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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?
- Both Premium and Free users can take advantage of this feature!
- The Smart Type is available on all supported platforms and is being gradually released.
- Automatic time detection is currently available in English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Korean and Arabic only.
- Smart type is available for creating tasks only, not events.
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 Color Tags as needed.
- Reminders can only be added with both a time and date (except for recurrences which are not currently supported).
To add a task with a reminder
✔️ Android/ iOS/
- Create a new Task using the + icon or by typing in the quick add bar.
- Add a reminder using natural language for time detection. Or, select the relevant option from the auto-reminder menu.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the + icon or by typing in the quick add bar.
- Tap on the bell icon
at the left-most side below the Task’s title.
- Choose the desired Reminder time and Tap “Set time” in the bottom right corner of the screen.
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 + icon or by typing in the quick add bar.
- Tap on the hash
icon at the right-most side below the Task’s title, or type the “#” key.
- Choose the desired Tag from the menu, or type a new title to customize a new Tag, and then tap the “Create a “X” Tag” that appears on the screen.
To add a task with a List
✔️ Android/ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the + icon or by typing in the quick add bar.
- Tap on the list icon
below the Task’s title, or use the forward slash “/” 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 disable Smart Type's auto-detection
✔️ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Create a new Task using the + icon or by typing in the quick add 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.
- Under Preferences, tap on Time Detection (off).