Inbox? Any way to do?

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I’m wondering if there’s a simple way to have an Inbox that I can enter random tasks for later positioning in my outline. Of course I can create “Inbox” at the top – which I have done – but I’d like to NOT have to open the Inbox and interrupt where I’m at in a project in order to quickly add a new task. Any ideas?

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Are you looking for a desktop “Add item” app?

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I think he wants a “create in” functionality, but he could create the node and then ‘mm’ to inbox

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I see two options here:

  1. Using webclipper, which even has an own keyboard shortcut
  2. Using a bookmark to the page which previously worked in the old webclipper version: Enter and master your projects . It is a bit ugly but still works :slight_smile:

Maybe this would help?

Best,
KIR

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I’m not sure I understand your question - but what I do is to send any random thoughts to my main todo list. Then when I open the list, I use the “move” command (mm) to send the items where they need. to be. The "move command is very elegant - it shows all items across all your list that match your search query, and then send your random item to that spot. For major project titles, where I am likely to send many items, I use a unique name so it will show up quickly in the “move”'s search results; just putting a period before the project title will do the trick.

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There’s a feature where you can email in items to show up on your lists. Maybe you could set this up to function as an inbox. Because it would probably be much easier to enable a Quick Email thing on your devices, than the specifically integrate with Checkvist

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I apologize for taking so long to respond… Yes, I’d love to have simple-to-use function when I get an idea and want to enter it without putting it in a particular section of the outline (which can come later). What I’ve seen from earlier replies has not worked for me. As of now, I keep open in another window the same list but just showing “INBOX.” Then later I go to my full list and copy-paste the items in my inbox. It’s okay, but requires keeping 2 copies of the app open.

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There’s a much simpler way: dump everything into one list (it can be a special one or just the top of any list). Then go to that list and use “mm” (move) to place each item. A box pops up; if you enter ‘[[“ you can start typing words from any item in this or other lists, then choose from the results with those words, and it goes straight there.

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Charles,

Thank you for this. I’ll check it out. The way I’ve been doing this so far is putting the Inbox portion of my main file in another window, adding tasks there, and later moving them to the appropriate section of the outline. It has worked pretty well.

O.

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I’m on Windows and created an Autohotkey script to accomplish this. I’ve created an Inbox list in Checkvist and the script takes advantage of the email-to-list functionality. I’m able to hit a keyboard shortcut from anywhere in Windows - ctrl+win+alt+n - which you could customize to your liking that opens a dialog box where I can add the task/idea, hit enter, and the task/idea shows up in the Inbox list. This way you never have to leave what you’re currently doing, whether you’re working in Checkvist or anything else. I’ve done essentially the same thing on my iPhone so that I can add tasks quickly on the go using a Siri shortcut. The AHK script looks like:

; Quick add tasks to Inbox list
^#!n::
InputBox, task, Enter the Task, Please enter the task:,,300,100
if ErrorLevel
	return
else
	MailItem := ComObjCreate("Outlook.Application").CreateItem(0)
	MailItem.Recipients.Add("InboxListEmailAddress@checkvist.com")
	MailItem.Subject := task
	MailItem.Send
return

where InboxListEmailAddress… is the email address for your Inbox list. This script uses Outlook to send the email, but I suspect it could be accomplished with other email clients.

Ken

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