How to Move a Task to a Different Project in Todoist (V)

Pressing V while a task has keyboard focus opens a project picker for relocating that task into a different project entirely, letting you type or scroll to find the destination project and confirm — the standard fix for a task that landed in the wrong place, most commonly the default Inbox, and needs proper sorting. **When this shortcut earns its keep most**: tasks captured quickly through the global Quick Add shortcut (covered in its own action page) without taking the extra moment to type the inline # project syntax land in your default Inbox project rather than a specific one — V is the fast path for sorting those quickly-captured, unsorted tasks into their actual proper home once you have a moment to organize rather than just capture. **What moves with the task**: relocating a task to a different project preserves everything else about it — its due date, priority, labels, description, and any subtasks — only the project assignment itself changes, meaning this is purely an organizational move rather than something that resets or affects any of the task's other configured details. **Moving a task with existing subtasks**: if the focused task has subtasks nested beneath it, moving the parent task typically brings its subtasks along into the new project as well, keeping the whole task-and-subtask structure intact rather than orphaning the subtasks in the original project while only the parent relocates. **Alternative methods**: dragging a task directly from one project's list view into a different project in the sidebar achieves the same relocation with the mouse, useful if you're already actively organizing several tasks visually across projects and dragging feels more natural in that specific moment than using the keyboard shortcut on each one individually. **Comparing this to the inline # syntax**: typing # followed by a project name while composing a brand-new task (covered on the task-capture category page) achieves project assignment at creation time, avoiding the need for this V shortcut entirely afterward — the two approaches solve the same underlying need (getting a task into the right project) at two different points in that task's lifecycle, one proactively during capture, one reactively afterward once you notice something's in the wrong place. **Bulk-moving multiple tasks**: selecting several tasks at once (through a multi-select interaction, which varies by platform) and then choosing Move to Project from a shared context menu relocates all of them together in one action, considerably faster than pressing V individually on each task when sorting through a larger batch of miscategorized items at once, like clearing out an Inbox that's accumulated many quickly-captured tasks over a busy week. **Related shortcuts**: Edit Task Title (E) and Add Label (@, covered on the task-capture category page) are commonly used in the same organizational sorting session as moving a task — reviewing a batch of Inbox tasks often involves fixing a title, adding a relevant label, and moving to the correct project all in one pass through each item, rather than as three entirely separate organizing sessions. **Mistake to avoid**: moving a task to a project it doesn't actually fit well, purely to clear it out of the Inbox quickly without genuinely considering where it belongs, tends to just relocate the sorting problem rather than solving it — a task filed under the wrong project is often harder to find later than one still sitting, correctly unsorted, in the Inbox, so it's worth taking the small extra moment to choose the genuinely correct destination project rather than moving purely for the sake of an empty-looking Inbox.