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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.”

  • 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.

  • 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

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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

  • Hover over a message, click “⋮ More actions”

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  • “Do today”

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  • Task has been added.

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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.

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There are multiple ways to create tasks with own description.

App Home

  • Open Todo > App Home, click “New task”

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  • New task form modal will be opened.

Shortcuts

  • 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

  • Open any channel, type /todo into 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*

  • Open any channel, type /todo water the plants into 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.

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/todo today *text*

  • Open any channel, type /todo today water the plants into 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

  • Click “🆕 Add” in Primary Project Message

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Notifications

Watchers

If you add watchers to the task, they will receive a notification message that they became a watcher.

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Assignee

If you create a task for somebody else (delegate it), the assignee will receive a notification.

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Primary Project Message

If you set the task’s project to be a channel, Todo will send a Primary Project Message to the channel.

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See: Projects


See: Notifications and Activities

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