Tick and Go: Your Guide to ‘To Do List’ Apps ✅ 

As exam season approaches, it can become difficult to stay on top of every task, and it can become overwhelming with everything that needs to be done. With this blogpost, we’ll introduce four different To Do List apps to help you manage your workload and organise your days.  

Microsoft To Do 

Microsoft To Do is a planner app provided by Microsoft and as such is an app you can have on your phone that is also linked to your Teams. You can also access Microsoft To Do through the ‘Planner’ option on your desktop Teams. Some of the key features of Microsoft To Do is ‘My Day’ where you can arrange all the tasks you need to complete for the day but also ‘Planned’ where you can set due dates for future tasks. If you have chosen to link Microsoft To Do to your Teams account under ‘Assigned to me’ you will be able to view all tasks assigned to you through Teams channels task boards which can be helpful for group projects. There is also the feature to create new lists such as if you want a specific to do list for all tasks that need to be created for a project.  

Todoist 

With Todoist you can create and view your daily tasks while also creating and viewing upcoming tasks with deadlines. You have the option of setting recurring tasks such as drinking water everyday with the choice of setting different levels of priority to each task to help with prioritisation. The app also has a notification reminder option for tasks that you have either not completed or reminders for upcoming tasks that you have set in advance.   

Lists To Do 

Lists To Do is a basic To Do List app that is best for tasks within a task for example, items needed within a grocery list or items that need to be packed. Lists can be given emojis to help with differentiation. You can also create as many different lists as you would like as well as duplicating lists! This app also has the option to sort lists in alphabetical order or manually.  

Structured – Daily Planner 

Structured – Daily Planner is more focused on individual tasks you need to complete within each day. There are two main areas on this app, the first being ‘inbox’. The ‘inbox’ allows you to add quick thoughts and tasks where you can later add them to your ‘timeline’. Your ‘timeline’ displays your planned out day from when you wake up to when you need to start winding down! You can tick off your tasks as you go and this app also has the option to colour code tasks and automatically adds emojis based on your task.  

International Day of Forests 🌲

Today – 21st March 2025 – is International Day of Forests and to celebrate we’re revisiting all our blogposts and DigiTips related to nature! 

  1. Plant your Productivity with the Flora app! 🌼: Available on iOS and Android, Flora is an interactive productivity app where you can store to-do lists and build positive habits.
  2. DigiTip 40: Get More Connected to Nature with Seek by iNaturalist 🔎🌼: You may come across birds, plants, fungi, and amphibians that you can’t identify. Using image recognition technology, the Seek by iNaturalist app will help you take your knowledge of nature to the next level! 
  3. Nature at your fingertips: My favourite apps for exploring the outdoors 🍃🌻: To enhance your outdoor adventures, I’ve compiled a list of my favourite free apps that will hopefully spark your curiosity and deepen your appreciation for nature.
  4. DigiTip 4 – Increase your productivity whilst helping the planet with the Forest App 🌱: Do you want to increase your productivity whilst helping the planet? The Forest App will help reduce your procrastination and distractions whilst giving you the extra incentive to stay productive, by growing trees and earning virtual coins to unlock new plants depending on how long you have stayed productive for.

Our Graduates Top Skills 🎓

In 2024, our Student Digital Champions conducted interviews with eight Aberystwyth University graduates to understand what skills they now use after graduating and skills that they wished they had learnt and developed while at university. Below are the top five skills across all the profiles that the graduates now use and how you can develop these skills: 

  1. Microsoft Excel 
  1. Microsoft Teams/Online Meeting Platforms 
  1. Photoshop and Editing Software 
  1. Outlook 
  1. Microsoft PowerPoint 

If you would like to read the Graduate Digital Skills Profiles, you can view them here or you can download them here.  

Develop your AI Skills with hands-on practice in LinkedIn Learning 👩‍💻

Back in October 2023, we wrote about an exciting new partnership between LinkedIn Learning and CoderPad, which brought forth the addition of Code Challenges to LinkedIn Learning. These challenges are tailored to assist learners, from beginners to advanced, in developing their coding skills through interactive exercises and real-time feedback. You can revisit our previous blogpost on this collaboration here.

AI and Generative AI are swiftly becoming the cornerstones of innovation. To support your development in these skills, LinkedIn Learning has expanded its collection to include 73 courses with hands-on practice for AI and Generative AI skills. You can find all of these courses on this webpage or explore a selection of them below.

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

All students and staff have access to all courses on LinkedIn Learning, including those with hands-on practice, through your free Aberystwyth University LinkedIn Learning account. If you have any queries about LinkedIn Learning or accessing any of the content mentioned in this blogpost, please contact the Digital Skills Team (digi@aber.ac.uk), or come along with your questions to one of our weekly drop-in sessions!

DigiTip 9 – Record your screen directly in PowerPoint 🎥

If you need to include a screen-recording in your PowerPoint presentation, you can do this directly in PowerPoint without having to use any other software! Open PowerPoint and then watch the video below or follow these instructions: 

  • Select Record 
  • Select Screen Recording 
  • Open the page that you want to record 
  • Click on Select Area and choose the exact part of the screen that you want to record 
  • Select Audio if you want to record audio with your video 
  • Select Record (you should see a countdown before your recording starts) and complete your recording 
  • Once you’ve finished your recording, hover your mouse over the top of the screen and select Stop 
  • Your screen-recording will be automatically pasted into your PowerPoint presentation 
  • You can edit your recording by clicking on your recording and selecting Playback 

To follow our DigiTips, subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog. Or alternatively, you can bookmark this webpage, where a new DigiTip will be added each week!  

RB&I Seminar (28 March): Mobile apps for research, assistance or profit

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On Tuesday 28.03.23 (12:00-14:00), the Research, Business and Innovation department have arranged an in-person seminar to help researchers decide whether their app idea is feasible and how to go about making it happen.

The seminar will be led by Professor Chris Price from the Computer Science Department.

For further information, and to book your place, please visit the event page.

Join the Digital Marketing Masterclass (8 February)

Want to learn how you can use digital marketing to promote your Business or Social Enterprise?

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AberPreneurs, part of the University’s Careers Service, are running an exiting online event on Wednesday 8 February (2pm), Digital Marketing Masterclass with Francesca Irving fromLunax Digital’.

Join the webinar online through MS Teams.

For any queries, please contact aberpreneurs@aber.ac.uk.