Create a task
Type it, say it or share a photo, and Roma titles, dates and files it.
A task in Roma is an item on your Tasks list, or on any list that keeps a Status and a Due date. You create one by typing it into the New task row, by telling your operator, or by sharing a photo of a list. However it arrives, Roma tidies the title, reads the date out of your words and files it where it belongs.
Type it into the New task row
Every list has a row at its head for typing. On your Tasks list it reads "New task". On the Mac and in the browser, press ⌘N from anywhere in Roma, or press New in the bar above the list. On your iPhone, tap the plus at the top right of the Tasks tab. The row opens with the caret in it and its pickers already in place: the status pill, the due pill and the list pill. Type the title and press Enter (Return on the iPhone), and the row becomes the task in place, under your fingers, with nothing to wait for.
A task typed on a list lands on that list. ⌘N from a page that is not a list lands on the Tasks list. Before you press Enter you can pick a day on the due pill, or file the task elsewhere with the list pill. On the Mac and in the browser ⌘D opens the due date picker, ⌘S the status and ⌘P the list while the row has the caret.
A brand-new account's Tasks list opens on a welcome card with a few example tasks. Tap one and it becomes a real task under the card.
Tell your operator
Say what you need to do and the operator creates the task: "Remind me to renew the passport before the trip" or "I need to call the dentist tomorrow". Several separate instructions in one message become one task each ("call Noor later and print the documents" is two). One goal with steps stays one task, with the steps as a checklist in its body. Everything you said survives in the title and the body. Roma tidies, and it never summarizes away.
A statement about your day with nothing to do in it ("had a great standup") gets an answer, not a task. If you are on a list's page, a capture lands there. Anywhere else, it lands on the Tasks list. Name a list you keep ("add Dune to my reading list") and the item goes onto that list with its properties filled in. The rest of what the operator does with your words is in how to use the operator.
On the iPhone you can also hold the Action Button and say the task, or share a photo of a handwritten list to Roma and ask the operator to read the tasks off it.
What Roma does with what you typed
The moment a typed task exists, a quiet pass reads it:
The title gets sentence case, a verb first and up to ten words. "renew passport before the trip on friday" becomes "Renew passport before the trip". A bare word like "Milk" stays "Milk". Your spelling of a person's name stays. An obvious slip in a well-known title is fixed ("Game of Throns" becomes "Game of Thrones").
The date leaves the title and becomes the due date: "Friday", "tomorrow at 7am" or "in 3 days" all work. A stated time also sets a reminder. Roma never invents a date you did not state, and "ASAP" produces nothing. The details are in due dates, times and reminders.
The list is read from your words too. When they name a list you keep, the task is filed there. When a list merely fits the topic, Roma suggests the move and you accept or dismiss it. Otherwise the task stays on the Tasks list.
Nothing shimmers and nothing locks: the row is editable from the moment it appears, and a title you edit before the pass lands always wins.
Two switches turn the pass off. Clean up what I type, under AI Editing in Settings (the General page in the browser and the Mac app, the AI and Dictation card on the iPhone), covers every list. Edit list → Clean up new tasks covers one list. With either off, the title stays exactly as typed.
The operator's first turn
On a list that assists, the operator picks up each new task you add: a first turn that asks the one question that decides the work, or does the first step. The task stays To do. A gray mark pulses on the row while the operator works and turns amber when a reply is waiting, in the task's own conversation. Every list has the switch in Edit list, under Assist with new tasks, and it is on by default. With it off, tasks are added quietly.
Status at birth
A new task is born To do. Tell the operator "start it" or "mark it in progress" in the same message and it is born In progress. Completing it is covered in task status and completing tasks.
A task that landed on the wrong list is cheap to fix: move it to another list and it keeps its body, its conversation and its history.
Questions people ask
Can I create a task without Roma touching the title?
Yes. Switch off Clean up what I type under AI Editing in Settings (the General page in the browser and the Mac app, the AI and Dictation card on the iPhone), and every title on every list stays exactly as you typed it. To keep the cleanup everywhere but one list, switch off Clean up new tasks in that list's Edit list page instead.
Where does a task go when I do not name a list?
On the Tasks list, or on the list you were on when you typed or said it. Roma files a task onto another list only when your words name that list. A list that merely fits the topic becomes a suggestion on the task, never a silent move.
Does Roma ever invent a due date?
No. A task gets a due date only when you state a day or a time, and a time only when you state one. Urgency words like "ASAP" set nothing.
Can I create several tasks at once?
Tell the operator in one message. Separate instructions become separate tasks, while one goal with sub-steps stays one task with a checklist. For a photo of a list, share it to Roma and ask the operator to create a task for each line.