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# Adding Items

You need to enter data into wdid in order to use its powerful tagging and filtering capabilities. The primary way of doing this is through the `add` command. The simplest version of this is to just pass the data to be stored on the command line:

```
$ wdid add "remember the milk"
⇒ dewjba -- Sun, 10 Nov 2019 13:59:46
Data:
remember the milk
```

You can see that wdid returned some information about the newly created item - a six-character alphanumeric ID; a date and time, and the data for the item.

This ID, `dewjba` here, is used to identify the item uniquely. It is required when performing actions on said items.

The symbol in front of the status, `⇒`, indicates that the item is in a `waiting` [status](/wdid/working-with-items/item-status.md).

### Options

It's also possible to add a `--time` in wdid [time format](/wdid/advanced/time-format.md) to mark that an item is for a specific day:

```
$ wdid add "call @bob" -t tomorrow
```

And it's possible to add an item in an already completed, *done* state:

```
$ wdid add "send email about project" -d
```

### Longer Items

Not passing a description will use the configured shell $EDITOR (or vim).

```
$ wdid add
```


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