Once picked, I assign a due date to that blog post idea for when I want to write that postĪssigning a due date helps me schedule an article idea for writing beforehand and not have to spend high-energy time sifting through the list to find one.After publishing a blog post, I look at the Next 5 section and pick the next blog post I want to write.Right now, my content publishing strategy is to write and publish one long-form blog post every week.Īnd to follow that schedule, I use this technique: Think of it as prep time before a delicious cook.īased on the type of article or content, my boards may or may not have another section called Written.īut, before we jump into the Written column, let's understand: How I process ideas from my content board With a handful of article ideas in the Next 5 section, I can start collecting resources and formulating outlines for this batch of blog posts before I start writing them, like this: Adding article outlines as comments in the task. Ideas get refined and pruned with each step in the funnel. The Next 5 column only contains up to five blog post ideas I will work on next. That's why I have an additional section on my board called Next 5, like this: The Next 5 column listing my next five blog posts. Picking an idea from the Selected section to write can get overwhelming since this section usually contains a staggering number of ideas. Or move some of them that I want to work on to the Selected column. I take this opportunity to remove ideas from my list that I don't think will be valuable blog posts. Once I've got plenty of article ideas sitting in the Ideas column, I do an audit now and then to sift through my ideas. I use this handy /Ideas shortcut to add a task to the Ideas section directly from any screen in the Todoist app: Adding an idea directly to the Ideas section via Quick add. I don't usually open the Articles board to add new ideas. Next 5: Ideas for my next five blog postsĪnytime I get a new blog post idea, I note it down in the Ideas section of my article board, like this: Adding a new idea under the Ideas section.Selected: Contains article ideas that I'm keen to work on.Ideas: Houses any new article idea that I get.If you look closely, I have three different sections on my board: I have an Articles project in Todoist to house all article ideas that randomly pop up in my head, like this: My article ideas project in the Board view. To understand this better, here's: How I plan my blog posts in Todoist If you're familiar with a Kanban board or have used apps like Trello or JIRA, you'll feel right at home with the board view.Įach section in your board can represent the current progress of a task or act as a funnel to pick what task to work on next. Whereas in Board view, it'll create columns-like sections. In the list view, having sections will divide your task list like this: Viewing a project in the List view. Sections help group tasks in Todoist into logical compartments. Whether you're creating a new project or changing the project view of an existing one, Todoist will always group all tasks into a temporary section called No Section, like this: The default No Section column in a transformed board. You can then use this setting to change how your project is displayed like this: Choosing Board view for an existing project in Todoist. Open any project in one of the Todoist apps, and locate this View option: This View option lets you choose how you project is displayed.
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Here's how you can choose to view a new project as a Kanban board while creating it: Choosing Board view for a new project in Todoist.Īnd if you want to convert an existing project into the board view, here's how to do it: Let's start by: Switching a project to board viewĮvery project in Todoist can be viewed either as a regular list or in a Kanban board view, like this: Board view in a Todoist project.Īnd, Todoist offers two ways to turn a project into a Kanban board: In this blog post, I'll show you how to use Todoist's fantastic board view and how I use it to plan content for this blog. Todoist introduced a new project view called Board view, and it changed how I planned my content creation. There's this one aspect of running this blog that I relied on other tools like Notion or Trello was housing, refining and prioritising blog post ideas.Ī Kanban board view and moving items across lanes make it easy to visualise my content planning in a way that a simple to-do list can't. I use Todoist to plan pretty much everything. Todoist is an incredibly versatile to-do list app I've used for years.
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