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Sonto supports adding tasks through Siri or Spotlight (on MacOS), and finding your tasks, projects and areas in Spotlight.

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Adding tasks with Spotlight (MacOS)

Spotlight offers a quick way to add tasks to Sonto from anywhere on your Mac with a few keystrokes. It is fast, and doesn’t bring Sonto to the foreground, which is great for just quickly getting something out of your head and into your inbox. First press your Spotlight keyboard shortcut (configure this in your Mac’s System Settings). Then begin typing add to sonto. As soon as you see it coming up, you can press Enter.
Typing 'add to sonto' in Spotlight to start capturing a task

First activate Sonto

You can then begin typing your task name, again hit enter, and select where you’d like to add the task. Or hit again immediately to accept the default of adding to your inbox.
Typing a task name in Spotlight to add it to Sonto

Then add your task

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Adding tasks with Siri (iOS)

You can say “Add task to Sonto”. Siri will respond asking you to name your task, and then where you want to store it. Valid options are inbox, today, tomorrow, this week, or next week.

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Finding Sonto items in Spotlight

On macOS 27 and iOS 27, your open tasks, projects and areas show up in Spotlight search. Select one to open it in Sonto. Spotlight also finds tasks by words in their notes or by their tags. Projects and areas are labelled, so you can tell them apart, and a project in an area shows that area’s name. The results stay up to date as you add and change tasks, on this device or another one. Completed tasks don’t appear.