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Smart Type
What is it?
The Smart Type is Any.do’s answer to on-the-go functionality. Designed to make life easier, Smart Type helps users create action items in a time-saving automated way, utilizing natural language. It gives you endless customization opportunities, including the ability to add reminders, create new Lists and Tags, or even share your to-dos with your friends and colleagues, all from one view.
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Who has access?
- Teams users
- Personal users
- Platforms:
- Automatic time detection is currently available in English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Korean and Arabic only. New languages are being gradually released.
How does it work?
- Use natural language to add one-time reminders by simply naming the time and date.
- Choose which list to associate with your task.
- Add the desired Color Tags.
To add a task with a reminder
✔️ Android/ iOS/
- Create a new Task using the unified input bar.
- Add a reminder using natural language for time detection. Or, select the relevant option from the
menu.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the input bar.
- For Personal tasks – tap on the bell icon
and choose the desired Reminder time and Tap “Set” in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- For Workspace tasks – tap on the calendar icon
and choose the settings and click outside of the pop up. The changes will be saved automatically.
Note that you can also add a date & time with natural language.
To add a task with a Tag
✔️ Android/ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the input bar.
- Tap on the hash
icon or type the “#” key (Personal tasks only).
- Choose the desired Tag from the menu.
- To customize a new Tag for a Personal task – type a new tag title after the # and then tap the “Create a “X” Tag” that appears on the screen.
To add a Personal task with a List
✔️ Android/ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the input bar.
- Tap on the list icon
or use the “/” key.
- Choose the desired List from the menu, or type a new title to customize a new List, and then tap the “Create new folder named X” that appears on the screen.
To add a Workspace task with an Assignee
✔️ Android/ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the input bar.
- Tap on the assignee icon
- Choose the desired assignees from the list of Board members and click Save.
To disable Smart Type's auto-detection
✔️ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the input bar.
- If you do not want the auto detection, once you see a part of the Task title highlighted in blue, tap below the title on the blue suggestion to disable it. As a result the highlight will be removed.
✔️ Android
- Open Settings in Any.do.
- Preferences -> Time Detection (off).