Albert Einstein said – “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Just try searching on GTD (Get Things Done) and productivity. You’ll get a thousand and one apps that promise to make one of life’s simplest tasks simpler. But why go through all those search results when you have a powerful (and simple) to-do list organizer in Google Tasks.
Google Tasks lives in the shadow of its other sibling products, but if used effectively, it can almost become an indispensable tool like Google Search and Gmail. The goal of this guide on Google Tasks is to push you to make that decision.
Google Tasks works with Gmail, your phone’s browser, as a Google Calendar widget, and also on your iGoogle profile. Where you use it is not half as important as how you use it.
Use Google Tasks to create to-do lists
Google Task appears like the screen below:
Simply start typing the task by clicking (or the + icon) on the first line and then pressing enter (or the + icon) for the new task on the line below.
Click the arrow next to a task to open scheduling options. Each task can be assigned a due date by clicking the calendar icon. You can also change a date by selecting a new date. Tasks can have more information added here in the Notes field box.
You can mark a task as complete by clicking the checkbox. Click again to undo if not done.
You can organize your tasks in multiple lists by creating a new list with the option available in the Toggle List icon at the bottom.
In a list, tasks can be rearranged by dragging them below the other or using the keyboard shortcuts CTRL+UP and CTRL+DOWN.
As the screen below shows, you can indent-no-indent, sort tasks by due date, view completed tasks and print your task list with a single click or use keyboard shortcuts as shown. For example, you can use indentation to divide tasks into subtasks.
It’s all very simple really. But there are a few more things you can do with them.
Your messages become more powerful because you can also easily convert emails into tasks: select one or more messages and go to More Actions > Add to Task. (Or enable keyboard shortcuts and use Shift + t.)
You can create separate windows for tasks by clicking the pop-out arrows. But there are several other ways to access Google Tasks other than clicking the Tasks link in Gmail.
Create a Google Task shortcut on the desktop with Chrome
1. Open Chrome and browse to the following URL – https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig
2. Click Wrench and go to Tools > App Shortcuts.
3. Create an application shortcut (select Desktop, Start Menu, Quick Launch Bar). Fight Create.
Google Tasks is more than a simple dead app. We can combine it with Google Calendar and Gmail, two commonly used services of Google. Using it through the Chrome browser’s application shortcuts also helps us to access it quickly. If you think Google Tasks meets all that is required of it as a GTD and to-do app, feel free to raise your objection in the comments section.
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