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Task manager Todoist gets some machine intelligence smarts in Windows 10 app update with Smart Schedule
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Published onNovember 16, 2016
published onNovember 16, 2016
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Task manages are most useful when they’re actually used. That seems obvious at first glance, but when you really think about it, managing tasks needs to be an active process or it can devolve into merely postponing tasks in perpetuity.
Todoist is a popular task manager system that apparently agrees, because the developer has added some new functionality that gets better the more you actively use it to manage your time.
Today, Todoist is introducing Smart Schedule, which injects some machine intelligence to help you better plan your tasks. As you use Todoist, it learns your personal productivity habits and applies algorithms to help you better predict when you’ll actually complete a task.
As theTodoist blogput it:
Smart Schedule uses predictive modeling to help you easily plan out your tasks for the day and week to come. It learns your personal productive habits, and takes into account patterns across all Todoist users, to predict the best possible due dates for your tasks.
That means those 50+ overdue tasks you have hanging around can be quickly rescheduled en masse, while new and unscheduled tasks can be easily assigned to the best due dates. In this way, Smart Schedule makes it much easier to stay on top of your to-do list and roll with the punches when your day doesn’t go as planned.
The process takes stock of a number of data points in determining when to suggest a task might be completed:
You can accept the date suggested by Smart Schedule, or choose your own. If you want to give the new feature a try, you can create some new dates, reschedule an existing overdue task, or postpone a pending task. Smart Schedule can also be applied to all tasks when you select more than one.
Todoist makes a point of stressing that everything is private and secure. Any personal data is processed automatically by the algorithm and not accessed by any other services or any Todoist staff. And so, you can use the feature without worrying about anyone learning just how far behind you are on your task list.
Go update the app to get the new feature, or download from the link below. Let us know in the comments if Smart Schedule is helping you better manage your most pressing tasks.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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