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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.

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/

  1. Create a new Task using the unified input bar.
  2. Add a reminder using natural language for time detection. Or, select the relevant option from the  menu.

✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac

  1. Create a new Task using the input bar.
  2. For Personal tasks – tap on the bell iconand choose the desired Reminder time and Tap “Set” in the bottom right corner of the screen.
  3. 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

  1. Create a new Task using the input bar.
  2. Tap on the hashicon or type the “#” key (Personal tasks only).
  3. Choose the desired Tag from the menu.
  4. 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

  1. Create a new Task using the input bar.
  2. Tap on the list icon or use the “/” key. 
  3. 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

  1. Create a new Task using the input bar.
  2. Tap on the assignee icon
  3. Choose the desired assignees from the list of Board members and click Save.

To disable Smart Type's auto-detection

✔️ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac

  1. Create a new Task using the input bar.
  2. 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

  1. Open Settings in Any.do.
  2. Preferences -> Time Detection (off). 

 

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