How to use Microsoft To Do for Getting Things Done (GTD) 

Excellent idea on creating the Context list. That is one of the things that it is really missing.

Thank you for this tutorial. I use todoist for personal stuff, but it just started a long term internship with a company that has a very restricted selection of approved software, and todoist is prohibited. Microsoft Todo is allowed though, so that's what I'll be using. I'm not too happy to have to separate into two systems but oh well.

Thank you for this video! I'm setting up my GTD system with To-Do at the moment and your video was very helpful!

Damn you looked annoyed doing this video lol

I'm the type who immerses himself fully to the subject he's interested in. I've watched other basic MTD tutorials before I got to this one. Other may say the video was overcomplicated, but I took away some great ideas that I can repurpose and customize based on my own needs. I always like to see what else is possible with things. Thanks for your creativity, Lucas. You just gained a follower today!

Thanks for video! Although here´s a thought. I feel that hashtagging the Next Actions means to much work for me with having to write "#next" and delete it again so many times. Instead I realize that "Important" has no place in GTD. If you were to mark certain tasks as more important you would create more confusion for yourself. If something is important it gets either a place in the calendar or it gets a Due date in To-Do and shows up in "Planned" So to the point... Every action in my GTD To-Do gets a "star/important" mark and hence automatically shows up in the Star/Important section. I just need to configure my brain to "Star/important means Next-Action-List". Tasks stars are easy to just click and unclick to mark as next and as completed. It´s faster and automatic. Downside: Subtasks get less visible. Also I created a group called GTD and lists called Inbox, Someday/Maybe, waiting for etc. in that group - and have set the iPhone widget shortcut to add things into that inbox list when I tap the widget shortcut. Your context list is brilliant!

Hello Lucas, thank you very much for the video, even if the app is not a matter close to your heart. The idea of creating your own list of tags was helpful. That creates an overview.

Thank you!!!! My work told me I can’t download any other task management app. This has beeen BY FAR the best video I have found on how to use it like I use my personal task management, todoist.

In the planned section you can put a filter of only show today tasks and also group it by list, I like that feature a lot.

Respect for setting it up in Microsoft To Do! You can really think out of the (BOX). Looking forward to your next videos buddy!

Thanks for doing this! One of the better ones I've seen on MTD!

I agree that OneNote is the Right place for reference material. Thanks for the inspiring video

Super helpful! Thank you!

Nice with the context tags! You could also look at the outlook integration which is pretty nice

A bit over complicated. Today is supposed to be the Next Actions. You can add and remove items via right click. Why adding another group for that?

Why not do it the other way by using tags to define projects and having a projects list with the project tags?

Hi Lucas thx for this video too: although it quite clear you are not enthusastic of MSToDo many people use MS suite in their job... me too... 😅 just a question please: what do you thing about using "Important ⭐" as Next so to be more easy and quick assigning Next Action Tag? And what about Categories available in the app? Thx for your reply

Great video- and very impressed you could figure out a way to use GTD withing the app. I don't think I will using Microsoft To Do

W a o. Excelent. The best for GTD so far!

which app does "next action" really well? I can't find one.

You're a smart man.

tks Lucas!!

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Different strokes for different folks I suppose, but MS To Do works really well for me. Personally, the video overcomplicates things and maybe this is where resistance to To Do comes from? For example, just have a list group for next actions with a single list for each context, and a projects list with a tag only in each 'task'. Tag your next action items with those tags, rather than the other way around as in this video. This does away with the need for sub-tasks, and lists that aren't contexts like 'create a RU-vid video'. I wouldn't use it this way and it would definitely repel me working like this. But each to their own! Also, as an aesthetic aside you can (on Android and PC at least) put any emoji in front of the name of the list (literally in the space you'd type, not the emoji icon button) to replace those default icons without having to select from the app's small list of emojis by clicking the add emoji button!