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title: "Creating Tasks in Chat: AI Assistant as Task Management"
description: "How you create tasks directly in chat with the AI assistant: no media break from conversation to a structured task with deadline and priority."
type: "wissen"
product: "assist"
slug: "ki-assistent-aufgabenverwaltung"
source_language: "de"
target_languages: ["de", "en", "es", "pl", "tr"]
published: "2026-06-10"
status: "publish"
faq_json: [{"q":"Can an AI assistant create tasks?","a":"Yes, if it's connected to the task management: you say in the chat what needs to be done – such as 'Create a task for Friday for me' – and the task lands structured in the database."}, {"q":"What's the benefit compared to a normal to-do app?","a":"The missing intermediate step: tasks arise where they're discussed – in the conversation – instead of someone typing them in later or forgetting them."}, {"q":"What details does a task created this way get?","a":"A structured task has a due date, priority, area, and status – it lands in the team's task list, not in a chat history."}, {"q":"Can the assistant also create deadlines and notes?","a":"Yes: from the conversation, alongside tasks, deadlines, notes, and appointments also arise – directly in the company's database."}, {"q":"Does this also work on the go?","a":"Yes, for example via dictation: what's spoken is recorded and processed further – handy between two appointments."}]
language: "en"
source_id: "wissen/ki-assistent-aufgabenverwaltung"
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---

Creating tasks in chat means: you tell your AI assistant in the conversation what needs to be done – "Create a task for Friday for me" – and the task lands structured in your task management, with deadline, priority, and area. The difference from a classic to-do app isn't in the list, but in the path to it: the task arises where it comes up – in the workflow – instead of being typed in later or getting lost in your head.

## The real problem: the path to the task

Tasks rarely get lost because the list is bad. They get lost before they make it onto the list: they arise during a phone call, while reading an email, in a meeting – and the intermediate step of "entering it into the tool later" falls by the wayside in everyday business. This is exactly the intermediate step that a connected AI assistant eliminates. While you're working in the chat anyway – drafting a text, summarizing something, clarifying a question – you mention in passing what should follow from it. The assistant creates it, you keep working.

## How it looks in practice

In [webRichtung assist](https://www.webrichtung.de/module/assist/), the chat is connected to the platform's database. From the conversation, **tasks, deadlines, and notes** arise directly in your workflow – without a form, without switching apps. A typical sequence:

1. You discuss a customer inquiry with assist and have a reply drafted.
2. You say: "Create a task for Friday for me."
3. The task appears in the task list – not in the chat history.

The calendar is integrated too: entering appointments, rescheduling them, and checking free slots all happen in the same dialogue. And on the go, **dictation** captures what's spoken – a thought between two appointments later becomes a structured entry.

## Why the structure behind it matters

A chat that writes tasks into the history doesn't help much – what's decisive is where they land. On the webRichtung platform, tasks go into the workflow of core: there, a task has **priority points, an area, a status, and a due date**; the team filters the list and works through it "calmly from the top." Deadlines know their source – such as the document they come from. This turns a sentence in the chat into a binding part of the team's work, visible to everyone it concerns.

## More than self-organization

The chat is just one of several ways tasks arise: the platform can also **recognize** tasks from documents and processes and prepare them with a description and sources – for you to approve. Task management thus shifts from a mandatory protocol to a system that thinks along: you tip thoughts, conversations, and documents into it, and out comes a prioritized list.

## Getting started sensibly

Get into the habit of one single sentence: as soon as something actionable comes up in the chat – "turn that into a task." After two weeks the reflex is there, and the gap between discussing and getting done closes. What a company assistant should be able to do beyond that you can read under [AI assistant for the company](/en/wissen/ki-assistent-unternehmen.html).