What Is Quick Add?
The Quick Add widget is a powerful companion tool that lives in your OS Tray/Menu bar. The widget is part of Taskade desktop apps and lets you quickly add tasks to Projects without opening them in the app. You can even select a target Block for each task.
Use Quick Add
Here's how the add tasks using the Quick Add widget:
- 🔴 (macOS) Click the Taskade icon in the Menu Bar, or
- 🔵 (Windows) Click the Taskade icon in the System Tray.
- Type a text/task ➡ choose target Workspace/Folder and Project.
- (optional) Pick the Block where you want to add the task.
- Click Add to Project or use the ⌨️ ⌘ + Enter / Ctrl + Enter shortcut to confirm.
💡 Note: You can use the ⌨️ Ctrl + Space shortcut to open the Quick Add menu.
Change Shortcut Settings
🔴 (macOS):
Click Taskade in the menu bar (next to the Apple logo).
Choose Settings from the drop-down list.
Click the gray area and assign a key combination using your keyboard.
Click Save to confirm.
🔵 (Windows):
Click the Taskade logo in the top-left corner.
Choose Taskade ➤ Settings from the drop-down list.
Click the gray area and assign a key combination using your keyboard.
Click Save to confirm.
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