Importing to Your Personal Lists

Easily import items from external services to your personal lists!

Updated over a week ago

Any.do offers quick and easy solution for users who wish to import external data to their personal lists - whether it's from other services or spreadsheets/notes. If you’re new to Any.do and already have some data laying around, you can quickly add it to your Any.do account instead of starting from scratch.

Availability:

  • Personal users (free).

  • Premium users.

  • Family users.

  • Teams users.

  • Supported on all platforms.



πŸ› οΈ How does it work?

  • You can easily import tasks to any of your lists by from external services and spreadsheets/notes.

  • Both mobile and desktop apps offer the option to copy-paste tasks straight to your lists from any other apps/ web pages/ notes/ e-books and others.

  • You may import a single item through this feature or even bulk-add several items at once.

Note: This feature is available for personal lists only. It cannot be used to import to your workspace boards.


πŸ“‘ How to import via copy-paste

πŸ“± Android/ iOS

  1. Copy a list of tasks to your clipboard

  2. Enter a list's task view.

  3. Press the three dots icon on the top right of the screen.

  4. Tap on "Import"

  5. Press "Paste from clipboard" and check/uncheck the items you want to import.

πŸ’» Web/ Desktop

  1. Open the settings menu from the top left profile image\icon.

  2. Click on the 'Import to Any.do' button.

  3. Go to any external list of tasks you would like to import, mark all of them and copy (command + c / control + c / right-click on your mouse and choose the copy option).

  4. Go back to the Any.do web page and paste the items (command + v / control + v / right-click on your mouse and choose the past option).

  5. If you would like to remove any of the tasks you are going to import, click on the plus sign next to that item.

  6. Click on 'Add Tasks' to complete the import.

Or

  1. Click on the input area of a task/ subtask.

  2. Paste one item or multiple items at once.

πŸ’‘ Note: You can select to paste multiple items at once, paste a list of items and click on "Add X tasks".


❌ To delete imported items

Deleting an imported task is the same as deleting any other task to learn more see the Completing + Archiving tasks page.

To Delete tasks in bulk on a desktop platform see the Bulk Actions page.

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