Maybe you don’t need an AI smart ring to keep up with your chores. Doistthe company behind Todoist, a popular cross-device to-do app, is launching its new AI-powered “voice to tasks” feature: Todoist Ramble. The feature allows you to describe your tasks using natural language.
True to its name, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and turn it into organized tasks. The app will also record other details you report, such as project deadlines, priorities, duration and contractors.
The idea is that people often think of things to do while on the go, but pulling out their phone to jot down a note or create a reminder can be difficult. With Todoist Ramble, you still have to take out your phone, but you won’t have to type anything. Instead, you’ll just tap the Ramble icon and start talking. The app will then update in real-time with task information, even responding to changes and changes as you speak.
For example, the company notes that you can say things like “Actually, do that Thursday” or “that’s it,” to direct the AI further as you speak.
Ramble is built on large language models (LLM) as part of an AI feature set the company calls Todoist Assistwhich runs on Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Live model via Vertex AI for real-time speech understanding. As the audio streams to the back, the model transcribes your speech and identifies the tasks, dates, and other details you mention to create your tasks.
Audio is not stored or used for AI training, and the app is SOC2 Type II certified, Doist says.
The AI functionality is similar to what we see appearing in a variety of hardware AI devices, which transcribe speech to turn it into notes, reminders, to-dos or information. For example, Amazon’s Bee wearable uses artificial intelligence to take notes and make suggested to-dos, while other devices, such as Plaud’s, can take meeting notes and highlight highlights.
There is also growing interest in smart rings with artificial intelligence, such as the Stream ring from startup Sandbar or Pebble’s upcoming Index 01 ring. Both let you quickly tap the ring (which is worn on the index finger) to add something to your to-do list or make a note in a companion mobile app.
Before launch, Ramble was beta-tested with all Todoist Experimental users, a group of about 150,000 active testers who try out new features early. Within the first three weeks of testing, approximately 76,000 testers completed approximately 290,000 Ramble sessions on desktop and mobile. The feature then entered public beta testing in November.
Job creation success also improved from around 40% last October to around 62% in December, and led to upgrades, Doist claims. New users to the entry-level program upgraded at a rate about five times higher than before using Ramble, he says.
Todoist Ramble is available to all users on iOS, Android, desktop and web starting today and supports 38 languages. Beginner plan users can also access the feature, but with limited sessions per month. The paid Pro and Business plans offer unlimited sessions. For easy access, the feature can be accessed via a home screen or lock screen shortcut on iOS, and via app shortcuts, widgets, and quick settings tiles on Android.
