From paper to Google Calendar, Outlook and Todoist

1. Connect your account. In Axsuro, go to Settings → Connections and connect Google, Microsoft or Todoist. Your calendars and lists arrive within a minute.
2. Pick the list for tasks. In Settings → Markers, choose which list todo: lines go to, for example a list in Google Tasks or Microsoft To Do, or a Todoist project.
3. Write on paper. A marker at the start of the line, then the rest: cal: Thu 14.11. 10:00 dentist or todo: send invoice to Huber Fri.
4. Photograph the page. With the Axsuro app for iPhone or Android, or in the browser. Several pages work one after another, even offline; the photos are sent later.
5. Confirm. Tasks and events wait for Confirm. If a word is wrong, fix it first. Then they go to your calendar and your list.

Two markers are enough to start. They go at the very start of the line, upper or lower case doesn't matter, and the German words work just as well.

• todo: (German aufgabe:) becomes a task. A hand-drawn box ☐ at the start of the line counts too.
• cal: (German termin:) becomes an event in your calendar.

A page from your planner might look like this:

• cal: Thu 14.11. 10:00 dentist
• cal: 10.–12.12. trade fair Vienna
• cal: Fri 15:00–16:30 planning at the office @Lena
• todo: send invoice to Huber Fri
• ☐ call the accountant tomorrow !
• todo: pay rent every 1st

A #project in the line files the task under a project, ! marks it important and !! very important. The full overview is on How markers work.

• Dates: "Fri", "tomorrow", "next week" or "14.11.". Words like "tomorrow" count from the day you photograph the page. On a task, the date becomes the due date.
• Times: date and time in any order; "Thu 10:00" works as well as "10:00 Thu". Without an end time an event lasts one hour; without any time it is all day.
• Several days: a range like "10.–12.12." becomes a multi-day event.
• Place: after the time, as in "10:00 at the office".
• Attendees: @Name and email addresses in a cal: line become attendees. The Axsuro calendar sends invitations by email with an .ics file, including updates and cancellations.

• wait: becomes a task in the same list as todo:, marked "Waiting for someone". Useful for anything you've handed over: wait: offer from Stefan.
• buy: or shop: puts items on your shopping list under Tasks, not among your tasks: buy: milk, eggs, 1.5 kg flour. Commas separate the items. From Plus you can share the list with someone at home and you both tick things off.
• Repeating: "every 1st", "every 2 weeks", "every Friday" or "monthly" in a task line makes it repeat. Tick it off and the next one appears. This works on every plan.

Tasks and events don't land in your calendar unasked. They wait until you take them over with Confirm. If several pages are waiting, you go through them all in one stack. If Axsuro misread a word, fix the line and it remembers your handwriting for the next pages.

If that is too many clicks: in Settings → Markers, "Take clear entries over" lets every task and event that Axsuro reads clearly go straight in. "Always take over" goes one step further for todo: and cal:, even when Axsuro isn't quite sure. Entries involving other people, with an @Name or attendees, always wait for your yes.

Axsuro keeps events and tasks in step in both directions. Whatever you confirm or change in Axsuro shows up in the connected service within seconds. Whatever you change, move or tick off there comes back in about five minutes. All calendars of an account are synced.

On the Free plan you connect one account: Google, Microsoft or Todoist. From Plus you connect all of them. Sync works in your personal workspace; it isn't available in business workspaces. The idea is explained in the glossary under two-way sync.

Axsuro can't connect to Apple Calendar. If your calendar lives in iCloud, Axsuro can't send events there. The services you can connect are Google, Microsoft and Todoist.

Todoist receives tasks only, not events. Business workspaces have no sync; it works in your personal workspace only. And Axsuro doesn't remind you before a due date itself; the reminders in your calendar or task app take care of that.

All plans side by side are on the pricing page. How a whole meeting becomes tasks is covered in Turn handwritten meeting notes into tasks.

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