

If you’d like to use this recipe yourself, just click on it below – you can copy it and use it yourself as it is, or tweak it with tags, specific projects, and more. This helps save me from spending too much time in my Gmail inbox and gives me a better ability to schedule email related tasks. From there I can either work on it later when I have time or I can schedule a date or time to deal with it. So what do I do? I star it so that it shows up in my Todoist inbox. I’ll have an email that will take longer than a minute or two to deal with but still needs to be handled. I use this daily when going through my emails. This is a really handy recipe that lets you quickly tag emails that need action but that you don’t, or can’t, deal with right now. In this video, I show you how to connect IFTTT to Todoist and Gmail so that starred emails go straight to your Todoist inbox. Forward your emails to Todoist Use this method if you have Todoist Premium and use an email client other than Gmail or Outlook.

IFTTT (If This Then That) is a free service that lets you connect many online services for some killer automation. Use a Todoist email extension to add tasks to your Todoist Use this method if you use Gmail or Outlook, or a email client that has a Todoist integration.

Gmail can be configured to be a pretty powerful system in it’s own right, however when you connect it to tools like Todoist it becomes really powerful and takes the burden of organization out of Gmail – which should be a communication hub.
