Personalize your lists

Mention people and roles, link channels and add hyperlinks — by hand, with full control.

A task is just Discord text, so you can enrich it the way you enrich any message: mention people and roles, link channels, add clickable links. The Owner and Tag buttons do some of this for you, but when you use Bulk update or edit a task’s content you can also write and adjust these by hand — and in bulk edit you’ll see the raw codes, so it helps to know what they mean.

How Discord references things

Discord doesn’t store names, it stores IDs — long numbers that never change even if someone renames themselves. A mention is just a tiny code wrapping an ID. Once you know the pattern, you can type or edit them yourself.

Finding an ID

First, turn on Developer Mode (once):

1. Discord → User Settings → Advanced → enable Developer Mode.

Then, anywhere in Discord:

• Someone else’s ID — right-click their name or avatar → Copy User ID.
• A role’s ID — Server Settings → Roles → right-click the role → Copy Role ID (or right-click a role mention).
• A channel’s ID — right-click the channel in the sidebar → Copy Channel ID.
• Your own ID — right-click your name → Copy User ID.

Mentioning people

Wrap a user ID like this:

<@USER_ID>

For example <@123456789012345678> renders as @username. This is exactly what the Tag button inserts for you — so in bulk edit you can copy, move or remove these codes with confidence.

Mentioning roles

Roles use an extra &:

<@&ROLE_ID>

<@&987654321098765432> renders as @role. Use it to point a task at a whole team at once.

Linking channels

Channels use #:

<#CHANNEL_ID>

<#111222333444555666> renders as a clickable #channel. Perfect for sending readers to the right place — “specs in <#…>”, “deploy from <#…>”.

Adding a hyperlink

For links to anything outside Discord, use standard Markdown:

[visible text](https://example.com)

So [our roadmap](https://example.com/roadmap) becomes our roadmap — a clean, clickable link instead of a bare URL.

Quick reference

Putting it together

A single task can combine all of these. In Bulk update you might write:

- Review the release notes in <#111222333444555666>, ping <@&987654321098765432> when done — see [checklist](https://example.com/checklist)