Quick Add is a great tool to make your work easier and, indeed, quicker. But we know sometimes it can be tricky to keep track of it all. So we made a one-stop-shop for you to find all available Quick Add Syntax 😊

These phrases can be used whenever you are creating a new task, whether you’re creating it from within a queue, by sending an email to your GQueues Inbox, or from within the Quick Add Window.

You can type this in just about any format and GQueues will understand what you mean. If you don’t specify the year, GQueues will find the first instance of that date that occurs after today. Here are a few examples:

👉 Pro Tip: To have the Quick Add parser ignore a weekday word, put it in quotes (i.e. prepare “Sunday” dinner)

❗️Please Note: If you use the date format dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy you can set this preference in the Calendar tab in Settings.

❗️Please Note: You must write the number as an integer rather than spelling it out (i.e. "2" instead of "two").

This will set the duration of the task - it only works if the task also has a date or time set

NOTE: Only single word tags can be used (tags with spaces are not recognized)

❗️Please Note: A task must have a date or time, and calendar syncing must be activated in order to set a reminder.

👉 Pro Tip: The Android app also supports these formats to simplify voice input:

This will assign the task to the email specified

Everything after the two colons will be placed in the task notes

This will disable Quick Add Syntax for any text after the tilde

Use this syntax to specify the queue a task should live in when creating tasks via email or within the Quick Add Window.

👉 Pro Tip: Queue names are not case-sensitive, but all queues in your account should have unique names to guarantee tasks created with this syntax go to the correct queue.

GQueues will first search the list of queues you have already created, then will look for a match among queues shared with you. If a queue with the name specified cannot be found, GQueues will create a new queue and place it in your first category. If GQueues is currently open you will need to refresh the page to see the new queue.

❗️Please Note: This can only be used in the Quick Add Window. Each dash indicates an additional subtask level.

The following Quick Add keywords are not yet available in the GQueues mobile apps. They will be added in future updates!