Email tasks
Emailing tasks to Nozbe
One of the most valuable features is to email tasks and attachments to Nozbe. All you need to do is activate this option.
Activating adding tasks via email
To do so, open the Settings window, and tap on “Add tasks via email” option. It will be instantly activated, and you will see your automatically generated email address. You can copy it to the clipboard.
If you own more than one team, Nozbe will create separate addresses for each of your teams.
How to send tasks via email
To send the first task, you need to go to your email client. Open a new message, and paste the copied address.
The email’s subject line will be your task name. The text you add in the body of the email will become your task’s comment. All the email attachments will be added to the comment as well.
If you don’t want to forward the whole email, use ~~ (double tilde) or – (double hyphen) above the text you don’t want to send. Nozbe will ignore the remaining part of the message, and it won’t be visible in the newly created task.
Sending tasks to a specific project
If you don’t add the specific destination, your email will appear in your Single Tasks and Incoming views.
If you want to send a task to a specific project, you need to go to that project, hit the “…” icon next to its name, and choose the “Add task via email” option.
That’s it! You get the email address you have to use to send your tasks to that project.
Sending tasks to a specific section
It’s very easy, and it works the same way as sending a task to a chosen project.
Just tap on the “…” icon next to a section’s name and choose as before, “Add tasks via email” to generate a unique email address.
Sending comments to a specific task
You can also forward an email to add it as a comment to a specific task.
Tap on the task, then hit the “…” icon in the upper-right corner of the task details view. Use the “Add comments via email” option to generate a unique email address.
Sending multiple tasks at once
You can email as many tasks to Nozbe as you want to at once. Send them to your unique Nozbe email address.
You don’t need to write anything in the email’s title. In the email’s body, start each task in a new line, with a dot and a space - like this:
. My first task
. My second task
. My third task
You can use #hashtags to define the tasks' parameters, such as project, section (available only if you specified a project in the first place), responsible person, due date, recurrence, reminders, tags, and priority.
Add the hashtags after your task’s name, seperating each one with a space. Here’s an example:
. Prepare a presentation #Work project #John #May 14 9:00 pm
If you want to add a comment to your task, write it down in a new line below that task. Here you can also use @mentions:
. Prepare a presentation #Marketing #John #May 14 9:00 pm
Hi @John, could you help me with this task?
You can also add attachments to your email. Please note that these attachments will be added to the first task on the list.
Here’s what an example email with multiple tasks, hashtags and attachments looks like:
Please note that if you didn’t specify a project using #hashtags or use the unique project email address, all of those tasks will be sent to your Single Tasks.
All tasks sent by you via email will be delegated to you, unless you delegate the task to someone else using a #hashtag.
They will also show up in your Incoming, in the “Recently added” section.
Use hashtags to set parameters
You can use hashtags to specify the parameters of a newly created task. Type # and a parameter right after it in the email subject.
The list of available hashtags:
- #project name
- #project section name (works only if a hashtag with a #project name is provided as well)
- #tag name
- #responsible person
- #every …
- #remind {day of a week, month} [day of a month] [time]
- #{day of a week, month} [day of a month] [time]
- #! is for priority
Do you want to set up an exact date, e.g., a day or an hour? Here you will find a few examples of how to do this:
- #friday -> closest friday midnight
- #tomorrow -> tomorrow midnight
- #february -> time date set to midnight 1st of Feb.
- #february 11 -> time date set to midnight 11th Feb.
- #february 11 11:11pm -> time date set to 23:11 of 11th Feb
- #february 11 11:11 -> time date set to 11:11 (am) of 11th Feb
The order of hashtags is not important.
You don’t have to write the whole project/section/tag/user name. The system will recognize the correct parameter if you type the first three letters. Of course, the name has to be unique so that the system can distinguish it.
Trick: How to Add Your Task to the Bottom of the list?
If you want to add your task to the bottom of the list, you can easily do it.
First, you need to generate an email address for your section or project. Then, you add .down just before @ sign.
For example, if your address is ahjxah.rv5hfm@nozbe.email, it will look like this:
ahjxah.rv5hfm.down@nozbe.email
Trick: How to Add Your Task as a Priority?
It’s a helpful trick if you need to add a task to your Priority.
Just add ! in the first line of your email body, and that’s it! Your task will appear as your Priority.
