![]() You can also assign the task to one of your preexisting Todoist tasks (not shown). Select a preset action to prepend to the page name to form the text of the task. Editing the name of the page determines how it will show up in the text of the task. Here’s what it looks like on an iPad: From Mobile Safari, select the shortcut from the Share menu. That’s it with a few clicks, the page has been turned into a Todoist task. Another menu allows you to assign the task to one of your pre-existing Todoist projects, and the due date is automatically set as today. You can then choose from a list of actions with which to prepend that link, e.g., “Read,” “Follow up on,” “Purchase,” etc. When you run this shortcut on iPhone or iPad by selecting it from the share menu in mobile Safari (sorry, Chrome on iOS doesn’t support the Shortcuts actions that make this possible) it grabs the URL and the title of the page and quickly formats them as a Markdown link. This is straightforward, but of course the more quickly and easily you can create a task the better. You can do this manually in Todoist by either adding the link as a comment on a task or, even better, embedding the link into the text of the task itself in Markdown form. The key to translating a page you’re looking at into a task that you’ll actually take action on is quickly capturing the page’s URL. Obviously it’s more useful to turn these into tasks than to let them linger as tabs for days or weeks. In fact, it used to be that a lot of the tabs I’d keep open in my browser were actually tasks in disguise: I’d want to keep them available so that I could take some action on them later. On any given web page, I might find that I want to follow up on it at a later time, download something linked on the page, make a purchase, watch a video, or something similar. ![]() I made this shortcut because so many of the tasks I create in Todoist each day are based on what I come across in my web browser. I’m making it publicly available today and you can download it here for free and install it on your iPhone or iPad. I’ve also created an iOS shortcut called “ Todoist Task from Webpage” that has become an essential part of my productivity. I use virtually all of the many methods that Todoist offers for adding tasks, from Quick Add on my desktop (essential) to voice dictating tasks into Google Assistant (less essential). It all goes into Todoist, and I’m dipping in and out of that app to check off tasks and add new ones, every day, many, many times a day.Ĭreating new tasks quickly and easily is key, of course. My task manager of choice is Todoist and I put virtually everything I want to get done into it: work stuff, side projects, home repair tasks, kids’ school stuff, whatever. The secret to using a task management system is to make it an everyday habit.
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