Exporting Everdo actions as Markdown for AI prompting

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I notice that lately I spend a lot of time writing prompts. But I was using apps like Obsidian, or event github to write, which is a lot of extra friction and doesn’t sync with Everdo.

To make things easier, one thing I’m testing out is a menu option to export an item as markdown. This way I can write in Everdo and export with one click. I use it all the time now.

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The “Copy as markdown” formats the item as a markdown document with front matter metadata and puts it into the clipboard. Great for LLMs to consume.

---
project: Project Name Goes Here
tags: [claude, Work]
---

# Task title goes here

Task description

I find this format works really well to give a lot of context to the agent/chatbot. I use it all the time now. But it can still be improved.

So I’m wondering if this is useful for more users.

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I have not used it for that purpose yet, but I’m gonna try it out now.

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To be clear it’s not there yet in the current version, I’m just wondering if others would find it useful :wink:

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Very cool option. I think I would often use it, also for copy-pasting items to the time tracker software of my company.

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Can you share a real-life example of this? Copying in markdown is cool, but why would I write prompts in Everdo? Do you usually make up prompts when planning tasks, writing the prompt that will help you solve the task?

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For example I have a project where I need to investigate something. Or I spot an issue that needs fixing. Normally I would write it down as a task for myself in a corresponding project or standalone.

At some point I noticed that some of these actions should really be done not by me but by a chatbot or an agent. So I naturally started putting in a bit more detail to give AI more context. Then I assign it a tag. I have a tag for coding agent and a tag for chatbot. When on the go, I will often come up with more tasks or pieces of context to give to AI. So I end up writing prompts essentially.

But these are still my tasks - they can’t really be done autonomously, because there will be back and forth between me and the machine. So putting them in Everdo seems like a natural fit to me. Then, when in the appropriate context, I filter by the AI tags and have an entire backlog of prompts to feed agents/chatbots.

This is why I find it useful to have something like this export as markdown feature. It’s one-click and it adds useful context by including project title and tags, so I don’t need to repeat what project the task is for in each action.