The company behind productivity app Todoist, which lets you manage your personal and work lives with powerful to-do lists, is adding a new feature today: an artificial intelligence-powered scheduler. Now, when you need to set a due date for the completion of a task, Todoist will analyze a number of different factors to pick the optimal date for you. The goal is to wrestle away control of due dates from human users, who are prone to setting unrealistic deadlines and failing to follow through.

Todist’s mobile and desktop apps are free to download, but parent company Doist charges $29 a year to unlock premium features like reminder notifications, custom filters, and file attachments. Smart Schedule, as the company is calling its new AI…

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