Pin Task templates in List view

Create tasks that already have Task templates applied!

What you'll need

Pin a Task template

To pin a Task template:

  1. Open a List.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the List view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
    • Or under the last task in the view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
  3. Select Pin a template.
     Screenshot of the Pin Template option opened from the Add Task menu at the end of a List view.png
  4. In Template Center, hover over the template and click Pin Template.

Create tasks and subtasks from Pinned templates

After pinning a Task template, you can quickly create tasks and subtasks from it.

Create tasks

To create a task from a Pinned template:

  1. Open a List.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the List view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
    • Or under the last task in the view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
  3. Select Apply a template.
  4. Click the Task template you want to apply to your new task.
  5. The new task is automatically created.

Create subtasks

To create a subtask from a Pinned template:

  1. Open a List.
  2. Hover over a task and to the right of the task's name, click the plus icon.
  3. To the right of the new subtask, select the wand icon, then click Apply a template.

    Screenshot showing the plus icon to create a subtask and the wand icon to open the template menu.png
  4. Select the Task template. 
    • Optionally, make any available edits to the template. 
  5. In the upper-right corner of the template, click Use Template.
    • Optionally, make any available edits to the template. 
  6. Click Use Template.

Set a Pinned template as the Default Task template

To set a Pinned template as your Default Task template:

  1. Open a List.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the List view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
  3. At the top of the menu, the Pinned template is displayed. 
  4. Hover to the right of the Pinned template's name, and click the ellipsis... icon.
  5. Click Set as Default Task Template.

    Screenshot of the menu to set a template as the default template.png

  6. The template will be applied to all tasks created in this List. 

Replace or remove Pinned templates

You can replace or remove Pinned templates from your List.

Replace a Pinned template

To replace a Pinned template with another Task template:

  1. Open a List.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the List view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
  3. At the top of the menu, the Pinned template is displayed. 
  4. Hover to the right of the Pinned template's name, and click the ellipsis... icon.
  5. Click Replace Template.
  6. Select the template, and in the upper-right corner, click Pin Template. 

Remove a Pinned template

To remove a Pinned template from your List:

  1. Open a List.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the List view, to the right of Add Task, click the expand icon.
  3. At the top of the menu, the Pinned template is displayed. 
  4. Hover to the right of the Pinned template's name, and click the ellipsis... icon.
  5. Click Remove Template.
  6. The template is removed.