Now I can finally say that I moved my life to Notion.
When I first started to use Notion I was amazed by how I can organised all my notes, tasks and wikis in one place. I felt so comfortable that I stop using services like Trello (for managing my yearly & monthly planning), Google Doc, Streak (as my personal CRM) and more. When Notion finally introduces the Web Clipper I enthusiastically deleted Evernote from my computer.
But one thing was still missing. The ability to capture tasks and notes quickly from anywhere.
Why?
While Notion kept me organised with my digital brain, it wasn't allowed me to capture a quick note from anywhere on my computer. Todoist was able to solve it elegantly with the 'Quick Add from Everywhere' feature. When your attention is focused on one platform, let's say PowerPoint, and suddenly a thought comes to your mind – instead of switching platform, you just hit 'Ctrl+Shift+A' and a small pop-up screen appears on your screen, allowing you to add task blazingly fast to the point you can avoid task-switching.
Remember Notion is aiming to be an all-in-one workspace, and the other resources mentioned are specialist resources. Todoist, for example, is a perfect list manager, with Notion replicating some basic features of task management, this is only to compare the snapshot of Notion to these tools to see if they compare. Todoist is ranked 2nd while Notion is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Todoist is: Todoist's web and desktop interfaces have a 2-column layout. The right column has all tasks organized in nested lists with color codes and information such as what people are assigned to each task and which project the task is part of. Manage your Todoist tasks inside of Notion using a simple embed. This tutorial from William Nutt from NuttLabs shares how this is possible to connect Todoist.
Notion Quick Add
Notion is an all-in-one workspace for note-taking and project management. It helps users to create tasks, wikis, and databases all at one place. And I used Todoist too, but did not like that they no longer allows multi-line comment from creating task on their free version. Any idea how we can do it? Export to.CSV from Todoist did not work, it ends up build a table in Notion.
I looked everywhere, from Reddit to Quora, and the official Notion community on Facebook. Nothing. I finally got lead from one of the key members of my community Supertools. I told him that I want to develop a 'Quick Add' feature for Notion. In 20 minutes he sent me a tutorial with the solution (thank you Tal Cherniak). Drivers amcc scsi & raid devices. I was able than to create a new application that allows Notion's power users to add tasks quickly from whatever they are. Want to know how? Let's start.
Step one: Creating the Notion Quick Add app with Google Chrome
In this step we want to create an app, based on the new Notion Web Clipper. Watch the video below to see how to do it step-by-step👇🏼
Step 2: Configuring a special hotkey to trigger the Quick Add app
I use Keyboard Maestro (Mac only) which allows me to create hot key triggers and automations. However, you can use any hot key management app for this workflow. The workflow is pretty straightforward – any time I hit 'Ctrl+Shift+A', the new app we create Notion Quick Add is triggered and popup to the center of the screen, where I can put my task / note directly to Notion, similar to the why the Notion Web Clipper works. Instead of saving an article or website, the app saves only the text you entered. I usually direct the task to 'Inbox' to start my GTD workflow.
Todoist To Notion Free
*Make sure to select 'quit the application' if the application already at the front. It will allow you to hit 'Ctrl+Shift+A' again and close the app quickly.
Notion Vs Todoist
This is how the workflow looks like in Keyboard Maestro 👇🏼