Perhaps 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 record 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 title, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and switch it into organized duties. The app may even seize different particulars you point out, like venture deadlines, priorities, period, and assignees.
The concept is that folks typically 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 gained’t must kind something. As a substitute, you’ll simply faucet the Ramble icon and begin talking. The app will then replace in actual time with the duty’s data, even responding to edits and adjustments as you converse.
For example, the corporate notes you possibly can say issues like “Truly, 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 Dwell mannequin through Vertex AI for actual‑time speech understanding. Because the audio streams to the again finish, 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 a wide range of {hardware} AI gadgets, which transcribe speech to show it into notes, reminders, to-dos, or insights. For example, Amazon’s Bee wearable gadget makes use of AI to take notes and make advised to-dos, whereas different gadgets, similar to these from Plaud, can take assembly notes and get away 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 record or make an observation in a companion cell app.
Forward of the launch, Ramble was beta examined with all Todoist Experimental customers, a bunch of round 150,000 lively testers who strive new options early. Throughout the first three weeks of testing, round 76,000 testers accomplished roughly 290,000 Ramble classes on desktop and cell. The characteristic then entered public beta testing in November.
Job 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 charge roughly 5 instances increased than earlier than utilizing Ramble, it says.
Todoist Ramble is out there to all customers throughout iOS, Android, desktop, and internet beginning at this time and helps 38 languages. Newbie plan customers may also entry the characteristic, however with restricted classes monthly. Professional and Enterprise paid plans supply limitless classes. For straightforward entry, the characteristic can be utilized through a Dwelling Display screen or Lock Display screen shortcut on iOS and through app shortcuts, widgets, and fast settings tiles on Android.
