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How to create a task
Turn message into task
Message shortcuts…
Todo adds 2 message shortcuts to your workspace - “Add task”, and “Do today.”
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Hover over a message, click “⋮ More actions”
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You will see message shortcuts you use most often. When starting working with Todo, likely you won’t see Todo on the list. Click “More message shortcuts…”
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Scroll down to see Todo shortcuts…
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… or use search
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From there, you can choose Add task, or Do today.
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Add task
“Add task” message shortcut opens a task form modal, where all task attributes can be changed before saving the task.
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Hover over a message, click “⋮ More actions”
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“Add task”
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New task modal will be opened. You can adjust its attributes and click “Submit”
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Task has been added
Do today
“Do today” message shortcut is a quick way to add tasks for yourself with these default attributes:
📅 Due date Today
🧑💼 Assignee You
#️⃣ Project Default project to message’s channel
📣 Reminders Default reminders
👀 Watchers Default watcher to message’s author
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Hover over a message, click “⋮ More actions”
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“Do today”
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Task has been added.
Create task without a message
Other than turning messages into tasks, you can create tasks that are not connected to a Slack message - with your own task description.
There are multiple ways to create tasks with own description.
App Home
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Open Todo > App Home, click “New task”
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New task form modal will be opened.
Shortcuts
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Open any channel, click “⊕ Attachments & shortcuts”
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Search “Todo”, click “Add task with Todo”…
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… or click “⋯ Browse all shortcuts” > “Todo” > “Add task”
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New task form modal will be opened.
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Slash commands
/todo
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Open any channel, type
/todointo the message composer box
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Press “⮐ Return” on your keyboard, shortcut search will close and “/todo” text will be added to the message composer
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Press “⮐ Return” again, new task form modal will be opened.
/todo *text*
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Open any channel, type
/todo water the plantsinto the message composer box, press “⮐ Return” on your keyboard
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New task form modal will be opened with “water the plants” task description.
/todo today *text*
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Open any channel, type
/todo today water the plantsinto the message composer box, press “⮐ Return” on your keyboard
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Task with “water the plants” description will be added for you for today.
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Project Message
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Click “🆕 Add” in Primary Project Message
Notifications
Watchers
If you add watchers to the task, they will receive a notification message that they became a watcher.
Assignee
If you create a task for somebody else (delegate it), the assignee will receive a notification.
Primary Project Message
If you set the task’s project to be a channel, Todo will send a Primary Project Message to the channel.
See: Projects
See: Notifications and Activities