Abstract: Systems and methods for providing advice and assistance to task-tracking systems are provided. In an embodiment, an application on a mobile device may receive information indicative of one or more user tasks, receive one or more task-completion suggestions from a personal and/or automated assistant reviewing the one or more user tasks, and send a notification to the user indicative of the task-completion suggestion. Task-completion suggestions include assistance information such as a reminder, advice, purchase options, and informative articles. Assistance information may be based on one or more of a type of task, user information, user feedback, task location, and a priority designation. User tasks may be entered manually entered and/or imported into an application of the present invention. In an embodiment, third-party applications may assist in task creation, research assistance, and task-suggestion notifications.