
ANY.DO TASKER PLUS
For now, tap the plus icon (lower right) to add a new action, then pick Audio.Ĭhoose Media Volume (for our social media videos), and set the level to zero, if it isn't already. Don't worry too much about this now, but it helps to build up the sort of sophisticated triggers and actions that can make Tasker seem like magic. Give your task a name (like "silence"), then tap the Tick icon.Īs we mentioned above, a task can in fact have multiple actions, just as a profile can have multiple contexts and tasks. With your apps selected, you'll see you're already being prompted to tap New Task, so do that - this is the action Tasker will take when the context (one of the selected apps is open) is met. Choose as many apps as you need (you could mute games instead of social media apps, if you wanted), then tap the back arrow in the top left corner. So we start on the Profiles tab: Tap the Plus icon (lower right) then Application, as an application will be the trigger for the mute action. You can create tasks first (they can stand alone, remember), or create profiles first - it's this sort of flexibility that makes Tasker so useful, once you get a feeling for how it all fits together. Your phone's location and the time would be the contexts stored in the profile, and turning on the lights would be the action stored as a task (tasks can in fact include several actions, so you could have muting your phone and turning on the lights included in the same task).

ANY.DO TASKER ANDROID
If you're confused already, say that you wanted your Android phone to turn on your smart lights when you got home, as long as it's past a certain time of day. If you're launching all your tasks manually, you don't need profiles.


Profiles are basically containers for one or more contexts, and once they're all met, the specified task starts. Those conditions could be the time of day, or the GPS location of your phone, or whatever (Tasker can recognize a dizzying number of conditions). This tab holds what are called contexts - conditions that need to be met for certain tasks to run. For automated launching, there's the Profiles tab on the far left.
