There’s always something waiting to be transferred into Todoist. The sticky note covered in action items from this morning’s meeting. The email chain where the actual ask is buried somewhere in the middle. The whiteboard photo that’s been sitting in your camera roll since Thursday.

Task capture lets you drop it all in – and get an actual task list back. No retyping. No copy-paste-copy-paste.

How it works

Open Quick Add. Paste in meeting notes, drag in a PDF, share a photo from your camera roll. Todoist scans for tasks and shows you what it found – task names, dates, priorities, assignees, durations. You’ll see a preview before anything lands on your list.

You can work with:

• Text – meeting transcripts, email threads, chat snippets, bullet points
• Images – photos of whiteboards, handwritten notes, printed documents (JPEG, PNG, WebP up to 7MB)
• Files – PDFs, Word docs, Markdown files, plain text

Full instructions in the help center →

Samuel · Product Manager

“I’ve been using Task capture daily while renovating our house. Standing in a half-finished kitchen on the phone with a contractor, scribbling notes on whatever’s nearby – paint samples, the back of permit papers, once on a piece of drywall. Now I just snap a photo with my phone and let Todoist pull out the to-dos. One less thing to worry about.”

Task capture works with whatever you’ve got:

• You’ve wrapped a client call and the transcript is a wall of text with action items buried somewhere in paragraphs three, seven, and twelve. Paste it in and let Todoist find them.
• You went old school and scrawled notes on whatever paper was nearby. Snap a photo instead of retyping it all later.
• Someone sends you a brief that’s twenty-seven pages long. Drop it in and start from a structured list instead of reading through it twice with a highlighter.

Available now in beta

The beta is open on web, desktop, and mobile for everyone, across all plans. After the beta, usage on free plans will be limited.

Task capture is still being actively refined by Hiroki, Natalie, Panos, Pedro S., Ricardo, Samuel, and Sergio. If something doesn’t behave the way you’d expect, use the 👍/👎 in-app – your feedback goes directly to the people building it.