Possibly you don’t want an AI sensible ring to maintain up along with your to-dos. Doist, the corporate behind Todoist, a well-liked to-do checklist app that works throughout a number of gadgets, is launching its new AI-powered, “voice-to-tasks” characteristic: Todoist Ramble. The characteristic permits you to describe your duties utilizing pure language.
True to its identify, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and switch it into organized duties. The app will even seize different particulars you point out, like mission deadlines, priorities, period, and assignees.
The concept is that folks usually consider issues they should do whereas on the go, however taking out their telephone to jot down a be aware or create a reminder could be difficult. With Todoist Ramble, you continue to must take out your telephone, however you received’t must kind something. As an alternative, you’ll simply faucet the Ramble icon and begin talking. The app will then replace in real-time with the duty’s info, even responding to edits and modifications as you converse.
For example, the corporate notes you possibly can say issues like “Really, make that Thursday” or “that’s all,” to direct the AI additional as you converse.
Ramble is constructed on giant language fashions (LLMs) as a part of a set of AI options that the corporate calls Todoist Help, which runs on Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Stay mannequin through Vertex AI for actual‑time speech understanding. Because the audio streams to the backend, the mannequin transcribes your speech and identifies the duties, dates, and different particulars you point out to generate your duties.
The audio isn’t saved or used for AI coaching, and the app is SOC2 Sort II licensed, the corporate, Doist, says.
The AI performance is much like what we’re seeing emerge throughout quite a lot of {hardware} AI gadgets, which transcribe speech to show it into notes, reminders, to-dos, or insights. For example, Amazon’s Bee wearable machine makes use of AI to take notes and make prompt to-dos, whereas different gadgets, comparable to these from Plaud, can take assembly notes and escape the highlights.
There’s additionally rising curiosity in AI-powered sensible rings, just like the Stream ring from the startup Sandbar, or Pebble’s upcoming Index 01 ring. Each allow you to shortly press on the ring (which is worn on the index finger) so as to add one thing to your to-do checklist or make a remark in a companion cellular app.
Forward of the launch, Ramble was beta examined with all Todoist Experimental customers, a gaggle of round 150,000 lively testers who strive new options early. Inside the first three weeks of testing, round 76,000 testers accomplished roughly 290,000 Ramble periods on desktop and cellular. The characteristic then entered public beta testing in November.
Activity creation success additionally improved from round 40% this previous October to roughly 62% by December, and it drove upgrades, Doist claims. New customers on the entry-level plan had been upgrading at a price roughly 5 occasions greater than earlier than utilizing Ramble, it says.
Todoist Ramble is accessible to all customers throughout iOS, Android, desktop, and internet beginning right this moment and helps 38 languages. Newbie plan customers may also entry the characteristic, however with restricted periods per thirty days. Professional and Enterprise paid plans provide limitless periods. For simple entry, the characteristic can be utilized through a House Display screen or Lock Display screen shortcut on iOS and through app shortcuts, widgets, and fast settings tiles on Android.
