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I don't have an iPhone to try this, but I've been a long time time user of Tasks.org on Android and particularly because it supports CalDAV and works so well offline.

However, while we are on the topic of planning apps, you should know the Todoist added the best use of AI I've ever seen. It's called Ramble mode and you can just talk and instantly it'll start showing a list of tasks that update as you go. It is extraordinary. I'm considering switching away from tasks.org for this one feature.

Here's a short video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIczFm3Dy5I

You need paid (free trial is ok) and to enable experiments before you can access it.

Anyone know how they might have done this?


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sburud11/04/2025

That’s cool! Slight fear of replicating the Dropbox comment here, but all you really need to do is run whisper (or some other speech2text), then once the user stops talking jam the transcript through a LLM to force it into JSON or some other sensible structure.

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Cassandra9911/05/2025

For Android and Windows users, you can try my todo app “Hamsterbase Tasks”.

It's open-source and supports self-hosted. Available on web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.

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nashashmi11/05/2025

standard AI meeting room note takers have been able to extract todo items for a while now.

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