AICHE +Todoist Integration

The short answer: open Todoist's Quick Add (Ctrl+Alt+A or Cmd+Shift+A), click into the task name or description field, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak your task with full context for 10-30 seconds, and AICHE inserts the formatted text ready to save.

Todoist already understands natural language. Type "Review PR tomorrow at 2pm p1" and it parses the date, time, and priority. That handles the task title. But the description field, where the actual context lives, is where things fall apart. What is the PR about? What should you look for? Which repo? Nobody fills in task descriptions because typing them takes longer than the task title itself. A task that says "Review PR" with no description becomes useless two days later when you have forgotten which PR and why it matters. Voice makes descriptions effortless, and descriptions are what make tasks actionable when you actually get to them.

1. Press Todoist's Quick Add shortcut to open the task input overlay. On Mac this is Cmd+Shift+A, on Windows it is Ctrl+Alt+A.
2. Type the task title with Todoist's natural language syntax for date and priority. For example: "Review payments PR tomorrow p1".
3. Click into the description field below the task title.
4. Press ⌃+⌥+R on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+R on Windows/Linux to start recording.
5. Speak the context: what the task is about, why it matters, what you will need, and any relevant links or references.
6. Press the hotkey again to stop. AICHE transcribes and inserts the description.
7. Press Enter or click Add Task to save. The task now has a title with date and priority plus a description with full context.

Task Descriptions That Make Weekly Reviews Work

The weekly review is where Todoist users decide what to work on next. You scan your task list, read each item, and decide whether to do it, defer it, or delete it. This process breaks down when tasks have no descriptions. "Call vendor" tells you nothing. Which vendor? About what? Is there a deadline? You end up spending the review trying to remember context instead of making decisions.

Voice-dictated descriptions fix this. When you capture the task, spend 10 extra seconds speaking the context. "Call the AWS account rep about the reserved instance renewal. Our current reservation expires March 15th. We need to decide between standard and convertible reserved instances. Check the usage report from last quarter before calling." That description takes 15 seconds to dictate and saves you 5 minutes of context reconstruction during the weekly review.

The pattern compounds. A task list with 40 items and full descriptions lets you make review decisions in seconds per task. A task list with 40 bare titles takes minutes per task because you are doing archaeology on your own intentions.

Project Notes and Planning

Todoist projects can hold notes and comments beyond individual tasks. When planning a project, the project-level view is where you think about scope, milestones, and approach before breaking things into tasks.

Click into the project comment section, press the hotkey, and speak your project plan. "This project covers migrating the user authentication system from our custom implementation to Auth0. Phase one is setting up the Auth0 tenant and configuring the connection. Phase two is updating the API middleware to validate Auth0 tokens. Phase three is migrating existing user accounts. Each phase needs a testing round and a rollback plan. Timeline is six weeks total with a two-week buffer." That is a 20-second dictation that becomes the project's reference document. Every task you create under this project now has that context one click away.

Comment Threads on Tasks

Todoist's task comments let you add updates, ask questions, or share progress on specific items. For tasks shared with collaborators, comments are the communication channel. For personal tasks, comments serve as a running log of progress and decisions.

Voice dictation makes task comments fast enough that you actually use them. Finished a sub-step of a task? Press the hotkey and speak a quick update: "Completed the database schema migration. All existing records converted successfully. Next step is updating the API endpoints to use the new field names." These comments create an audit trail that is useful during reviews and handoffs. Without voice, most people skip task comments entirely because the effort does not feel justified for an internal note.

Tips for Todoist Users

Use the Quick Add overlay for capturing tasks on the fly, but switch to the full Todoist app or web view for adding descriptions and comments. The Quick Add description field is small but functional. For tasks you dictate during meetings, speak enough context that future-you can pick up the task without any additional research. Names, deadlines, dependencies, and relevant files. If you use Todoist labels and filters, add the label manually after dictation since AICHE does not parse Todoist's syntax. Type "#work" or "@waiting" after the dictated title.

Heads-up: Todoist's natural language parsing works on the task title, not the description. Dictate the description separately from the title. If you speak a date or priority into the description field, Todoist will not parse it as a due date. Use the title field for scheduling syntax and the description field for context.

The pro-tip: during your weekly review, use AICHE to dictate updated context into tasks you are deferring. Speak why you are moving it, what changed, and what you will need when you finally pick it up. This takes 10 seconds per task and prevents deferred tasks from becoming mystery items.

Result: a task list where every item has a 2-3 sentence description instead of just a bare title. Weekly reviews go faster because you are making decisions instead of doing memory archaeology. Project notes exist because dictating them takes 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes of typing.

Do this now: open Todoist, find a task with no description that you will need to do this week, click into the description field, press your hotkey, and speak everything you know about what this task actually requires.