I almost can’t believe it, but Google Tasks is finally kind of good (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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.

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[-] rjh@beehaw.org 33 points 11 months ago

Google Tasks is effectively unavoidable if you use Google products.

I had no idea it existed...

[-] Pagliacci@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

It’s also integrated with Gmail on the web, so maybe they’re assuming everyone has noticed.

[-] bermuda@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] ramplay@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

If you use google assistant to set reminders you now use tasks.

I only know this because I heavily use reminders, and my pixel 5 kept annoying me to tell me reminders are being converted to tasks and will live there now