With iOS 14, you can customize the double-tap on the back of your iPhone to launch “Add Todoist Task” shortcut. This makes it possible to add a task from anywhere in iOS quickly.
You can also customize this shortcut, for example, to add it to a particular project.
How to do this:
* Open Shortcuts and add a new “Add Todoist Task” shortcut
* Go to Settings ➡️ Accessibility ➡️ Touch ➡️ Back Tap
* Select “Add Todoist Task”
Enjoy the ability to add a task super quickly 😊
A great example of how accessibility can be useful for all users.
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At the product retreat, we used GPT-3 to understand why customers cancel their paid Todoist accounts.
Here’s a small write-up of how this works and how you could utilize this to get valuable insights into improving your products. 🤖
It’s critical to note that you won’t be able to feed data to GPT-3 because there is a token limit (e.g., 4096 tokens for Davinci). You also won’t be able to fine-tune the custom model because fine-tuning only works for prompt+completion optimization.
What you can use is something like LlamaIndex, which provides indices over unstructured and structured data for use with LLM’s like GPT-3. This makes it possible to query large amount of data!
Async communication is a simple concept: you send a message without expecting an immediate response. The surprising thing is the side-effects of async if you make it the default communication.
Here are some core learnings we've done at Doist in the last 8 years 🧵
🤝 Default to Trust
You don't know when or if people are working. You also need to trust that your teammates will deliver on time. The only way you'll make this work is in a super high-trust environment.
🔍 Default to Transparency
Being blocked can be a huge setback because async work isn't real-time. Given this, you'll see a ton of transparency in async-first teams because you don't want to block people from accessing resources by default (e.g., information, codebases, servers)
One of the core aspects of making async work is being great at handoff.
Handoff could mean sharing a product spec with an engineer or sharing decisions between the leadership team.
🧵 with core tips on how to become better at it.
Follow the Inverted Pyramid
Start with the most important piece of information in any handoff, so readers can get the main point whether they read the whole document. nngroup.com/articles/inver…
When onboarding new people to a project, provide them with full context and clean specs.
There's nothing worse than being onboarded and having to hunt down the context and details across various mediums (e.g., documents, threads, Github PRs, or Figma comments).
Over 1 billion knowledge workers across the globe are tasked with some of society's most supercritical work, yet their time and precious mental energy are wasted on busywork. The status quo work environment is ineffective, toxic, and a massive problem for humanity.
🧵 Some stats
Knowledge workers spend up to 50% of their time in meetings. That's 130 workdays per year. The yearly cost of unproductive meetings is estimated to $399bn in the US and $58bn in the UK (and who knows how much globally).