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Thanks Scott. I have worked for years trying to maintain a standard task list, and recently I've started thinking that a calendar actually makes much better sense. You lay out a really compelling case supporting exactly that, so I think I'll make the switch. Thanks for the great video!

Been doing this for a while now. Since I saw you mention it in an older video, so thanks Scott, it works great for me. When I finish a task I make it green to get that nice "checking something off the to do list" feeling ✔

This video has been very helpful. I’m new to using the Google Calendar and now I understand the difference between Events, Tasks, and Reminders and how they work in the calendar. Thanks for the clear explanation!

I liked the suggestion of creating a separate calendar for the tasks as well as using all day events and moving them around if they don't get completed on the original day.

Great video! I tried this for a while now and it really made me organize, combined it with time blocking = productivity. Thanks man!

Thanks. You showed me a few ways the calendar works that I wasn't aware of.

Great 👍 thanks... been looking for someone who could explain it as easy as you did

Thank you very much, it is great tips. I would like to add that Google solved the issue and now also Tasks appear in the mobile version of Google Calendar.

I just wanna thank your for that, Scott. Your videos have been helping a lot. This one is a gift, since it's been posted right in my birthday.

Great presentation. Easy to follow. I learned a few things and will be experimenting with one of the three ways to use google calendar as a to do list on Monday!

since one of the earlier video's, I started using google calendar as a partial to-do list. I only apart from the appointments use reminders. I love it it will shift to the next to, which first of makes sure you don't forget to do something second if your to-do list gets too big and you haven't done it and checked it off you kinda get a self-review that you need to start and get your .... together and do something productive. Next, to this, I have a trello to do list more in the cleaning sense. I love your videos.

This was really useful for me. THANK YOU!

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Every second was useful to me.

What a great set of presentations on how to use Google products. It's my favorite "go to" now, very clean and simple to understand design and its organized intuitively, just the way a user would use it. Kudos on excellent learning videos! A+

Thank you so much. This was very informative and comprehensive.

Thank you! Simple and informative without being repetitive.

Simple and to the point. Perfect! Thanks.

thank you, I'm using these features for years, but your video showed much better system that I will start applying today.

Thanks! I'm a bit confused about how to use it on mobile but I know it will be great later on when I'll need to use it at work both on my laptop and phone in the future (for my dream job)

Thanks for all your video. They are not only useful for learning how to organize my life and stuff but also to practice my English, that is why I am looking for methods to be more tidy

Great video, Scott! Thanks!

Thanks for the video... Didn't knew we could do so much with the app.

Thanks! You always make it so simple! :)

Great thanks....easy voice to listen to and follow.

That was perfect! Thank you for your basic, followable instructions. It was just what I needed.

Excellent Veido, Thanks so much!

Thank you very much Great video and what i have learned will help me for a long time to come

Thank you for this overview. As I begin to make the transition from paper to electronic, I believe this is a good start as it is simple/user friendly. After I use it a while I can reassess if I need something more. Here is my plan: I will use Reminders for long term heads up (when to order supplies, prompt to begin planning something, remind others to begin planning or doing something). I will use My Tasks to brain dump items that need to be done and may even code or divide it into time sensitve (this week or this month, short term/long term or perhaps 10 minutes or less items-color coding may help but not sure if I can do this in My Tasks). I will use All Day Event to assign items from My Tasks to specific days when planning out my week. I will use appointments for time specific items like tutoring, medical, meetings etc.

Thanks for this video. I have struggled with the best way to utilize tasks and to-do's. Learning all of the choices has solved my needs. Excellent video.

Brilliant Tutorial very simple and explained and spoke very well, thank you Scott.

Thank you very much for that quick tutorial. It was helpful.

Simpletivity You Tube Post I’ve tried to manage my Projects and Actions from my calendar a few times, but always go back to an app, either Trello or Todoist or Asana (I’m fickle) What doesn’t work for me is when I want to immediately look at all the things I need to get done in a particular category, like my client projects, or administrative tasks, or expenses. If I suddenly had some free time pop up and wanted to be able to quickly pick something to do with that time, there was no way to do that in calendar, or it took a long time. I found I still needed a “master list” from which to choose and plan my day/week. The happy medium for me has been to keep EVERYTHING in Todoist and then during my weekly review, I assign days and/or times for projects and tasks - and with the Google Calendar integration, I can see all those things in my calendar alongside my appointments. TIP: That can get crowded in calendar view, so it’s important to have a bold colour for actual appointments when you need to be somewhere or do something at a very particular time (the difference between “meet client Bob at 3pm at the coffee shop” vs “work on blog post” . With this method, I have the ability to either look at all the projects and tasks demanding my time in Todoist and sort them by category or context, OR I can look at my calendar for appointments OR.. the best part.... I can look at them together at the same time. Tasks or projects in TD with a due date but no time appear as all-day tasks which I can then assign to a particular time when the day arrives and I can look at all the other commitments I have that day. This combo gives me piece of mind that I won’t forget a task in my calendar that I forgot to drag forward if it didn’t get done. With this method, if I don’t complete a task on the day/time I assigned it, the worst case is I’ll see it as incomplete in Todoist during my weekly review, but more likely I’ll see it at the end of the day or on the top of my list tomorrow as “Overdue.” I think I just wrote the script for my first KZfaq video..... :)

Great video, helped a lot, thanks.

Simple and easy. Thanks 🙏

Helpful video. Thank you. Is there a way to print out a list of completed tasks once you are done? At the end of the year, I would like to use this task list as a reminder for performance evaluation. Is there anyway to access the stuff that was accomplished?

Thank you. This was great overview!

Good overview, thanks

Very useful guide.

Very helpful video. Applying this now in my Google calendar. Thanks! 👍🏽

Thanks for sharing this!

Very useful information. Thanks for the video.

Excellent help.

This was really useful for me. Thank you

I believe that google calendar has since updated the task function so it now shows on mobile as well.

WONDERFUL VIDEO Summary: You can use google calendar for to-do lists Helps you make decisions based on your schedule How to make task: click on the all-day area See all tasks by pressing tasks symbol on the left side Pro: The tasks don’t move themselves when you don’t tick them at the end of the day. So you have to move them yourself at the end of the day which makes you more engaged with your to do list.

Amazing. Thank you.

Thanks for the helpful video, however, I seem to have trouble searching for old events within the calendar search bar. Why are my events not showing? For example, I wanted to know when my last trip to New York was and failed to find within Google calendar.

Very helpful thank you!

Great vid! Thanks! Can you checkmark the daily tasks you completed?

Hi. How to find available time in different calendars for repetitive meetings without having to look at day by day in mosaic or agenda mode? It's possible? Thanks a lot

Thanks for the tips.

The best video for Google Calendar,thank you!

I wish I watched this sooner - great video!

Awesome video! I couldn't figure out how to get that little sidebar on the right to get the google tasks and google keep options. Anyone know this? Thanks!

Great use of Calendar. Thanks.

Thanks, Scott. You did a great job as usual. I don't use to-do lists as regularly as I should but I like the idea of using Google Calendar. I've tried Google Keep and Todoist but didn't stick with them. I've used Google Tasks several times and like it. I've used Keep for reminders. The use of Google Calendar is probably very efficient. I'll give it a try and see if I can stick with it.

Perfect video, thanks! It lacks on google calendar just a way to put a “check”, a “done”, like a scratch or a V in the task done. It is a pity

Great explanation, friendly voice to listen to, and easy to follow.

Great demo! The only thing I'd like to see added is color coordinating reminders, all day events, other calendars, etc. Great job though, this really gave me some ideas! Thanks!

Thank you for the best and useful information as always in regards to productivty

I thought this was REALLY helpful video.

Hi! great tips! I have a question and can't find an answer online - is there a way set or program a 'type' of event that will have additional events tied to it automatically? Lets say I have a quarterly meeting, and each quarterly meeting requires some preparation meetings in set times (3 weeks prior: check with X on progress, 2 weeks prior check with Y on progress, one day after - send summery... etc.) is there a way to just submit the one major event - the quarterly meeting - and have all the other events set automatically? Hope you can help me with this one :)

How do you decide what activities to sort into Task, Reminder and To-Do?

as usual, great video. Thanks, Scott. I do subscribe and have done so for years. Jeralo

Very useful information and nice presentation.Thank you very much.

Amazing Tool! Thank you!!

Fantastic video, full of great tips. I use Google calendar every day & love it so much. But thanks to what you shared here, I'll be expanding that even further now. I usually use Notepad for my task list, but that doesn't carry over to my mobile device. Thanks!

WOOW I HOW COME I JUST KNOW IT NOW, THAT IS SO COOL!!

Perfect Google Calendar overview just when I needed it - thanks!

Excellent refresher for some of us👍

Hi, it is possible to see google tasks with mobile devices using some calendar apps like readdle calendar or tiny calendar for free or 8/15 euro.

Just came across this much needed video re Google calendar. Qn: How to trigger a sound alarm for a reminder?

Informative video, thx.

Great thanks!

Great content, Thank you.🥰

I don't know if I watch this channel because of the awesome tips or his relaxing voice!!! 🤣🤣 Great Channel! Keep it up!!!

Thank you so much!

Excellent 👌

Great video...you gave me a new perspective and this will surely help me become more productive..

Thanks for the info. Very Helpful

Thank you for this and I appreciate not having to rewind multiple times to decode an accent! Also wondering if there's any relevant updates since this was posted 4 years ago.

Thank you. Brilliant.

I am using the HanHan Time app to organize my to-do list, which is very good.

Loved it

Wow this is great! I have new found respect for Google Calendars

Very good video with details 👌 thank you

I’ve tried to manage my Projects and Actions from my calendar a few times, but always go back to an app, either Trello or Todoist or Asana (I’m fickle) What doesn’t work for me is when I want to immediately look at all the things I need to get done in a particular category, like my client projects, or administrative tasks, or expenses. If I suddenly had some free time pop up and wanted to be able to quickly pick something to do with that time, there was no way to do that in calendar, or it took a long time. I found I still needed a “master list” from which to choose and plan my day/week. The happy medium for me has been to keep EVERYTHING in Todoist and then during my weekly review, I assign days and/or times for projects and tasks - and with the Google Calendar integration, I can see all those things in my calendar alongside my appointments. TIP: That can get crowded in calendar view, so it’s important to have a bold colour for actual appointments when you need to be somewhere or do something at a very particular time (the difference between “meet client Bob at 3pm at the coffee shop” vs “work on blog post” . With this method, I have the ability to either look at all the projects and tasks demanding my time in Todoist and sort them by category or context, OR I can look at my calendar for appointments OR.. the best part.... I can look at them together at the same time. Tasks or projects in TD with a due date but no time appear as all-day tasks which I can then assign to a particular time when the day arrives and I can look at all the other commitments I have that day. This combo gives me peace of mind that I won’t forget a task in my calendar that I forgot to drag forward if it didn’t get done. With this method, if I don’t complete a task on the day/time I assigned it, the worst case is I’ll see it as incomplete in Todoist during my weekly review, but more likely I’ll see it at the end of the day or on the top of my list tomorrow as “Overdue.” I think I just wrote the script for my first KZfaq video..... :)

very nicely explained.

Thank you for that lesson on google calendar. I am using my IPhone calendar, and I believe it has many of the same features.

Excellent information, well worth the time to view this video

Thank you!

Thank you. This is going to be helpful at the office.

Great video. I have been helped. Thank you very much.

love this channel, wanna watch all the videos, so informative and simple. No wander called Simpletivity ))

Learning a lot about gmail really helpful

I know this is an older video. But. It’s still very relevant, and it was very helpful to me-thanks!

Can you tell me how you get the "Home" display in your calendar? Thanks!

Thanks.. didn't use calender like this before.. good one

Thanks. it is helpful. and I must say you got a wonderfully clear voice.👌