It turns out that using an asterisk in Todoist can lead to some interesting results!
Use the Todoist native app instead of the web version because it’s more reliable and it.
Todoist Uncheckable Task Force
- Todoist is an online task management app and todo list. With Todoist, users can organize, schedule, maintain and prioritize personal tasks.
- Use Todoist for Chrome to:. Add websites as tasks: Add a blog post to your reading list. Save an item to your wishlist. Add work tasks to follow up on. Plan your day: Quickly organize your tasks for the day right from the extension. Complete tasks from the browser: Once your tasks are done, check them off without switching context.
By mistake, I found out when automatically importing a task from Slack to Todoist via Zapier (that’s another post for another time!) that having an asterisk, “*”, at the start of your task did something interesting.
By having that asterisk there, it essentially made a task that could not be completed!
Why is this important?
It turns out that you can use it to make a header that you cannot easily remove – handy if you are putting a lot of sub tasks under it and don’t want to easily delete them by mistake. This may sound odd, check out the video so you can see exactly how and why this works – much easier to show in a video than to put down in words.
Not only did I find the asterisk to be helpful for making headers when using sub-tasks, but it can also make italics and bold.
All you have to do is surround you text with an asterisk on each side, like this:
*this will look like italics*
which will look like this once you save your task:
this will look like italics
You can also do bold by using exclamation marks:
!! This is bold !!
will look like this once you save the task:
this is bold
You can put a space between the asterisk or exclamation mark or not, I found that it didn’t make a difference.
Just remember, if you use an asterisk at the beginning of your task to make it italic, you’ll also make that task uncompletable. Yup, I’m going to go ahead and say that “uncompletable” is a word.
Hope this helps you with your Todoist use!
Todoist Premium users have had the ability to email tasks into Todoist for some time now. Whether you are achieving Inbox Zero, or plan to share ideas with your client through Todoist comments, sending and creating Todoist tasks without leaving the inbox is one of the many perks of having this feature.
Many of the advanced email applications, the likes of Spark Mail and Airmail are perfect examples, tend to have integrations with Todoist to help you capture tasks with no worries. In this guide, we’ll be overviewing the basic email toolkit and how to send via a compose window. We’ll throw in some bonus resources too that might be helpful.
How to Create Tasks From Email
One of the great things about Carl’s video is he demonstrates how to do this for Apple Mail and the recent Newton application, using the simple forwarding functions. So if you want a visual demonstration, check out Carl’s video on creating tasks from email.
Let’s start with the composing of a task. This is something that can be learnt and once adopted will save you time dumping tasks into your inbox or specific projects you are working on. Whether it’s an idea or a task itself, capturing from email can save you time on the go to or working from any laptop that might be restricted to accessing web or downloading Todoist, like many work laptops sadly can be.
1. Open your Todoist
Motion for mac download. Unreal engine for mac os x. 6. Add the details of the task, due date, labels and priority
To add a due date, use “<>” to capture the date you’d like. Although, if separated from your text, intelligent date parsing could pick this up, so no need for the “<>” brackets.
To add a label, simply add the label symbol of “@” and the intended label. In this case, I used @5mins to indicate task length of 5-minutes.
To add the final element in this example, the priority, use “!!” and add a number. 3 being the lowest (yellow) priority and 1 being the most important (red) and it’ll be assigned.
Todoist Uncheckable Tasks
The final product above of what this looks like inside of Todoist. Remember that they’ll bring in the original email and the body of the email into the comments. In this case, it was the messy email signature that comes along with my emails.
Todoist Uncheckable Task Manager
BONUS RESOURCES