Create Microsoft To Do Tasks with AI on Mac

The todo_create_task tool lets your AI assistant add a task to Microsoft To Do straight from a chat. Under the hood it creates the task through Apple Reminders, which syncs to Microsoft To Do automatically once your account is connected — so the task shows up in the To Do app on every device a moment later. You just type what you need in natural language, like: "Add a task to follow up with the design vendor by Friday to my To Do list." No app switching, no clicking through menus.

LMCP is a free, native macOS MCP server. It connects AI assistants to your real Mac apps locally, with 150+ tools spanning Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Messages, Microsoft To Do and more. Download LMCP and your assistant can start creating tasks in seconds.

Which AI agents work?

Almost every major AI client works with todo_create_task:

• Desktop clients — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Windsurf and Zed auto-configure through a local stdio connection. LMCP wires itself in and the tool just appears.
• Web AIs — ChatGPT, Claude.ai (web), Grok and Perplexity connect through the LMCP Cloud Relay connector, a secure tunnel back to your Mac so the same local tools are available from the browser.

Whatever you already use, the task lands in the same Microsoft To Do list.

Automation

The real power shows when todo_create_task chains with other LMCP tools. Your assistant can read an email and turn its action items into To Do tasks, scan your calendar and create prep tasks before each meeting, or take a Note full of ideas and break it into a clean task list. Because every tool runs in the same local session, the AI moves from "read this" to "now create the tasks" without you copying anything by hand.

Context

The AI works with your real Mac data, not a generic guess. It sees your actual Reminders lists, your connected Microsoft To Do account, the email you just received and the meeting on your calendar. So when you say "add the three follow-ups from that thread," it knows which thread and what the follow-ups are — then files them where you'd expect.

Productivity

Capturing a task usually means leaving what you're doing, opening To Do, picking a list, typing, setting a due date. With LMCP that whole loop collapses into one sentence in the chat you're already in. Triaging a busy inbox into a task list that once took ten minutes of copy-paste now takes one prompt. Multiply that across a day of meetings and messages and you reclaim real time — and nothing slips through the cracks because the AI captures it the moment it comes up.

Privacy & GDPR

Everything runs locally on your Mac. The task is created through Apple Reminders on your own machine and synced to Microsoft To Do by your existing Microsoft account — LMCP never stores a copy on any server and there's no middleman database. No API keys to hand over, no cloud account to create. This local-first design makes LMCP GDPR-compliant by architecture: your data simply never leaves your control.

Ready to try it? Download LMCP, connect your AI client and ask it to add your next task.