How to Use the Google New Tasks App for IOS and Android
Google Tasks has been around for almost a decade. While digital to-do lists are great for keeping yourself organized, Google’s efforts have always seemed half-hearted. Without an official mobile app, you had to turn to a third-party app to access your tasks from your smartphone or tablet, or you had to download the mobile version of Gmail in your favorite browser – as if it were.
Finally, Google saw the light of day and released a dedicated Tasks app for Android and iOS . And as we noted yesterday , Tasks now have their own dedicated section on the right side of Gmail itself, which is much better than the uglier Tasks window, which looked more like a chat window in previous versions of Gmail – only actually accessible from a hidden menu in the interface. Gmail.
Yes, Google gives tasks a little attention – and it’s time . Here’s a quick overview of what the mobile app has to offer (and what’s missing):
Tasks are easy to set up on a smartphone
Since you probably have a Google account (otherwise you wouldn’t give a damn about Google Tasks), setting up a mobile app is very easy. On iOS, you just need to open it, select the Gmail account you want to associate with it (first), and tell Tasks that you are fine by sending you notifications. That’s all.
Adding and syncing tasks is just as easy
A beautiful, clean task interface makes it easy to do what the app requires you to do: add tasks to various lists. I love that Tasks allow you to enter a decent amount of detail for your tasks and, more importantly, that it shows all of those details directly on each of your to-do lists.
Think of task lists as different types of stickers – such as the one you use for your shopping list, the one you use for your daily tasks, the one you use for important numbers or facts you need to have at hand. and so on. D. seret.
You can create an infinite number of new to-do lists – at least there doesn’t seem to be a limit – by clicking on the app’s hamburger icon in the lower left corner and choosing Create New List. This screen is also where you switch between different Gmail accounts if you want to keep track of different things on each (given the increased popularity of Web-based Gmail Tasks).
Once you have a list, adding a new task is as easy as clicking on the big blue Add New Task button. If you want to keep things simple, you just need to enter your item and click “Save”. That’s all.
If you want to get a little more interesting and add additional details to your task, just click on the plus sign. When you do this and then click on the three-line icon, you can add a small description to your task (if your task name is not enough to wake up your memory). You can also set a reminder date for a task by clicking the little calendar icon with a check mark.
After you save a task, you can click on it in the task list to edit the details, set a reminder date, or add special subtasks in case there are multiple additional moving parts in the original task.
Moving tasks to different task lists is easy – just click the dropdown above the task name when you click on it from any task list. However, each task can only be on one list. No multitasking.
What is missing?
While I appreciate the simplicity of tasks, it’s also odd that Google’s tool is missing a few useful features that seem pretty standard for any task management application: adding a location to a task, setting a task to repeat on a specific schedule, or any other functionality. kind of task priority system. You can’t assign tasks to different colors or tiny icons to instill a sense of urgency. The best thing you can do is create separate to-do lists, such as “DO IT NOW” and “Maybe later,” so that your tasks are kept separate from yours.
You also cannot add photos or videos to tasks. This is not the biggest problem as you also can’t do it in popular task management apps like Todoist (at least for free), but it would be great to be able to drag and drop media to some sort of “more info” section. by task, if necessary. I suppose you’ll have to turn to Google Keep if you need to combine media and text into some sort of reminder. (In an ideal world, Google would let you associate a Keep note with a task, or vice versa.)
At the very least, the tasks for which you assign reminder dates will appear in your Google Calendar – provided you flip your Reminders calendar, click the three-dot icon next to it, and select the Go to Tasks option. …
Creating tasks from emails is also easy in the new Gmail interface: just open Tasks from the right sidebar and drag and drop any email. Then you can edit the name and details of the task, and the email you dragged and dropped will be associated with the task. And no, in mobile versions of Gmail and Tasks, this is not possible.