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.
It’s a great way to declutter your mind so you can focus on whatever you’re doing right now. To add a task to your Inbox, grab the nearest Todoist app – on your desktop, phone, watch, or otherwise – click or tap the add task + sign, type in your task name, and save the task. The Todoist inbox is perfect for capturing new tasks and organizing them into projects for later. The inbox is the hub for a lot of activity inside of Todoist and a great way to filter.
- The Inbox is your default task list in Todoist. When you add a task, it goes straight to your Inbox unless you specify that the task goes into a project. A project is a task list that you create yourself. You give a project a name and can then add as many tasks as you’d like.
- Taco Anema, founder of Dutch electric bicycle company QWIC, belongs to the latter group. The inbox zero approach appeals to him on paper; an empty mailbox at the end.
- To create a Todoist task: Click the '.' Option on any message. Select 'More actions'. Choose 'Add task to Todoist' or 'Add to Inbox'. Fill in the details for your task and press 'Add'. Your task will be added to Todoist.
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.
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1. Open your Todoist
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.
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.
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