Add tasks from Telegram

Add a task from your phone while you are away from Hule: send the Hule bot one message, tap a list, and the task is there. Name a day in the message (see the example in step 1) and it becomes the due date (due days).

Before you start

Connect your account to Telegram

The bot works only with a Hule account connected to Telegram. If you signed up with the Telegram button, it already is; skip to step 5.

1. In Hule, open the menu at the bottom of the sidebar (your name) and choose User settings. The settings open.

2. Under Account, open Sign-in. You see your sign-in methods, with a Telegram row.

3. In the Telegram row, click Connect. A Telegram window opens.

   

4. Confirm in the Telegram window. The row changes to Connected as and your Telegram username (or Telegram ID and a number, if you have no username).

5. In Telegram, search for @hule_the_project_stuff_bot (or open t.me/hule_the_project_stuff_bot) and send:

   /start

   The bot greets you by name (Hi, …!), then says Your account is connected. Here is what I can do: and lists its commands.

   Bot says "Your account is not connected yet."?

   The connection in step 4 didn't finish. Check that the Telegram row says Connected as, then send /start again. No Connect button in the row? You are in the desktop app: connect in your browser at app.hule-do.com.

Add a task

1. Send /new followed by the task. Name a day in the text if the task has one:

   /new Buy a birthday gift for Anna on Friday

   The bot replies Where should this go? with:

   • the task title;
   • Due and the day, or No due date;
   • your lists as buttons, under the name of each workspace.

   

   No list buttons?

   If the bot says You have no list you can add tasks to yet., create a list in Hule and send /new again.

2. Tap the list the task belongs in. If you keep an Inbox list, tap that one and sort the task later. The message changes to Task created, with:

   • the task title;
   • the list and workspace, such as Errands · Personal;
   • the due date, or No due date;
   • an Open in Hule button.

   

   List not among the buttons?

   The bot shows the first 24 lists, grouped by workspace. Pick any list that is shown and move the task later.

What the bot sets on the new task:

• It is assigned to you.
• Only the first line of your message becomes the title; the lines after it are left out.
• The day you named becomes its due date, and the words for the day are left out of the title.

Due days in the message

The bot finds the day anywhere in the message and reads a day, not a time of day:

Form	Examples
Day word	today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow
Weekday	Friday, on fri: always the next one, so "Friday" sent on a Friday is a week later
Offset	in 3 days, in 2 weeks
Date	Oct 1, 1 Oct, 1.10, 1/10, 1.10.2026

Numbers are read day first

1/10 is October 1, not January 10. A date without a year is the next such day: today, if it is today; next year, if it has passed.

You send	The bot creates
/new Call the dentist tomorrow	"Call the dentist", due tomorrow
/new Pay rent Oct 1	"Pay rent", due the next October 1 (today, if today is October 1; next year, if it has passed)
/new Plan the offsite in 2 weeks	"Plan the offsite", due 14 days from today

Days count in the Time zone set in your notification settings (Set up notifications). If you belong to several workspaces, the bot uses the zone of the workspace you own (the oldest one, if you own several); if you own none, the zone of the first workspace you joined. Every command of the bot: Telegram bot commands.

If it doesn't work

• The bot ignores your message. Only /new creates a task. Plain text without a command is not read (Telegram bot commands).

• You see "Your account is not connected yet." Connect Telegram in User settings → Sign-in (see Before you start), then send /start again.

• There is no Connect button in the Telegram row. You are in the desktop app. Open Hule in your browser and connect there.

• You see "You have no list you can add tasks to yet." Create a list in Hule (Organize folders and lists) and send /new again.

• Your list is not among the buttons. The bot offers only lists you can add tasks to, up to 24, grouped by workspace, and says Showing the first … lists of … when there are more. Pick any list that is shown and move the task in Hule later.

• The bot replies "Send /new followed by what needs doing". The message held only a day, or nothing after /new. Add what needs doing:

  /new Call Anna tomorrow

• The due date is the wrong month. The bot reads numbers day first: 1/10 is October 1. Fix the due date, or write the month as a word next time:

  /new Pay rent Jan 10

• The due date is a day off. The bot counts days in your Time zone (Set up notifications) of the workspace you own, or of the first workspace you joined if you own none. Check that it is right there, then fix the due date.

• A word in your title became the due date, such as "Sun" in "Read the Sun article". Tap Open in Hule, fix the due date, and add the word back to the title.

• You see "This message has expired". The bot can no longer read your original message. Send /new again.

Related

• Telegram bot commands: every command in one table.
• Telegram bot for daily use: check what is due and close tasks from the chat.
• GTD in Hule: why capturing and sorting are separate steps.
• Capture tasks to your Inbox list: the other ways to capture.