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title: Commands and shortcuts
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Everything Sally does outside the standup, from any message box. Nobody has to remember these: `/sally` on its own
lists them, and so does **Shortcuts** on Sally's Home tab.

## Commands

Every command is a full word under `/sally`. A few also have a short form, and both work. A task is its key, like
WC-2294, or a ClickUp task link.

| Command                                      | Short form                | What it does                                                           |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/sally help`                                | `/sally`                  | Lists every command and shortcut, with an **Update a task** button     |
| `/sally tasks`                               |                           | Your Needs you now and Today tasks, live from ClickUp, each with Edit  |
| `/sally edit WC-2294`                        |                           | Opens the edit form                                                    |
| `/sally deployed WC-2308`                    |                           | Opens the Deployed form                                                |
| `/sally estimate WC-2294 4h`                 | `/sally est WC-2294 4h`   | Sets the estimate                                                      |
| `/sally priority WC-2294 high`               | `/sally pri WC-2294 high` | Sets the priority: urgent, high, normal or low                         |
| `/sally due WC-2294 friday`                  |                           | Moves the due date: today, tomorrow, a weekday, 10/20 or 2026-10-20    |
| `/sally log WC-2294 1h 30m fixed the header` |                           | Logs time for today; anything after the time is the entry's note       |
| `/sally done WC-2294`                        |                           | Marks it done: Complete, or the list's own closed status               |
| `/sally connect`                             |                           | Connects your ClickUp account                                          |
| `/sally status`                              |                           | Shows whether you're connected and switched on                         |
| `/standup`, `/eod`                           |                           | Starts today's check-in now                                            |
| `/standup fresh`, `/eod fresh`               |                           | Drafts today's check-in again from ClickUp, replacing the one you have |

A command Sally doesn't know gets the help card. One typed wrong says what it expected.

## Shortcuts

- **Update a ClickUp task**, from the shortcuts menu (the **+** or lightning button in a message box) or Slack search.
  Type part of a task's key or name, pick it, and the edit form opens. Your tasks from today's standup come first; a
  key or link that isn't among them is offered as it is.
- **Add to a ClickUp task**, from any message's **⋯** menu. Pick the task, and the message is its note, with a link
  back to Slack. Save comments it on the task. In the same form you can move the status or log time.

## The edit form

| Field    | Notes                                                                               |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Status   | The statuses the task's list actually has. The likely next ones come first.         |
| Due date | A date that has passed is refused.                                                  |
| Priority | Urgent, high, normal or low.                                                        |
| Estimate | Typed as 45m, 2h, 1h 30m, 1.5h or 90. The hint shows what's logged so far.          |
| Log time | With **Spent on**: your last working day in a morning standup, today anywhere else. |
| Note     | Commented on the task, and the time entry's description.                            |

**Deployed** is the same form cut down to status (required), time and note.

## When it writes

- **In the standup thread:** written when you save, like every other answer, and listed in your standup. The note is
  commented on the task when you submit.
- **Anywhere else** (a command, a shortcut, App Home, `/sally tasks`): **Save to ClickUp** writes straight away, as you,
  and the form shows what landed. Commands answer in the conversation you typed them in.
- **Always as you.** With no working ClickUp connection, Sally asks you to reconnect rather than write.
- **Dry run applies.** In dry run, Sally logs what it would have written and changes nothing.

## App Home

Sally's Home tab has a row of tabs along the top:

| Tab               | What it shows                                                                       |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Your day**      | Whether you're set up, today's standup and EOD, today's list, recent check-ins      |
| **Needs you now** | Every deploy and estimate waiting on you, live from ClickUp, with Deployed and Edit |
| **Team**          | PMs and admins: the digest as of now, and who has what waiting on them              |
| **Shortcuts**     | This page, in short                                                                 |

Home opens on the tab you left it on.