Short answer: open Todoist Quick Add (Cmd+Shift+A on Mac, Ctrl+Alt+A on Windows/Linux), type the title with Todoist's date/priority syntax, click into the description, press ⌃+⌥+R, speak the context, press again. AICHE inserts the description in 2-3 seconds. Save the task.
Todoist parses natural language for the title: "Review payments PR tomorrow at 2pm p1" gives you the right date, time, and priority. The title is solved. The description is where most users give up, because typing context for every task takes longer than the task itself. So tasks ship with bare titles, and three days later "Call vendor" means nothing.
Voice fixes this. The description field is where the value of voice dictation compounds week after week.
How It Works
- Press Todoist Quick Add: Cmd+Shift+A (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+A (Windows/Linux).
- Type the title with Todoist's syntax: dates, priorities, projects, labels.
- Click into the description field.
- Press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux).
- Speak the context: what, why, what you'll need, references. No length cap.
- Press the hotkey again. AICHE transcribes, cleans up, inserts.
- Enter to save.
Heads-up: Todoist's natural-language parser only runs on the title. Don't dictate dates or priorities into the description field; they won't get parsed. Title for scheduling syntax, description for the human context.
AI Inputs In Todoist (Ramble, part of Todoist Assist)
Todoist now includes native AI voice capture via Ramble, part of Todoist Assist. For this page, keep positioning clear:
- Ramble is first-party Todoist voice-to-task capture
- AICHE is cross-app desktop dictation for Todoist text fields and longer prose context
Use AICHE where you want consistent hotkey behavior across Todoist plus your IDE/email/docs in the same session.
Where Voice Pays Off
Weekly Reviews That Are Actually Reviews
Scanning a 40-item list with bare titles isn't a review, it's archaeology. With descriptions you can decide on each task in seconds: do it, defer it with updated context, drop it. Speak 10-15 seconds of detail at capture time and save 5 minutes of memory reconstruction at review time. That math is the whole pitch.
Project Notes Before Tasks Exist
Click into a project's comment section, press the hotkey, dictate the plan: "Migrating user auth from our custom implementation to Auth0. Phase 1: tenant setup and connection. Phase 2: API middleware switches to Auth0 token validation. Phase 3: migrate existing accounts. Each phase needs testing and a rollback plan. Six-week timeline with a two-week buffer." Twenty seconds of speaking, and every task you create under that project now has the macro context one click away.
Task Comments as a Running Log
Comments are an audit trail when you actually use them. Press the hotkey on a task you just made progress on: "Schema migration done, all records converted. Next: update API endpoints to use the new field names." Hand-offs and reviews go faster, and you stop forgetting why you made decisions three weeks ago.
Deferred-Task Notes
When a task slips, dictate why and what changed. Ten seconds of "Pushed to next week because the staging DB went down on Tuesday and we're still waiting on infra to bring it back. Need the connection-pool dump from the incident before retrying" is the difference between a deferred task and a mystery item.
What You Get
- Unlimited voice notes with AI cleanup - filler words removed, punctuation and paragraph breaks added.
- System-wide dictation - same hotkey works in Todoist Desktop, Todoist Web, and every other app.
- Custom vocabulary - drop in client names, project codenames, internal jargon. Spelled correctly.
- Multilingual voice input - speak in your language, transcribe in that language or auto-translate to English.
- End-to-end encrypted sync - any voice notes you keep in AICHE stay encrypted on your device before syncing.
- Zero-retention audio - Audio is streamed to Groq for cloud transcription and discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second. No persistent audio copy.
Plans start at $3.99/mo (annual) with a 7-day free trial, no credit card. See pricing.
Common Questions
Q: Can I dictate Todoist's syntax (@label, #project)?
A: Yes, but it's faster to type those. Dictate the prose, then add labels and projects with keystrokes after. AICHE doesn't parse Todoist syntax for you.
Q: Does AICHE work in Todoist's mobile app?
A: AICHE Desktop covers the desktop and web Todoist. For mobile, use the AICHE iPhone or Android app to capture, then paste into Todoist Mobile. Notes sync across via E2E encrypted cloud, so anything captured anywhere is on your laptop the moment you open it.
Q: I use Todoist with the keyboard-only workflow. Will the hotkey conflict?
A: ⌃+⌥+R / Ctrl+Alt+R doesn't collide with any default Todoist shortcut. If you've remapped one to it, change either AICHE's hotkey or Todoist's binding.
Q: Can I dictate sub-task descriptions?
A: Yes. Sub-tasks have the same description field as parent tasks. Same workflow.
Q: Does dictating affect Todoist Karma or task counts?
A: No. Dictation just inserts text. Todoist sees a normal task creation.
Result: a task list where every item carries a few sentences of real context. Weekly reviews stop being archaeology. Deferred tasks come back with the why intact. Project comments exist because dictating them takes 30 seconds instead of five minutes.
Try it now: open Todoist, find a task with no description that's due this week, click into the description, press your hotkey, and speak everything you know about what this task actually needs.