Todoist is my 'one ring to rule them all'

(NO affiliate links, no connection to Todoist. Just something recent I wrote I am posting to see how NotePD works.)

Like many people in my timeline, I am building my second brain.

The truth is, I have been doing it for several years. I just didn't have a name for it. Thank you, Tiago Forte.

I now work as a public information officer, but really, I am a small-town journalist. I have been writing hyperlocal content for 30 years.

I have been doing my job with a digital-first mindset for the past decade. That means a lot of social media and 300-500 word blog posts.

My job involves a lot of notetaking with my smartphone and sharing notes and photos between devices and computers. I love Tiago's CODE rules and PARA organization. Brilliant concepts that have been very helpful.

I also appreciate his recent posts about being selective with what goes into the second brain. I agree; it should be for the important stuff. Tiago said the top 1 percent.

This leaves A LOT of writing being done elsewhere. For me, it leaves the majority of what I produce.

Where does a lot of this writing happen? In the CAPTURE phase, which gets rewritten and quickly turned around and EXPRESSED online. And often occurs on a different device than where the photos are. I've mainly used Keep and Evernote to hold all this together.

But thinking about the journalist's creed that the best camera is the one you have with you, I've found a much better answer and one that helps me go from Capture to Organize more easily ... Todoist!

I use Todoist as my task manager and calendar. I access it many times a day, and since I can get an invite at any time, I have gotten used to immediately putting tasks and events into my app and figuring out where they belong later. Todoist is there on all my devices.

And then I realized Todoist is on all my devices, accessible, handles photo attachments, handles markdown ... heck, Grammarly even works with it! It's the perfect quick notes app. All I had to do was create a Notes project (folder). It works for my use case out of the box.

If a note turns into a quick post, I can delete the note. Or I can schedule it to post later. Or use subtasks to set up a posting schedule. And then delete it when I don't need it any longer. 9/11

Or if it is something with multiple entries, I can use the comments feature to Collect until I am ready to Distill and Express. That's also where the photos go. ... And if the information is essential -- part of the 1 percent -- I can add it to my second brain.

It works so well that I wrote this in Todoist, and while I wouldn't want to write 1,500 words in the app, I had no problems writing 500.