Edit many tasks at once

Sometimes you need to do the same thing to a handful of tasks: mark them all done, push them all to next week, drop a project tag on every one, or clear out a batch you no longer need. TaskForge can now do all of that in a single step.

Turning on selection mode

There are a few ways to start selecting:

• On a phone or tablet: long-press any task, then tap Select. The first time you do this, a quick tip explains what's happening. The task you long-pressed is selected, and the screen switches into selection mode.
• On a Mac (or with a keyboard): hold ⌘ (Cmd) and click tasks to add or remove them from the selection, or hold Shift and click to select a whole range at once. On Windows and Linux use Ctrl instead of Cmd.

Once you're in selection mode, tap any task to add or remove it. A bar across the top shows how many tasks are selected, with Select all and Deselect all buttons: Select all picks every task in the current view, not just the ones on screen.

What you can do with a selection

A bar of actions appears along the bottom while tasks are selected:

• Complete: mark every selected task done. Recurring tasks still spawn their next occurrence correctly, and completing a parent handles its subtasks the same way completing one task does.
• Schedule: set a due, scheduled, or start date on all of them at once (or clear it). You pick a single date and it applies to the whole selection.
• Edit: open the Edit N tasks screen (see below).
• Delete: remove them all. You'll see a confirmation first that tells you if any subtasks will be promoted or dependencies cleaned up.

The "Edit N tasks" screen

Edit opens a form where every field starts on Leave unchanged. Switch a field to Changing (or Set…) only for the things you actually want to update: status, priority, dates, or tags, contexts, and projects. For tags, contexts, and projects you can Add, Remove, or Replace across the whole selection. Tap Apply and the change lands on every selected task in one write. Apply stays disabled until you've actually changed something, and it's locked while the change is being applied so you can't trigger it twice.

Where it works

Bulk selection is available in any space, including inside a section you've entered from a multi-section stack, on the Kanban board, and in Search. In Kanban, selection mode pauses card and column dragging so taps select cards instead of moving them. Starting a search exits selection mode (and vice versa), so the two never fight each other.

Good to know

• Bulk actions are a premium feature. If you're on the free tier, tapping a bulk action shows the upgrade screen.
• Everything happens in a single batched save, so large selections apply quickly and the list view never flickers half-finished mid-update.