TalkToTxt - Voice-to-Tasks for Plain-Text Workflows
A voice-first capture app that drops tasks straight into a Tasks.txt or Obsidian-style markdown file, transcribing what you said and inferring smart due dates inline.
Knowledge workers who keep tasks in plain text files (Obsidian, logseq, .txt) and capture ideas on the go
- Voice capture transcribed and appended as a tidy bullet
- Smart date parsing ('tomorrow', 'next Friday') written inline
- iCloud/Dropbox sync to the user's chosen plain-text task file
- Daily digest view aggregating tasks across plain-text files
Plain-text productivity tools are resurging as users flee subscription SaaS task apps; adding a frictionless voice capture layer is the obvious next step.
Existing competitors (Obsidian Voice app, SpeakPen, Obsidian Speech-to-Text plugin) confirm a real niche of users wanting voice capture into Obsidian/plain-text vaults.Obsidian Voice - Mobile Voice Capture for Obsidian Power Users ↗SpeakPen — Voice Notes to Text, Obsidian Sync & AI Summary ↗Speech to Text - Obsidian Plugin ↗
Market is already crowded with at least three direct competitors offering voice-to-Obsidian transcription; 'smart due date inference into Tasks.txt' is a thin differentiator.SpeakPen — Voice Notes to Text, Obsidian Sync & AI Summary ↗
Target users explicitly flee subscriptions and prefer free/open tooling (todo.txt, logseq, Obsidian); tough to charge premium and no clear evidence of high willingness-to-pay in this niche.GitHub - todotxt/todo.txt: ‼️ A complete primer on the whys and hows of an ↗PTPL 104 · 6 Plain Text Task Management Options—an Overview ↗
Plain-text productivity is durable (todo.txt, Obsidian, logseq have multi-year momentum), but voice transcription is commoditizing fast via Whisper APIs, so defensibility is limited.Tasks - Plaintext Productivity ↗
Trivial MVP with Whisper/Apple Speech for transcription plus an LLM call or dateparser for due-date extraction; native iOS Shortcuts/Share Extension integration is well-trodden.