Google Tasks Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

51 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Seamless Integration: Users have appreciated the seamless integration of Google Tasks with various Google apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, and Drive. The ease of access and task management across multiple platforms has been positively noted by many reviewers.

Tactile Feedback for Task Completion: Some users have highlighted the tactile feedback feature in Google Tasks when checking off tasks. This functionality enhances the user experience and adds a satisfying element to completing tasks within the app.

Auto-Sync Capability: Reviewers value the auto-sync feature of Google Tasks with Gmail, which automatically updates tasks across different devices without manual effort. This aspect has been positively acknowledged by users for its convenience and efficiency.

Google Tasks Reviews

8 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services4Management Consulting1Marketing & Advertising2Design1

Get More Done with Google Tasks

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Tasks allows our team to manage, capture, and edit our tasks. With to-dos at the ready, we are able to be productive throughout the day. The Google Task mobile app allows you to sync tasks across all your devices too. Integrations with Gmail and Google Calendar help you get tasks done even faster!

Pros

Syncs with other devices
Accessible anywhere you can sign in with Google
Clear, organized interface

Cons

It doesn't let you tag others or share lists like other to-do apps
It doesn't have a stand-alone web app
It is not convenient to work offline

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Tasks organizes tasks, projects, and activities in a simple and efficient way. With reminders of to-dos, Google Tasks helps us manage our time well. The ability to create tasks directly from an email in Gmail and view tasks in the side panel couldn't be more convenient! In an industry with more projects than we can manage at times, Google Tasks keeps everything in order.

Verified User

Account Manager in Marketing (Design company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

A task management tool that works

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The most crucial part of maintaining daily checklists and prioritizing tasks is Google Tasks, which is widely used by most teams within the organization. Managing capacity and ensuring that everyone has sufficient work for the day without overloading members of the team is crucial for team management. Thanks to its automatic synchronization with our email, we can save tasks automatically and be sure that nothing gets missed.

Pros

Auto sync with Gmail.
Easy accessibility on multiple devices.
Free to use: Come as a part of GSuite.

Cons

Syncing items/tasks from another email client is not possible.

Likelihood to Recommend

In small organizations or on a personal level, Google tasks is an immediate solution when it comes to managing personal to-do lists or tracking colleagues' tasks as well. GSuite makes the tool/option easy to integrate with other Google tools because it is included as a part of the suite. Auto-synching your calendar and email help reduce the time spent on them.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A must have tool for scheduling tasks

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team uses Google Tasks to schedule their tasks and plan them as per the priority. We can add sub-tasks as well and add any notes which are required for that task. It just syncs up with your calendar and the best is you can add your friend's calendar too. It is helping our team to schedule the tasks and have a deadline on them. Also, a good thing it all comes up in the Google suite package.

Pros

Easy to use
Create Tasks
Free version has alot of functionalities
Auto Sync with Email

Cons

Task Hiding feature should be added
UI can be more interactive
Difficult to sync with Outlook, Thunderbird etc

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Tasks plays a pretty well role in my day-to-day life. I am very much used to it, scheduling my tasks so that I remember what to do next. A lot of features are provided in the free version of Google Tasks. But UI can be improved and built more user-friendly. Easy to do list added a plus point to it.

Ankit Wadhwa

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Mindtree (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Google Tasks | Perfect Task Management tool

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We as a digital team are using Google Tasks a lot to maintain our daily tasks and to prioritize and track them properly. The best thing about this is its tight integration with Gmail. It helps us to put it on our to-do list so the team would not miss something really important. It also [allows] the team to track our campaigns and prioritize them based on their go-live dates. Also it is a part of Google Suite (G-Suite) so it has an immediate syncing with other Google tools like Google Drive.

Pros

Easy to use
Free of cost
Available on all platforms/App
Integration with mailbox

Cons

No integration with other apps

Likelihood to Recommend

Possibly a great tool if your official work is dependent/ linked on Gmail. However, if you are using some other email client then would be a bit difficult to sync everything on Google Tasks from them. It is a well-suited tool with a bit of effort to put everything in the tasks bar. Once added then it is available for all the team to track it on a place and prioritize the stuff.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Plan a Day easily with Google Tasks

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Tasks is very convenient to make life easy with the sets of reminders to make your day-to-day work efficient. It is easy to create the task and shall we add in the Gmail, Calendar, Google drive etc. It comes under the package of Google suites as well.

Pros

Create a task in Gmail
Save your email as a task in Google sheets
Organized the task in list as well

Cons

The layout need to be more efficient
Task hiding feature need to be add

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Tasks is well suited for professional as well as personal use. It is very easy to configure and used as required. We will recommend for the company as a start-up to use Google Tasks for managing the small level of a team efficiently and effectively without missing any call, email etc.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Easy Task Management

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Tasks helps me manage, capture, and edit my tasks [which] sync across my laptop and phone, which is very useful in meetings. It helps me stay on track with due dates and notifications and since it is integrated with the rest of the G-Suite, its easy to access from Gmail as well.

Pros

Create Tasks straight from Gmail
Integrated well with G-Suite
Quickly capture tasks anywhere

Cons

It may take some time & adjustments to build a workflow that covers your specific needs.
Need a feature to hide tasks that are weeks or even months ahead into the future.
Missing a full tab view where you can see all your different lists of tasks.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great to take quick notes during meetings. Along with being a good planner app, it offers a clean list of tasks from bottom left which looks great. It is also useful when using Google Calendar. I am a list person so I rely on this app. It is quick and easy to use and I never have to worry about losing a paper list.

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (Marketing & Advertising company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Simple but very effective

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Tasks to keep to-dos organized and always know that we are leaving nothing behind. From the moment an email arrives with a requirement that we must solve, we create a task that helps us to be clear about the pending work. The ease of its integration with Google products is essential when using it since we are a fan of all the products that Google has.

Pros

It is very comfortable to use.
Its integration with Google products.
Very easy to use.

Cons

Customize the layout.
Improve search options.
Improved ability to move tasks from one list to another.

Likelihood to Recommend

For us, it is highly recommended because, being from Google, it is synonymous with quality and above all with integration with the rest of the applications that we use in our day-to-day. How to integrate tasks with Google Calendar for example. In addition, you can always import or export data from other applications.

Rafa Labrador

Consultor SEO at rafalabrador.com (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Google Tasks is great for teamwork!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Tasks is used by collaborators on research projects to assign work to each member. For instance, we recently worked on a paper where the lead author would assign each person tasks day-to-day as we worked on the revise and resubmit version. This "task" would tag us and send us an email alert to let us know, which was very helpful as I worked on other things until a new task came in. I also really appreciated the integration across other Google products like Docs and Sheets.

Pros

Alert users to a new task
Makes it very easy to assign if someone else has a Gmail account
Free!

Cons

Can be hard to find your tasks in a shared doc if many others have been also assigned tasks

Likelihood to Recommend

I haven't used Google Tasks for my personal tasks, so I can't speak to that. But I find it super useful for teamwork, particularly where there is a clear leader to delegate the work.

Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development (Management Consulting company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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