Todoist Assist is our AI-powered suite of tools designed to work intelligently behind the scenes to enhance your Todoist experience. When you use Todoist Assist features, it considers the specific context of your request and relevant information from your Todoist account to provide helpful suggestions.
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Some Todoist Assist features are available to all customers, while more advanced capabilities are included in either the Todoist Pro and Business plans. Check our pricing page for the most up-to-date information.
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.
- Doist runs all AI functionality on secure infrastructure to ensure customer data stays protected within our environment.
- We work with AI providers that maintain strict data handling practices aligned with our privacy commitments. This includes models by Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vortex 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 works behind the scenes to help you achieve more without disrupting any of your existing workflows. Here are some features that are built on Todoist Assist:
AI Assistant helps you optimize your tasks by suggesting improvements, breaking down complex tasks, or generating task lists from your ideas.
To use Task Assist:
- Select a task you want to improve.
- Click the three dots icon at the top-right of the task view.
- Select AI Assistant. You’ll see several options.
- Choose the type of assistance you need.
- Review the suggestions and apply the ones you find helpful.
Email Assist lets you forward messages from your favorite email client to Todoist to create tasks or comments in seconds.
To use Email Assist, go to your Advanced settings and turn it on. Then, start forwarding email to Todoist:
- Open a project.
- Click the three dots icon at the top-right.
- Select Email tasks to this project.
- Click Copy email next to the email address.
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:
- Click Filters & Labels in the sidebar.
- Click the add icon next to Filters.
- Click Try it in the Filter Assist banner at the top.
- Describe which tasks you want to filter in the Filter request field.
- Click Send.
- Click Add filter.
Pierre · Customer Experience Specialist
The only feature powered by Todoist Assist that you can turn on or off is Email Assist. All other features supported by Todoist Assist are optional. You can choose to use them or to ignore them completely.
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. We— Melis, Sergio, Pierre, and any of our other teammates—are happy to share more insights or provide further support.
