Useful Tools: Blog Post
I recently posted this out to the blog but realised it may be useful to some forum members, particularly newer marketers. Enjoy!
Note: some referral links in there because, why not, and in some cases when referred you get a bonus as well (win win!).
Let’s get straight to it.
The following tools are useful and will help you build a better workflow.
Some of these are gems!
Time and Task Management
My favourite: Todoist
Why? They have an app for virtually every platform. I have it on my phone and integrated into Outlook. They have browser plugins, a web-based version, and with the premium version everything is synced and awesome.
Bonus – Check out my task addition workflow:
Click New task, “Do this thing”, hit tab, write “Wednesday @ 2 PM”, hit enter.
That’s just created a new task called “Do this thing” which is scheduled for Wednesday at 2 PM.
It get’s even better.
Todoist Premium gives me reminders via my phone and via SMS. But, I use my Outlook Calendar (I use Microsoft Exchange for email) so I would rather have a calendar event as well.
No problem, this is where Zapier comes in
Zapier – connect services together for automated actions.
In this case, we add a “zap” that says “When new Todoist task is made > make corresponding event in Google Calendar”.
I would do it directly to my Exchange Calendar, but there seems to be some bug they haven’t worked out.
Easy solution though – we make the Google Calendar event, then we add a second Zap that adds Google Calendar events to my Exchange Calendar. All sorted!
It takes a little bit of config but they make it quite easy – just put due date for the event begin times. Let me know if you need specifics!
Result? I make a new task on Todoist. It propagates through Google Calendar to my Outlook Calendar, now I see it in my schedule and I get Outlook reminders as well. Task management +1000!
Other solutions for task management worth checking ...