Introduction to Todoist Assist

Todoist Assist is our AI-powered suite of tools designed to work intelligently behind the scenes to enhance your productivity. By considering the specific context of your requests, Todoist Assist helps you automate task creation from emails and build complex filters using natural language. This allows you to focus more on your work and less on manual organization.

Manage your privacy and data security

Todoist Assist uses tools powered by various, carefully selected large language models (LLMs), available through providers renowned for their high levels of security and privacy. Your information remains secure while it delivers intelligent productivity features.

• Todoist runs all AI functionality on secure infrastructure to ensure customer data stays protected within our environment.
• We do not send your data directly to OpenAI. All processing flows through Todoist's secure infrastructure.
• We work with AI providers that maintain strict data handling practices aligned with our privacy commitments. This includes models from top AI providers available via AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. 
• These providers have committed that data processed through their services will not be used to train their AI models.
• You can control which features of Todoist Assist you want to use.

In the future, we may introduce options that allow you to specify certain preferences that would be included with your interactions. This makes Todoist Assist more personalized to your needs. These preferences would be stored securely in your account, and only used to improve your direct experience with Todoist Assist.

Todoist Assist supports your productivity

Todoist Assist works behind the scenes to help you achieve more without disrupting any of your existing workflows. The features you can use depend on your plan:

• Filter Assist: Beginner, Pro Legacy, Pro, and Business plans
• Task Assist: Pro and Business plans
• Email Assist: Pro and Business plans

Check our pricing page for the most up-to-date information.

Email Assist

If you have a Todoist Pro or Business subscription, you can use Email Assist to automatically convert your forwarded emails. It will turn your email content – like due dates, notes, and more – into actionable Todoist tasks for all your projects.

To use Email Assist, go to the Advanced section of the General settings and turn it on. Then, start forwarding email to Todoist:

1. Open a project.
2. Click the three dots icon at the top-right.
3. Select Email tasks to this project.
4. Click Copy email.
5. Forward your email to the unique email address.

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You can turn Email Assist on or off in your settings. Task Assist is off until you set up the extension, and you can remove the extension at any time. You can use Filter Assist when you need it or ignore it completely.

Filter Assist

Filter Assist helps you create powerful filters without memorizing complex query syntax. Simply describe what you want to see in plain language, and Filter Assist will suggest the appropriate filter.

To use Filter Assist:

1. Select Filters & Labels in the navigation menu.
2. Click the add icon next to Filters.
3. Click Try it in the Filter Assist banner at the top.
4. Describe which tasks you want to filter in the Filter request field.
5. Click Send.
6. Click Add filter.

Task Assist

Task Assist is a browser extension with several options to help you manage your tasks more effectively. It can suggest tasks to help you reach a goal, generate tips for completing a task, rewrite tasks to make them more actionable, and break complex tasks down into sub-tasks.

Get in touch

Let Todoist Assist do the heavy lifting so you can focus on what matters. If you have any questions or would like to better understand how Todoist Assist operates, get in touch with us.