I figure that I can track most of my stuff under these categories. The categories I have are: Work, Personal, Recurring Activities, For Later and Lists of Stuff. In GTD terms, they are not still projects (which need to be finite and time bound), but we can then get into the ability of Todoist to create nested projects – which will let us create actual sub-categories under these and also projects. Projects: I do a few things to keep things simple and organized. In a later post, I am going to try and figure out a way to get this to work without the Labels functionality and see if it still holds up. Right now I am trialing the Premium version (which you will be able to as well – if you complete the 6 things on the list after you sign up for Todoist). In my opinion, only Labels is a critical aspect of the GTD framework I am outlining below. Some of the features called out in this post are available ONLY in the Premium version of Todoist – specifically the following: Important Caveat: One important note about this post – it presumes the use of Todoist Premium. I use Day One Classic (on my iOS devices) and Life Journal (on my Windows PC) to help me with this.

This leads to clarity of mind, and a capture of actions that would otherwise slip through the cracks. I use it as a mechanism to reflect on the day and to think about what I need to achieve. One of the things that I do, and recommend, is to also maintain a journal to complement / augment your productivity workflow. In general, my approach is to try and keep it simple enough where the framework itself is not a burden – but something that I can evolve as I go. So – here’s how I would go about doing this. While I have implemented a Getting Things Done (GTD) framework using the Secret Weapon methodology for Evernote, I have not hitherto tried to do the same with Todoist. I am a fairly new user of Todoist (web site) – a task management tool that is available across many platforms (one of the reasons I started using it). It was prompted by an interest to setup a GTD workflow using Todoist. This is a follow up blog post to my previous post: Evernote and Todoist: REALLY Getting Things Done.

Gtd todoist setup guide