager when I got started so
skip forward to maybe six months ago when I was
Using it one of the main reasons and one of the features that I mainly loved about todoist is the ability to add
Some form of chronological ordering. So the way that I nerdily organize my tasks is using
Timestamps so I'll show you this on screen. I will show you stuff on the screen throughout this whole thing
The timestamps of exactly when I will do the tasks and this is actually personally very helpful for me
Because that's how I plan my day
I'm very lucky enough to do free glancing
So I actually have like different projects and I can time them based on stuff and I can add stuff in like gym
Gap stuffing like morning tasks and things like that in errands for the house, even things like that and it all becomes very helpful. So
Then sort of like my background I like to do is news and about six months ago
I was just like, okay
I need to look in another solution mainly because I was struggling with a couple of things now. I was struggling specifically with I guess
project management to some of the stem
I wanted a better way to refine project management and I think things free did look more attractive in that area
Maybe because they've got something called areas and projects and they had more feature
Association with projects like deadlines and things like that. That's something that definitely attracted me
and of course I was in the process of like
sort of looking at
Changing my style of productivity some extent when I've been doing freelancing for so long
I would like to test new solutions to see if they're better things 3 also delivered
I would personally say a better design now, of course, it's only iOS and Mac available
which I both have luckily and I don't necessarily endorse cross just
same platform devices and so the same platform experiences, but
Thinks we've definitely delivered a very very attractive design above todoist
I would say that design is a lot more minimal and clean
Versus designer todoist, of course you get a lot more
customisation with todoist the actual experience isn't as fixed and you do get these sort of element of being able to change themes and
Also being able to have that lovely, you know new fresh image when you completed your inbox now, of course
I did enjoy the things through experience and it's something I definitely want to go into detail with because I
Really don't have anything bad with things three. It just didn't work for me
As well as todoist
I highly recommend it being able to use it for those three months
Taught me personally a lot about my process which you will probably see in the duyst setup video that I'm planning
Because you actually see the things I've learned the things I liked
And also in things where you'll see the things I learnt and liked inside the thing. Sorry
So the things I specifically enjoyed with todoist and the main reasons I'm back
Ah, probably its timeline function entire thing story. I was trying to replicate a
Chronological ordering of tasks. So as I was using it for that month
I would try and organize my tasks as if they were in timeline order
So when I start my day a molding task appears and when I you know finish my day sort of errands appear
so that I can start doing stuff around the house necessarily and it's tender how I work but
things we didn't really deliver that um to do is did a great job because you've got
Timings of that and you've just got this neat order of being able to add priority levels, which was really nice
So the other thing that I really did miss inside of a to-do list is the comments ability
Of course inside of things three is the notes ability so you can actually go into notes and add things like links and more information
But the way that the comment structure is laid out being to add files being able to add links and being able to add multiple
Comments to a certain to do his task
And of course, this is a pro function to just be aware of that a premium function of to do this
It's definitely something that made it more attractive to come back to of course when I'm going out like for at my day
I will do stuff like for example if I'm writing an article for a client I will
use like google drop dot
Google Docs and then I will paste the link in so that I can quick access it when I'm going to that one and for
Example if I like skip it I'm like, okay, I'll do this one tomorrow
Then I can easily paste it tomorrow and the comment sticks there, which is nice also available inside of things free
But I just found the whole experience a lot tricky to add notes in
Especially because they over complicated it with the sub tasks. Although I really did like subtasks inside of things, right?
So the other thing is it's only thing. Sorry. I didn't really like the
Filters or label abilities because there really wasn't that much of them now
I was previously using todoist with a lot of labels really now. I don't use it
But this is one of the reasons why I came back, of course think so. He does have labels
You have the ability to create your own label set up and they do have a really nice
Filtering function at the top of the page and I'm going to shortlist like for example
If you've got like 30 minute ask you quickly go up to top and select that one
But I think they were more attractive if I'm honest inside of todoist and the filtering abilities did make it a lot easier
For example in the future if I'm like, okay, I wanna learn filters then it's all there and I can access that believe me
So the quick and experience is something that I definitely liked inside of todoist
you can obviously quick and in think suite to
Things free as well. Thanks Ruthie
But introduced I really did like the way that you can add stuff in a much more rapid way, of course
But for them actually, I'm not sure things. Sorry has a natural language input as good as they're like so to do it
I'm not sure it does have it. Let me double check on that one
Oh I'm it in the comments below but
To do this is natural language input was so much easier to add tasks. If I'm honest it saved me
Hours because I knew each what to do like for example, if I like feed the cat Tom at 2:00 p.m
Tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. It just does it so fuck much faster, and that was so much more of a benefit
So one more note on that sort of process when you click and stuff inside of things free when you and it to the Inbox
specifically it will go to the top of the inbox and not the
Bottom of the inbox and that really annoyed me
If I'm honest we've to do this when you add a new task. It will go at the bottom of your inbox
however long your inbox is
which is so much better and so much more effective because
for example
If I'm clearing my inbox and at the same time have an idea I want add it to it. I
Much prefer under the bottom because I could process it a lot easier
But that's just such a minor pickle and probably something you can changing things through settings. If I'm I'll double-check that
So the final thing that I loved about to do specifically is the scheduling function
And the one thing I liked about it is the smart sensual because sometimes I do use it occasionally if I'm looking for free spots
In my calendar or sorry I might to do it then I can actually just press the Cheverus
Monk ssin and choose some of the smart date stuff too, which is very easy to do
Of course, you can share to a head inside of things for eat
and I honestly think that upcoming is a great way to
Move about stuff and I'll definitely talk about the the new window section that I love inside of things
Sorry in the things very video
But I I think to do is we're scheduling is so much more attractive and the one thing I would that
Made me I guess think more about to do it than things free is at the point
I was finishing up. My sort of things for a experiment to do is announce. They're working on a new schedule function
So I was like, okay, they were investing more time in the feature that I love
So maybe this was a swear as well like more of a swear to some extent. That's just something to know
So you're probably wondering
Did you have a good experience weird things 3 I'll be doing the full video on this my 3 month
analysis of the whole experience
I hopefully hopefully it will be useful for you because I know a lot of you guys are in that process of
Shall I move from to do this to another application and that's maybe after 2 or 3 years of using it?
Maybe it's after 3 months of using it and you're working out whether that's a better fit
The thing that I would say is to thinks are it is a beautiful application. It works really really well
I know qualms were there - some minor things and it was just a workflow side of stuff
That didn't suit me. And of course, there are some negatives to it
so the thing that I would say is that if you're looking at this experience
Maybe watch both of my videos how it changed my you
Suggest we clear I am banquets dearest I
Really missed it over those three months
If I'm honest and when you have to move and learn you have to I guess
Work out a new way of doing stuff and three months is a good period of time 90 days working out
How you go through that process is definitely worth it. So this experiment has been very beneficial to me
I wouldn't recommend it all the time to do it. This is the first time I'm doing it in five years
So just let you know that is not something I do every other day
Of course, I get to track test productivity applications all the time, but I don't change them that unless there's a definite reason
And reason behind it. Anyway guys, I really appreciate
Let me know in the comments whether you have any questions about to do those things three
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