Toki (previously known as Dola): An Intelligent AI Calendar App with Voice and Image Input

Toki (previously known as Dola) is an intelligent AI calendar app built to make entering a schedule almost stop requiring manual finger work. It accepts voice, text, and image input, and can sync calendars across platforms such as Google and Apple so that scattered plans end up in one place. Beyond the basics of creating, editing, and deleting events, it offers phone-based reminders for important events, emoji suggestions, instant conflict detection, and a customizable daily briefing. The interface is clean and the operation is straightforward, which makes it a good fit for modern life where the calendar is dense.

Main Capabilities

Effortless scheduling Create, edit, and delete events using voice, text, or images. The typical use of image input is posters and screenshots — when you see an event poster or a screenshot of a schedule, hand it straight to the app instead of transcribing it word by word. This lowers the cost of getting from "I suddenly thought of something" to "that item is now in the calendar" to the minimum.

Seamless calendar sync Connect Google and Apple calendars with one tap and manage every plan centrally. The fragmentation that comes with cross-platform calendars has long been the most common friction point in schedule management; once synced, you no longer have to switch back and forth to check the schedule view.

Phone reminders Important events are reminded through phone calls. Compared with the silent default system notification, a phone reminder is more likely to cut through the gaps of a busy workday, which suits appointments whose absence would have real consequences.

Smart personalization Emoji suggestions, instant conflict detection, and a customizable daily briefing are provided. Emoji suggestions lighten the input burden during quick capture; conflict detection flags a time overlap at the moment of entry; and the daily briefing compresses the day's schedule into a summary that can be scanned quickly.

Steps to Use

1. Connect your existing calendars: complete the authorization and connection for the Google and Apple calendars first, so that existing plans are synced in and you avoid the split state where "the new tool is empty while everything is still in the old calendar".
2. Choose an input method: a sudden thought is fastest by voice; text is better when the information has already taken shape; when you are looking at visual material such as a poster or a screenshot, go straight to image input.
3. Check the recognition result: manually confirm the time, location, and title suggested by the AI, especially when entering through image or voice, since recognition deviation is the main risk of this kind of operation.
4. Watch for conflict prompts: if an instant conflict detection prompt appears while entering, resolve the time overlap before saving, to avoid repeated adjustments later.
5. Mark important events: turn on phone reminders for appointments whose absence would have real consequences, rather than enabling it for everything.
6. Configure the daily briefing: set the briefing time and content scope to match your own rhythm, and treat it as a fixed entry point for confirming the pace of the day in the morning.
7. Clean up regularly: calendar entries accumulate over time, so archive finished items periodically to keep the view usable.

Suitable Scenarios

• Schedules are spread across multiple platforms and a unified entry point for viewing and recording is needed
• Temporary plans such as meetings, deliveries, and events appear frequently and need to be written into the calendar quickly
• You only have visual material such as a poster or a screenshot, which is inconvenient to transcribe by hand
• Important items are easily missed during busy periods and need a stronger reminder than a normal notification
• You want to grasp the rhythm of the whole day quickly at the start of each day instead of reading through the calendar item by item

Limitations and Notes

• Calendar sync depends on each platform's authorization. Once authorization is revoked, syncing breaks, and the ownership of historical events needs to be confirmed in advance.
• Voice and image input depend on recognition capability. Information involving specific times and locations should be checked by a human and not accepted directly.
• Phone reminders are meant for important events. If you turn them on for everything, that is likely to become a nuisance and reduce the effectiveness of the reminder itself.
• Conflict detection is based on the entries already in the calendar, so overlaps across devices or with someone else's schedule may not all be detected.
• AI-assisted features improve the efficiency of entering and viewing schedules, but they do not promise a reduction in the total number of appointments or an improvement in time management results.