1. On-demand event-adding
The first Toki advantage is the simplest: When you find yourself facing a need to create an event from your phone and you don’t have any specific information about the event in front of you — in an email, a text, a website, an image, whatever — you can just fire up the app (or even use its instant-on Android app shortcut) and tell it whatever it is you need to create.
You can do this in pure plain language, too, without any fuss or funky formatting required. Quite literally, you just say what you want:
- a follow-up with Jed Schmidt about the work proposal next Tuesday at 10am
- a checkup with Dr. Riemenschneider March 4th at 2pm
- a meeting with Theo, Thad, and Thalia on the first Monday in February at noon — actually, make it 1pm, and make it at the CPK on Figueroa downtown with a note to bring my Grammy Gertrude’s famous biscuit recipe (my goodness, those biscuits were scrumptious!)
JR Raphael, Foundry
All you’ve gotta do is ramble off whatever you’re thinking, and Toki will turn it into a neatly formatted event in your calendar — then let you confirm what it did to make sure it’s right and, if you’d like, even switch your event into a different sub-calendar within your Google Calendar setup with a couple quick taps. If you need to add or adjust anything, you can just say whatever it is that you want. You can even enable an extra can’t-miss alert by asking the app to actually call your phone as a reminder when the time for the event arrives.
