How to convert WhatsApp in your own assistant: you can also create reminders and tasks on the app.
You can WhatsApp not such a comprehensive and versatile messaging app and Facebook Messenger or Telegram in terms of functions that go beyond sending and receiving messages. But at least we're happy to know that the company continues to work on bringing more and more features to what, today, is still the most widely used app in its class around the world.
Now, WhatsApp has partnered with the company behind the popular Any.do notes and reminders app to create "WhatsApp reminders", a new function which, as its name allows us to deduce, is intended to create reminders and tasks directly from inbox. application.
So you can create reminders and tasks from WhatsApp
As specified by Any.do itself in a publication on his official blog, thanks to this function, it will be possible to easily create tasks and reminders on WhatsApp, on any device with access to the messaging application, and around the world.
To achieve this integration, Any.do has developed a muzzle for whatsapp with which we can discuss, and thus manage our reminders and our tasks at through messages. In the purest style of a muzzle Telegram.
The operation of this system is simple, although it it is necessary to have an Any.do subscription Premium to benefit from this service - at starting at $ 5,99 per month, although you can try for free -. On Android, just follow these steps to activate the Any.do bot on WhatsApp:
- In L' Any.do application, go to Settings / Integrations / WhatsApp
- Add your phone number associated with WhatsApp and press "Send"
- Enter the six-digit code you received by SMS
- Activate the reminders option
This way if you go back to your WhatsApp chat screen you will find a discussion with the muzzle A, with which you can chat in natural language to create reminders and tasks. Once the deadline is met, reminders will appear as a WhatsApp notification from the same way as if you had received a message from a chat.
Any.do indicates that Tasks created using this feature will sync with your Any.do reminder list, so there will be hardly any difference between creating a task from Any.do app or WhatsApp chat. In addition, it offers the possibility of forward messages from other chats to the muzzle A to create reminders with the content of these messages.
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