Foley: capture spoken tasks and keep their context across devices
Turn a thought into a task
Foley is a task-management app built around capturing work in ordinary language. Its site describes speaking one request or several at once, then reviewing the tasks, dates and projects it understood. The goal is to reduce the administrative steps between remembering something and placing it on a usable list.
The app combines that capture workflow with projects, folders, simple lists and a Daily desk showing tasks across projects. It also describes planning from the tasks already present, moving work in a calendar and attaching context such as notes, files and dependencies.
Clarification and a record of changes
When a request could refer to more than one task, Foley says it asks which one the user means. Capture history keeps the original wording beside what changed, with an option to undo a capture. Shared projects include tasks and comments, while setup controls determine which projects AI can use as context.
The publisher lists desktop, web, iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS experiences. The watch workflow includes follow-up questions and a readback of short answers before sending. The site's interactive examples use prepared results or recreated screens; they are not evidence that Franklin connected an account or tested live speech recognition.
Choose the account and AI setup
Foley describes free local desktop task management without sign-in, with a personal AI key available for AI features. The provider charges separately for that key's usage. Foley Pro supplies managed AI, and an account is used for hosted AI, synchronization and sharing.
Franklin's suggested starting point is a small set of tasks with explicit dates and project names. Check the capture result, deliberately try an ambiguous request and inspect the history before relying on it for a busy schedule. Those steps evaluate whether Foley preserves the details you intended, rather than merely producing a plausible task title.