Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Add a note to a task right away when adding it

It’s great when a task helps you do what needs to be done when it is time, but what about the task that needs a lot of context or has a lot of details?

You can add a note right alongside adding a task too, as nodonovan describes in this week’s tip. Which reminds us of something we need to do for Bob since he’s so deep in thought:

Buy bananas for Bob today //Yellow ones are ripe.

Very often, I want to add a note to a task that I’ve just created. In the past, I used to create the task then search for the same task to add the note. Very time consuming.

There is a shortcut that I don’t think is very obvious in the help topics for RTM. I’ve certainly never found it. All you need to do is add two slashes (that is, //) after you’ve written the task, but before you press ‘Done’. This tells RTM to add a note, dated today, to the task.

This saves a lot of keystrokes. Invaluable.

Thanks for sharing this tip, nodonovan! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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