Add a task by just typing it
Most tools make you fill in a small form to add one task. On the timeline you click an empty spot and type it the way you would say it, and the date, the person and the priority land on their own.
The UnaTask team, Building UnaTask. Jul 6, 2026. 3 min read.
You are mid thought. The plan is in front of you, and you realize there is a task missing, right there, on Thursday, for Marco, and it matters. In most tools this is where the thought goes to die. You click new task, and a little form opens with a title field, a date picker, an assignee menu, a priority dropdown, and by the time you have clicked through all of it the next idea has already slipped away.
Capturing a task should cost less than having the task. When it costs more, you stop capturing, and the small things live in your head or in a chat message until they quietly fall out of both.
So on the timeline there is no form. Click the empty space on the day you mean, and a single line opens up. Type the task the way you would say it. Send the deck to Marco Thursday, mark it high. Then press Enter.
It reads what you meant
As you type, it picks the meaning out of your sentence and shows it back to you as little chips. Thursday becomes a date. Marco becomes the person, matched to your team. High becomes the priority. You see exactly what it understood before you commit, so there is no guessing and no surprise. Nothing to correct later because you can see it land as you write.
Press Enter and the task is born already in the right place, on the day you clicked, assigned to the right person, at the priority you set. If you need to change anything else, click the card and everything is there. But most of the time you do not, because the sentence already said it all.
The task should cost less than the thought behind it.
This is the same quick capture you already have on your home screen, brought onto the canvas so your planning never has to pause for paperwork. Think of a task, type the sentence, and get back to the plan. The friction that used to eat your small ideas is simply not there.