Split spoken answers into Todoist tasks
They used Alexa and ChatGPT to turn one spoken response into a clean Todoist checklist for household planning.
- What they did
- They built the flow in Home Assistant. Alexa asked follow-up questions with Alexa Actions, then the spoken reply went to Home Assistant’s openai conversation.process service, where ChatGPT turned it into a bracketed list. A Home Assistant automation then read each item and created matching tasks in Todoist through the Todoist integration, while the person simply spoke the items and finished with no, stop, or nothing.
- How it went
- It worked for a shopping-style capture example, breaking one answer into separate Todoist items like potatoes, 7 cans of cola, and eggs. No reliability stats were shared, and they said they were still fairly new to Home Assistant.
- Tips
- This kind of setup needs a clear stop phrase and a review step before tasks are created. If you try it, make the agent show the parsed task list first and wait for approval before adding anything to Todoist.
Try it yourself with Zapier Agents
You are helping me capture spoken household tasks. Ask me one follow-up question at a time if needed, then turn my reply into a plain list of separate tasks in brackets like [task 1, task 2, task 3]. If I mention a due date, include it in the task text. Before you create anything in [Todoist project], show me the final task list and wait for my approval. Do not send, delete, or submit anything until I say approve. If I say "no", "stop", or "nothing", end the flow.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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