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.
So, they should be sunsetting it sometime next year then.
Was just about to say the same. Google often like to pick up their ball and go home after releasing something good. Maybe it’s time we stop relying on cloud apps and go back to good ol’ fashioned locally run applications.
… aaannnnddd… It’s canceled.
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.
Guess it’s about time for Google to kill the project, then.
I’m not picking up any new Google products, they kill everything off so often.
I very much prefer Android but I can’t fault you for that.
Same, I use android phones as well, I also use keep notes and calendar. But I’ve been using those for a long time, I just don’t want to bother switching into anything new of theirs.
I’ve been using obsidian+ Syncthing and it’s working nicely for me in place of google keep in case you want to switch later on
Google Tasks is effectively unavoidable if you use Google products.
I had no idea it existed…
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)
They need to keep Google Keeps out their mouth. It has flown under the radar and I would die if they kill it. That being said if Keeps and Tasks had better integration I would become unstoppable with my personal projects and errands.
And you would think that a Wear OS version would be a no-brainer. But nope.
Integration with Google Assistant smart speakers is the main reason I would want to use Google Tasks instead of other Todo solutions. In particular, asking Google to add groceries to my shopping list while I’m cooking, so that I don’t need to bring out my phone and tap it in manually since my hands are occupied or dirty.
But the integration has sucked for so long that I had pretty much given it up. Maybe if it really actually works now (instead of putting my tasks into various other Google services), I will give Google Tasks another shot.
Some feature which I absolutely need which for some reason is not part of most task apps is to repeat tasks based on the completion date instead of the start date.
Dumb example: If I have a task to water my plants every week and I do it after 4 days already then the next due date is in 10 days instead of the 7 I’d want
It still sucks at giving notifications on time.
It’s been on time for me until the last few days.
But Google has the best engineers lol
I use it because I haven’t yet found any alternative that works as well. Any recommendations?
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Does this one allow you to share lists with friends, by chance?
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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?
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.
