"The ultimate to-do list app might be no app": investor pitches AI that manages tasks from your comms stream
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-10-23
Investor Martin Tobias shared a product thesis: he has long hated to-do lists and argues that with abundant intelligence, the list itself should disappear. What matters to you should be inferred from your communication stream, with an intelligence layer tracking and managing tasks for you.
"The ultimate to-do list app might be no app," he writes, saying he plans to go down that rabbit hole. The idea — comms stream plus an intelligence layer that auto-generates tasks — is a concrete product angle in the personal AI assistant space.
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