Inline Commands

note

This feature only applies to the desktop app.

Inline commands are a powerful tool to quickly process inbox items or edit items in general. They are especially useful in combination with keyboard shortcuts.

To apply a command you need to put it at the end of an item's title. For example, suppose you want to create an action named "Prepare a report", move it to Next and set its Time attribute to 1h. You can achieve all this in one step by writing Prepare a report :n :t 1h as the title of a new item.

A sequence of commands gets applied to the item when it is saved. Once applied, the command sequence is removed from the title.

Any text that comes after a sequence of valid commands gets truncated. For example Prepare :f a report will create a focused task with the title Prepare.

tip

A quick way to trigger the command entry mode is to use the : shortcut when an existing item is selected in a list.

The following table presents all available commands.

Desired action	Command example	Remarks
Move to next	:n
Move to someday/maybe	:m
Move to waiting	:w
Move to waiting and set contact	:w Name	A missing contact will be created
Move to projects	:p	Will convert into a project if necessary
Move to scheduled, and start tomorrow	:s
Start in n days	:s 5
	:s 5d
Set specific start date	:s May 5
	:s 5 May
	:s 5 May 2018
Set focus	:f
Remove focus	:f none
	:f 0
Set time in minutes	:t 10m
	:t 10
Set time in hours	:t 1h
Remove time estimate	:t none
Set energy to High	:e h
	:e high
Set energy to Medium	:e m
	:e med
Set energy to Low	:e l
	:e low
Remove energy estimate	:e none
Make due Today	:d
Set due date n days into the future/past	:d +5
	:d 5
	:d -1	Negative values represent the past
Set specific due date	:d May 5
	:d 5 May
	:d 5 May 2018
Assign tags	:# tag
	:# tag1,tags2	Specify a comma-separated list of tags.
Assign contexts	:@ context	Will assign @context to the item.
	:@ Work,Home