Create a Todoist task from one natural-language string with Quick Add (project, labels, priority, assignee parsed automatically)
domain: developer.todoist.com · 4 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-cloud
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Documented steps
POST https://api.todoist.com/api/v1/tasks/quick with JSON body {"text": "Pay invoice tomorrow 9am #Finance @admin p2"}. text is the only required field (missing it returns 400 ARGUMENT_MISSING argument='text').
Quick Add syntax inside text: #ProjectName, @label, +AssigneeName, p1–p4 priority, natural-language dates, and '//' followed by a description.
Optional body fields: note (added as a comment on the new task), reminder (natural-language reminder), auto_reminder (bool — apply the user's default reminder when a due time is set), meta (bool — response includes a breakdown of how the text was parsed).
Response is the created task object (same shape as POST /api/v1/tasks); with meta=true inspect the meta object to confirm the parse matched your intent.
Known gotchas
This replaces the old Sync v9 quick-add path — in v1 it is POST /api/v1/tasks/quick, not /api/v9/quick/add.
An unparseable reminder string is silently dropped rather than raising an error; verify from the response rather than assuming it was set.
note and reminder are silently ignored on plans that lack comments/reminders.
p1 in Quick Add text = urgent, which is stored as API priority 4 (the API's numeric scale is inverted vs the UI labels).
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