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Add multiple tasks at one time

doug.martin says:

I looked around at the existing ideas and I didn't see this one -- how about having an "Add Multiple Tasks" link that shows a multi-row textarea. Each line could be a seperate task and would be parsed upon submission.

Maybe this is just how I work but its nice to be able to just type whatever comes into my head in the morning for my todo list and then do some revisions before I commit to the list -- much easier if it is in a single textarea.

Posted at 1:54pm on November 2, 2005

luzi says:

http://www.tasktoy.com does just that. i would also apreciate this feature a lot! especially when moving here from tasktoy...
anyway, thanks a lot for the great work!

Posted at 4:01pm on November 12, 2005

emily (Remember The Milk) says:

I'm not sure that our interface will be able to support adding multiple tasks at once (right now it's pretty easy to use keyboard shortcuts to enter tasks in rapid succession :)

However, we've been considering adding a feature that would allow you to email in a task list -- each line of the email would be converted into a separate task. Would this be useful?

Posted at 4:36pm on November 12, 2005

doug.martin says:

Your interface is single task oriented so it would probably break continuity to have textareas. Its a bit of a hack but would you think about implementing some delimiter that would split the task into multiple tasks? That might actually be nice to use for an existing task come to think of it...

For example, "buy foo|cook foo" would be entered and two tasks would be created. Its nice for sequential tasks.

btw, it would also be nice if you could prefix a task with something like "!" and it would set it the due date for today saves a step (yes, I'm that lazy)


Posted at 5:17pm on November 12, 2005

bookchiq says:

I like Doug's suggestion: "prefix a task with something like "!" and it would set it the due date for today"

Something like that, or the ability to set a preference to have tasks default to "due today"—I suspect many of us are using RTM for daily task lists.

Posted at 2:57pm on January 3, 2006

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