There are a lot of ideas and notes drifting about still. Only when I give it a tag, does it show up in any concrete to-do list.Ībove you see an example of a folder in my Todoist. As long as something is untagged, it is treated as a placeholder/draft/idea that may need further refinement. The particular way I’ve chosen to implement this in Todoist, is with the tag system. I use Todoist not only as a task management system, but also as a general idea capturing and drafting tool -which is in line with GTD, actually.

I have thus found it useful to insert a basic distinction between what I want to do during work hours, versus my spare time. Nevertheless, my day-to-day activites are currently nicely split between my work/PhD on one hand, and everything else on the other. GTD recommends to create a single system that contains both your work and non-work tasks.I should probably start with the particular design decisions that constrain my implementation. It relies pretty heavily on basic functionalities such as labels and filters, so you may have to read up on those to get up to speed. As Todoist has a lot of functionality and using it all in unison is hard, I humbly present my personal GTD synthesis. “Find a system that works with you, not against you.”Īt the end of my latest review of ‘Getting Things Done’ I referenced the new set-up I made for Todoist, in accordance with GTD.

Setting up todoist for gtd