For years, Google’s to-do list app Tasks was poorly integrated and underdeveloped. Recently, Google has combined all their reminder products into a single Google Tasks app that is accessible across Google products. While still lacking some advanced features, Google Tasks’ simplicity and integration make it easy to add tasks and see reminders across Gmail, Calendar and Assistant. The author enjoys being able to say “What are my tasks today?” to Assistant and have tasks show up in Calendar. However, the author notes that Tasks still does not integrate well with multiple Google accounts.
Guess it’s about time for Google to kill the project, then.
Google Tasks is effectively unavoidable if you use Google products.
I had no idea it existed…
I’ve had Pixels since the first one, this is news to me.
Edit: Just went looking for it, not installed. It’s in the play store but not sure how it could be unavoidable when it’s not pre-installed.
Sorta same. Pixel 7 here and it’s my first non-apple/samsung phone so I messed around a lot on it discovering features and I didn’t know about tasks. I knew you could set reminders in the calendar but I honestly thought it was a calendar-specific thing
They removed “reminders” and lowercase-t “tasks” from the Calendar and replaced them with Tasks
It still sucks at giving notifications on time.
But Google has the best engineers lol
Is it TickTick-level good?
Google Tasks isn’t remotely close to being a powerful project management tool on par with Todoist or some of the other apps out there. Even Apple’s Reminders app can do more. It’s much closer in spirit to a paper to-do list — just a bunch of things written down that you need to get done.
I’m personally trying to use less google products - for both privacy and reliability (I’m pissed my domain is getting moved cause google just decided to be done with google domains)
Dont worry, they will shut all that down eventually, dont trust google with any data you actually want to keep for a long time. Short term is fine.
I use it because I haven’t yet found any alternative that works as well. Any recommendations?
I can’t live without todoist personally. I started with Google tasks.
Any features you think google tasks lacks? Do you use the free or the paid version of todoist?
I use the free version of Todoist. I don’t know what features google tasks all as now, but the big reason I switched from Tasks to Todoist was
- Being able to share lists - Super helpful for things like shopping lists
- Integration with things like Alexa - Going through the pantry and adding things to the shopping list with just my voice, or being able to add something to the shopping list just by saying it when it runs out is kind of like magic.
- Easy natural language recurring tasks
Thanks! I’ll look into it.
Notion isn’t great for tasks but the all in one ecosystem for notes and databases is amazing
If you like Notion, you should check out Coda.
How is it different?
