You are the one who remembers the permission slip, the dentist, the half-empty milk, and that the cleats are a size too small. Say it out loud once, and TellDone turns it into tasks, reminders, and calendar events in 10 to 30 seconds.
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The hard part of running a household isn’t doing the tasks. It’s being the person who holds all of them in their head at once, all day, and notices the second one is about to fall through. That invisible tracking has a name now: the mental load, or cognitive labor. Here is what it actually feels like.
The permission slip that surfaces at 11pmYou remember the form is due tomorrow exactly when you finally sit down, and there is no pen, no app, no easy way to deal with it right then.
The grocery list that lives in your headYou know you are out of milk, low on the one snack a kid will eat, and that the dog food runs out Friday. None of it is written down.
Three kids, three calendars, one brainSwim moves to Thursday, a birthday party clashes with the dentist, and the school photo form is due. You are the scheduling department.
No free hands, no time to typeThe good ideas arrive while you are driving, cooking, or carrying a toddler. By the time your hands are free, the thought is gone.
The brain that won’t switch offThe house is finally quiet and your mind starts rewinding: refill the prescription, RSVP the party, sign the form, book the haircut.
Being the default parentIf you don’t track it, nobody does. Forgetting one small thing feels like the whole system failing, even when it’s just one busy week.
On an average day, mothers in U.S. households with a child under six spend about 3.0 hours on primary childcare versus 2.0 hours for fathers, according to the 2024 American Time Use Survey. And that’s only the visible part. The planning, remembering, and tracking sit on top of it, mostly uncounted.
TellDone is a voice-first planning app. You talk the way you’d talk to a partner who actually wrote everything down. It listens, then turns one rambling sentence into separate tasks, calendar events, reminders, and notes, with the dates and times sorted out for you.
“Sign Maya’s field trip form, buy poster board for the science project, and book Leo’s six-month dental checkup.” One breath, hands still in the pasta. You get three separate to-dos, and the dentist already on the calendar.
Say something happens every Tuesday, the first of the month, or every six months, and TellDone creates a recurring task or reminder. Swim lessons, the rent, the filter change, the recital. You can even put more than one reminder on a single task, so a checkup nudges you a week out and again that morning.
TellDone pushes what you capture into Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, Todoist, Notion, and Things 3. Most families already share a calendar or reminders list, so a soccer game you said out loud shows up where your partner can already see it.
Start a recording from your Apple Watch, the Lock Screen, Control Center, or the Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro and later. No unlocking, no app to open. Talk while you push the stroller or wrangle car seats, and it’s saved. Recording even works offline and syncs once you’re back online.
Later, when you say “picked up the dog food,” Smart Context finds that task and checks it off for you. And to fix any detail, just tap it. There’s no Save button, and a quick Undo if you change your mind.
One ordinary day, captured in seconds at a time, without ever sitting down to plan.
“Maya needs her library book back Thursday and we’re out of the oat milk.”
A task due Thursday, plus oat milk added to the shopping list. Said over breakfast chaos, from the Lock Screen.
“Dentist for Leo, six-month checkup, and remind me to call about the rash if it’s still there in two days.”
A recurring dental reminder and a follow-up nudge in two days. Spoken at a red light, hands on the wheel, from Apple Watch.
“Soccer moved to Thursdays at five starting next week, every week.”
A recurring Thursday event on the shared family calendar, so the other parent sees it too.
“Got the oat milk and the library book’s in her bag.”
Smart Context checks both off. Two fewer things rattling around your head.
“RSVP yes to the Saturday party, and a birthday gift idea: the dinosaur set.”
A task to reply, a note saved with the gift idea. The brain-dump that usually keeps you up, handled in ten seconds.
Say the thing once. Let it become a task, a reminder, or a date you don’t have to hold onto. Start free today.
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