Possibly you don’t want an AI sensible ring to maintain up along with your to-dos. Doist, the corporate behind Todoist, a preferred to-do checklist app that works throughout a number of units, is launching its new AI-powered, “voice-to-tasks” function: Todoist Ramble. The function lets you describe your duties utilizing pure language.
True to its title, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and switch it into organized duties. The app will even seize different particulars you point out, like venture deadlines, priorities, length, and assignees.
The concept is that individuals typically consider issues they should do whereas on the go, however taking out their telephone to jot down a word or create a reminder will be difficult. With Todoist Ramble, you continue to need to take out your telephone, however you gained’t need to kind something. As a substitute, 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.
As an example, the corporate notes you may say issues like “Really, make that Thursday” or “that’s all,” to direct the AI additional as you converse.
Ramble is constructed on massive language fashions (LLMs) as a part of a set of AI options that the corporate calls Todoist Assist, which runs on Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Reside mannequin by way of 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 Kind II licensed, the corporate, Doist, says.
The AI performance is just like what we’re seeing emerge throughout a wide range of {hardware} AI units, which transcribe speech to show it into notes, reminders, to-dos, or insights. As an example, Amazon’s Bee wearable system makes use of AI to take notes and make urged to-dos, whereas different units, akin 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 rapidly press on the ring (which is worn on the index finger) so as to add one thing to your to-do checklist or make an observation in a companion cellular app.
Forward of the launch, Ramble was beta examined with all Todoist Experimental customers, a gaggle of round 150,000 energetic 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 function 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 have been upgrading at a fee roughly 5 instances greater than earlier than utilizing Ramble, it says.
Todoist Ramble is out there to all customers throughout iOS, Android, desktop, and net beginning at the moment and helps 38 languages. Newbie plan customers may entry the function, however with restricted periods per 30 days. Professional and Enterprise paid plans provide limitless periods. For straightforward entry, the function can be utilized by way of a Residence Display or Lock Display shortcut on iOS and by way of app shortcuts, widgets, and fast settings tiles on Android.
