Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Complementing your task with a screencast

For a certain kind of task, you may add it and imagine that you’ll remember later what “Download PDF from website” means. But you may return to it and think, “Well where was I supposed to click? I don’t see it now.”

For this kind of task, pelowski recommends a straightforward solution: screencasting. Using a simple tool to record a short video clip of your steps can help you retrace your steps. You can link to that clip in your task and get right back to it later.

One of the things that I sometimes do with tasks that involve work on websites, or with the computer, is to create a quick screencast of what I’m thinking of doing, and then linking that to the task itself. When you click the share button in the screencast app, it uploads the video or image to a server and then posts the URL back to your clipboard. Then I just visit RTM create a quick task and then paste that URL for the hyperlink. Now I have both a task with some thoughts that I quickly recorded in a video format to watch later!

Thanks for sharing your tip, pelowski! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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