Retrieval action to “Select All” blocks in a project
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chrisdewar
It would be helpful to have a quick option to select all blocks in a project. Use case: I have an automation set up that transcribes every YouTube video that our channel puts out, and places the transcription in a new project. However, phrase line of a transcription is interred into a separate block in the project (roughly analogous to the line breaks in a standard transcription that align with timestamps). I don’t have the ability to adjust the prompt for the transcription automation, so I can’t simply ask it to return all text in one block, and running additional AI actions on the transcription would generally require selecting all of it.
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John at Taskade
Your YouTube transcription workflow is a perfect example of where a "Select All blocks" retrieval action would be genuinely useful — when every line of a transcript lands as a separate block, you need a way to grab all of them at once for downstream processing.
v6.80.0 fixed the Select All keyboard shortcut in the UI, and v6.93.0 brought more flexible block organization in List View. But a programmatic "Select All blocks in a project" action specifically for automations and agent retrieval isn't available yet.
For your use case — collapsing transcription blocks into a single AI-processable string — a potential workaround right now is using an AI agent inside the project to summarize or consolidate the content across all blocks. With Taskade Genesis (taskade.com/create), you could build an agent that reads the full project and reformats the transcript in one step.
The explicit retrieval action you're describing (retrieve all blocks → pass to next automation node) is a clean capability gap we want to close. Thanks for the specific use case — it makes the feature request very concrete!
John at Taskade
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ryantaskade
Hi Chris, could you please elaborate more on why running additional AI actions would require selecting all blocks of the project created? I do see this being useful for some use cases where the content is already present in a project and further automations want to use it, but for your described use case:
A way to format the transcription to return all text in one block can be done with an Ask Agent or Ask AI action by passing the content of the transcription step like such.
Do let me know if i misunderstood you.
chrisdewar
ryantaskade Ryan, you are a genius, and I am dumb! That should work perfectly. The only other use case I would have specifically are running commands like “prioritize all tasks within this project,” but most of projects are not nearly as extensive as the transcriptions are.
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ryantaskade
chrisdewar: Hi Chris, glad to hear that it helped! I'll be leaving this post open as i do agree that a retrieval action can help to fulfil some use cases or provide alternative ways to satisfy your use case as well.