Let Claude turn commitments in your inbox and calendar into Todoist tasks
Idea + starter prompt, not run by us yet
For: Busy people who lose track of promises made in email and chat
A commenter gave Claude access to Todoist, email, calendar, messages, contacts and notes, plus a version-controlled memory of linked Markdown files about people and projects. Claude watches for commitments, creates tasks and scheduled reminders and suggests a project and sometimes a date. They review new tasks in a daily or weekly brief.
Steps
- Start small. Connect only Todoist and one other source, such as your calendar, instead of every account at once.
- Keep plain Markdown notes about people and projects in version control, so you can undo any change Claude makes.
- Have Claude propose tasks from the commitments it spots, with a suggested project and date, and approve them in a brief instead of letting it add them alone.
- Run a weekly review. The commenter calls it the biggest win.
- Expect tuning. When it gets something wrong, tell it and ask it to update the notes.
Starter prompt
Help me test a commitments tracker using synthetic calendar and email exports in [test folder], with invented names. Do not connect to my real inbox or calendar. First show me your plan. Then preview each commitment with its suggested project and any date supported by the sample. Include proposed Markdown notes in the preview. Do not write files or create tasks until I approve each item. After approval, add approved tasks to [Todoist test project] and save approved notes in [test notes folder]. Do not send messages or change the input files. Never ask for passwords.
Original post: Reddit · found via agentusecases.ai. Written up in our own words. We haven't run it, so test it on made-up data first.