Testing Todoist's LLM Integration with Email
THE EXTENSION
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Testing Todoist's LLM Integration with Email
Ever since I’ve been back on Todoist as my primary task manager, one of the things I’ve appreciated the most about it is how its web-first nature lends itself so well to different kinds of integrations across platforms. As Club members will know, I’ve created a suite of advanced shortcuts to communicate with Todoist; but I’ve also set up zaps in Zapier to automate project creation via templates, played around with ChatGPT integrations, and used third-party apps (such as Funnel) that natively integrate with Todoist. There are a lot of cross-platform services for task management, but very few of them take extensibility and integrations seriously. Todoist does.
There is, of course, one major holdout here: email. To the best of my knowledge, Spark is the only email client that natively integrates with Todoist, but as we discussed recently, John and I have been using Shortwave as our primary email client lately. I don’t know about the Shortwave CEO’s statement that they’re building the “Cursor for email” (every few years, the trend of building “the X for Y” comes back around; remember when everyone wanted to be the “Uber for something”?), but what I can tell you is that the combination of team sharing and AI-powered automation is doing wonders for my email setup given the number of messages I receive on a daily basis.