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Natural language support

When entering to-do's you should be able to enter the item with natural language such as "Meeting with John today at 3pm" or any number of a wide range of ways. The app would know that it needs to be done today at 3pm. Other shortcuts should be supported including the reoccurring items such as "the second Monday of each month".

Natural language is faster to enter items vs selecting each field. After you enter the task with natural language there should be some visual que that tells you the system has recognized the item such as date, time, list, etc.

Todoist supports this and if you want people to change platforms this is a must have feature.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, as stated so many times, this is the #1 feature that I like other's are waiting for to jump ship from TODOIST. Please create this feature as soon as you can. Thank you.

  • Swburks commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any updates on this?

    Favorite feature from Wunderlist and might find another app simply because of this feature not included in this app from a company you have already purchased.

  • Luis Colorado commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would save a lot of time to me. It's a pain to enter a new task, then click on the task again, select due date, and select the date.

  • raylapse commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    After 2 yeas, such 'core competitence' feature is still not yet implemented. What are you doing Microsoft?

  • Grant McLravy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is something that is still keeping me from switching to To-do from Wunderlist. I mass input all of my school assignments when I get a syllabus, and natural language support saves so many clicks.

  • Vitaliy K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also add ability to use
    - @ to tag / assign task to someone else
    - # to specify project / folder
    - ! to specify importance

  • Felix commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I just shifted from Todoist app and hope that Microsoft Todo will have the similar feature

  • Rajat commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Shifted to Microsoft todo recently from tick tick for a more simpler app but it doesn't have a natural language feature.
    That would have been great for due dates reminder etc. 🙏

  • Diego Machado commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I love Microsoft To-Do More still need many things, but syncing with Outlook calendar and natural language support having these two To-Do support will be the best.

  • JB Bunyi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As mentioned in other comments, this is keeping me from just competely forgetting about something like Todoist.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just copy it from Todoist. Probably not so hard to implement, you can start to offer natural language for simple task and continue adding it for recurring tasks, etc.

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