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Docs — Bulk create tasks from bullet points (not one at a time!)

Esbe van Heerden

At the moment in Docs you have to highlight each bullet point one by one to create a task.
If you highlight multiple bullet points, it combines the words into one sentence and only makes one task, instead of creating multiple tasks.
Please create a "bulk create tasks" feature from doc bullet points.

May 6, 2020

Brent

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open

Hi all, we've updated the status of this request. This helps us manage and prioritize requests more effectively. Thanks for your feedback here!

Shreyansh Jain

Hi Brent, can you please tell us why this post was marked as open?

Brent

Shreyansh Jain: Hi Shreyansh, we're still collected feedback here - just made the update to reflect the current status. This provides a more accurate representation to users searching for this request. Thanks for asking!

Shreyansh Jain

Brent Thanks for letting us know. I appreciate the transparency here.

Michael Brett

Hi everyone. I have another version of this that I would like to suggest. I would LOVE to see the ability to take a bullet list and select "Turn into Checklist" as an additional option to "create tasks". When we document a meeting from Otter and we put the summary into the description (which has the follow up actions bulleted already) it would be awesome to just be able to highlight, select make checklist, and have that show up in the action items section. Who's with me? Thanks much for listening.

Levi Weeks

Michael Brett I would also like this feature.

Cody Johnston

Any update on this?

Josh Sommer

This make so much sense and would be a huge help. Additionally, would be great if (a) text in bullets could be used to set fields (the way text in subject can be used to set fields when creating tasks from email, and (b) sub-bullets resulted in creation of subtasks. This would massively increase efficiency of turning meeting notes into tasks, and hence improve follow up on action items. Would be one of the single biggest productivity boosts I can imagine.

Justin Hunter

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under review

Hey all! I'm the new Docs Product Manager. 👋 I'm reviewing some old feedback threads, and this one came up. Absolutely love the idea, but this is not currently on the roadmap yet.

I'm working with the team to evaluate what should come next on our roadmap, and I'll keep you all posted.

Mark

Justin Hunter: please

Michael Ortner

Still relevant - please add it!

Marcus Woller

This feature would be amazing. It would save so much time.

Paul Carleton

Any update on this simple, yet massively time saving feature?

Ivan Villa

John Jones

Paul Carleton: Yes thanks for bringing this up again, would also like to find out if Ivan Villa has an update.

Also would like to second per R C that this can be done from Task Descriptions as well.

R C

This is a great idea, Fibery can do this. Obviously it would be good if this applied to everywhere you can create tasks/subtasks: Docs, Task Descriptions, hopefully from Chats soon!

Ivan Villa

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planned

Adam

Ivan Villa: Just giving this a nudge because I was hoping it existed and found this post, seems to have been planned for going on 18 months and possible something a team of 2/3 could achieve in a week.....sure it doesn't have a billion ups and probably never will because it's simple and not sexy. Doesn't mean it should get passed over though.

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