Describe the work in plain English and Otto drafts the tasks, priorities, due dates and assignees for you. Then it shows you a before/after diff, and nothing changes until you approve it.
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An AI task manager is a task app with a built-in assistant that turns plain-language requests into organized, prioritized work. Most stop at suggestions you still have to apply yourself. Taskly goes further: Otto drafts the real tasks and then waits for your approval, so you get the speed of automation without ever handing over control.
Not a chatbot that talks about your tasks. An assistant that drafts them, so the busywork is done for you instead of described to you.
Describe a project the way you would to a teammate. Otto drafts the tasks, subtasks, priorities, due dates and assignees, structured, not a wall of bullet points.
Ask Otto to reprioritize a messy list and it proposes a sensible order with reasons, so you decide what matters instead of dragging cards around one at a time.
Push a deadline, reassign a batch of tasks, add a recurring check-in. Otto applies changes across many tasks at once, and shows exactly what it will touch first.
Otto assigns work to real teammates and keeps every task in one owner’s bucket, so the plan it drafts reflects who actually does what, not a generic template.
The industry is racing toward AI that just does things for you. For work you’re accountable for, that’s the wrong default. Taskly is built the other way around: Otto proposes, you dispose. Every change it wants to make, creating tasks, editing them, reprioritizing, reassigning, is shown as a clear before/after diff you approve or discard. One task or fifty, you always see it before it happens.
Read the reasoning behind it in AI that asks first, or the plain-language primer in what is an AI task manager.
| Typical AI task features | Taskly (Otto) | |
|---|---|---|
| What the AI produces | Suggestions and text you copy, paste and reshape yourself | Real tasks, subtasks, priorities, due dates and assignees, ready to apply |
| Who does the organizing | You still do it, after reading the suggestion | Otto does it, then hands you a before/after diff to approve |
| Bulk changes | One item at a time, by hand | Reprioritize, reschedule or reassign many tasks in a single approved step |
| Control | Varies: some tools act on their own, some only hint | Nothing changes until you approve it. Consent is the default, not a setting |
| Your teammates’ privacy | Often unclear what data reaches the model | Teammate emails are never sent to the AI model |
You spend more time organizing your task list than doing the work on it.
You want AI to draft the plan, but you refuse to let software change your work without asking.
Your team needs to see who owns what, at a glance, without a configuration project.
You’ve tried “AI” features that only suggest things you still have to apply by hand.
Comparing specific tools? See our buyer’s guide to task management software for teams.
An AI task manager is a task or to-do app with a built-in assistant that turns plain-language requests into organized work: creating tasks, breaking them into subtasks, setting priorities and due dates, and assigning them. The better ones go beyond suggestions and actually draft the work for you. Taskly’s assistant, Otto, does exactly that, and shows every change as a before/after diff you approve before it applies.
Two things. First, Otto drafts real tasks rather than just suggesting text you have to reshape yourself, so it removes the busywork instead of describing it. Second, it acts only with your consent: every change, single or bulk, is shown as a diff you approve or discard. Nothing happens on its own. Teammate emails are also never sent to the AI model.
No. That’s the core of how Taskly is designed. Otto proposes changes and you approve them. Whether it’s one task or fifty, you see exactly what will be created, edited, reprioritized or reassigned before anything is applied, and you can discard the whole proposal with one click.
Yes, and that’s where Taskly is built to shine. Otto assigns tasks to real teammates and keeps every task in one owner’s bucket, with admin Team views so you can see who’s doing what across the team. You can ask it to reassign or rebalance work in plain English and approve the result.
Yes. Taskly is free for the entire product, including Otto, while in early access. There’s no separate AI add-on and no per-seat charge to use the assistant.
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